The History Book Club discussion

Here are the results so far which includes Polls I - V which are completed polls. The list and any book's standings can change with this poll and future polls. If there are ties at any point, we will always have a run off to see if we can break the tie; if we can't, then the moderator will choose.

Here is the order as of August 31, 2009:


The standings so far are as follows:


1. The First World War by John Keegan - 9 votes - COMPLETE

2. The History and Decline of the Roman Empire - Volume I by Gibbon - 8 votes - COMPLETE

3. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (New Edition) by Jared Diamond - 7 votes - COMPLETE

4. Legacy of Ashes: the History of the CIA by Tim Weiner - 6 votes - COMPLETE

5. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman – 5 votes - COMPLETE

6. Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin – 5 votes - SCHEDULED

LOOK TO NEW POLL WITH HIGHER VOTE COUNT

7. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States) by Daniel Walker Howe - 5 votes

8. The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Lewis Menard – 5 votes

9. The Rise of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics) by Polybius - 4 votes

10. The Persian Expedition (Penguin Classics)
by Xenophon - 4 votes

11. The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition
by Thucydides, Rex Warner (Translator), M.I. Finley (Introduction and Notes)
- 3 votes

12. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin - 3 votes

13. The Art of War by Sun Tsu – 3 votes

14. The Republic by Plato – 3 votes

15. The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Volume Set) - Volume I only by Shelby Foote - 2 votes

16. Mary Chestnut's Civil War by Woodward - 2 votes

17.. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford History of the United States) by Robert Middlekauf - 2 votes

18. Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush vs. Gore (Oxford History of the United States, vol. 11)
by James T. Patterson - 2 votes

19. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States)
by David M. Kennedy- 2 votes

20. The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman - 2 votes

21. The History of England (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas Babington Macaulay - 2 votes

22. The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren by Jonathan Lopez - 2 votes

Here is the remainder of the list as of August 31, 2009. The list does not fit into one message box.

23. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer - 2 votes

24. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by McPherson - 1 vote

25. The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams - 1 vote

26. Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank - 1 vote
DISCUSSION COMPLETED FOR THIS BOOK - WILL BE REMOVED FROM FINAL POTENTIAL LIST; THIS BOOK WILL NOT BE COVERED AGAIN.

27. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power by Yergin - 1 vote

28. The Second World War: Volume II; Their Finest Hour by Winston Churchill - 1 vote

29. Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China (Studies in Environment and History) by Robert Marks - 1 vote

30. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion Of Freedom
by Conrad Black - 1 vote

31.A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
by Geoffrey C. Ward - 1 vote

32. The Prince by Machiavelli - 1 vote

33. On War by Clausewitz - 1 vote

34. Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose
by Immanuel Kant - 1 vote

35. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch - 1 vote

36. The White Nile by Alan Moorehead - 1 vote

37. The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato – 1 vote

38. The Odyssey by Homer – 1 vote

39.The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius – 1 vote

40. War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat – 1 vote

41. Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by
James McPherson – 1 vote

42. The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton - 1 vote

This list will keep changing as other polls take place.

Bentley

NEW POLL - NOVEMBER 2011

1A Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff - 16 votes

2A The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett - 14 votes

3A A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent by Robert W. Merry - 12 votes

4A Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand - 11 votes

5A Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda - 11 votes

6A Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman - 12 votes

7A The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts - 10 votes

NEW POLL - NOVEMBER 2011

8A Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan by Doug Stanton - 8 votes

9A The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World by Edward Dolnick - 6 votes

10A A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Armstrong - 5 votes

NOVEMBER 2011 POLL

11A Decision Points by George W. Bush - 3 votes

12A The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States by Gordon S. Wood - 3 votes

13A The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828 by Lynn Hudson Parsons - 3 votes