FIVE FOOT BOOKSHELF

I suppose the bookshelf is in the USA:

The Unknown History of the Workers Movement in the United States, by Herbert M. Morais & Richard O. Boyer

We, the People , by Leo Huberman

Ok, that's one I'd like to read, speaking of curmudgeons..

I once had a hardback copy of the book in which I peruse on occasion. I have no idea where it is right now as it didn't come with me on my move to NYC 8 years ago.

I periodically also keep asking the NYPL to see if they can grab the accompanying PBS series on DVD but since they only have it on VHS, it's utterly useless to me.

I've only read articles by or about him, scant at that.

I haven't read these, and thanks for the titles.

My dad was early on in a union, famously to me missing at my birth for a meeting. (I liked him anyway). He also didn't keep his dues up until near death and thus didn't get into the old movie people home.

Will check these out.

I suppoase we oughta call it in for history by tomorrow and then movwe on to the arts.
Reise nach Pennsylfawniche Im Yahr 1696 (trips to Pa in year 1696)by Pastorius is as entertaining and informational books as is "The Voyage of the Beagle" (sorry).



The American Revolution George Trevelyan is written as if the war was choreographed. However trevelyan has been described as "overenthusiastic in his desire to avoid understatment". Im not sure about what THEY are speaking about, so just beware what some scholars say.

Well, gee, farmer, if you want us to start listing all the "entertainig and informative" books we've read, you're gonna need a shelf that's one hell of a lot bigger'n five feet. I'm just concentrating on the essentials, so to speak. Space is limited here.

This is one I've had on my bookshelf for years & always will have:

Weevils in the Flour, written by Wendy Lowenstein. An oral history of the 1930s depression in Australia.

What I love about this book is that it it so accessible. It's full of stories & anecdotes of the lives of ordinary Australians (Lowenstein interviewed hundreds of them while researching the book) & how they personally fared in the depression. Not only the desperate aspects of their lives, there are also funny stories, stories of taking on the "authorities" & the landlords ... some pretty amazing details of what people actually did to get by, records of quite a bit of political activity, etc, etc ...
What I really like is that she lets people speak for themselves.

I've used it a quite a bit in my classrooms because it is so accessible to older students, in fact actually invited her to talk with some of my students once. (Which was a pretty amazing experience. She was a "larger than life" sort of person. Extremely candid, full of interesting information & very entertaining, too.)

http://www.scribepublications.com.au/book/weevilsintheflour

The title sounds like the book should be an insectivores cookbook.

It's what some poor folk actually had to eat in the great depression, tsar. There's a well known Oz folk song with the same title.

Wendy Lowenstein was married to one of the Dunera boys.
I'm going to see if i can reserve that book online at the library

sorry thats a bit off the topic

(sorry to be off topic, too, but ..) It is well worth a read, dp.

If you can't find a copy (it may be out of print) you are most welcome to borrow mine.

Patrick White may be worth thinking about. Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973.

But which Novel?
White is best known for The Aunt's Story, Voss and The Eye of the Storm.

Some of the aboriginal dreamtime stories deserve inclusion. Its not what FM was thinking about I know bit they still tells us a great deal about our history and our connection with the land we now share.

History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Sir Winston Churchill
The Histories of Herodotus

My Dad is a Dunera boy. Did she marry Fritz? That's how my Dad spoke of him

Well, Ill call it in for history and I will put up the sense of what yall have provided me. I am now going to switch to the ARts as the next subject. I am not limiting thias to just"flat" art but the entire broader subject (unless of course it gets unwieldy). My first choice would be
H. W. Janson's "The History of ARt". Its probably in its 5th edition now but when I was in school this was the definitive introductory text for anyone seeking to become versed in the history of the manual arts, (painting, sculpture,architecture ). I still refer to its depths .Its an exmple of where a book can be scholarly and still have lots of graphics.

A movie was made a while back in Oz you may be interested. see if you can get it.
THE DUNERA BOYS
This a true story about 2000 Jewish male refugees from Hitler's Germany, who were rounded up by the British because of fear of them being German spies and shipped off to a POW camp in Australia,where they teach the Aussies in charge of them a thing or two about Jewish culture. Bob Hoskins gives another great performance as a Jewish fishmonger born in England, who's just as British as Winston Churchill, but who gets rounded up with the rest. Alternating between drama and comedy,the film strikes a nice balance between the two.

Before farmerguy closes the shelf on History. Anything by Barbara Tuchman...just finished The Guns Of August. She is one hell of an historian

Thankd dad. I hadn't seen that one. If you pick up the book The Dunera Scandal, it includes illustrations done by my dad.