History

History (from Greek ἱστορία - historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it sometimes attempts to investigate objectively the patterns of cause and effect that determine events. Historians debate the nature of history and its usefulness. This incl...more

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Looking at Lincoln
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Vj Vj said: "The author states that "there are over 16,000 books written about [Lincoln]," and I think this is a really good one for children to read. Written from a young girl's point of view, the book has just enough factual information to be informat...more"
 
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Valentina Valentina said: "The portray of contemporary America, a class society divided between the Haves and the Have Nots, where a successful, powerful elite, lives in a bubble isolated from the lives of regular Americans, is spot on. However, when Murray offers his analysis...more"
 
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John John said: "This was a very frustrating read. Dr. Murray is certainly engaging an important topic -- the economic/educational/class segregation of the United States over the past 50 years. And much of the descriptive evidence he cites is persuasive. We all kn...more"
 
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Socraticgadfly Socraticgadfly said: ""Coming Apart" is quite possibly more mendacious than "The Bell Curve." It's certainly more hypocritical, and given that Murray's whole thesis is ultimately a screed against the Great Society more spiteful.

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Glock: The Rise Of A...
02/20
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Jim Jim said: "this is an interesting book for gun or non gun fans.
the book says there are 200-300 million guns in the US.

the book also highlights how American companies failed to keep up with improving their products in the 80s and 90s and lost o...more
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Coming Apart: The St...
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Dave Dave said: "This is one of the most important books written in the last 10 years. Charles Murray does an outstanding job of showing how over the most recent half century the United States has split along class lines. My Libertarian bias admitted, but the bulk of...more"
 
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Shawn Shawn said: "I had lofty hopes for this, as I have read Wilkinson in The New Yorker for many years and have enjoyed his earlier books. But this never really engaged me. It seems to occupy an uncomfortable middle ground between serious history and quirky nonfict...more"
 
Looking at Lincoln
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Marcy Marcy said: "Looking at Lincoln, by Maira Kalman, is an amazing depiction of Abraham Lincoln with magnificent colored pictures and not only factual information, but the "thinking" about Lincoln by a small girl who is looking at his statue in the Lincoln...more"
 
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Sean Chick Sean Chick said: "You mean the decline of America has to do with government? That thing that socially speaking has been shrinking since 1980? I also love the part where the wealthy are virtuous and the poor whites are now slobs. Of course like most conservatives he be...more"
 
Revolution 2:0: A Me...
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Jon Malysiak Jon Malysiak said: "Powerful and very affirming! Mr. Ghonim's memoir shows just how effective social media can be when it used intelligently and as a means of rallying mass groups of people in support of a cause. For anyone who is interested in the Arab Spring and how, ...more"
 
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Famillo2001yahoo.com Famillo2001yahoo.com said: "Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 by Charles Murray

I am less than enthusiastic about books which are mostly statistics and the interpretation of those statistics.  Honestly, page after page of statistics, graphs, and inter...more
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Jeff Vista Jeff Vista said: "One of the most important books I have read in the past year. Liberal/progressives will hate it, because it challenges their worldview with 50+ years of hard data. Notice that the one-star reviews are ad hominem attacks, not backed by hard data of ...more"
 
Ameritopia: The Unma...
02/12
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Diana Vale Balatico Diana Vale Balatico said: "I see. I see what this book is trying to say. I respect his point-of-view, and I sometimes share his view as well. But I feel like he has totally given up on America and is trying to criticize every part of this land."
 
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Stuart Stuart said: "This isn't a serious book. On the plus side it does document the fact that the lives of the middle class have, on average, changed for the worse. We have become increasingly a society of permanent haves and permanent have nots. I'll give it an extra ...more"
 
Ameritopia: The Unma...
02/11
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Dan Dan said: "I was predisposed to like this book: a defense of liberty and individualism with serious emphasis placed on primary sources of original utopian thought. Unfortunately the author chooses only tiny fragments of his opponents' writings, so the chapter ...more"
 
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Bojan Tunguz Bojan Tunguz said: "Charles Murray is one of the most distinguished and insightful social scientists of our time. His work over the past few decades has systematically and methodically probed into some of the most consequential and momentous societal and policy issues. ...more"
 
Glock: The Rise Of A...
02/09
Doug gave 3 of 5 stars to:
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Doug Doug said: "The Glock story is interesting, and Barrett tells it well and clearly; maybe I'd give it 3.5 stars. It might have been told more dramatically and perhaps with greater historical and/or cultural insight, but at least it isn't academic. It might also ...more"
 
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Jessica Scott Jessica Scott said: "If you want to have a discussion about class in America, you MUST read this book. This book was eye opening in many significant ways and the most troubling part is that if Murray is even half right, the American experiment is coming to an end. He ech...more"
 
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Joel Joel said: "The good news: here's somebody influential on the right who acknowledges America's deepening class divide--and believes it could be a problem for democracy. The bad news: he thinks this happened--in part--because the working class got indolent. Murra...more"
 
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Richard Richard said: "
David Brooks, the New York Times pet almost-a-conservative, claims about this book, “I’ll be shocked if there’s another book this year as important as Charles Murray’s Coming Apart.” Yeah, it looks seminal. See his review at The Great Divorce ...more
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Erik Larson
Erik Larson In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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Chuck Palahniuk
There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables.
Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

Thomas Jefferson
Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice can not sleep forever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events: that it may become ...more
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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