The History Book Club discussion

Jim, this is your thread for 2019. I have included the link to the required format thread and an example. If you had a 2018 thread - it will be archived so when you get the opportunity move over your completed books and formats to the 2019 thread - but we will allow time for you to do that.

Please follow the standard required format below - I hope you enjoy your reading in 2019. Here is also a link for assistance with the required guidelines:

Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Our Required Format:

JANUARY

1. by Winston S. Churchill
Finish date: January 2019
Genre: (whatever genre the book happens to be)
Rating: A
Review: You can add text from a review you have written but no links to any review elsewhere even goodreads. And that is about it. Just make sure to number consecutively and just add the months.

IMPORTANT - THE REVIEW SHOULD BE SHORT AND SWEET - THERE ARE NO LINKS OF ANY KIND IN THE BODY OF THE REVIEW ALLOWED. NONE. DO NOT REFER TO ANY OTHER BOOK IN YOUR BRIEF REVIEW. THE ONLY BOOK CITED IN YOUR REVIEW IS THE ONE YOU ARE REVIEWING - NO OTHERS. ALL LINKS TO OTHER THREADS OR REVIEWS ARE DELETED IMMEDIATELY - THERE WILL BE NO WARNING. WE CONSIDER THIS SELF PROMOTION AND IT IS NOT ALLOWED AND IS IN VIOLATION OF OUR RULES AND GUIDELINES.

We are here to help and hope you enjoy your thread in 2019.

Regards,

Bentley

Jim, this is your 2019 thread.

Your 2018 thread will be archived. I will post the link to your 2018 thread so that if there are any 2018 books that you would like to add to that thread - you will be able to find it readily and be able to do that.

This is the link to the 2018 archived thread - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

JANUARY

1. by Morris Rosenthal
Finish Date: January 4, 2019
Genre: Nonfiction
Rating: A
Review: The title describes this brief ebook succinctly. Most of the titles listed were free on Amazon Kindle at the time of this book's publication. While a few of the authors, such as Jules Verne and Robert A. Heinlein, are famous, most are obscure. Nearly all of the stories listed in the collection were published between the late 1800s and early 1900s.

2. by Karl Marx (1813-83) and Friedrich Engels (1820-95)
Finish Date: January 5, 2019
Genre: Nonfiction-Politics
Rating: A
Review: A well-presented treatise on Communist theory that in later years, judging by the number of people murdered in its cause, was poorly practiced.

Good job Jim

3. by Bill Veeck (no photo) (1914-86) with Ed Linn (no photo) (1922-2000)
Finish Date: January 8, 2019
Genre: Nonfiction-Biography-Baseball
Rating: A
Review: An amazing book about one of the most beloved (by fans) and hated (by his fellow owners) owners of all sport, who brought both the exploding scoreboard and a midget into baseball.

4. by Leo Durocher (no photo) (1905-91) and Ed Linn (no photo) (1922-2000)
Finish Date: January 12, 2019
Genre: Nonfiction-Biography-Baseball
Rating: A
Review: A great book with some great stories about one of baseball's most famous managers.

5. by John Worthen (no photo)
Finish Date: January 30, 2019
Genre: Nonfiction-Biography-Music
Rating: A
Review: A terrific, meticulously researched biography of the underrated German composer.

Jim, you are making great progress.

FEBRUARY

6. by Neal Boortz (no photo)
Finish Date: February 3, 2019
Genre: Nonfiction-Essays-Politics
Rating: A
Review: The author, a conservative radio talk show host, details his ideas on what is wrong with America, and how it can be fixed. What he says will amuse, shock, and infuriate, and perhaps make one think.

7. edited by Andrew S. Trees (no photo)
Finish Date: February 24, 2019
Genre: Nonfiction-History-U.S. History-Historical Documents
Rating: A
Review: I'd never heard of some of these documents (such Samuel Adams' 1772 Rights of the Colonists; or The Northwest Ordinance, which established and set forth governance of the territory NW of the Ohio River), and read them for the first time in full. The Constitution, for example, does not give the people the right to vote. The Founding Fathers intended for small groups of people elected by the State legislatures to vote for our President. The documents give a very good light on how our great men thought at that time.

8. by Robert K. Adair (no photo)
Finish Date: February 28, 2019
Genre: Nonfiction-Physics-Sports-Baseball
Rating: A
Review: A physicist looks at the mechanics of baseball.

Jim, you are making great progress