Tuesday, April 17, 2007

"What is Eric Rauchway reading?

The current featured author at Writers Read: Eric Rauchway.

Rauchway is a history professor at the University of California, Davis, and the author of Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America and, more recently, Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America.

A couple of the several titles he mentioned he was reading:
Ann Hagedorn's Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919.

David Silbey's A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902. (See the Page 69 Test entry for Silbey's book.)
Read more about what Rauchway has been reading.

And check out his contributions to the scholars' group blog, "Open University."

The Page 69 Test: Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America.

--Marshal Zeringue