Below is a list of the books, ebooks, music and videos that Chicago Boyz readers viewed and/or ordered in April and May 2015 via Amazon links on this blog. Despite some overlap between April and May there are many interesting book references here. (A cumulative list of Chicago Boyz readers’ Amazon book purchases is here.)
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April Orders Report
An Uncanny Era: Conversations between Václav Havel and Adam Michnik
Ronald Reagan: The Power of Conviction and the Success of His Presidency
The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War
The Trouble with History: Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution (Politics and Culture)
Angles of Attack (Frontlines Book 3)
Moltke on the Art of War: Selected Writings
The Green Gauntlet (A Horseman Riding By Book 3)
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
18 Easy Laptop Repairs Worth $60,000 A Year!
A History of Strategy: From Sun Tzu to William S. Lind
A Terrorist’s Call to Global Jihad: Deciphering Abu Musab al-Suri’s Islamic Jihad Manifesto
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
A Town Like Alice (Vintage International)
After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
American Slavery, American Freedom
American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant
American Strategy in World War II: A Reconsideration
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business
Beyond Forecasting: Creating New Strategic Narratives – Journal Article
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Churchill: A Study in Failure 1900-1939
Comanches: The History of a People
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
Cougar Attacks: Encounters of the Worst Kind
Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes
Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design
Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House
Depopulation: An Investor’s Guide to Value in the Twenty-First Century
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
Erich Maria Remarque: The Last Romantic
Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond
Forge of Empires: Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made, 1861-1871
Fortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth
Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
Generational Dynamics: Forecasting America’s Destiny
Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069
Give Us This Day (God Is an Englishman)
God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
Holiest Wars: Islamic Mahdis, Their Jihads, and Osama bin Laden
I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford
Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World
Lincoln’s Autocrat: The Life of Edwin Stanton (Civil War America)
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
MacArthur’s Amphibious Navy: Seventh Amphibious Force Operations, 1943-1945
Masculinity in Four Victorian Epics
Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command
Menace in Europe: Why the Continent’s Crisis Is America’s, Too
Mohammed & Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy
My Forty Years with Ford (Great Lakes Books Series)
Netatmo Weather Station for Smartphone
Occupy Pennsylvania Avenue: How Politicians Caused the Financial Crisis and Why their Reforms Failed
Oster A5 Turbo 2-Speed Professional Animal Clipper
Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America’s Founding Fathers
Parallel Motion: A Biography of Nevil Shute Norway
Patton’s Air Force: Forging a Legendary Air-Ground Team
Post of Honour (A Horseman Riding By Book 2)
Response to Disaster: Fact Versus Fiction and Its Perpetuation
Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd (Strategy and History)
Second-Mile People (Isobel Kuhn)
St. Louis Then and Now (Then & Now)
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 Art of War (History and Warfare)
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce
The Brother’s Karamazov (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)
The Bureau of Substandards Annual Report
The Changing Face of War: Lessons of Combat, from the Marne to Iraq
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
The Crowd, The Critic, and the Muse: A Book for Creators
The Death of the Author (The Contemporary Art of the Novella)
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
The Essence of Scenarios: Learning from the Shell Experience
The Evolution of Cooperation: Revised Edition
The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860-1900
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
The Jet Race and the Second World War
The John Boyd Roundtable: Debating Science, Strategy, and War
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (P.S.)
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940
The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 911
The Name of the Rose: including the Author’s Postscript
The New World of the Gothic Fox: Culture and Economy in English and Spanish America
The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market’s Perfect Storm
The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class
The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class
The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France
The Seduction of the Spirit: The Use and Misuse of People’s Religion
The Testing of Luther Albright
The Transatlantic Persuasion: The Liberal-Democratic Mind in the Age of Gladstone
The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns
The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan
The Wyoming Lynching of Cattle Kate, 1889
The Year of the French (New York Review Books Classics)
Theirs Was the Kingdom (Swann Family Saga Book 2)
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45
To the Last Salute: Memories of an Austrian U-Boat Commander
Travels With Zenobia: Paris to Albania by Model T Ford: A Journal
Twelve Days on the Somme: A Memoir of the Trenches November 1916
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
When Globalization Fails: The Rise and Fall of Pax Americana
Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism
Words And Rules: The Ingredients Of Language (Science Masters Series)
Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism
unSafe by Design: Forensic Firearms Investigations
May Orders Report
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
And the Good News Is…: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side
Belief: Readings on the Reason for Faith
Dragonfly In Amber (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Outlander)
Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment
Fodor’s Greece: with Great Cruises & the Best Islands (Full-color Travel Guide)
No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb
The Essential Hal Clement Volume 1: Trio for Slide Rule & Typewriter
The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech
The wonderful flight to the Mushroom Planet
Depopulation: An Investor’s Guide to Value in the Twenty-First Century
EMP: Equipping Modern Patriots: The Aftermath
The NEW Kindle Fire HD 6 & 7 User Guide: Beginner to Expert in 1 Houright for One Billion Consumers
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
how nature works: the science of self-organized criticality
After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance (revised edition)
Comanches: The History of a People
Douglas Haig and the First World War (Cambridge Military Histories)
Forge of Empires: Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made, 1861-1871
From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War
Generational Dynamics: Forecasting America’s Destiny
God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
Holiest Wars: Islamic Mahdis, Their Jihads, and Osama bin Laden
MacArthur in Asia: The General and His Staff in the Philippines, Japan, and Korea
Modern Classics Storm of Steele (Penguin Modern Classics)
Mohammed & Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy
My Forty Years with Ford (Great Lakes Books Series)
No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb
People on Sunday (The Criterion Collection)
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Response to Disaster: Fact Versus Fiction and Its Perpetuation
Stealing You Blind: How Government Fat Cats Are Getting Rich Off of You
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Dover Thrift Editions)
That Hideous Strength: (Space Trilogy, Book Three) (The Space Trilogy 3)
The Anubis Gates (Ace Science Fiction)
The Brother’s Karamazov (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)
The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
The Making of the Modern World: Visions from the West and East
The Middle Parts of Fortune (Vintage Classics)
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History (Bollingen Series (General))
To War with Whitaker: Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly, 1939-45