My dad and I are both big readers and every year for his birthday I get him a new book.
Well, I have no idea what to get him this year. He loves autobiographies and biographies, books about presidents (like that Carl Sandburg book about Abe Lincoln) and history. He also really loved that series that Master & Commander was based on (I can't believe I can't think of that authors name right now, it just has seriously escaped me)
Suggestions please!
2007-11-15 10:52:03 · 5 answers · asked by carcar 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The coldest winter : America and the Korean War / David Halberstam.
Hog pilots, blue water grunts : the American military in the air, at sea, and on the ground / Robert D. Kaplan.
The war : an intimate history, 1941-1945 / by Geoffrey C. Ward ; with an introduction by Ken Burns. (2007)
House of Abraham / Stephen Berry.
Reading the man : a portrait of Robert E. Lee through his private lettters / Elizabeth Brown Pryor. (2007)
The Library of Congress World War II companion / edited and with an introduction by David M. Kennedy ; Margaret E. Wagner, Linda Barrett Osborne, Susan Reyburn and staff of the Library of Congress. (2007)
For liberty and glory : Washington, Lafayette, and their revolutions / James R. Gaines. (2007)
A ball, a dog, and a monkey : 1957, the space race begins / Michael D'Antonio. (2007)
The great upheaval : America and the birth of the modern world, 1788-1800 / Jay Winik. (2007)
Omaha Beach and beyond : the long march of Sergeant Bob Slaughter / John Robert Slaughter. (2007)
So help me God : the founding fathers and the first great battle over church and state / Forrest Church. (2007)
Almost a miracle : the American victory in the War of Independence / John Ferling. (2007)
2007-11-15 11:21:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything by David Mccullough (sp?) He is a very popular and respected author of biographies and history
It may be a bit old, but I enjoyed The Brethren by Bob Woodward. It is about the Supreme Court of the late 1960s-early 1970s.
2007-11-16 01:05:15 · answer #2 · answered by twomanybooks64 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Hard Times" by Studs Terkel - it's an oral history of the 20th Century
2007-11-15 19:21:23 · answer #3 · answered by Andrew Noselli 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything by Stephen Ambrose sounds like it would be great!
2007-11-15 19:15:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the book "1776" and "Mayflower" were both excellent
2007-11-15 20:39:45 · answer #5 · answered by speechy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋