17 must-read nonfiction books like The Coming Caesars by Amaury De Riencourt

The Coming Caesars

By: Amaury De Riencourt

4.42

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Reviews: "A few decades from now . . . some later historian may dig out this book and proclaim him …

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Cover of Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, Gia-Fu Feng, Jane English, Jacob Needleman, Toinette Lippe

1. Tao Te Ching

By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The heart that gives, gathers."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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2. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

By: David Graeber

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more

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  • nonfiction
"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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4. Economic Policy

By: Ludwig von Mises

3.98

Format: None pages,

Economic Policycontains six lectures Ludwig von Mises delivered in 1959 for the Centro de Estudios … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy

By: Thomas Sowell

3.49

Format: 16 pages, Hardcover

This is the revised and enlarged edition of a new kind of introduction to economics for the general… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard

6. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

By: Colin Woodard

4.56

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red stat… read more

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  • politics
  • american
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities by Matthew   White

7. The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities

By: Matthew White

3.00

Format: None pages,

A compulsively readable and utterly original account of world history-from an atrocitologist's poin… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

8. Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK

By: Gerald Posner

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, continues to inspire interest ranging fr… read more

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9. A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

By: Thomas Sowell

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it pos…"

-Thomas Sowell, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

10. 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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11. The Rational Male

By: Rollo Tomassi

4.25

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

The Rational Maleis a rational and pragmatic approach to intergender dynamics and the social and ps… read more

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12. Children of Dune (Dune, #3)

By: Frank Herbert

3.96

Format: 609 pages, Paperback

Book three in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the… read more

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"Every judgment teeters on the brink of error,"

-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (Dune, #3)

"Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions."

-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (Dune, #3)

"The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion."

-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (Dune, #3)

"The joy of living, its beauty is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you."

-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (Dune, #3)

Cover of The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time by Yascha Mounk

13. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

By: Yascha Mounk

4.08

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath by Peter Zeihan

14. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath

By: Peter Zeihan

4.18

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.21

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

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16. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

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17. The Populist Delusion

By: Neema Parvini

4.37

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

The 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump unleashed a wave of populism not seen in America sin… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Left-wing progressivism"

-Neema Parvini, The Populist Delusion

Cover of The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection by Tamim Ansary

18. The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection

By: Tamim Ansary

4.27

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

From language to culture to cultural collision: the story of how humans invented history, from the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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19. The Fourth Turning Is Here:

By: Neil Howe

3.96

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Twenty-five years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. The Prophets of Doom

By: Neema Parvini

4.16

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

Linear and progressive views of history have dominated the popular imagination for the past seventy… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

21. The Coming Caesars

By: Amaury De Riencourt

4.42

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Reviews: "A few decades from now . . . some later historian may dig out this book and proclaim him … read more

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  • politics
  • american
  • history
  • nonfiction

14 Best history books like The Coming Caesars by Amaury De Riencourt

Transform Your Habits

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

David Graeber

3.61

Transform Your Habits

Economic Policy

Ludwig von Mises

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy

Thomas Sowell

3.49

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18 Top history books like The Prophets of Doom by Neema Parvini

Transform Your Habits

Storm of Steel

Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

Oswald Spengler

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom

James Burnham

4.31

Transform Your Habits

The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome

Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges , Willard Small

4.48

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