Some of my personal favorites:

"Band of Brothers" - Stephen Ambrose (also several of his other books, including "Citizen Soldiers")

"Truman" - McCollough

"With Malice Towards None, The Life of Abraham Lincoln" - Stephen Oates (Great book on Lincoln!)

Any book by Robert Dallek.  Some of my personal favs include "Lone Star Rising" and "Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foriegn Policy 1932-1945."  (I'm a little biased towards him because he was a professor of History at UCLA when I studied there and I found his courses to be very interesting).

But right now my personal favorite would have to be "A Man On The Moon" By Andrew Chaikin.  It's a great book on the history of NASA during the Apollo era and a very fun read!

Great topic Josh!

-Charles

Posted at June 9, 2005 9:42 PM in response to History