{"id":18435,"date":"2013-01-08T14:02:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T14:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=18435"},"modified":"2013-01-08T14:05:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T14:05:50","slug":"the-best-books-i-read-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=18435","title":{"rendered":"The Best Books I Read in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

[by J. Scott Shipman]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Defining “the best” is at best subjective. In no particular order save the first two, these are the best books I read in 2012:<\/p>\n

Best Non-Fiction:\u00a0Inventing Grand Strategy and Teaching Command<\/a>, Jon Tetsuro Sumida<\/p>\n

Best Biography:\u00a0The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill, Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965<\/a>, William Manchester and Paul Reid<\/p>\n

National Security Dilemmas<\/a>, Colin Gray<\/p>\n

America in Arms<\/a>, John McAuley Palmer<\/p>\n

Antifragile<\/a>, Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/p>\n

The Admirals<\/a>, Walter Borneman<\/p>\n

Creating a Lean R&D System<\/a>, Terence Barnhart<\/p>\n

The Twilight War<\/a>, David Crist<\/p>\n

Catherine The Great<\/a>, Robert K.Massie<\/p>\n

Rubicon<\/a>, Tom Holland<\/p>\n

Honorable Mentions:<\/p>\n

The First Battle<\/a>, Otto Lehrack<\/p>\n

Master and Commander<\/a>, Patrick O’Brian<\/p>\n

Clausewitz’s On War, A Biography<\/a>, Hew Strachan<\/p>\n

John Quincy Adams<\/a>, Harlow Giles Unger<\/p>\n

Cross-posted at To Be or To Do<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[by J. Scott Shipman] Defining “the best” is at best subjective. In no particular order save the first two, these are the best books I read in 2012: Best Non-Fiction:\u00a0Inventing Grand Strategy and Teaching Command, Jon Tetsuro Sumida Best Biography:\u00a0The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill, Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965, William Manchester and Paul Reid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[618,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-j-scott-shipman","category-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18438,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18435\/revisions\/18438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}