A World Transformed
By: George H.W. Bush
3.95
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
"The most important book yet written about the end of the Cold War." - The New York Tmes Book Revie…
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1. A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety
By: Jimmy Carter
3.84
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherm… read more
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2. The Road to Character
By: David Brooks
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Brooks challenges us to rebalance the scales between the focus… read more
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"... there are other proud people who have low self-esteem. They feel they haven't lived up to their potential. They feel unworthy. They want to hide and disappear, to fade into the background and nur…"-David Brooks, The Road to Character
"We are called at certain moments to comfort people who are enduring some trauma. Many of us don't know how to react in such situations, but others do. In the first place, they just show up. They prov…"-David Brooks, The Road to Character
3. The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
By: Michael Pillsbury
4.21
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
One of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country… read more
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4. Coolidge
By: Amity Shlaes
3.76
Format: 536 pages, Hardcover
Calvin Coolidge, who served as president from 1923 to 1929, never rated highly in polls. The shy Ve… read more
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"It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. -Calvin Coolidge"-Amity Shlaes, Coolidge
5. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
By: David Fromkin
4.21
Format: 635 pages, Paperback
The critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling account of how the modern Middle East came into… read more
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"Reginald Wingate… wrote that “Moslems in general have hitherto regarded the Hejaz revolt, and our share in it, with suspicion or dislike"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
"Clayton and his colleagues believed French colonial administration to be incapable of allowing a country to retain its own character. What the French termed their “civilizing mission"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
"[T]he sheer magnitude of Britain’s commitment and loss at Gallipoli made it seem vital years later that she should play a major role in the postwar Middle East to give some sort of meaning to so grea…"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
"Fear of Russian expansionism was at the heart of the Porte’s policy. The Turkish ambassador told Deedes that if the Allies won the war, they would cause or allow the Ottoman Empire to be partitioned,…"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
6. Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
By: John Steinbeck
4.06
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and p… read more
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"He's got a can up there,' Richard said."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
"Men all do about the same thing when they wake up."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
"If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
"Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
7. Travels with Charley: In Search of America
By: John Steinbeck
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in… read more
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8. 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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9. Hiroshima
By: John Hersey
3.50
Format: 36 pages,
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book… read more
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10. First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton
By: David Maraniss
4.26
Format: 91 pages,
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11. My Life
By: Bill Clinton
3.74
Format: 1056 pages, Paperback
An exhaustive, soul-searching memoir, Bill Clinton's My Life is a refreshingly candid look at the f… read more
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"I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself."-Bill Clinton, My Life
"The idea that power was an end in itself, rather than a means to provide the security and opportunity necessary for the pursuit of happiness, seemed to him stupid and self-defeating." (about Senator …"-Bill Clinton, My Life
"I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can’t be judged by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh j…"-Bill Clinton, My Life
12. The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power
By: Max Boot
3.65
Format: 432 pages,
America's "small wars," "imperial wars," or, as the Pentagon now terms them, "low-intensity conflic… read more
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13. An American Life
By: Ronald Reagan
3.68
Format: 420 pages,
The former president relates the story of his public and private life from his modest beginnings in… read more
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14. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
By: Serhii Plokhy
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more
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15. 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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16. A Farewell to Arms
By: Ernest Hemingway , نجف دریابندری
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the war to end all wars. He volunteered for ambulance serv… read more
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17. Homage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more
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18. Reagan: The Life
By: H.W. Brands
3.64
Format: 211 pages, Hardcover
From master storyteller and New York Timesbestselling Historian H. W. Brands comes the definitive b… read more
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19. Scars and Stripes: An Unapologetically American Story of Fighting the Taliban, UFC Warriors, and Myself
By: Tim Kennedy
4.57
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From decorated Green Beret sniper, UFC headliner, and all around… read more
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20. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
21. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
By: Catherine Belton
4.18
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine… read more
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22. Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
By: Jon Meacham
4.12
Format: 794 pages, Kindle Edition
From Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham comes a sweeping ye… read more
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"Where Goldwater-ites saw the world in black and white, Rockefeller noted shades of gray."-Jon Meacham, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
23. The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan in the White House and the World
By: William Inboden
4.50
Format: 596 pages, Hardcover
An in-depth and masterful account of how Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy "team of rivals" ended the … read more
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"Fortunately, Marhsall found an eager audience in fellow intellectual Ikle, who recognized at once that ONA's analysis and prescriptions for the Cold War reinforced Reagan's intuitions. Together Ikle …"-William Inboden, The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan in the White House and the World
24. Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power
By: Bradley Hope
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters comes a revelatory look at the inner workings of t… read more
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25. Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect
By: Will Guidara
4.45
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
National Bestseller Essential lessons in hospitality for every business, from the former co-owner … read more
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- memoir
26. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
By: Anne Applebaum
3.91
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding… read more
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"Unity is an anomaly. Polarization is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal."-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will."-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Olga Tokarczuk, 2019: We horen niet langer de harmonie van de wereld, maar de kakofonie van geluiden, een ondraaglijke ruis waarin we wanhoping een een rustiger melodie proberen te ontdekken, al is h…"-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state: at times when people fear death, they go along with measures that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will save them—ev…"-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
27. The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Bridging the Gap)
By: Rush Doshi
4.04
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial J… read more
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28. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
4.23
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountabi… read more
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- history
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"Designed for instant impact and encouraging feelings of omnipotence, Twitter is the perfect tool for an impulsive, attention-addicted strongman."-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
"Many strongmen, past and present, have used populist rhetoric that defines their nations as bound by faith, race, and ethnicity rather than by legal rights. For authoritarians, only some people are "…"-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
29. Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest
By: Angela Stent
4.19
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
We all now live in a paranoid and polarized world of Putin’s making, and the Russian leader, throug… read more
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30. The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
By: Peter Baker
4.45
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
Co-authored by the Chief White House correspondent at The New York Times and the Washington columni… read more
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31. A World Transformed
By: George H.W. Bush
3.95
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
"The most important book yet written about the end of the Cold War." - The New York Tmes Book Revie… read more
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