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Originally Posted by pwalker8
One of the problems is that such topics aren't normally best seller material, so there aren't very many non academic writers out there. By that, I mean writers for the general public rather than for purely academic readers.
I ran into this problem trying to find a good book on ancient Chinese history. An awful lot of the ancient history ebooks parrot back the local equivalent of George Washington and the Cherry Tree as fact. The best seem to have been written anywhere from the 1920's to the 1950's.
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Yes, academic works are much more common, yet harder to find. But history, even in its academic cloak, isn't that difficult to read and most of the really good historians also tend to write at least one popular version on their specialty. If nothing else out of vanity, they like to be invited as experts, be it to news shows or Senate hearings.
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