The Long Surrender
By: Burke Davis
3.94
Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition
A panoramic and spellbinding history of the last days of the Confederacy and the flight, capture, a…
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By: Martin Dugard
4.11
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
The Year is 1500. Christopher Columbus, stripped of his title Admiral of the Ocean Seas, waits in c… read more
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2. The Wright Brothers
By: David McCullough
2.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story ab… read more
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3. 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
4. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories
By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Jenny Davidson
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Idealistic young scientist Henry Jekyll struggles to unlock the secrets of the soul. Testing chemic… read more
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5. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
By: Anne Applebaum
3.32
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulagand the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtai… read more
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6. Alexander Hamilton
By: Ron Chernow
3.77
Format: 32 pages,
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the … read more
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7. In a Sunburned Country
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER Every time Bill Bryson walks out… read more
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8. For Love of the Game
By: Michael Shaara
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
Billy Chapel is a baseball legend, a man who has devoted his life to the game he loves and plays so… read more
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9. Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House
By: Peter Baker
3.19
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
In Days of Fire, Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, takes us on a… read more
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10. Stanton: Lincoln's Staunch Secretary of War
By: Walter Stahr
4.40
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Walter Stahr, award-winning author of the New York Timesbestseller Seward, tells the story of Abrah… read more
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11. Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad
By: William Craig
4.25
Format: None pages,
Stalingrad, the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million me… read more
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12. Gods and Generals (The Civil War Trilogy, #1)
By: Jeff Shaara
4.46
Format: 192 pages,
In a prequel of sorts to his father Michael Shaara's 1974 epic novel The Killer Angels, Jeff Shaara… read more
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13. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more
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14. The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021
By: Peter Baker
4.46
Format: 725 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "The most comprehensive and detailed account of the Trump presidency ye… read more
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15. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
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4.37
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
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17. Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
By: Steve Inskeep
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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"Writing history is a relay, which is also true of history itself. We build, if we can, on the legacies that are left us."-Steve Inskeep, Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
18. Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World
By: David L. Roll
4.44
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating story behind the most consequential presidential transition in US history, from Fra… read more
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19. Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
By: Venki Ramakrishnan
4.08
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20. American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
By: Douglas Brinkley
4.17
Format: 576 pages, ebook
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21. The Long Surrender
By: Burke Davis
3.94
Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition
A panoramic and spellbinding history of the last days of the Confederacy and the flight, capture, a… read more
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