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.
Wooden Leg
Thomas B. Marquis
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Necessary People
Anna Pitoniak
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Plants of the gods
Richard Evans Schultes
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Platoon Leader
James R. McDonough
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Polio
David M. Oshinsky
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Politicide
Baruch Kimmerling
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Poor Numbers
Morten Jerven
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Why America Is Not a New Rome
Vaclav Smil
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Presidents of War
Michael Beschloss
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American Prison
Shane Bauer
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Prisoners of Geography
Tim Marshall
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Open
Johan Norberg
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Psychology For The Fighting Man
Committee Of The National Research Counc
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The less you know, the better you sleep
David Satter
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Four hours in My Lai
Michael Bilton
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Railroader
Howard Green
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Rats, Lice and History
Hans Zinsser
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Reagan Versus the Sandinistas
Thomas W Walker
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Reflections on the Cuban missile crisis
Raymond Garthoff
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Clocks and culture, 1300-1700.
Carlo M. Cipolla
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Requiem for revolution
Ruth Leacock
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Inevitable revolutions
Walter LaFeber
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Cane River
Lalita Tademy
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River, cross my heart
Breena Clarke
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