Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence
By: Harlow Giles Unger
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author and Founding Fathers' biographer Harlow Giles Unger comes th…
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1. The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
By: Antony Beevor
3.91
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and … read more
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2. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
By: Edmund Morris
4.23
Format: 816 pages, Paperback
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time Described by … read more
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"Any black or red man who could win admission to “the fellowship of the doers"-Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
"He plunged at once into the somewhat rodent-like life of a professional historian."-Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
"Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906]"-Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
"[T]he one plain duty of every man is to face the future as he faces the present, regardless of what it may have in store for him, turning toward the light as he sees the light, to play his part manfu…"-Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
3. John Jay: Founding Father
By: Walter Stahr
3.99
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
John Jay was a central figure in the early history of the American Republic. A New York lawyer, bor… read more
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4. 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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5. 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi
By: Mitchell Zuckoff
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of B… read more
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6. Theodore Rex
By: Edmund Morris
4.18
Format: 772 pages, Paperback
Theodore Roosevelt and his two-term presidency (1901-9) deserve a king-size, seize-the-man biograph… read more
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"Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital."-Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex
"Yet there was no doubt that Theodore Roosevelt was peculiarly qualified to be President of all the people. Few, if any Americans could match the breadth of his intellect and the strength of his chara…"-Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex
7. John Adams
By: David McCullough
3.71
Format: 435 pages,
The enthralling, often surprising story of John Adams, one of the most important and fascinating Am… read more
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8. Kelly: More Than My Share of It All
By: None , None
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson led the design of such crucial aircraft as the P-38 and Constellation, … read more
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9. Grant
By: Ron Chernow
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefel… read more
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10. Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business
By: Gino Wickman
3.00
Format: None pages,
Do you have a grip on your business, or does your business have a grip on you? Don't let common pro… read more
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11. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
By: Dan Jones
4.41
Format: 636 pages, Hardcover
An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more
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12. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
13. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.71
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more
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14. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
By: David W. Blight
4.15
Format: 888 pages, Hardcover
As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was … read more
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"Douglass told white northern voters that 'The blood of the slave is on your garments. You have said that slavery is better than freedom. That war is better than peace. And that cruelty is better than…"-David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
15. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
By: Rebecca Donner
4.31
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
Born and raised in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in … read more
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16. 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
17. Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
By: Stephen Walker
4.57
Format: 512 pages, ebook
09.07 am. April 12, 1961. A top secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny … read more
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18. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
By: George Saunders
4.54
Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to … read more
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"Then do that again, over and over, until I'm pleased."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"What transforms an anecdote into a story is escalation. Or, we might say: when escalation is suddenly felt to be occurring, it is a sign that our anecdote is transforming into a story."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"There’s a vast underground network for goodness at work in this world—a web of people who’ve put reading at the center of their lives because they know from experience that reading makes them more ex…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"We tend, in discussion, to reduce stories to plot (what happens). We feel, correctly, that something of their meaning resides there. But stories also mean through their internal dynamics—the manner i…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
19. The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley
By: Courtney Walsh
4.19
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
She’s out to prove that there’s no such thing as choosing happiness. Isadora Bentley follows the… read more
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20. The Helsinki Affair
By: Anna Pitoniak
3.44
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
CIA agent Amanda Cole is thrust into an international conspiracy involving high-profile assassinati… read more
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21. America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
By: Christopher F. Rufo
4.30
Format: 352 pages, ebook
For decades, left-wing radicals patiently built a revolution in the shadows. Then suddenly, after t… read more
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"The revolution, which seeks to connect ideology to bureaucratic power and to manipulate behavior through the guise of expertise, is ultimately not democratic."-Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
"The critical race theorists and their allies have turned resentment into a governing principle. But this also a trap: resentment is a tool for obtaining power, not of wielding it successfully."-Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
22. Daughter of the Morning Star (Walt Longmire, #17)
By: Craig Johnson
4.40
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Another New York Times bestseller in the beloved Longmire series. When Lolo Long's niece Jaya be… read more
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23. The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III
By: Andrew Roberts
4.25
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away … read more
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24. Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation
By: Pete Hegseth
4.07
Format: 288 pages, ebook
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! FOX News host Pete Hegseth is back with what he says is his most i… read more
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25. Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide
By: Miranda Devine
4.38
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
As seen on Tucker Carlson Tonight! USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestseller! The inside story… read more
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26. The Witch’s Lens (The Order of the Seven Stars #1)
By: Luanne G. Smith
3.90
Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition
As World War I rages, there are evils—both living and dead—that only a witch can see in a spellbind… read more
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27. The Practicing Stoic
By: Ward Farnsworth
4.35
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
The great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings … read more
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"If you would attain real freedom, you must be the slave of philosophy. Epicurus, quoted in Seneca, Epistles 8.7"-Ward Farnsworth, The Practicing Stoic
"The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us."-Ward Farnsworth, The Practicing Stoic
28. The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware
By: Patrick K. O'Donnell
4.32
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
On the stormy night of August 29th, 1776, the Continental Army faced annihilation. After losing the… read more
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29. Rush: Revolution, Madness, and the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
By: Stephen Fried
4.28
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
The remarkable story of Benjamin Rush, medical pioneer and one of our nation's most provocative and… read more
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30. Light-Horse Harry Lee: The Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary Hero - The Tragic Life of Robert E. Lee's Father
By: Ryan Cole
4.05
Format: 320 pages, ebook
"Light-Horse Harry blazes across the pages of Ryan Cole's narrative like a meteor—and his final cra… read more
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31. Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence
By: Harlow Giles Unger
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author and Founding Fathers' biographer Harlow Giles Unger comes th… read more
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