/lit/ - Literature

>>21337594
>Knowing you're a Caro fan, I will check out your suggested history books. Any other recommendations?
Worth noting the other recommendations I mentioned are nothing like Caro so fair warning there. Hard to find comparable works to his depth DESU, maybe the Richard Rhodes one on the atom bomb would be the closest of that list. Funny enough I have also enjoyed much of what I've read from Kissinger and it scratches that "inside track" US history itch. Diplomacy is on his more scholarly side, but the memoirs White House Years and Years of Upheavel go hard. Have his book on China on my shelf and plan to read it Q1 2023.

this one is on my list and you might appreciate it as well: The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot. I don't know much about it but it comes to me highly recommended.

Pic related is my favorite book I read on the Civil War, but more a cultural history of the 1860s than a proper history of the war as such.

I have also greatly appreciated The Black Jacobins by CLR James