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.
Woman's Hour
Elaine Weiss
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Hour of Land
Terry Tempest Williams
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Inevitability of Tragedy
Barry Gewen
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The Journey of Crazy Horse
Joseph Marshall
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The Legend of Henry Ford
Keith Sward
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The long peace
John Lewis Gaddis
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The Hundred-Year Marathon
Michael Pillsbury
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Lincoln's Melancholy
Joshua Wolf Shenk
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the mind of napoleon
J. Christopher Herold
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The Feminine Mystique 10/1/1984 Edition by Friedan, Betty published by Dell/Laurel (1984) Mass Market Paperback
Betty Friedan
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Money, whence it came, where it went
John Kenneth Galbraith
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The Billion-Dollar Molecule
Barry Werth
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The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang Before and Beyond The Rape of Nanking
Ying-Ying Chang
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An introduction to history
Ibn Ibn Khaldûn
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Night
Elie Wiesel
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New Atlantis
Sir Francis Bacon
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The new Intifada
Roane Carey
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The American Occupation of Japan
Michael Schaller
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Dawn of Language
Sverker Johansson
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A Little History of the World
E. H. Gombrich
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The complete poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Joanne M. Braxton
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Politics of Heroin Se Asia
Alfred W. McCoy
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The Premonition
Michael Lewis
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The quality of mercy
William Shawcross
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