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Share some of your favorite history reads

>>23081664
Based Robert Caro poster
>Pic related

Is this worth the 2 months of reading? Or it is a meme book?

Man, this guy is a real jerk

>49 years later
>No biography has surpassed it

pls

I like dry political nonfiction so maybe try something like picrel

has /lit/ read this?

>>16828026

>>15566081
All writing will reflect some biases of the author including pic related. Robert Caro is clearly a New York liberal, but his research is incredibly thorough and while I may occasionally disagree with his conclusions he lays out in detail every fact leading to them. The Power Broker is probably the greatest work of non-fiction that I've ever read. Reading it is crucial to understanding American politics in the first half of the twentieth century, the rise of modern urban planning, the failings of a supposedly free press, and the flaws and and strengths of democracy as an institution. I highly recommend it.

What is your favorite nonfiction narrative/biography? I choose pic related

Bumping titles recommended in the last thread

>>11362858
This could be a really interesting thread but nobody's posted very much yet. There are a lot of really good political biographies out there that don't get any attention because they aren't about presidents or current political trends.

Starting with The Power Broker, phenomenal book on the rise and fall of Robert Moses, who exercised more power over New York than just about any other figure for 30 years. Caro is well-known so this work might be familiar, but it really is a tremendous examination of power, especially since it isn't military or executive power.