{"id":699,"date":"2008-12-09T14:16:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T22:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=699"},"modified":"2008-12-09T14:31:08","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T22:31:08","slug":"great-american-history-book-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/great-american-history-book-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Great American history book recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a thread for suggestions. \u00a0I&#8217;m looking here for works which focus on social &amp; economic changes, as opposed to personal biography and diplomatic history. \u00a0The latter was important, but my personal impression is that they&#8217;re easy to bone up on via simple web resources. \u00a0But when it comes to topics which are less likely to move copies in airport terminals the seamless narrative of a scholar still has a strong comparative advantage. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a few:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0809023857\/geneexpressio-20\/\">The Age of Lincoln<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0195069056\/geneexpressio-20\/\">Albion&#8217;s Seed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060957557\/geneexpressio-20\">Freedom Just Around The Corner<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a thread for suggestions. \u00a0I&#8217;m looking here for works which focus on social &amp; economic changes, as opposed to personal biography and diplomatic history. \u00a0The latter was important, but my personal impression is that they&#8217;re easy to bone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/great-american-history-book-recommendations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9,90,1],"tags":[33,1134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}