14 must-read history books like The World: A Brief Introduction by Richard N. Haass

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The World: A Brief Introduction

By: Richard N. Haass

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An invaluable primer from Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, that will h…

If you liked the history plot in The World: A Brief Introduction by Richard N. Haass , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Future of Power

By: Joseph S. Nye Jr.

3.79

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

The Future of Power examines what it means to be forceful and effective in a world in which the tra… read more

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  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
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2. 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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  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
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3. Strategy: A History

By: Lawrence Freedman

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

4. World Order

By: Henry Kissinger

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Henry Kissinger offers in World Ordera deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and gl… read more

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5. The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate

By: Robert D. Kaplan

3.86

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoonand Balkan … read more

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6. Modern China: A Very Short Introduction

By: Rana Mitter

3.11

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

China today is never out of the news: from human rights controversies and the continued legacy of T… read more

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7. A Course Called Scotland: Searching the Home of Golf for the Secret to Its Game

By: Tom Coyne

4.38

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of the best golf books this century.” — Golf Digest From Tom Coyn… read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course

By: Tom Coyne

4.30

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In the span of one unforgettable year, Coyne crisscrosses the country in search of its greatest gol… read more

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  • nonfiction
"First tees no longer made me nervous, but somehow rangers still did."

-Tom Coyne, A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course

"A holed ball was beautiful and final. All it left you were the stories of how it arrived there, powerless I change that plot."

-Tom Coyne, A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course

"The land on which this game is played holds memories for a very long time, and once in a while, it lets us come back and walk around in them."

-Tom Coyne, A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course

"People who don’t play golf pro to envy their golfing neighbors, admiring it as a nifty game you can play to a ripe old age. What they don’t understand is that we don’t keep playing because we can; we…"

-Tom Coyne, A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course

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9. 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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  • audiobook
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • science
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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10. The World: A Brief Introduction

By: Richard N. Haass

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An invaluable primer from Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, that will h… read more

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  • audiobook
  • international relations
  • history
  • world history
  • politics
  • political science
  • nonfiction
  • geography
  • economics
  • science
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11. The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

By: Daniel Yergin

4.20

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A Wall Street Journal besteller and a USA Today Best Book of 2020 Named Energy Writer of the Yea… read more

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  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • science
"У 1976 в газеті "Вечірній Ленінград" з'явилася стаття про досі невідомого дзюдоїста, що переміг у змаганнях і здобув звання чемпіона. "Люди ще почують про нього в майбутньому", передбачало видання. Т…"

-Daniel Yergin, The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

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12. On Grand Strategy

By: John Lewis Gaddis

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught… read more

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  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
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13. The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

By: Martin Wolf

3.97

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, a magnificent reckoning with how and w… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • economics
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14. The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

By: Kai Bird

4.35

Format: 772 pages, Hardcover

An essential re-evaluation of the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter's presidential leg… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"...Carter is sometimes perceived as a failure simply because he refused to make us feel good about the country. He insisted on telling us what was wrong and what it would take to make things better. …"

-Kai Bird, The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

"Watching the podium dance that night from the convention floor was Paul Corbin, a longtime Kennedy family retainer. Corbin had been working for the Kennedys ever since he first encountered Bobby Kenn…"

-Kai Bird, The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

"...Ironically, three decades later President Barack Obama introduced a universal health insurance bill modeled closely after the Carter bill. Mondale´s former aide Richard Moe wrote that Obamacare ¨b…"

-Kai Bird, The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

"After it was all over, the Carter people were stunned by Kennedy´s conduct. Why? Why would the Kennedy crowd persist in defeat, knowing that their displays of rancor would only further weaken a Democ…"

-Kai Bird, The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

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15. The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal

By: William J. Burns

4.27

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From America's "secret diplomatic weapon" (The Atlantic), comes a memoir of service for five Presid… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
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16. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • politics
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  • economics
  • audiobook
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17. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

By: David E. Sanger

4.37

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more

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  • international relations
  • history
  • world history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan

By: Mick Ryan

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

This book "is entertaining, thought-provoking and quite possibly prescient. Not just an engaging ta… read more

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  • politics

19. The Shortest History of War

By: Gwynne Dyer

4.01

Format: None pages, None

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  • world history
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  • political science
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20. Nicked

By: M.T. Anderson

3.85

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction… read more

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21. Not for the Faint of Heart: Lessons in Courage, Power, and Persistence

By: Wendy R. Sherman

3.95

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Distinguished diplomat Ambassador Wendy Sherman brings readers inside the negotiating room to show … read more

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  • politics
  • international relations
  • history
  • nonfiction

6 must-read audiobook books like The World: A Brief Introduction by Richard N. Haass

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Michael Pillsbury

4.21

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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

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The World: A Brief Introduction

Richard N. Haass

3.85

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Kai Bird

4.35

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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

Eric Schlosser

4.26

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Bryan Burrough , John Helyar

4.27

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McKay Coppins

4.36

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Walt Bogdanich

3.80

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