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.

Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia

By Michael Korda

The enigmatic, complicated and compelling T.E. Lawrence comes fully alive in the well-informed, fair-minded and wonderfully written biography.

The Kingdom (A Fargo Adventure)

By Clive Cussler and Grant Blackwood

Okay, so we?re back to it with the Fargo?s, Cussler?s intrepid altruistic treasurer hunters.

Letters from America

By Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont, translated by Frederick Brown

This is a must read for fans of de Tocqueville?s DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA.

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By Yevgeny Zamyatin

Written in the 1920s by a Russian naval architect exiled by the Bolsheviks, this is the one of the earliest dystopian sci-fi novels of the 20th century.