The Book of Mormon : an account written by the hand of Mormon, upon plates taken from the plates of Nephi by Joseph Smith
I am lucky enough to have an original (facsimile) edition on golden plates. The Lord sayeth I may hock them in time of tribulation.
Funny and pathetic. The publisher is obviously very cruel.
Maybe the best book on the last two tears of WWII. The many maps are very helpful.
All the plays are pretty funny. I laughed a lot when I saw The Universal Language (I speak Johncleese, myself) and the Death of Trotsky -- variations, that is.
Dr. Poindexter, having studied the Incas while U.S. Ambassador to Peru, came to the conclusion, indeed "has proven" that the works of the Inca Must have been designed and erected by WHITE men. These mysterious architects probably were Egyptian or something like that and had some elaborate but mysterious way of communicating with the Incas on he ground. Well, that's that.
The greatest correspondent of World War II. An this this also the the opinion of another great war correspondent, and two more that were a little funnier.
The only Mutiny novel -- or memoir, for that matter -- you really ever need to read.
This is probably the finest history of a military campaign I have ever read This was not, of course, the Allies' finest hour but the demonstration of the creation of a modern army out of very little was stunning.
Probably the funniest book for children ever written. Perhaps it's really too good for them.
The finest history of the Harvard Club of New York ever written.
Find all your books called "Real Stories of the Old West," "I Rode with Wild Bill," "I was in School with Jesse James," "The Story of the Only Survivor of Little Big Horn," and the like, then check with Ramon Adams's reviews. You may have wondered if some of these memoirs and first-hand accounts were a little overblown and you were right to feel that way. The only noble truth that emerges from the history of the great, mythic West is that Calamity Jane was a dead ringer for Doris Day. Adams is actually pretty deadpan as he hilariously eviscerates some of the great legends.
A valuable study of the Army of Northern Virginia from, essentially, a technical point of view. The uniforms of officers instead of their military virtues and failings are the study here. Professional discussions of weapons, uniforms and gear of the rank and file get similar treatment. Unlike the Union army the Confederate army became of hodgepodge of clothing, weaponry personal equipment. Also support personnel and units are examined carefully, e.g., the Provost Marshal (the MP's of the day), signal corps, medical department, even chaplains.
Detailed survey of events surrounding siege and surrender of Sumter as well as Confederate seizures of other Federal installations. Descriptions of secession conventions and formation of CSA included.
An unpopular book, not surprisingly, inasmuch as it discusses the "revolt against politics" in the Confederacy. The two strains that still plague the South could not be resolved -- the nationalists who supported Davis and what Rable calls the Libertarians doomed the South to disaster. It's a cliche to say that the South died of states' rights and it is not exactly blossoming now. No one below the Mason-Dixon Line understands history apparently -- there were plenty of examples of that lacking in 1860-65 and many more today.
History of the United States of America during the administrations of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Adams
"A history yet to be replaced." C. Vann Woodward
Apparently all the other copies have been burnt.
Well, someone has to read this.