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.
River Town
Peter Hessler
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Safe for democracy
Lloyd C. Gardner
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Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Samuel Johnson
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Blood and Thunder
Hampton Sides
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The sixteen satires
Juvenal
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Schulz and Peanuts
David Michaelis
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Sea Flight
Hugh Popham
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Secrets of the flesh
Judith Thurman
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The History of England: Volume II
Winston Churchill
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Shadow Divers
Robert Kurson
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Sherman
B. H. Liddell Hart
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Sleep in Art
Meir Kryger
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Slugfest
Reed Tucker
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Mile Stones in Public Health A
D.A. Henderson
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On Sparta (Penguin Classics)
Plutarch
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About Face
Colonel David H. Hackworth
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Stalin
Edvard Radzinsky
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Stalin
Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Stalingrad
Antony Beevor
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Up from slavery
Booker T. Washington
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Dirt and disease
Naomi Rogers
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Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
Mike Isaac
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Supremacy and oil
William Stivers
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Technics and civilization.
Lewis Mumford
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