Jan
Here is what I suggest. Rather than go to uninspiring Barnes and Noble, the Top 40 of Books, which sells more image than essence, I suggest you go down to the colonial zone and hit the local mom and pop book stores on Padre Billini Ave. In fact you may run into Frank Moya Pons in the afternoons meeting with his fellow history pals and he may suggest what to read.All the good stuff is there. If you are not successful send me an e-mail and I will give you my brothers' e-mail, so he can send you his list. My brother can run miles around these dudes.
However, I caution you about all these new so-called historians who came out of nowhere and have a celebrity status not equivalent to their curriculum. For instance, there is a "historian" who is Baninter's public relations chief and one of the most visual characters in our social scene, whom I knew back in his NYC days, where he would stand in corners begging me for $5 dollars so he could eat. I don't recall this guy ever going to college in New York. Then all of the sudden I move to DR and here is this guy turning into one of our top historians. Then you take a former General and Constitutional commander in 1965, who had a TV program about history. I really laughed at this guy. He practicly revised military history in this country. Where did he learned all this. I knew the guy back when and he was a lowly Captain who spent most of his time running around chasing girls in Barrio Mejoramiento Social. He was just as lucky as all the ex-constitutionalists who became millionaires selling their leftist ideas and hero worshipping and became one of the new free-giveaway generals we have today.. Then you take our new super historian, the Chief of the Armed Forces...give me a break!!!
TW
