This year I've been doing a lot of reading. A lot of history reading, to be specific. I think I've read more this year than any year in the past and learned a tremendous amount. Now at the end of the year I made my list of what the best books are for the year and I think the actual best book of the year is Wilson by A.Scott Berg, a tremendous biography of the President Woodrow Wilson. I've read several biographies of Wilson but this one does an excellent job of combining the research involved in presenting his life and his two terms as President, while reading like a very entertaining novel.
The runner up and very close behind Wilson by a margin, is Catastrophe:1914 by Max Hastings about that first year of World War 1. Max Hastings is perhaps the best battle writer out today.
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