12 must-read nonfiction books like The True History of the American Revolution by Sydney George Fisher

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The True History of the American Revolution

By: Sydney George Fisher

4.20

Format: 492 pages, Kindle Edition

"The purpose of this history of the Revolution is to use the original authorities rather more frank…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The True History of the American Revolution by Sydney George Fisher , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Histories

By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Format: 716 pages, Paperback

David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Hippocleides doesn't care."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"So much, then, for the fish."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."

-Herodotus, The Histories

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2. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

By: William Gibson

3.89

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more

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"Boy, I was daid."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Things aren't different. Things are things."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

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3. Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

By: Oswald Spengler

3.83

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Oswald Spengler's Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life book and Sydney George Fisher's The True History of the American Revolution

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

4. Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

By: Theodore Dalrymple

4.06

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Here is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it pers… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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5. The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome

By: Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges , Willard Small

4.48

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

With this influential study, French historian Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges initiated a new approa… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

6. A Renegade History of the United States

By: None

3.59

Format: 83 pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking book, noted historian Thaddeus Russell tells a new and surprising story abou… read more

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7. Sun and Steel

By: Yukio Mishima , John Bester

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback, Paper Dust Jacket

In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what migh… read more

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8. The Epic of Gilgamesh

By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars

3.74

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more

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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

9. The Decline of the West

By: Oswald Spengler , None

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Since its first publication in two volumes between 1918-1923, The Decline of the Westhas ranked as … read more

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10. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.16

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more

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  • american
"See the child."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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11. The Birth of Tragedy

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside

3.99

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his e… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Večita je to pojava: požudna volja uvek nalazi sredstva da iluzijom prostrtom preko stvari zadrži svoje stvorove u životu i da ih prisili da i dalje žive."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

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12. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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13. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

By: Michael Lewis

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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14. 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

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15. The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World

By: James Burnham

3.74

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Burnham’s claim was that capitalism was dead, but that it was being replaced not by socialism, but … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Within the huge trade unions, a similar managerial officialdom, the “labor bureaucracy"

-James Burnham, The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World

"Just as we seldom realize that we are growing old until we are already old, so do the contemporary actors in a major social change seldom realize that society is changing until the change has already…"

-James Burnham, The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World

"Managerial activity tends to become inbred and self-justifying. The enterprise comes to be thought of as existing for the sake of its managers – not the managers for the enterprise. A high percentage…"

-James Burnham, The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World

"Once the managers consoldiate their position within an institution, their objective interests no longer fully correspond to the interests of the other groups involved – voters, owners, members, teach…"

-James Burnham, The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World

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16. Bronze Age Mindset

By: Bronze Age Pervert

3.84

Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition

Some say that this book, found in a safebox in the port area of Kowloon, was dictated, because Bron… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"You idolize peasants. You look up to island savages living “at one with Nature,"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

"Well as rare as beautiful bodies are, the mind in the same condition is even more rare. Let us strive, in our decrepit, cancerous and fetid world, for what is concrete and what we can try to attain. …"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

"Animals walk around in a state of permanent religious intoxication. This is the natural condition of the mind and intellect, the moment-to-moment perception, of man as well. I heard some computer foo…"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

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17. Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy

By: Costin Alamariu

3.97

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

This is an argument that philosophy is born with and dependent on the idea of nature; and that this… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. Always with Honor: The Memoirs of General Wrangel

By: Pyotr Wrangel

4.48

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

Russia, 1917. As World War I drags on, political turmoil slowly paralyzes the Empire. The Czar abdi… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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19. The Present Time - Imperium Press (Studies in Reaction)

By: Thomas Carlyle

4.08

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

In The Present Time, Carlyle takes aim at modernity. This essay was, even in its time, seen as so b… read more

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20. The Autobiography of Sir Götz von Berlichingen

By: Götz von Berlichingen

4.33

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Gottfried “Götz” von Berlichingen, the Knight of the Iron Hand, was one of the last great medieval … read more

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  • history
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21. The True History of the American Revolution

By: Sydney George Fisher

4.20

Format: 492 pages, Kindle Edition

"The purpose of this history of the Revolution is to use the original authorities rather more frank… read more

Similar categories in Sydney George Fisher's The True History of the American Revolution book and Sydney George Fisher's The True History of the American Revolution

  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • american revolution
  • nonfiction

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Transform Your Habits

The Histories

Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

Oswald Spengler

3.83

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

Transform Your Habits

The Birth of Tragedy

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside

3.99

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Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

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Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

Zeke Faux

4.26

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Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Michael Lewis

3.80

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The Trading Game: A Confession

Gary Stevenson

4.26

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