What are you reading?

dreadgeek · 01-13-2011, 05:54 PM

Currently working my way through:

The Left at War -- Michael Berube

A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy -- Jonathan Israel

Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America -- Eugene Robinson

I'm also listening to a couple of audiobooks:

Eye of the World: Wheel of Time Book 1 -- Robert Jordan

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany -- William L. Shirer

When I'm done with Shirer (which I should be by next week) I'm going to start at the beginning of Richard J. Evans "Third Reich Trilogy" (The Coming of the Third Reich) and then go through all three books in sequence. In part this is done for comparative purposes. Shirer's book, while a work of history, is mostly a work of journalism (he was a reporter). Evans, on the other hand, is considered the world's foremost scholar on Nazi Germany and having read through books 2 and 3 of his trilogy, I want to go back and catch the whole magisterial sweep of his work.

Cheers
Aj

01-13-2011, 05:54 PM	#11
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