Fantastic read, funny how white leftists seethe when u even mention it

It’s not perfect but the historiography is incredible and it’s necessary reading if you’re a leftist of any stripe, one of my fav books. There’s good faith criticisms of it to be had but yeah most white people that come at it are just salty and insecure and don’t get the point

I’m a white communist btw lol

Ok we reading 2020

CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

All the history nobody wants to teach in school is a book.

reading lmao

fantastic thread already. adding a bunch to my list.

also the obligatory Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky

The Best and the Brightest - David Halberstam

Came in to post this

On the real though I would love a recommendation on a book about ancient history. Any thing really. I haven’t read anything in awhile

*losers

You're white?
Thought you were black this whole time lmao idk why

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

Yep lol I thought everyone knew this

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

got this the other day

They trynna s*** on my dude Gibbon for not being historically accurate but I don't give a f***, this book was so dope I don't care

very recommend this. just a simple history book full of maps, info, rulers, wars, and more. no leftist bullshit in there.

Real

Histories are always part myth anyway. And it can be read as much as a reflection on the sentiments of enlightenment England as a history of antiquity.

Plus given the era in which it was written it’s a pretty amazing achievement in anthropology, even today you’d be hard pressed to find a scholar that matches the breadth of first hand documents gibbon was intimately familiar with. I won’t stand for no slander

Arnold J. Toynbee - A Study of History

wow.

i literally opened the first page of that book right before i read your post.

crazy coincidence.

Storm of Steel - Junger

Btw try to get the penguins classics version or an earlier edition later editions were over edited by the publishers to appease millennial audiences

Greatest book about Balkan specifically Bosnian history ever written. Nobel prize winning author

Democracy In America