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.
Cyropaedia
Xenophon
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang
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Civilisation: A Personal View
Kenneth Clark
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Civilized to Death
Christopher Ryan
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Coyote America
Dan Flores
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Upheaval
Jared Diamond
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Collusion across the Jordan
Avi Shlaim
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Allan Quatermain
Charles B. Macdonald
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How Democracies Die
Steven Levitsky
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How to Tame a Fox
Lee Alan Dugatkin
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How Innovation Works
Matt Ridley
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Concorde
Geoffrey Knight
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Condemned to repetition
Robert A. Pastor
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Confidence Game
Christine S. Richard
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Conflicting missions
Piero Gleijeses
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Confronting the Third World
Gabriel Kolko
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Collusion
Luke Harding
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Materials and Dematerialization
Vaclav Smil
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Counter-Attack, and Other Poems
Siegfried Sassoon
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Conversations with Major Dick Winters
Cole C. Kingseed
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Growth
Vaclav Smil
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Creating the Twentieth Century
Vaclav Smil
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
Jason Stearns
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Collateral Damage
Cynthia Peters
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