Books by White, Richard
Found 2 books
Richard White, The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 .
3. Richard White, The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 . This will make the year’s “best of” list for sure. I’m not usually a fan of reading a 900 pp. plus survey book to cover a period of more than three decades. Usually too much stays superficial, and the author does not apply consistent quality standards to the whole work, if any of it. But this book is interesting and informative on virtually every page, and it is unfortu...
5. Richard White, Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America . I like the first hundred pages very much, so you’ll probably be hearing more about this one, which is a major study of its topic, with a good deal of coverage of Canada and Mexico too, often from a comparative perspective.