by Dee Brown (1970)
Dee Brown’s monumental classic tells the tragic story of the systematic destruction of Native American tribes during the late nineteenth century using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand accounts.
S.C. Gwynne
S.C. Gwynne’s Pulitzer finalist epic chronicles the four-decade war between the Comanches—the most formidable horse warriors in history—and Spanish, Mexican, and American settlers for control of the Great Plains.
Friedrich Nietzsche, R.J. Hollingdale
A poetic philosophical masterpiece in which the prophet Zarathustra descends from his mountain cave to preach the death of God, the arrival of the Übermensch, and the eternal return of all things.
Thucydides, Robert B. Strassler
Thucydides chronicles the devastating twenty-seven-year civil war between democratic Athens and oligarchic Sparta that ended the Golden Age of Greece, creating the foundation of political realism.
Barbara W. Tuchman
Barbara Tuchman vividly reconstructs the disastrous fourteenth century through the life of French nobleman Enguerrand de Coucy VII, amidst the Black Death, the Hundred Years’ War, and the collapse of feudal society.