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===Last Great Book He Read:===
James Oakes, [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393347753/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393347753&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=1f6775aaac416dc77a1ed57300fd119f Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865]
===Best Books on the Civil War:===
Allan Nevins, [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VZZO3M/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000VZZO3M&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=6ef4167b8ee4cc21d3c75d2b33882c75 Eight Volume Set on the Civil War]
===Best Historians Writing Today:===
Bernard Bailyn, [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674443020/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674443020&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=67f56d2729096f3e91b2e721446833e8 The Ideological Origins in the American Revolution]
David Hackett Fischer, [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/019518159X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=019518159X&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=95672295ab64ef0b4f91c6bce8d597d2 Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History)]
===Favorite Biography of Civil War figure:===
Jean Edward Smith, [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684849275/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684849275&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=6902338f4051eb0bf989387598ecc37b Grant]
===Best Military Histories:===
John Keegan, [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375700455/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375700455&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=abeec345f209ab3821f9b6d1f761855a The First World War]
Rick Atkinson, [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250037816/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1250037816&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=075630bb00a0ac3b803191138958e17d The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (The Liberation Trilogy)]
===Best African American History Books:===
John Hope Franklin, [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195084519/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0195084519&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=5ba126243a4002a0b5a13d6cea8c6954 Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation]
Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity : History of African-american Slaves (03 Edition), Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
===Most Important Book for His Career:===
C. Vann Woodward, [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807100390/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807100390&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=6e17c1eb0e4acb6ce5c6567e02b26d1d Origins of the New South, 1877-1913]
===Book Every President Should Read:===
Doris Kearns Goodwin, [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/141654786X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=141654786X&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=85296cabd0c31f8aeb41ad092f981218 The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism]
===Most Overrated History Book:===
Edward Gibbon, [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140437649/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0140437649&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=69a097cd2f08e2594eed01d52f9ba3b4 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics)]
===Books on His Nightstand:===
Ron Chernow, [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143119966/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0143119966&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=af07747ddf58eba0c6507908db1ac37d Washington: A Life]
Daniel James Brown, [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143125478/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0143125478&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=5bbec7d420a77d7bd80742648e998272 The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics]
===His Next Book:===
Ron Chernow, [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143034758/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0143034758&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=1966c356d5dc8895f516f9212fd47f9d Alexander Hamilton]
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