The French Revolution and Napoleon: Crucible of the Modern World
By: Lynn Hunt
3.51
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Lynn Hunt and Jack R. Censer's The French Revolution and Napoleon provides a globally-oriented narr…
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1. Watchmen
By: Alan Moore , John Higgins , Dave Gibbons
4.38
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes pla… read more
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"Never despair. Never surrender."-Alan Moore, Watchmen
"I did it thirty-five minutes ago."-Alan Moore, Watchmen
"It doesn’t matter how “successful"-Alan Moore, Watchmen
"The superman exists and he's American."-Alan Moore, Watchmen
2. Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
By: Scott Anderson
4.08
Format: 577 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th cent… read more
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"[A] common denominator in European wars going back to the Crusades--no matter who won or lost, the one fairly reliable constant was that Jews somewhere were going to suffer."-Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
"In a clever retort, alluding to both his considerable girth and to his network of influential friends abroad, the agronomist replied, “Your Excellency, the weight of my body would break the gallows w…"-Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
"History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce…"-Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
"Over the course of his wartime service, Lawrence was awarded a number of medals and ribbons, but with his profound disdain for such things, he either threw them away or never bothered to collect them…"-Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
3. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
By: Art Spiegelman
4.38
Format: 159 pages, Hardcover
The first installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting … read more
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"Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week…Then you could see what it is, friends! …"-Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
"Maybe your father needed to show that he was always right - that he could always SURVIVE - because he felt GUILTY about surviving."-Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
4. The Cold War: A New History
By: John Lewis Gaddis
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The “dean of Cold War historians” (The New York Times) now presents the definitive account of the g… read more
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"The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's own vision."-John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History
"Enrollments in American colleges tripled between 1955 and 1970, 250% in the Soviet Union, 400% in France, and more than 200% in China by 1965. Gaddis writes, "What governments failed to foresee was t…"-John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History
5. Existentialism Is a Humanism
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more
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6. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Freakonomics, #1)
By: Steven D. Levitt , Stephen J. Dubner
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
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7. All Quiet on the Western Front
By: Erich Maria Remarque , A.W. Wheen
5.00
Format: 172 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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8. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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9. Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
By: Ty Seidule
4.42
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty… read more
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"When we identify our history, we can change the narrative."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
"Whenever Lee made a decision regarding enslaved people he chose profit over human decency."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
"History is always changing. We link the past to our conception of the present and we always have."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
"When people have no political outlet nor means of changing a racist society, rioting is their only voice."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
10. Setting the People Free : The Story of Democracy
By: John Dunn
3.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Why does democracy, both as a word and an idea, linger in the political imagination today? Dunn cha… read more
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11. The French Revolution and Napoleon: Crucible of the Modern World
By: Lynn Hunt
3.51
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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