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 Bully Pulpit
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Dream Machine
M. Mitchell Waldrop
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Guarded Gate
Daniel Okrent
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The most powerful idea in the world
William Rosen
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The Power Broker
Robert A. Caro
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Tuxedo Park
Jennet Conant
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A very expensive poison
Luke Harding
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Machete season
Jean Hatzfeld
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A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety
Jimmy Carter
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Travels with Charley
John Steinbeck
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Walt Disney
Neal Gabler
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1421
Gavin Menzies
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1491
Charles C. Mann
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Soul of a New Machine
Tracy Kidder
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Anarchy
William Dalrymple
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Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials
Telford Taylor
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The bet
Paul Sabin
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Aristocracy of Talent
Adrian Wooldridge
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Rodin.
Albert E. Elsen
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The rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris
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The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900
Theodore M. Porter
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The Battle of Alcazar: An Account of the Defeat of Don Sebastian of Portugal at El-Ksar el-Kebir
E.W. Bovill
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The Beautiful Cigar Girl
Daniel Stashower
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Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
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