War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences
By: Mary L. Dudziak
3.86
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When is wartime? On the surface, it is a period of time in which a society is at war. But we now li…
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1. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
By: Walter Johnson
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton planta… read more
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2. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
By: Tony Judt
4.37
Format: 933 pages, Paperback
Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of th… read more
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"Broken eggs make good omelettes. But you cannot build a better society on broken men."-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
"Far from addressing the Soviet nationalities question, the Afghan adventure had, as was by now all too clear, exacerbated it. If the USSR faced an intractable set of national minorities, this was in …"-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
"The imposition of a Russian rather than a German solution cut Europe’s vulnerable eastern half away from the body of the continent. At the time this was not a matter of great concern to western Europ…"-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
"Maastricht had three significant side-effects. One of them was the unforeseen boost it gave to NATO. Under the restrictive terms of the Treaty it was clear (as the French at least had intended) that …"-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
3. No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
By: Anand Gopal
3.94
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist National Book Award in Nonfiction finalist Helen Bern… read more
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4. The Cold War: A World History
By: Odd Arne Westad
3.33
Format: 140 pages, Hardcover
From a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact … read more
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5. The Comanche Empire
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fie… read more
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6. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
By: David W. Blight
4.15
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In… read more
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7. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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8. War: How Conflict Shaped Us
By: Margaret MacMillan
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Is peace an aberration? The bestselling author of Paris 1919 offers a provocative view of war as an… read more
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9. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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10. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
11. Liberation Day
By: George Saunders
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more
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"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
12. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
13. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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14. Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
By: Matthew F. Delmont
4.53
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil righ… read more
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15. 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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16. The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
By: Jeff Sharlet
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An unmatched guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, Jeff Sharlet journeys into cor… read more
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17. Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
By: Elizabeth D. Samet
3.60
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
In Looking for the Good War, Elizabeth D. Samet reexamines the literature, art, and culture that em… read more
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"Our national problem has not been ignoring the Civil War, but turning it into a kind of theme park in which nostalgia and mendacity have eclipsed the raw and unpleasant truth that one army fought, an…"-Elizabeth D. Samet, Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
18. The Shattering: America in the 1960s
By: Kevin Boyle
4.10
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their f… read more
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19. America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
By: Elizabeth Hinton
4.22
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapol… read more
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20. The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace
By: Paul Thomas Chamberlin
4.20
Format: 656 pages, ebook
A brilliant young historian offers a vital, comprehensive international military history of the Col… read more
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21. War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences
By: Mary L. Dudziak
3.86
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When is wartime? On the surface, it is a period of time in which a society is at war. But we now li… read more
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