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.
March
John Lewis
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Marine!
Burke Davis
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Matterhorn
Karl Marlantes
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McDonald's
John F. Love
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Mephistopheles
Jeffrey Burton Russell
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Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople
Geoffrey de Villehardouin
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Merchants of Doubt
Naomi Oreskes
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Merchant Princes
Leon A. Harris
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Masters of Enterprise
H.W. Brands
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Garry Kasparov on my great predecessors
Garry Kasparov
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A thousand days
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
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My Life and Battles
Jack Johnson
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Mr. Baruch
Margaret L. Coit
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Worlds in Collision
Ken Booth
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Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
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In Patagonia
Bruce Chatwin
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American nations
Colin Woodard
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Napoleon
Vincent Cronin
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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
Michela Wrong
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Born Red
Gao Yuan
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Women of worth
Russell James
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No gods, no masters
Daniel Guerin
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Nicaragua, the price of intervention
Peter Kornbluh
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Nixon agonistes
Garry Wills
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