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.
Furious Hours
Casey Cep
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Howard Hughes
Donald L. Barlett
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Idea Makers
Stephen Wolfram
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Ignition!
John Drury Clark
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Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Norman G. Finkelstein
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Empire of Fortune
Francis Jennings
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European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960
V.G. Kiernan
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In Fed we trust
David Wessel
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Incompleteness
Rebecca Goldstein
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India : what can it teach us?
Max F. Muller
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Infamous Scribblers
Eric Burns
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Robinson Crusoe
Frederick the Great
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Intervention
George McTurnan Kahin
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Humanitarian intervention
Sean D. Murphy
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Brothers Forever
Tom Sileo
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Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott
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Janesville
Amy Goldstein
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Playing in the Light
Zoë Wicomb
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John Adams
David McCullough
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John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire
William Earl Weeks
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Johnny Tremain - Novel For Old & Young
Esther Hoskins Forbes
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Tough Jews
Rich Cohen
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Qaddafi and the United States since 1969
P. Edward Haley
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King of Hearts
G. Wayne Miller
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