March 1917: On the Brink of War and Revolution
By: Will Englund
3.64
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
“Fast-paced history . . . full of haunting, unforgettable wartime images.” ―David M. Shribman, Bos…
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1. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
By: Erik Larson
4.00
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such… read more
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- american history
- nonfiction
- biography
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"I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold."-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
"No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck."-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
"How easy it was to disappear: A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago."-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. Daniel H. Burnham"-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
2. Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
By: James M. Scott
4.47
Format: 672 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History "Like Lauren Hillebrand's Unbroken … Target Tokyo … read more
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- american history
- nonfiction
- history
- war
3. The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
By: David McCullough
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring - and until now, untold - story of the adventurou… read more
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4. 41: A Portrait of My Father
By: George W. Bush
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Hardcover
George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, has authored a personal biography of his f… read more
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6. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
By: Christopher R. Browning
4.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the … read more
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"The behavior of any human being is, of course, a very complex phenomenon, and the historian who attempts to "explain" it is indulging in a certain arrogance."-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve policemen faced choices, and most of them committed terrible deeds. But those who killed cannot be absolved by the notion that anyo…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"What, then, is one to conclude? Most of all, one comes away from the story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 with great unease. This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve polic…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"At the same time, however, the collective behavior of Reserve Police Battalion 101 has deeply disturbing implications. There are many societies afflicted by traditions of racism and caught in the sie…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
7. The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
By: H.W. Brands
4.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes … read more
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8. Tigana
By: Guy Gavriel Kay
3.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Tiganais the magical story of a beleaguered country struggling to be free. It is the tale of a peop… read more
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9. James Madison: A Life Reconsidered
By: Lynne Cheney
4.38
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A major new biography of the fourth president of the United States by New YorkTimes bestselling aut… read more
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10. Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
By: Gary Krist
4.38
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war… read more
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11. Eating the Dinosaur
By: Chuck Klosterman
3.33
Format: 161 pages,
Chuck Klosterman has chronicled rock music, film, and sports for almost fifteen years. He's covered… read more
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12. The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
By: Helen Rappaport
3.99
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
They were the Princess Dianas of their day--perhaps the most photographed and talked about young ro… read more
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13. 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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14. A History of the United States in Five Crashes: Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation
By: Scott Nations
3.88
Format: None pages, ebook
In this absorbing, smart, and accessible blend of economic and cultural history, Scott Nations, a l… read more
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15. A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889
By: Frederic Morton
5.00
Format: None pages,
On January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed hight of the Viennese Carnival, the handsome and cha… read more
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16. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
By: Candice Millard
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject po… read more
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17. The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End
By: Robert Gerwarth
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War… read more
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18. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
By: Charles C. Mann
4.23
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival o… read more
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19. Grant
By: Ron Chernow
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefel… read more
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20. Personal Memoirs
By: Ulysses S. Grant , Geoffrey Perrett
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant's are lucid, compelling, and brutally honest, a chronicle of triump… read more
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21. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
By: Erik Larson
3.84
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthrall… read more
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22. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
By: Jon Meacham
4.04
Format: 802 pages, Kindle Edition
In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin and … read more
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"No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty."-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
"Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it."-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
"Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility."-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
"Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize."-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
23. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
By: Erik Larson
4.30
Format: 546 pages, ebook
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a f… read more
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- biography
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
24. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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- history
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
25. The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West
By: Chris Wimmer
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of the "Legends of the Old West" podcast, a book exploring the overlapping narrati… read more
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26. The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg
By: Helen Rappaport
4.05
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
Helen Rappaport, an expert in the field of Russian history, brings you the riveting day-by-day acco… read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
- russian history
27. K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches (Random House Large Print)
By: Tyler Kepner
4.11
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From The New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling histor… read more
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28. After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
By: Helen Rappaport
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From Helen Rappaport, the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes After the … read more
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"His wife, "who only demanded of life that it should amuse her"."-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
"(B)ut behind it all-- nothing: just vodka and the void. (Coco Chanel)"-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
"We lived side by side with life but were afraid of meeting it. (Maria Pavlovna)"-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
"(H)is action was merely "galvanizing the corpse" of an army that was already in retreat and heading for defeat."-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
29. The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family
By: Helen Rappaport
3.81
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The murder of the Russian imperial family in July 1918 has been intensively investigated, but the f… read more
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30. Rationality
By: Steven Pinker
3.85
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are … read more
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"Everyone wants someone to help but prefers that it not be them."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"If contemporary humans seem irrational, don't blame the hunter-gatherers."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"The press is an availability machine. It serves up anecdotes which feed our impression of what's common in a way that is guaranteed to mislead."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"Disagreement is necessary in deliberations among mortals. As the saying goes, the more we disagree, the more chance there is that at least one of us is right."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
31. March 1917: On the Brink of War and Revolution
By: Will Englund
3.64
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
“Fast-paced history . . . full of haunting, unforgettable wartime images.” ―David M. Shribman, Bos… read more
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