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.
Nixonland
Rick Perlstein
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In the Heart of the Sea
Nathaniel Philbrick
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Into the fire
Dakota Meyer
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On the bus
Paul Perry
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On the Ground
John Stryker Meyer
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Our Lost Declaration: America's Fight Against Tyranny from King George to the Deep State
Mike Lee
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Not Much of an Engineer
Sir Stanley Hooker
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White Album
Joan Didion
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Food of the Gods
Terence McKenna
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The almagest
Claudius Ptolemy
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Poor Richard's Almanack
Benjamin Franklin
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Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
David Treuer
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The beak of the finch
Jonathan Weiner
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The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
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The Path Between the Seas
David McCullough
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Road to OPEC
Stephen G. Rabe
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The messianic character of American education
Rousas John Rushdoony
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Chip
T. R. Reid
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The cowshed
Ji Xianlin
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The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
Nancy Gibbs
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Collapse of the Bronze Age
Manuel Robbins
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Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations
David Warsh
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Control of Nature
John McPhee
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The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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