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.
The Black Jacobins
C.L.R. James
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The limits of state action
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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The tycoons
Charles R. Morris
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Mine were of trouble
Peter Kemp
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The nine
Jeffrey Toobin
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The Rommel papers
B. H. Liddell-Hart
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Prime Movers of Globalization
Vaclav Smil
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Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown
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Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
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The money lords
Matthew Josephson
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The Supermen
Charles J. Murray
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The Last Days of Night
Graham Moore
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The Uses of Haiti
Paul Farmer
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Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
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Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
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Pacific Nightmare
Simon Winchester
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Fathers and sons
Ivan Turgenev
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Pandaemonium 1660-1886
Humphrey Jennings
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A peace denied
Gareth Porter
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Stones from the River
Ursula Hegi
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Through the Valley
William Reeder Jr.
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Outlaw platoon
Sean Parnell
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Losing the Signal
Jacquie McNish
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Danger and survival
McGeorge Bundy
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