Best book I read this year:
1. Challenger by Alan Higginbotham*
I reviewed this fine book for The Objective Standard.
Honorable Mentions:
2. Disney's Land by Richard Snow*
An extremely interesting and entertaining history of the construction of Disneyland. A much more interesting story than I had known.
3. American Scripture by Pauline Maier
One of those books I've "read in" many times but never actually read cover to cover. While I sharply disagree with Maier on some important points, there's no denying that this is one of the best works of scholarship on the Declaration of Independence ever written, and a must-read for students of the Revolution.
4. Pops by Terry Teachout
A very interesting and enjoyable biography of Louis Armstrong. Recommended!
5-8. The Constitutional History of the American Revolution (4 vols.) by John Phillip Reid
Amazingly well-researched, a phenomenal piece of scholarship. Reid is wrong in excessively downplaying the role of natural law thinking in the Revolution, but he must absolutely right about the constitutional crisis that led up to independence, and his grasp of these debates is incredible. An absolute must-read for students of the revolution.
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