The CIA: An Imperial History
By: Hugh Wilford
3.87
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A celebrated historian of US intelligence explores how the CIA was born in anti-imperialist idealis…
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1. Revelation (Matthew Shardlake, #4)
By: C.J. Sansom
2.70
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Spring, 1543. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. But … read more
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2. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
By: Ben Macintyre
4.25
Format: 127 pages,
In 1943, from a windowless London basement office, two intelligence officers conceived a plan that … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. A Man in Full
By: Tom Wolfe
4.28
Format: None pages, Paperback
The setting is Atlanta, Georgia -- a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and… read more
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4. The Quantum Spy
By: David Ignatius
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A hyper-fast quantum computer is the digital equivalent of a nuclear bomb; whoever possesses one wi… read more
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"Misdirection. False signals. Spreading confusion. This is the Tao of deception."-David Ignatius, The Quantum Spy
5. 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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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"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
6. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
7. Shanghai
By: Joseph Kanon
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this dazzling thriller, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon gives us his richest sett… read more
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8. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
By: George Stephanopoulos
4.45
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
9. Cahokia Jazz
By: Francis Spufford
4.03
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more
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10. Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16)
By: Walter Mosley
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Easy Rawlins novels follow the infamous detective Easy Rawlins solving mysteries on the sun-soa… read more
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11. When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day
By: Garrett M. Graff
4.59
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
12. The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace
By: Paul Thomas Chamberlin
4.20
Format: 656 pages, ebook
A brilliant young historian offers a vital, comprehensive international military history of the Col… read more
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- american history
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- 20th century
13. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss
By: Margalit Fox
3.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A Jewish mother of four, a gracious society hostess, a beloved member of her community—and the firs… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
14. Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
By: Tom McGrath
3.91
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In Triumph of the Yuppies, Tom McGrath presents the first-ever book-length history of the Yuppie ph… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
15. The CIA: An Imperial History
By: Hugh Wilford
3.87
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A celebrated historian of US intelligence explores how the CIA was born in anti-imperialist idealis… read more
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- american history
- conspiracy theories
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- 20th century
16. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
17. Tiger Tiger: His Life as It's Never Been Told Before
By: James Patterson
4.02
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The impossible life of Tiger Woods—how did he become the GOAT, and what drove him to fall so specta… read more
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18. Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861
By: Robert W. Merry
4.16
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Exploring a critical lesson about our nation that is as timely today as ever, Decade of Disunion sh… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
19. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
20. America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War
By: H.W. Brands
4.37
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over Amer… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
21. The Seventh Floor (Damascus Station, #3)
By: David McCloskey
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Six CIA officers. Dear friends and cherished enemies. For a quarter century they have stolen other … read more
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