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…
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1. Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
By: Annie Jacobsen
3.69
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
The explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the New York… read more
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
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2. 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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- history
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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
3. Black Hawk Down
By: Mark Bowden
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
On October 3, 1993, about a hundred U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into a teeming market … read more
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- military history
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4. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
By: Mike Duncan
4.00
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Afte… read more
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5. 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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- history
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- nonfiction
6. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
By: Yascha Mounk
4.08
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more
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- audiobook
7. 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
8. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
By: Kim Ghattas
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Black Wave is a paradigm-shifting recasting of the modern history of the Middle East, telling the l… read more
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"Beyond the headlines about war and death, the region is alive with music, art, books, theater, social entrepreneurship, advocacy, libraries, cafes, bookshops, poetry, and so much more, as old and you…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Every king had tried to put his imprint on the city and the mosque; some were worse than others. King Faisal had been a parsimonious man and the expansion works reflected as much—measured and reasona…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Although our countries have been changed by the hegemonizing influences of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the headlines in the Western media have always reduced matters of extraordinary depth and comple…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
9. 1983: The World at the Brink
By: Taylor Downing
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In 1983 cinema audiences flocked to see the latest James Bond movie in which Roger Moore defeats a … read more
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- nonfiction
10. 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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- politics
- nonfiction
- history
- war
11. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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- audiobook
- american history
- science
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- technology
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
12. 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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- history
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- military history
- nonfiction
- science
13. Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
By: Reeves Wiedeman
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The inside story of WeWork and its CEO, Adam Neumann, which tells the remarkable saga of one of the… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
14. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
By: David E. Sanger
4.37
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.11
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
A chilling account of more than half a century of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the “defin… read more
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- science
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- technology
16. 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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- science
17. The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
By: Steve Olson
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph—and the unimaginable, world-ending peril it brought us.… read more
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- science
- history
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
- technology
18. 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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- american history
- science
- history
- politics
- war
- military history
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- technology
19. Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
By: George Packer
4.38
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
Richard Holbrooke was brilliant, utterly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and … read more
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- history
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
"The last time Holbrooke saw Blythe was in the fall of 1980, when he was in New York to finalize the divorce and to reaffirm the American vote for the Khmer Rouge seat at the United Nations. "Pol Pot,…"-George Packer, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
20. Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld
By: T.J. English
4.12
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From T. J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scint… read more
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21. Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy
By: Francis J. Gavin
3.92
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Exploring what we know--and don't know--about how nuclear weapons shape American grand strategy and… read more
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"In the past decade, the distance between those who see nuclear disarmament as the best policy for global peace and stability and those who see nuclear deterrence as the cornerstone of the world order…"-Francis J. Gavin, Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy
"We think deterrence works. The problem is that, notwithstanding the confident claims of countless theorists, including those reviewed here, we do not really know why nuclear bombs have not been dropp…"-Francis J. Gavin, Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy
