The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century
By: Clay Risen
3.97
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION The dramatic story of the most famous regimen…
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1. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
By: Eric Schlosser
4.26
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
A myth-shattering exposé of America’s nuclear weapons Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlos… read more
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2. Green Hills of Africa
By: Ernest Hemingway , Edward Shenton
3.54
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game … read more
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"The earth gets tired of being exploited."-Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa
"Also I wanted the whisky for itself, because I loved the taste of it and because, being as happy as I could be, it made me feel even better."-Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa
3. The Garden of Eden
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.70
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
The last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, published posthumously in 1986, charts the life of … read more
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"Now we have done it. Now we really have done it."-Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."-Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
"I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you."-Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
"He wrote it exactly and the sinister part only showed as the light feathering of a smooth swell on a calm day marking the reef beneath."-Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
4. Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
By: Joseph J. Ellis
3.50
Format: 218 pages, ebook
A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning Americ… read more
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5. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
By: Joseph J. Ellis
5.00
Format: 299 pages, Paperback
Following his subject from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Mon… read more
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6. We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
By: Harold G. Moore , Joseph L. Galloway
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both releva… read more
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7. In Our Time
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.74
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
First published in 1925, earning Hemingway praise as a promising American writer. Contains several … read more
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"Isn't love any fun? Marjorie said. "No," Nick said."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk. All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
8. Last Stand at Khe Sanh: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam
By: Gregg Jones
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In a remote mountain stronghold in 1968, six thousand US Marines awoke one January morning to find … read more
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9. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
By: None , Ben R. Rich
3.83
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind the high… read more
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10. Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West
By: David Fisher , Bill O'Reilly
3.37
Format: None pages, ebook
The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historic series Legends and Lies: The Real West, a fasci… read more
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11. 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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12. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Doris Kearns Goodwin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of Team of Rivals, captures the Progr… read more
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13. The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII
By: Bob Drury
4.34
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Bob Drury and Tom Clavin's The Last Hill is the incredible untold story of one Ranger battalion's h… read more
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14. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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15. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
16. Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations
By: William H. McRaven
4.44
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of … read more
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"They were survivors. They didn't complain. They didn't blame others for their misfortune. They worked hard and expected the same from their children. They treasured their friendships. They fought for…"-William H. McRaven, Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations
17. An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford
By: Richard Norton Smith
4.46
Format: 992 pages, Hardcover
From the preeminent presidential scholar and acclaimed biographer of historical figures including G… read more
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18. Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
By: Allen C. Guelzo
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the C… read more
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19. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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20. The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century
By: Clay Risen
3.97
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION The dramatic story of the most famous regimen… read more
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21. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
By: Elle Reeve
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more
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