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.
Laika
Nick Abadzis
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Oranges
John McPhee
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Last reflections on a war
Bernard B. Fall
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American Lion
Jon Meacham
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Learned pigs & fireproof women
Ricky Jay
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Leni Riefenstahl
Glenn B Infield
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Lenin on the Train
Catherine Merridale
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
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Gang Leader for a Day
Sudhir Venkatesh
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Lincoln
Fred Kaplan
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Lincoln and the Fight for Peace
John Avlon
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Lindbergh
A. Scott Berg
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Ling
Stanley H. Brown
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London Labour and the London Poor
Henry Mayhew
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Losing the Long Game
Philip H. Gordon
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I fought with Custer
Charles Windolph
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More heat than light
Philip Mirowski
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Colder than hell
Joseph R. Owen
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Man of War
Sean Parnell
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Manhattan Beach
Jennifer Egan
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Empty Mansions
Bill Dedman
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wild swans
Jung Chang
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Mohammed and Charlemagne
Henri Pirenne
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Machines Who Think
Pamela McCorduck
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