Best books in History
The daily bread of the catalog's most curious thinkers. Patrick Collison, Barack Obama and Noam Chomsky dominate this category, and the titles they chose reveal that understanding the present always starts with understanding what came before.
The Fourth Turning
William Strauss
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The fall of Constantinople, 1453
Steven Runciman
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Queen of Fashion
Caroline Weber
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The Copernican revolution
Thomas S. Kuhn
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Second Coming of the KKK
Linda Gordon
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In the shadow of statues
Mitch Landrieu
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Out of Mao's Shadow
Philip P. Pan
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Spider Network
David Enrich
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Promised Land
Barack Obama
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The Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960
Morton J. Horwitz
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The real terror network
Edward S. Herman
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The Life of Greece
Will & Ariel Durant
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Mental Life of Modernism
Samuel Jay Keyser
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Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History
Mark Girouard
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Wittgenstein's Vienna Revisited
Allan Janik
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Coming of the Greeks
Robert Drews
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The Killing Zone
Frederick Downs Jr.
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Storm over the land
Abraham Lincoln
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A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
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Albert Einstein
Banesh Hoffmann
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Beyond Band of Brothers
Dick Winters
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Alexander of Macedon, 356–323 B.C.: A Historical Biography
Peter Green
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Alexander and the East
A. B. Bosworth
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Feeding the Dragon
Chris Fenton
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