The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump
By: William J. Perry
4.01
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Since the Truman administration, America has been one push of a button away from nuclear war--a dec…
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1. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
By: Eric Schlosser
4.26
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
A myth-shattering exposé of America’s nuclear weapons Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlos… read more
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2. The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
By: Gretchen Bakke
3.87
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory look at our national power grid--how it developed, its current flaws, and how it must … read more
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3. Drift
By: Rachel Maddow
4.07
Format: 288 pages,
"One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792… read more
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"It apparently took a lot of layers of Brown & Root management and administration to turn a $14 sheet of plywood into an $86 sheet of plywood"-Rachel Maddow, Drift
"When civilians are not asked to pay any price, it's easy to be at war - not just to intervene in a foreign land in the first place, but to keep on fighting there. The justifications for staying at wa…"-Rachel Maddow, Drift
"The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for some, but it's privation for the rest of America; it steals from what we could be and can do. In Ec…"-Rachel Maddow, Drift
"Carter's renowned 1979 "malaise speech" [...] is little remembered for what it actually was: a call to arms for fixing our nation's dire energy future. "Beginning this moment, this nation will never …"-Rachel Maddow, Drift
4. The Secret War with Iran: The 30-Year Clandestine Struggle Against the World's Most Dangerous Terrorist Power
By: Ronen Bergman
4.36
Format: None pages,
In the years since 9/11, the U.S. war on terror has focused on al-Qaeda, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Cov… read more
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5. The Cold War: A New History
By: John Lewis Gaddis
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The “dean of Cold War historians” (The New York Times) now presents the definitive account of the g… read more
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"The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's own vision."-John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History
"Enrollments in American colleges tripled between 1955 and 1970, 250% in the Soviet Union, 400% in France, and more than 200% in China by 1965. Gaddis writes, "What governments failed to foresee was t…"-John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History
6. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
By: Cathy O'Neil
3.97
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling--a pervasive new force in socie… read more
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7. The Pentagon's Brain
By: Annie Jacobsen
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of t… read more
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8. Hiroshima
By: John Hersey
3.50
Format: 36 pages,
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book… read more
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9. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
By: Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan
4.29
Format: 459 pages, Paperback
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t un… read more
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"Gullibility kills."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in “contact"-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
10. Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself -- While the Rest of Us Die
By: Garrett M. Graff
3.67
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
A fresh window on American history: The eye-opening truth about the government's secret plans to su… read more
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11. The Great Degeneration
By: Niall Ferguson
3.50
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all aro… read more
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12. American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
By: Ronald C. White Jr.
4.21
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America'… read more
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13. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
By: Stacy Schiff
3.74
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man… read more
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14. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
15. The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
By: Daniel Ellsberg
4.21
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness exposé of the awf… read more
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16. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
By: Antony Loewenstein
4.44
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more
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17. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
By: Nicole Perlroth
4.34
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
From The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, the untold story of the cyberweapon… read more
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"Finding a zero day is a little like entering God mode in a video game. Once hackers have figured out the commands or written the code to exploit it, they can scamper through the world's computer netw…"-Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
18. Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back
By: Oliver Bullough
4.20
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
From ruined towns on the edge of Siberia, to Bond-villain lairs in Knightsbridge and Manhattan, som… read more
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19. The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
By: Nicholas Mulder
3.87
Format: 434 pages, Hardcover
The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period a… read more
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"The policy debate about sanctions has been repeated almost every decade since the [League of Nations] was created in the wake of World War I. At its core has been the perennial question: do economic …"-Nicholas Mulder, The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
20. The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump
By: William J. Perry
4.01
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Since the Truman administration, America has been one push of a button away from nuclear war--a dec… read more
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21. The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
By: Fred Kaplan
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the author the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definit… read more
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