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What books have helped you understand history? [View all]
Although I've always loved history, it was after I took a deep dive with the Washington and Adams administrations in The Age of Federalism by Eric McKitrick and Stanley Elkins that I began to get a feel for how deep the historical record runs, and how these mythical figures were just people doing their best, and cutting expedient political compromises even in a high-minded age like the Enlightenment.
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Age_of_Federalism.html?id=9RyG29bER3QC
What books have framed your understanding of history?
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