What Karl's reading

After three years preparing The Triumph of William McKinley by reading very little but books, letters, articles and newspapers from the Gilded Age, I’m trying to get back into my regular routine, which I’ll chronicle here with an occasional review of what I’ve read.

I, Robot

By Isaac Asimov

Not as action-packed as the movie starring Will Smith, but a deeper and more interesting exploration of the moral dilemmas, practical challenges, and major changes that human reliance on robots would bring...

Alexander the Great

By Phillip Freeman

The Luther College classicist says he wanted to write a story that was both “authoritative and accessible” to the amateur who loved history.

The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War

By Andrew Roberts

Roberts again shows why he is one of the greatest revisionist historians of our time with an illuminating, challenging and invigorating volume on the largest conflict in human history.