8 must-read history books like The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersh

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The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House

By: Seymour M. Hersh

4.14

Format: 700 pages, Paperback

Price of Power examines Henry Kissinger’s influence on the development of the foreign policy of the…

If you liked the history plot in The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersh , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Executioner's Song

By: Norman Mailer

4.06

Format: 1056 pages, Paperback

In what is arguably his greatest work, America's most heroically ambitious writer follows the short… read more

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  • american
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
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2. Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman

By: Greg Grandin

4.03

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

A new account of America’s most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • united states
  • nonfiction
"Henry, there’s something I would like to tell you, for what it’s worth, something I wish I had been told years ago. You’ve been a consultant for a long time, and you’ve dealt a great deal with top se…"

-Greg Grandin, Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman

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3. On Palestine

By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

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4. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. The Odessa File

By: Frederick Forsyth

4.14

Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into revelation after revelation: a Mafia-like organi… read more

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  • war
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6. Dead Souls

By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more

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"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

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7. The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)

By: James Ellroy

4.26

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hu… read more

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8. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

By: André Maurois , Jorge Luis Borges , James E. Irby , Donald A. Yates

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges … read more

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9. Everything Is Illuminated

By: Jonathan Safran Foer

3.43

Format: 375 pages,

A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching fo… read more

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10. Libra

By: Don DeLillo

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more

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11. 2666

By: Roberto Bolaño

4.21

Format: 1128 pages, Paperback

A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more

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"Nothing is ever behind us."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Reading is never a waste of time."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Every hundred feet the world changes"

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

12. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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13. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

By: Naomi Klein

4.52

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more

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14. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

By: Robert A. Caro

3.25

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman pr… read more

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15. History of the Peloponnesian War

By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner

3.94

Format: 648 pages, Paperback

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

16. The Children

By: David Halberstam

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The Childrenis Halberstam's moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as see… read more

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17. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

By: Vincent Bevins

4.28

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 20… read more

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  • politics
  • journalism
  • history
  • nonfiction
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

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18. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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19. The Liar's Dictionary

By: Eley Williams

3.36

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating and laugh-out-loud debut novel from a prize-winning new talent which chronicles the… read more

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"Too precise a meaning erases the mystery of your literature."

-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary

"He was a sweet man who loved words, and played chess with ghosts."

-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary

"Onomatopoeia is onomatopoeia for mashing your hands unthinkingly but hopefully onto a keyboard."

-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary

"All words are made up," I said. "That is true," David Swansby replied, "and also not a useful contribution."

-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary

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20. The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House

By: Seymour M. Hersh

4.14

Format: 700 pages, Paperback

Price of Power examines Henry Kissinger’s influence on the development of the foreign policy of the… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • biography
  • history
  • the united states of america
  • politics
  • war
  • united states
  • nonfiction
  • journalism

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