I went to high school in New York, so that’s already a bad start, lmao, but, I want to learn more about American / World history. Can you guys recommend good books to read? It’s hard for me to discern between TRUE history, and made up bullshit history. I’m very interested to learn more about how politics worked from around 1776 until around 2010 (when I became old enough to start paying attention and forming my own opinions).
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Begin with the Magna Carta, then The Articles of Confederation from which The Constitution was born. Plato, John Locke and Thomas Hobbes weighed heavily in the philosophical ideas of our Republic. Familiarize yourself with all this, then work forward.
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Read books from Victor Davis Hanson, or Thomas Sowell, can't go wrong with Sowell.
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David McCullough's book on john Adams was excellent, he wrote a book called 1776, have not read it, but its worth looking into.
a little off target but relevant, The Commanding Heights - recent history on western Europe's lean toward socials after WWII with nationalized industries, etc and how it crashed and they privatized most things.
and because history repeats itself, The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Doncan about the end of the Roman Republic, you will think you are reading today's news.
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First, I offer blessings unto you. Awakening is a chore. Do not rush into understanding too quickly. Before you is a banquet of knowledge. Take freely and return in your time. Godspeed pede.
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Victor Davis Hanson.
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