Below is a list of the books, ebooks, music and videos ordered in October 2014 by Chicago Boyz readers via Amazon links on this blog. (A cumulative list of Chicago Boyz readers’ Amazon book purchases is here.)
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Books
A Brief History of Disease, Science and Medicine
Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery (Matthew Shardlake Mysteries)
Monstrous Stories #1: Night of the Zombie Goldfish
Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake Mysteries)
State of the Union: A Thriller
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Kindle eBooks
A Time of Gifts
To Make and Keep Peace Among Ourselves and with All Nations (Hoover Institution Press Publication)
Items with no orders
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
A Vision So Noble: John Boyd, the OODA Loop, and America’s War on Terror
A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
Advice to War Presidents: A Remedial Course in Statecraft
After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History)
American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant
American Strategy in World War II: A Reconsideration
Americanism:The Fourth Great Western Religion
An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The British Armys Art of Attack, 1916-18
Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World
Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription: Notes and Asides from National Review
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
Copse 125: A Chronicle from the Trench Warfare of 1918
Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes
Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence In America
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond
Fire Power: The British Army Weapons & Theories of War 1904-1945 (Pen & Sword Military Classics)
Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code (Eminent Lives)
Free: The Future of a Radical Price
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present
From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War
Gassed in the Gulf: The Inside Story of the Pentagon-CIA Cover-Up of Gulf War Syndrome
Generational Dynamics: Forecasting America’s Destiny
Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (P.S.)
God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy
In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World
Japan Through the Looking Glass
Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
Kill Shot: An American Assassin Thriller (Mitch Rapp Book 2)
Last of the Ebb: The Battle of the Aisne 1918
Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
Lightning Fall: A Novel of Disaster
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln
Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Penguin Classics)
Menace in Europe: Why the Continent’s Crisis Is America’s, Too
Menace in Europe: Why the Continent’s Crisis Is America’s, Too
Mohammed & Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy
Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist
Night of Thunder (Bob Lee Swagger Novels)
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
Occupy Pennsylvania Avenue: How Politicians Caused the Financial Crisis and Why their Reforms Failed
Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America’s Founding Fathers
Paris Stories (New York Review Books Classics)
Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines
Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War
Quest for Decisive Victory: From Stalemate to Blitzkrieg in Europe, 1899-1940
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon, Annotated
Resilience Engineering: Concepts And Precepts
Romans and Barbarians: Four Views from the Empire’s Edge, 1st Century AD
Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate
Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd (Strategy and History)
Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd (Strategy and History)
Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd (Strategy and History)
Sepoys in the Trenches: The Indian Corps on the Western Front 1914-15
Shanghai: The Architecture of China’s Great Urban Center
Sharing Rachel (wife at the swingers club, cuckold wife, hot wife)
Ship Killer: A History of the American Torpedo
Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake Mysteries, No. 3)
Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
Stealing You Blind: How Government Fat Cats Are Getting Rich Off of You
Storm of Steel (Penguin Modern Classics)
Stormtroop Tactics: Innovation in the German Army, 1914-1918
Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb
That Hideous Strength: (Space Trilogy, Book Three) (The Space Trilogy 3)
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
The American Boomerang: How the World’s Greatest ‘Turnaround’ Nation Will Do It Again
The Art of War (History and Warfare)
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart
The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce
The Caine Mutiny (Combat Classics)
The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology)
The Death of the Author (The Contemporary Art of the Novella)
The Devil’s Garden: Rommel’s Desperate Defense of Omaha Beach on D-Day
The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
The Evolutionary Psychology Behind Politics: How Conservatism and Liberalism Evolved Within Humans
The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
The First World War: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation
The General Theory Of Employment, Interest, And Money
The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years’ War to the Third Reich (Modern War Studies)
The God of the Machine (Library of Conservative Thought)
The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History’s 100 Worst Atrocities
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)
The Human Face of War (Birmingham War Studies)
The Human Factor: Inside the CIA’s Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture
The John Boyd Roundtable: Debating Science, Strategy, and War
The Last Days of Disco, With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards
The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600
The Memoirs Of Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1920 Years Of Adventure
The Middle Parts of Fortune (Vintage Classics)
The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times
The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself
The Origins of English Individualism: The Family Property and Social Transition
The Overthrow of Allende and the Politics of Chile, 1964-1976 (Pitt Latin American Studies)
The Radetzky March (Works of Joseph Roth)
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can Do About It
The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France
The Shirley Letters: Being Letters Written in 1851-1852 from the California Mines
The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns
The Violent Image: Insurgent Propaganda and the New Revolutionaries (ColumbiaHurst)
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919
The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan
The true blue;: The life and adventures of Colonel Fred Burnaby, 1842-85
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45
Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
Time of Gifts (Transaction Large Print Books)
To the Last Salute: Memories of an Austrian U-Boat Commander
Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth
Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity (Study Guide Edition)
Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 911
Trust: The Social Virtues and The Creation of Prosperity
Twelve Days on the Somme: A Memoir of the Trenches November 1916
Wag the Dog (New Line Platinum Series)
Who Are We: The Challenges to America’s National Identity
Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism
World War One: A Short History
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
I’m half way through Peter Heather’s The Restoration of Rome. Highly recommended.
I really like these lists. I start reading through the books and there’s always good stuff here.
Thanks for the feedback.
I’m glad to see “Touching History” on the list. That is a great book.