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.
Age of Ambition
Evan Osnos
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Erinnerungen an die Zukunft
Erich von Däniken
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Eradication
Nancy Leys Stepan
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Weeds
Richard Mabey
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These Truths
Jill Lepore
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This Brave New World
Anja Manuel
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Battle Studies
Ardant du Picq
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I, Claudius
Robert Graves
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I remember the last war
Bob Hoffman
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Excursion to hell
Vincent Bramley
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Exporting Democracy
Abraham F. Lowenthal
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Fascism: The Career of a Concept
Paul Gottfried
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The forge and the crucible
Mircea Eliade
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Son of the morning star
Evan S. Connell
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Red Famine
Anne Applebaum
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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
Harold G. Moore
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Out of control
Leslie Cockburn
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Forged in Crisis
Nancy Koehn
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Steel My Soldiers' Hearts: The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, United States Army, Vietnam
Col. David H. Hackworth
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Fragments
Heraclitus
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The fratricides
Nikos Kazantzakis
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
David W. Blight
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Bitter Fruit
Stephen C. Schlesinger
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Furious Love
Sam Kashner
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