What History Books Did You Buy Recently?

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   I thought such a thread might be of value so we see what the others read, and possibly ask for opinion on a particular book, or a quote from it. It's impossible to keep with all the book available, so some exchange on this might be useful.

I'm cheap, and rarely buy new books - unless I exchange for them, but the exchange stores in Spokane are going out of business, or are getting very picky with what they take, because their business is getting very slow. So, my usual source for books are the thrift-strores, and I have 2 favorite ones in Spokane that I brouse every week for treasures. However, sometimes the libraries make sales of used books, on prices like 50 cents a book, or 2-3 $ a bag - and I was to one such sale last Sat, so I got out with 2 big boxes with variety of books, I'll put the history ones here, and make threads on the SS and Literary Pursuits for the psychology and poetry ones. This is what I got:

Bios:
"The Making of Robert E. Lee" by Michael Fellman, 2000
"Columbus - The great Adbenture" by Paolo Tavliani, 1991
"The Lives and Times of Rembrand van Rijn" by Hendric Willem van Loon, 1930
"Freud - A life for Our Time" by Peter Gay, 1988
"Disraeli" by Robert Blake, 1967

History of Art:
"Excursion in World Music", textbook, by Bruno Nettl etc, 1997
"World Music - the Rough Guide", reader, 1994

Anthropology, Mythology:
"Antropological Theory", reader, edited by R.Jon McGee and Richard Warms, 2000
"Indians of North America", by Harold E. Driver, 1969
"The Hero with the Thousand faces" by Joseph Campbell, 1968

Primary sources:
"The Eight Wilderness-Discovery Books' by John Muir, 1992 /in terrible condition, it seems that someone dropped it in the toilet, or mice had used it as such, so I had to sanitize it/
"essential Works of Stoicism" - reader, 1961
"Weare All re;ated" by Mitakuye Oyason, 1997
"A Galilean Dialog - incorporating a new English translation of Galileo's "Bodies that Stay Atop Water of Move in It" by  Stillman Drake, 1981
"The Dancing Palm Tree and Other Nigerian Folktales", by Barbara Walker, 1968
"The Book of Jubilees or The Little Genesis" - this is an Apocryphal Ethiopic text, dated at C2nd BC.

Current Events:
"The Intelligence Wars - Lessons from Baghdad" by Steven O'Hern, 2008
'The Everlasting Hatred - the Roots of Jihad" by Hal Lihdsey, 2002
"The Fourth Star - Four Generals and Their Epic Struggle for the Future of the US Army" by daviv Cloud and Greg Jaffe, 2009

Mixed History:
"Mesopotamia - the Mighty Kings" - a TIMELife vollume, 1995
"Near Eastern Tradition" by Milton Covensky, 1966
"US Navy Carriers - Weapons or War" - DVD with a small 25 paged book
"Women's Roots - Status and Achievements in Western Civilization" by June Stevenson, 1981
"America's Founding Heritage", by Frank Fox and Clayne Pope, 2005
"The March of Democracy and the March of the Union" by James Truslow Adams, 1032
"Modern Latin America" by Thomas E. Skidmore and Peter H. Smith
'The Bold Fenian Men" by Robert Kee, 1972