16 Top history books like Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads by David Rundell

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Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads

By: David Rundell

4.30

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

'Clear-eyed and illuminating.' Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and National Security Adv…

If you liked the history plot in Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads by David Rundell , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

By: Shashi Tharoor

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's 'conscious and del… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

2. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

By: Bethany McLean , Peter Elkind

4.01

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

There were dozens of books about Watergate, but only All the President's Mengave readers the full s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

3. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By: Ilan Pappé

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more

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4. Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia

By: Robert Lacey

2.83

Format: None pages,

What happened in the Middle East's oil-rich powerhouse while we weren't looking? Saudi Arabia is a … read more

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5. The Romanovs: 1613-1918

By: Simon Sebag Montefiore

3.17

Format: None pages,

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surfac… read more

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6. LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of the War Between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf

By: Alan Shipnuck

4.14

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Alan Shipnuck, the New York Times bestselling author of Phil, returns with a major new work of insi… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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7. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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8. Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.30

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, character-driven history of CIA covert operations and U.S. government-sponsored ass… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas

9. 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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  • islam
  • history
  • world history
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
"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

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10. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

By: Ronen Bergman

4.40

Format: 784 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The divide between the combat-sated generals, who once had "a knife between their teeth" but later grasped the limits of force, and the majority of the people of Israel, is the sad reality in which M…"

-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

"Finally, a recruit would undergo one last test. The agency would send him home, to his own neighborhood and his own social circle, in disguise and with his alias. If he could circulate there, among t…"

-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

"Indeed, in many respects the story of Israel’s intelligence community as recounted in this book has been one of a long string of impressive tactical successes, but also disastrous strategic failures.…"

-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

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11. Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath

By: Bill Browder

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browd… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom         Wright

12. Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

By: Tom Wright

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An epic true-tale of hubris and greed from two Pulitzer-finalist Wall Street Journal reporters, Bil… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

By: Rob Copeland

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • history
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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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  • politics
  • political science
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power by Bradley Hope

15. Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power

By: Bradley Hope

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters comes a revelatory look at the inner workings of t… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
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16. MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

By: Ben Hubbard

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

MBS is the untold story of how a mysterious young prince emerged from Saudi Arabia’s sprawling roya… read more

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  • islam
  • history
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
"Mohammed bin Salman declined to be interviewed for this book"

-Ben Hubbard, MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

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17. Rebel

By: Rahaf Mohammed

4.21

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

A gripping memoir of bravery and sacrifice by a young woman whose escape from her abusive family an… read more

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  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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18. Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice

By: David Enrich

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times’s Business Investigations Editor and #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers c… read more

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  • politics
  • journalism
  • history
  • nonfiction
"On January 6, months of fearmongering and lies about voter fraud and a stolen election exploded into a deadly insurrection. Jones Day wasn't to blame, but it wasn't not to blame either. The firm had …"

-David Enrich, Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice

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19. Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads

By: David Rundell

4.30

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

'Clear-eyed and illuminating.' Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and National Security Adv… read more

Similar categories in David Rundell's Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads book and David Rundell's Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads

  • cultural
  • islam
  • history
  • world history
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • journalism
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20. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • politics
  • political science
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

21. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

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  • history
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16 Top politics books like Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads by David Rundell

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An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

Shashi Tharoor

3.63

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LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of the War Between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf

Alan Shipnuck

4.14

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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

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Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins

Annie Jacobsen

4.30

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My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

Ari Shavit

4.22

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Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

Daniel Gordis

4.31

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The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

Steve Coll

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016

Steve Coll

4.21

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