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A Man by Oriana Fallaci
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"What's the point anyway — Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives." (quote from the book)The book is a pseudo-biography about Alexandros Panagoulis written in the form of a novel. Fallaci had an intense romantic relationship with Panagoulis... -
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The Women of the Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She’s spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries—and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs...Categorized as:
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Empire by Gore Vidal
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this extraordinarily powerful epic Gore Vidal recreates America's Gilded Age—a period of promise and possibility, of empire-building and fierce political rivalries... -
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The Paris Gown by Christine Wells
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom perennially popular historical novelist Christine Wells, the delightful tale of three young women in 1950s Paris who share a single dazzling Christian Dior gown.1957: Three friends—Margot, Gina, and Charlotte—share an apartment above a bookstore in Paris.Margot is a twenty-two-year-old Australian having the time of her life...Categorized as:
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![An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin]()
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon in the last years of his life...Categorized as:
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![Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro]()
Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of the Senate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate... -
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The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over thirty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution; from the American hostage crisis in Beirut to the Iran-Iraq War; from the 1991 Gulf War to... -
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The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThis is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy & ambition that set LBJ apart... -
![Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas]()
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“[A] sweeping and authoritative history" (The New York Times Book Review), Black Wave is an electrifying and audacious narrative examination of how the modern Middle East unraveled and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979... -
![Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin]()
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsStudies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century. Illuminations includes Benjamin's views on Kafka, with whom he felt the closest personal affinity, his studies on Baudelaire and Proust (both of whom he translated), his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's Epic Theater... -
![The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro]()
The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career—1958 to1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as Senate Majority Leader for what became the wretched powerlessness of a Vice President in an administration that disdained and distrusted him... -
![Journal 1935 - 1944: The Fascist Years by Mihail Sebastian]()
Journal 1935 - 1944: The Fascist Years by Mihail Sebastian
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHailed as one of the most important portrayals of the dark years of Nazism, this powerful chronicle by the Romanian Jewish writer Mihail Sebastian aroused a furious response in Eastern Europe when it was first published. A profound and powerful literary achievement, it offers a lucid and finely shaded analysis of erotic and social life, a Jew's diary, a reader's notebook, a music-lover's journal... -
![Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics by Lawrence O'Donnell]()
Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics by Lawrence O'Donnell
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the celebrated host of MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, and created American politics as we know it today... -
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Richard Nixon: The Life by John A. Farrell
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA deeply researched, superbly crafted biography of America’s most complex president. In Richard Nixon, award-winning biographer John A. Farrell examines the life and legacy of one of America’s most controversial political figures... -
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![Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein]()
Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020From the bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power.Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emerging dominance of conservatism in modern American politics... -
![The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam]()
The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDavid Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain... -
![In Europa: Reizen door de twintigste eeuw by Geert Mak]()
In Europa: Reizen door de twintigste eeuw by Geert Mak
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the First World War to the waning days of the Cold War, a poignant exploration on what it means to be European at the end of the twentieth-century. Geert Mak crisscrosses Europe from Verdun to Berlin, SaintPetersburg to Srebrenica in search of evidence and witnesses of the last hundred years of Europe...Categorized as:
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![The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency by Chris Whipple, Mark Bramhall]()
The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency by Chris Whipple, Mark Bramhall
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions--and inactions--have defined the course of our country.What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the president of the United States--as did Donald Rumsfeld, Leon Panetta, and a relative handful of others... -
![Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War by Svetlana Alexievich]()
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War by Svetlana Alexievich
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties - and the youth and humanity of many tens of thousands more. In Zinky Boys journalist Svetlana Alexievich gives voice to the tragic history of the Afghanistan War...Categorized as:
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![Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941 by William L. Shirer]()
Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941 by William L. Shirer
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe author of the international bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers a personal account of life in Nazi Germany at the start of WWII. By the late 1930s, Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Nazi Party, had consolidated power in Germany and was leading the world into war. A young foreign correspondent was on hand to bear witness... -
![Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden]()
Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the early hours of January 31, 1968, the North Vietnamese launched over one hundred attacks across South Vietnam in what would become known as the Tet Offensive. The lynchpin of Tet was the capture of Hue, Vietnam?s intellectual and cultural capital, by 10,000 National Liberation Front troops who descended from hidden camps and surged across the city of 140,000... -
![You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becker]()
You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becker
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWINNER OF THE 2022 GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2022 SPERBER PRIZEThe long-buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the barriers to women covering war...Categorized as:
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![I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface by Charles M. Payne]()
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface by Charles M. Payne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material that situates the book in the context of subsequent movement literature... -
![Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser]()
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA myth-shattering exposé of America’s nuclear weaponsFamed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America’s nuclear arsenal... -
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![A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan]()
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis passionate, epic account of the Vietnam War centres on Lt Col John Paul Vann, whose story illuminates America's failures & disillusionment in SE Asia. A field adviser to the army when US involvement was just beginning, he quickly became appalled at the corruption of the S. Vietnamese regime, their incompetence in fighting the Communists & their brutal alienation of their own people... -
![Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro]()
Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratings‘The greatest biography of our era … Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics’ The TimesRobert A. Caro’s legendary, multi-award-winning biography of US President Lyndon Johnson is a uniquely riveting and revelatory account of power, political genius and the shaping of twentieth-century America... -
![Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas]()
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWinner of 3 different awards, this is a story of the busing crisis in Boston. The book traces the history of three families: the working-class African-American Twymons, the working-class Irish McGoffs, and the middle-class Yankee Divers... -
![Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein]()
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAcclaimed historian Rick Perlstein chronicles the rise of the conservative movement in the liberal 1960s. At the heart of the story is Barry Goldwater, the renegade Republican from Arizona who loathed federal government, despised liberals, and mocked “peaceful coexistence” with the USSR... -
![King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero by David Remnick]()
King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero by David Remnick
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThere were mythic sports figures before him--Jack Johnson, Babe Ruth, Joe Louis, Joe DiMaggio--but when Cassius Clay burst onto the sports scene from his native Louisville in the 1950s, he broke the mold. He changed the world of sports and went on to change the world itself. As Muhammad Ali, he would become the most recognized face on the planet... -
![First: Sandra Day O'Connor by Evan Thomas]()
First: Sandra Day O'Connor by Evan Thomas
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsShe was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were expected to be homemakers, she set her sights on Stanford University. When she graduated near the top of her class at law school in 1952, no firm would even interview her...
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