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.
All Out War
Tim Shipman
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All Out War
Sean Parnell
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American buffalo
Steven Rinella
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American foreign policy
Henry A. Kissinger
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American Moonshot
Douglas Brinkley
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Americana
Bhu Srinivasan
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Antifascism
Paul Gottfried
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Lost Children Archive
Valeria Luiselli
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The Adventures Of Hajji Baba Of Ispahan
James Morier
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Adventures of Henry Thoreau
Michael Sims
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The Hundred Rules of War
Tsukahara Bokuden
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Things hidden since the foundation of the world
Rene Girard
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Tim O'Brien's The things they carried
Tim O'Brien
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The Kennedy tapes
Ernest R. May
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Israel's Border Wars, 1949-1956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War
Benny Morris
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Fingerprints of the gods
Graham Hancock
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Recollections of Rifleman Harris
Benjamin Harris
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The Kennedy women
Laurence Leamer
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The Origins of the Korean War
Bruce Cumings
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Serengeti Rules
Sean B. Carroll
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The travels of Marco Polo the Venetian
Marco Polo
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Lincoln's virtues
William Lee Miller
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Asylum
William Seabrook
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Shortcut
John Pollack
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