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Favorite Reading
Here are some of the books that I have enjoyed and highly recommend:
Thomas Paine - Enlightenment, Revolution,
and the Birth of Modern Nations
by Craig Nelson - Penquin Books - 349 pages...
Public
Schools today teach precious little in the way of History in general and American History specifically. To paraphrase
Cicero, not to know what happened before we were born is to remain forever a child... Paine's wrighting, starting
with the pamphlet Common Sense, sparked the debate that culminated in both the American and French Revolutions.
He was part of the group of thinkers in what is now knows as an age of Enlightenment resulting in a form of government that
had never in the history of the world been tried.
The Pirate Queen ~ Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adentures and the Dawn of Empire ~ Susan Ronald ~ Harper
Collins ~ 385 pages... If you are into intrigue in-depth, you will love this well documented work that illuminates the history
of the modern world as it unfolded on a stage pitting cousins who were Kings and Queens. Elizabeth held to the one Protestant
state, which wihtout her would have been reigned in by the Papacy that ruled the rest of Europe by proxy. All of your
favorites were there, Sir Francis Drake, Mary Queen of Scotts, Philp of Spain, and other key players in creating the New World.
This is not light reading, but if you like to stretch your brain, I think you like it.
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