12 Best politics books like Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul by Martin Dillon

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Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul

By: Martin Dillon

3.85

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Robert Maxwell—ruthless, volatile, defiant; a man of gargantuan appetites, for food, wine, women, p…

If you liked the politics plot in Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul by Martin Dillon , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor, Saul Singer

1. Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

By: Dan Senor , Saul Singer

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

What the world can learn from Israel's meteoric economic success. Start-Up Nation addresses … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • israel
"A 2006 Harvard University study shows that entrepreneurs who have failed in their previous enterprise have an almost one-in-five chance of success in their next start-up"

-Dan Senor, Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

Cover of The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government by David Talbot

2. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

By: David Talbot

4.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the mo… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby, Jeremy Leggatt

3. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

By: Jean-Dominique Bauby , Jeremy Leggatt

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young child… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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4. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

By: Jane Mayer

4.16

Format: 76 pages, ebook

Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone

5. The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies

By: Jason Fagone

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Joining the ranks of Hidden Figuresand In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the gr… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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6. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. The Cartel (Power of the Dog, #2)

By: Don Winslow

4.35

Format: 616 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally best-selling author of the acclaimed novel The Power of the Dog comes The … read more

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"He tells his guys, you change the oil in a Nissan, you just can't kill it. You'll die before that car will."

-Don Winslow, The Cartel (Power of the Dog, #2)

8. Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

By: Ryan Holiday

0.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

You've seen it all before. A malicious online rumor costs a company millions. A political sideshow … read more

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9. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

By: Timothy Snyder

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more

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10. Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad

By: Gordon Thomas

3.99

Format: 11 pages, Paperback

Created in 1951 to ensure the future of an embattled Israel, the Mossad has been responsible for th… read more

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11. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

By: Erik Larson

3.84

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthrall… read more

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12. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

By: David Epstein

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts… read more

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  • nonfiction
"We learn who we are only by living, and not before."

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

"Repetition, it turned out, was less important than struggle."

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

"If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly."

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

"mental meandering and personal experimentation are sources of power, and head starts are overrated"

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

Cover of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt

13. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

Cover of Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense by Gad Saad

14. Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

By: Gad Saad

3.94

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

The West’s commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism has never been more seriously threate… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"We envy people whose traits compete with our desirability as a mate."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

"Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

"To be a truly wise person requires that we recognize those domains best served by our intellect versus those best guided by our emotions."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

"There is no "black mind" or "white mind", no "white male of knowing", there is only one truth, and we find it through the scientific method."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

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15. San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

By: Michael Shellenberger

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America… read more

Similar categories in Michael Shellenberger's San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities book and Martin Dillon's Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin

16. The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power

By: Max Chafkin

3.59

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A New York Times Notable Book A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, t… read more

Similar categories in Max Chafkin's The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power book and Martin Dillon's Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul

  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgis

17. Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life

By: Luke Burgis

3.81

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking exploration of why we want what we want, and a toolkit for freeing ourselves from … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of One Nation Under Blackmail - Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein, VOL.1 by Whitney Alyse Webb

18. One Nation Under Blackmail - Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein, VOL.1

By: Whitney Alyse Webb

4.32

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

One Nation Under Blackmail  is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly c… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Organized Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein, Vol. 2 by Whitney Alyse Webb

19. One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Organized Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein, Vol. 2

By: Whitney Alyse Webb

4.47

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

One Nation Under Blackmail is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly ce… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America by Kurt Andersen

20. Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America

By: Kurt Andersen

4.22

Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells t… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Such a colossal irony: after socialists and Communists in the 1930s and then the New Left in the 1960s had tried and failed to achieve a radical class-based reordering of the American political econo…"

-Kurt Andersen, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America

"...In all this, financialization has done what people back in the 1950s and '60s and '70s worried and warned that the Communists would do if they took over: centralize control of the economy, turn Am…"

-Kurt Andersen, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America

"...Libertarians fantasize that they're action heroes and entirely self-made. They tend to exempt themselves from the truism that there but for the grace of God goes each one of them, because an impli…"

-Kurt Andersen, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America

"...The economic right was shrewd enough to understand that the issues they didn't care much about--abortion, gay rights, creationism--did matter to liberals, and that those culture wars drew off poli…"

-Kurt Andersen, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America

Cover of Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul by Martin Dillon

21. Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul

By: Martin Dillon

3.85

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Robert Maxwell—ruthless, volatile, defiant; a man of gargantuan appetites, for food, wine, women, p… read more

Similar categories in Martin Dillon's Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul book and Martin Dillon's Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul

  • history
  • biography
  • israel
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

11 Top history books like Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul by Martin Dillon

Transform Your Habits

Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

Dan Senor , Saul Singer

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

David Talbot

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Jane Mayer

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies

Jason Fagone

4.17

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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

Eric Schlosser

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Enemies: A History of the FBI

Tim Weiner

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

David Talbot

4.43

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The Pentagon's Brain

Annie Jacobsen

3.70

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