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The Best History Books of 2015
The year now passing was one for the history-related books, what with offerings from such luminaries as Sarah Vowell (Lafayette in the Somewhat United States), Eric Larson (Dead Wake, on the sinking of the Lusitania), T.J.
Stiles (Custer’s Trials), Stacy Schiff (The Witches), H.W. Brands (Reagan: The Life) and Jon Meacham (Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush). But here are 10 more titles that caught our eye:
Fortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth, by Terry Alford
The first modern soup-to-nuts biography of Lincoln’s assassin and a worthy companion to Michael W.
Kauffman’s American Brutus (2004) and Edward Steers Jr.’s Blood on the Moon (2001), landmark studies of the crime itself.
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, by Mary Beard
A new look at an ancient civilization (the title is the Latin reference for “the People and the Senate of Rome”) from Britain’s much-celebrated classicist.
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