Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy
By: Stephen Wertheim
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A new history explains how and why, as it prepared to enter World War II, the United States decided…
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1. The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.13
Format: 588 pages, Paperback
During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unp… read more
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"Even his own speeches bored him."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Duty was not untinged by ambition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Society's revenge matched its fright."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"I command, or I keep quiet." Napoleon"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
2. Economical Writing
By: Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
3.13
Format: 192 pages,
A valuable short guide for mastering the craft of academic writing! Students and young professional… read more
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3. Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
By: Garry Wills
2.50
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
From one of America's most distinguished historians comes this classic analysis of Richard Nixon. B… read more
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4. And Quiet Flows the Don
By: Mikhail Sholokhov
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don (Tikhii Don, lit. "The Quiet Don") is 4-volume epi… read more
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5. Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy
By: Barry R. Posen
4.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The United States, Barry R. Posen argues in Restraint, has grown incapable of moderating its ambiti… read more
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6. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
By: Rick Perlstein
3.00
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
A bold and astute narrative history of conservatism's climb and one of the best-reviewed books of 2… read more
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7. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
By: John J. Mearsheimer
3.71
Format: 364 pages,
The update of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the… read more
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8. The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
By: Adam Tooze
3.37
Format: 395 pages, Hardcover
A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath. In the d… read more
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9. The Guns of August
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.18
Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more
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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
10. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
11. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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- history
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
12. Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
By: David H. Petraeus
4.06
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strate… read more
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"A recurring theme of this book is that money spent on deterrence is seldom wasted, especially when considered against the costs incurred when the deterrence fails."-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
"Hybrid warfare particularly appeals to China and Russia, since they are much more able to control the information their populaces receive than are their Western adversaries. A 1999 book, Unrestricted…"-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
13. The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China
By: Robert D. Kaplan
4.32
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just ou… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
14. On Grand Strategy
By: John Lewis Gaddis
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught… read more
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- history
- politics
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- political science
15. Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History
By: Andrew Roberts
3.80
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War, Andrew Roberts presents a bracingly honest an… read more
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- history
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16. Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
By: Jennifer Burns
4.26
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography of America's most renowned economist. Milton Friedman was, alongside J… read more
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17. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
4.05
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more
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- american
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- the united states of america
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18. Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy
By: Stephen Wertheim
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A new history explains how and why, as it prepared to enter World War II, the United States decided… read more
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- american
- history
- international relations
- the united states of america
- politics
- united states
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- political science
19. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)
By: James S.A. Corey
4.24
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more
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20. Pacific Power Paradox: American Statecraft and the Fate of the Asian Peace
By: Van Jackson
4.19
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A new history of America's paradoxical role in the Asian peace since 1979 After more than a centu… read more
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- international relations
21. Getting Russia Right
By: Thomas Graham
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
As US-Russian relations scrape the depths of cold-war antagonism, the promise of partnership that b… read more
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