From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia
By: Michael McFaul
4.06
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
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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 Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
By: David E. Hoffman
4.16
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Handcomes the riveting story of a sp… read more
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- russia
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3. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
By: Anne Applebaum
3.32
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulagand the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtai… read more
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- russian history
4. Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia
By: Anne Garrels
3.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
More than twenty years ago, when NPR correspondent Anne Garrels first visited Chelyabinsky--a gritt… read more
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5. Freedom's Forge: How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II
By: Arthur Herman
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Remarkable as it may seem today, there once was a time when the president of the United States coul… read more
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6. Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within
By: Alexander Litvinenko , Yuri Felshtinsky , None
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Blowing Up Russia contains the allegations of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko against his former spymas… read more
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7. Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
By: Graham Allison
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides's Trap… read more
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8. The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
By: Steven Lee Myers
4.67
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
"A riveting, immensely detailed biography of Putin that explains in full-bodied, almost Shakespeari… read more
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9. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
By: Anne Applebaum
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Appleb… read more
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10. A Little War That Shook the World: Georgia, Russia and the Future of the West
By: None
3.19
Format: 384 pages,
The brief war between Russia and Georgia in August 2008 seemed to many like an unexpected shot out … read more
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11. The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
By: Peter Zeihan
4.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of The World Is Flat and The Next 100 Years, THE ACCIDENTAL SUPERPOWER… read more
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12. A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
By: John Le Carré , Ben Macintyre
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century… read more
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13. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more
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- russian history
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
14. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
By: Catherine Belton
4.18
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine… read more
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15. The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
By: Mike Rothschild
3.84
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
This is the real story of QAnon—what it is, what it means, and where it goes. And be warned—none of… read more
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- audiobook
16. The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
By: Les Payne
4.34
Format: 612 pages, Hardcover
Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a near… read more
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"In America, the Jews sap the very life-blood of the so-called Negroes to maintain the state of Israel, its armies and its continues aggression against our brothers in the East."-Les Payne, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
17. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
By: Steven Levitsky
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times… read more
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18. The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
By: William J. Burns
4.27
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From America's "secret diplomatic weapon" (The Atlantic), comes a memoir of service for five Presid… read more
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19. Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest
By: Angela Stent
4.19
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
We all now live in a paranoid and polarized world of Putin’s making, and the Russian leader, throug… read more
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20. Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
By: Mary Elise Sarotte
4.25
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
A leading expert on Cold War foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia … read more
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21. The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
By: Ben Rhodes
4.30
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
This is a book about two people making the most important decisions in the world. One is Barack Oba… read more
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"For a moment, we all just stared out the window at the crowds. “I’m reading a good book now,"-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
"I watched the speech backstage on the teleprompter. Obama paused for a moment, and I saw the text freeze. “I’m going off script here for a second,"-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
"He said we had to find a way to reach Muslims who “didn’t think it was such a great thing to have a McDonald’s down the street and American pop culture on their television."-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
"And then Obama said what he believed: that people should be equal under the law; that citizens should be free to criticize their government and protest peacefully; that voters should have the freedom…"-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
22. Gorbachev: His Life and Times
By: William Taubman
4.28
Format: 880 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie… read more
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23. War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
By: Ronan Farrow
4.15
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
American diplomacy is under siege. Offices across the State Department sit empty, while abroad the … read more
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"What happened to the missing prisoners? How did these men and boys end up in such a tomb, in such a place? And, a question no one inside the US government wanted to touch for more than a decade after…"-Ronan Farrow, War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
24. The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
By: Simon Shuster
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Time correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the definitive account of the Russian invasion of Ukrain… read more
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25. The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA
By: Doug Mack
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
"To truly understand the United States, one must understand the 'not-quite states of America." ―Mar… read more
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26. The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire
By: David E. Sanger
4.26
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the premiere New York Times Washington correspondent, a stunning and incisive look into how cy… read more
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27. War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict
By: Mick Ryan
3.94
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
War The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict provides insights for … read more
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28. From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia
By: Michael McFaul
4.06
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the diplomat Putin wants to interrogate—and has banned from Russia—… read more
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- russian history
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29. Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy
By: Eric O'Neill
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A cybersecurity expert and former FBI "ghost" tells the thrilling story of how he helped take down … read more
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30. 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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"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
31. Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich
By: Richard J. Evans
4.27
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
Through a connected set of biographical portraits of key Nazi figures that follows power as it radi… read more
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