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.
Black Athena
Martin Bernal
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Atrocities
Matthew White
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Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency
Andrew C. McCarthy
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Black Flags
Joby Warrick
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Barbarians at the Gate
Bryan Burrough
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Bass culture
Lloyd Bradley
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Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump
Edward-Isaac Dovere
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Being Nixon
Evan Thomas
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Best evidence
David S. Lifton
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Black Elk
Joe Jackson
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Black Elk speaks
John G. Neihardt
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Black Spartacus
Sudhir Hazareesingh
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Blitzed
Norman Ohler
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By honor bound
Tom Norris
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California
Kevin Starr
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Cambodia, 1975-1982
Michael Vickery
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Total Chaos
Jeff Gold
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Helmet For My Pillow
Robert Leckie
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Works of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
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Marriage, a history
Stephanie Coontz
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Catherine the Great
Robert K. Massie
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China airborne
James Fallows
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Churchill
Clive Ponting
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Almost Everyone's Guide to Science
John Gribbin
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