Mauve Moments with Orlando Plumbe

Jacques Barzun: A Jacques Barzun Reader : Selections from His Works (Perennial Classics)
He started so young, and he chugs on so admirably. Perhaps Barzun is the last living philosophe from the Enlightment. When you read Barzun's stuff, you want to read more both by him and others.. The highest compliment I can give a writer.

Niall Ferguson: Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power

ULYSSES S. GRANT: Personal Memoirs: Ulysses S. Grant (Modern Library War)
He wrote clearly in the field and just as clearly on his death bed.

Sinclair Lewis: Sinclair Lewis: Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth (Library of America)
The themes are timeless, the details of time and place fascinating, and the prose better than you remember from 11th grade english.

Niall Ferguson: The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
This goes quickly; but it helps to know the subject first. Nt a good introduction.

A. N. Wilson: The Victorians

The Duellists

The Charge of the Light Brigade

David Hackett Fischer: Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America)

Edmund Morris: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Modern Library (Paperback))

Edmund Wilson: Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War

Gustave Flaubert: A Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback))

Henry Adams: The Education of Henry Adams (Oxford World's Classics)

Honore De Balzac: Lost Illusions (The Penguin Classics L251)

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE: The Sorrows of Young Werther (Vintage Classics)

Robert Blake: Disraeli (Lost Treasures Series)

ROY JENKINS: Gladstone : A Biography