Western Trucker Approved General Reading List

 

 

 

 (All true material, biography or history

for those who have little time for fiction)

 

      General Interest

 

Dark Star Safari, Paul Theroux

   (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003)

Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide, Tom

   Heinz (Evanston: NW Univ Press,

   2004)

The Alchemy of Finance, Geo Soros 

   (NY: John Wiley, 2003)

George Soros on Globalization, Geo

   Soros (NY: Public Affairs, 2005)

The Bubble of American Supremacy,

   Geo Soros (NY: Public Affairs, 2005)

The Age of Fallability, Geo Soros (NY:

   Public Affairs, 2006)

The New Paradigm for Financial

   Markets, George Soros (Philadelphia:

   Public Affairs, 2008)

Surviving the Desert, Gregory J.

   Davenport (NY: Stackpole, 2002)

Girl Sleuth, Melanie Rehak (NY:

   Harcourt, 2005)

Memoirs, David Rockefeller (NY:

   Random House, 2002)

Dorothy Parker, Arthur F. Kinney (NY:

   Thomas Gale, 1998)

Ted Williams, Leigh Montville (NY:

   Doubleday, 2004)

Build your Computer, In Easy Steps

   Series (NY: Barnes and Noble, 2004)

The Man Behind the daVinci Code, Lisa

   Rogak (K. City: A McMeel, 2005)

The Age of Turbulence, Alan Greenspan

   (NY: Penguin, 2007)

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Paul

   Theroux (Boston: Houghton Mifflin,

   2008)

The Snowball: Warren Buffett, Alice

   Schroeder (NY: Bantam, 2008)

The Man Who Owns the News: Rupert

   Murdoch, Michael Wolff (NY:

   Broadway, 2008)

Haunted Heart, Lisa Rogak (NY: St

   Martins Press, 2008)

The Mayan Prophecies, Adrian Gilbert

   & Maurice Cotterell (NY: Barnes and

   Noble, 1995)

Good Day, The Paul Harvey Story,

   Paul Batura (Washington: Regnery

   Publishing, 2009)

The Coming Plague, Laurie Garrett

   (NY: Penguin, 1994)

 

       Military History

 

Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and 

   the Coming of the Great War, Robert

   K. Massie (NY: Random House, 1991)

In Harm’s Way, Doug Stanton (NY: St

   Martins, 2002)

The Pentagon: A History, Steve Vogel

   (NY: Random House, 2007)

Saboteurs, Michael Dobbs (NY: Knopf,

   2005)

The Secret in Building 26, deBrosse/ 

   Burke (NY: Random House, 2005)

Tuxedo Park, Jennet Conant (NY:

   Simon & Schuster, 2003)

109 E Palace, Jennet Conant (NY:

   Simon & Schuster, 2005)

Lightning Strike, Don Davis (NY:

   StMartins, 2005)

At All Cost, Sam Moses (NY: Random

   House, 2006)

Ship of Ghosts, Jas D. Hornfischer

   (NY: Bantam, 2006)

A Tale of Two Subs, Jonathan J.

   McCullough (NY: Grand Central

   Publ., 2008)

Escape from the Deep, Alex Kershaw

   (Phila: DeCapio Press, 2008)

Spymistress, William Stevenson (NY:

   Arcade, 2007)

Shadow Voyage, Peter A. Hucht-

   Hausen (NY: J Wiley, 2005)

First into Nagasaki, George Weller

   (NY: Crown, 2006)

Wolf Pack: the American Submarine

   Strategy that helped defeat Japan,

   Steven Trent Smith (NY: J Wiley,   

   2003)

Red Star Rogue, Ken Sewell/Clint

   Richmond (NY: Simon & Schuster,

   2005)  

Scorpion Down, Ed Offley (NY: Basic

   Books, 2007)

All Hands Down, Ken Sewell & J Preisler

   (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2008)

Inferno, Keith Lowe (NY: Scribner,

    2007)

Spies, Ernest Volkman (NY: MJF, 1994)

Enola Gay, Gordon Thomas/Max M.

   Witts (Old Say-Brook, Ct: Konecky,

   1977)  

Target Patton, Robert K. Wilcox

   (Washington: Regnery, 2008)

The Attack on the Liberty, James Scott

   (N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 2009)

Bismarck: The Final Days of Germany’s

   Greatest Battleship, Niklas Zetterling

   & Michael Tamelander (Phila:

   Casemate, 2009)

 

      Historical Interest

 

John Paul Jones, Evan Thomas (NY:

   Simon & Schuster, 2003)

Krakatoa, Simon Winchester (NY:

   Harper Collins, 2003)

Over the Edge of the World, Laurence

   Bergreen (NY: Harper Collins, 2003)

Transatlantic, Stephen Fox (NY:

   Harper Collins, 2004)

Charlemagne, M. Becher (N Haven: Yale

   U, 2005)

Genesis of the Grail Kings, Laurence

   Gardner (NY: Barnes and Noble,

   1997)

Bloodlines of the Holy Grail, Laurence

   Gardner (NY: Barnes and Noble,

   2004)

The Last Log of the Titanic, David G.

   Brown (NY: McGraw-Hill, 2003)

The Lost Treasure of the Knights

   Templar, Steven Sora (Roch VT:

   Inner Traditions, 1999)

The Knights Templar, Sean Martin

   (NY: Avalon, 2005)

Born in Blood, John J. Robinson (NY:

   M Evans, 1989)

The Great Influenza, John M. Barry

   (NY: Viking, 2004)

J. Edgar Hoover, Curt Gentry (NY:

   W W Norton, 2004)

America’s Queen: the Life of Jacqueline

   K. Onassis, Sarah Bradford (NY:

   Penguin Gp, 2001)

Goodyear Story, Richard Korman (NY:

   Encounter Books, 2003) 

American Gunfight, Hunter/Bainbridge 

   (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2005)

The Gnostic Discoveries, Marvin

   Meyer (NY: Harper Collins, 2005)

The People’s Tycoon, Steven Watts

   (NY: Knopf, 2005)

Batavia’s Graveyard, Mike Dash (NY:

   Crown, 2002)

Great Shipwrecks of the Pacific Coast,

   Robert Belyk (NY: J Wiley, 2001)

Evolution’s Captain, Peter Nichols

   (NY: Harper Collins, 2003)

American Prometheus: The Triumph

   and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppen-

   heimer, Kai Bird, M.J. Sherwin

   (NY: Knopf, 2005)

Caesar Against the Celts, Ramon L.

   Jiminez (NY: Book Sales Inc, 2001)

Spy Handler, Victor Cherkashin (NY:

   Basic Books, 2004)

Templar Revelation, Picknett/Prince

   (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1998)

Hemingway’s Hurricane, Phil Scott

   (NY: McGraw-Hill, 2005)

 

 

 

Kissinger: a Biography, Walt Isaacson

   (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2005)

The Shadow of Solomon, Laurence

   Gardner (NY: Barnes and Noble,

   2005)

Sion Revelation, Pickett/Prince

   (London: Touchstone, 2006)

Hope: Adventures of a Diamond,

   Marian Fowler (NY: Random House,

   2002)   

Mary Magdalene, Laurence Gardner

   (NY: Barnes and Noble, 2005)

Camelot, the Dark Side, Seymour

   Hersh (NY: Little, Brown & Co,

   1998)

Montsegneur and the Mystery of the   

   Cathars, Jean Markale/Graham

   (translator) (Rochester VT: Inner

   Trad, 2003)

The Bonus Army, Allen Dickson (NY:

   Walker, 2006)

Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of

   Thomas, E. Pagels (NY: Knopf,

   2004)

Buffalo Bill’s America, Louis E.

   Warren (NY: Knopf, 2005)

Charlemagne, Father of a Continent,

   Alessandro  Barbero (Berkley: U of

   California, 2004)

When the Astors owned New York,

   Justin Kaplan (NY: Viking, 2006)  

Battle for Spain, Antony Beevor (NY:

   Penguin, 2006)

John Brown, David S. Reynolds (NY:

   Knopf, 2006)

Dynasties, Dave Landes (NY: Viking,

   2006)

Mellon, an American Life, David

   Cannadine (NY: Knopf, 2006)

Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and

   The Deadliest Hurricane in History

   Erik Larson (NY: Crown, 1999)

The Bureau and the Mole, David Vise

   (NY: Grove, 2002)

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the

   C.I.A, Tim Wiener (NY: Doubleday,

   2007)

The Lost Fleet, Marc Songini (NY: St

   Martin's Press, 2007)

Railroads Across America, Claude

   Wiatrowski (St Paul: Voyageur

   Press, 2007)

The First Tycoon, T. J. Styles (NY:

   Knopf, 2009)

Richard M. Nixon, A Life in Full, Conrad

   Black (NY: Public Affairs, 2007)  

von Braun, Michael Neufeld (NY:

   Knopf/NASM, 2007)

Conquering Gotham, Jill Jonnes (NY:

   Viking, 2007)

Lindbergh, A. Scott Berg (NY: G. P.

   Putnam, 1998)

The Strong Man, James Rosen (NY:

   Doubleday, 2008)

The Jesus Papers, Michael Baigent

   (NY: HarperCollins, 2006)

Fordlandia, Greg Grandin

  (NY: H. Holt Co, 2009)

The Romanovs, the Final Chapter,  

   Robert K. Massie (NY: Random

   House, 1995)

The End of Empire: Attila the Hun and

   The Fall  of Rome, Christopher Kelly

   (NY: W.W. Norton, 2009)

Lost to the West: The forgotten Byz-

   antine Empire that rescued Western

   Civilization, Lars Brownworth (NY:

   Crown, 2009)

The Borgias and their Enemies,

   1431-1519, Christopher Hibbert

   (NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

   2009)

 

        Classic Crime

 

The Devil in the White City, Erik

   Larson (NY: Crown, 2003)

Black Dahlia Avenger, Steve Hodel

   (NY: Arcade, 2003)

I Heard You Paint Houses, Charles

   Brandt (NY: Steerforth Press, 2004)

Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy,

   Gordon Thomas/ Martin Dillon (NY:

   Avalon, 2002)

Black Dahlia Files, Don Wolfe (NY:

   Harper, 2005)

Ponzi’s Scheme, Mitchell Zuckoff (NY:

   Random House, 2006)

The Medici Conspiracy, Peter Watson/

   C Todeschini (NY: Publ Affairs, 2006)

Thunderstruck, Erik Larson (NY:

   Crown, 2006)

Most Evil, Steve Hodel (NY: Dutton,

   2009)

Tokyo Vice, Jake Adelstein (NY:

   Pantheon, 2009)

 

       Hollywood, et al

 

Eye on Cavett, Cavett, Chris Porterfield

   (NY: Harper Collins, 1983)

Cole Porter, William McBrien (NY:

   Knopf, 2000)

Howard Hughes, Donald Bartlett (NY:

   W W Norton, 2004)

Selznick, Bob Thomas (NY: Taylor &

   Francis, 1985)

Bloody Sam, Marshall Fine (NY:

   Miramax, 2006)

Edith Head, David Chierichetti, Edith

   Head (NY: Harper Collins, 2003)

Gore Vidal, Fred Kaplan (NY:

   Doubleday, 1999)

Natalie Wood, Gavin Lambert (NY:

   Knopf, 2005)

Elia Kazan, Rich Schickel (NY: Harper

   Collins, 2005)

Cary Grant, Marc Eliot (NY:

   Threerivers, 2004)

James Stewart, Starr Smith/W

   Cronkite (NY: MBI, 2005)

The Lion of Hollywood, Scott Eyman

   (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2005)

Frank Capra: the Catastrophe of

   Success, Joseph McBride (NY:

   Simon & Schuster, 1992)

It’s Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock:

   A Personal Biography, Charlotte

   Chandler (NY: Simon & Schuster,

   2005)

Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Don’t Care,

   Lee Server (NY: St Martins, 2002)

The Girl Who Walked Alone, Charlotte

   Chandler (NY: Simon & Schuster,

   2006)

Fever, Peter Richmond (NY: Holt,

   2006)

Love is Nothing, Lee Server (NY: St

   Martins, 2006)

Twist of Lemmon, Chris Lemmon

   (Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 2006)

Me, Stories of my Life, Katharine

   Hepburn (NY: Random House, 1961)

Clark Gable, a Biography, Warren G.

   Harris (NY: Crown, 2005)

The Beatles, the Bio, Bob Spitz (NY:

   Little, Brown &   Co, 2005)

Otto Preminger, The Man Who Would

   Be King, Foster Hirsch (NY: Knopf,

   2007)

Not the Girl Next Door, Charlotte

   Chandler (NY: Simon & Schuster,

   2008)

Send Yourself Roses, Kathleen Turner

   /Gloria Feldt (NY: Springbrd, 2008)

My Life So Far, Jane Fonda (NY:

   Random House, 2005)

Doris Day-The Untold Story of the Girl

   Next Door, David Kaufman (NY:

   Virgin Books, 2008)

Hemingway, Kenneth S. Lynn

   (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press,

   1987)

 

 

        

  Updated Oct 19, 2009

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