Books?

[djones520]

George Washington’s War: The Forging Of A Revolutionary Leader And The American Presidency



Picked this up yesterday with a couple sci-fi and fantasy books. I read 1776 while deployed last year, and was looking for a book that covered the entire war instead of just the beginning years.

[fettpett]

looks like one to pick up for my kindle...new books need to all come out in both formats at the same time. (this one is out in e-book format btw)

[Starbuck]

I'm getting an awful lot out of "A Patriot's History of The United States".

I also enjoyed "American Lion", which was the story of Andrew Jackson.

And while I'm at it:
"American Caesar"....Douglas McArthur

And "Ghost Mountain Boys", which is the story of a WWII unit who fought in the Pacific, kept me awake at night. Read it.

[obx]

I just picked up "Band of Brothers" in a thrift store for 50 cents.

[Gingersnap]

Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health by Gary Taubes

This is completely fascinating but I won't be done in the next few days - it's essentially a textbook. The research is meticulous and the huge amount of referenced work is itself almost distracting since I read a few pages and then run down the cites and read those. :D

For those interested, Taubes has written a much shorter, much less technical book that briefly summarizes the key issues and offers a way of approaching nutrition for the self-experimenter called Why We Get Fat. I haven't read this one but it's got good reviews on Amazon.

[NJCardFan]

I've been reading Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. The book is showing me that the original movie(Manhunter) is way better and more faithful to the book than the Red Dragon movie.