History Books I Like

Lytton Strachey wrote some of them.

Because I’ve been complaining here lately about the dullness and emptiness of history books written both by my better-known competitors in pop history and by scholars crossing over to pop, a question naturally arises: Does it all have to be so negative? Isn’t there any history I actually like?

Yes, there is. In this and some future BAD HISTORY posts, he…