6 best-selling biography books like The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan by Tobias Harris

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The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan

By: Tobias Harris

4.20

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Shinzō Abe entered politics burdened by high expectations: that he would change Japan. In 2007, see…

If you liked the biography plot in The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan by Tobias Harris , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Teahouse of the August Moon by Vern Sneider

1. The Teahouse of the August Moon

By: Vern Sneider

3.88

Format: 282 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A young American officer and his efforts to impose efficient Western ways on a simple little villag… read more

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  • asia
  • japan
Cover of One Hundred Leaves: A new annotated translation of the Hyakunin Isshu by Fujiwara no Teika, Blue Flute

2. One Hundred Leaves: A new annotated translation of the Hyakunin Isshu

By: Fujiwara no Teika , Blue Flute

4.13

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

The Hyakunin Isshu is a poetry anthology beloved by generations of Japanese since it was compiled i… read more

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  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • japan
Cover of Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 by Donald Keene

3. Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912

By: Donald Keene

4.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogun … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • japanese history
  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • japan
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4. Idea Man

By: Paul Allen

3.70

Format: None pages, Hardcover

By his early thirties, Paul Allen was a world-famous billionaire-and that was just the beginning. … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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5. Malice

By: Keigo Higashino , Alexander O. Smith

3.37

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night … read more

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  • japan

6. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

By: John W. Dower

4.27

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel … read more

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7. Inventing Japan: 1853-1964

By: Ian Buruma

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of… read more

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8. Bushido: The Soul of Japan. A Classic Essay on Samurai Ethics

By: Nitobe Inazō

3.29

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Code of the warrior. The traditional japanese text as written by Dr. Inazo Nitobe in 1904 edite… read more

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9. The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq

By: Victor Davis Hanson

2.00

Format: None pages,

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10. Lee Kuan Yew: Hard Truths To Keep Singapore Going

By: None , Han Fook Kwang , None , None , None , None , None

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Lee Kuan Yew is Singapore's most influential son but he is not without his critics. He has not flin… read more

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11. Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival

By: David Pilling

3.71

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

In Bending Adversity, Financial Times Asiaeditor David Pilling presents a fresh vision of Japan, dr… read more

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12. 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

Cover of The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World by Tim  Marshall

13. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World

By: Tim Marshall

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

By: Fei-Fei Li

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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15. When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach

By: Ashlee Vance

4.26

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

An Instant New York Times Bestseller A momentous look at the private companies building a revolu… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications by Michael McDevitt

16. China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

By: Michael McDevitt

4.05

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Xi Jinping has made his ambitions for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) perfectly clear, there is … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan by Tobias Harris

17. The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan

By: Tobias Harris

4.20

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Shinzō Abe entered politics burdened by high expectations: that he would change Japan. In 2007, see… read more

Similar categories in Tobias Harris's The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan book and Tobias Harris's The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan

  • history
  • biography
  • japanese history
  • asia
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • japan
Cover of Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler

18. Other Rivers: A Chinese Education

By: Peter Hessler

4.56

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, … read more

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  • asia
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver

19. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

By: Nate Silver

3.84

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

20. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China by John Delury

21. Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China

By: John Delury

4.28

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

In the winter of 1952, at the height of the Korean War, the CIA flew a covert mission into China to… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

10 Top history books like The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan by Tobias Harris

Transform Your Habits

One Hundred Leaves: A new annotated translation of the Hyakunin Isshu

Fujiwara no Teika , Blue Flute

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912

Donald Keene

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Idea Man

Paul Allen

3.70

Transform Your Habits

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

Chris Miller

4.44

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24 must-read nonfiction books like China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications by Michael McDevitt

Transform Your Habits

American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic

Joseph J. Ellis

3.96

Transform Your Habits

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

David Fromkin

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Storm of Steel

Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

Transform Your Habits

The Cold War: A New History

John Lewis Gaddis

3.95

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