The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden: The Biography (Bestselling Historical Nonfiction)
By: Peter L. Bergen
4.18
Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition
The world’s leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the first time the definitive biography …
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1. The Best and the Brightest
By: David Halberstam
4.27
Format: 688 pages, Paperback
The Best and the Brightest is David Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of… read more
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"There was, I found, always more to learn."-David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest
"true wisdom ... is the product of hard-won, often bitter experience."-David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest
"Most journalists are impatient to get their legwork done and to start the actual writing"-David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest
"Among those dazzled by the Administration team was Vice-President Lyndon Johnson. After attending his first Cabinet meeting he went back to his mentor Sam Rayburn and told him with great enthusiasm h…"-David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest
2. The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
By: Lawrence Wright
3.00
Format: 12 pages, Hardcover
Ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorkerrecall the path terror in the Middle East has … read more
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3. No Exit and Three Other Plays
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Stuart Gilbert , Lionel Abel
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these four plays, Jean-Paul Sartre, the great existentialist novelist and philosopher, displays … read more
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4. Battleground (The Corps, #4)
By: W.E.B. Griffin
3.98
Format: 392 pages, Mass Market Paperback
W.E.B. Griffin is a bestselling phenomenom, an American master of authentic military action and dra… read more
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- military fiction
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5. Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
By: Annie Jacobsen
3.69
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
The explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the New York… read more
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6. Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
By: Joby Warrick
3.64
Format: None pages, ebook
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick reveals how the strain of militant Islam now raising i… read more
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7. Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
By: Lawrence Wright
4.03
Format: 606 pages, Hardcover
A gripping day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter persua… read more
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8. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
By: Lawrence Wright
4.16
Format: 208 pages,
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9. Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
By: Noa Tishby
4.34
Format: None pages, Audiobook
AUDIO EXCLUSIVE: INCLUDES THE SONG “ELATION STATION” BY INFECTED MUSHROOM!A “fascinating and very m… read more
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"The truth is, there is absolutely nothing that can be said of Israel, that cannot be said of Pakistan."-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
"Instead of helping people move forward UNRWA keeps the Palestinian people in an eternal loop of displacement. Instead of solving the problem in any meaningful way, they have overseen the problem's ex…"-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
"Here's the nugget: settling the refugee problem would mean ending the war against Israel. And as of now, the Palestinians and many of the Arab world have been refusing to do so. The best way to keep …"-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
"There is almost no difference between the establishment of Israel and Pakistan. They were both created as a safe haven for persecuted groups: Jews and Muslims. They are both engaged in land disputes.…"-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
10. 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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"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
11. Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
By: Oliver Bullough
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In his punchy follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World unravels the dark secre… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.30
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, character-driven history of CIA covert operations and U.S. government-sponsored ass… read more
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13. 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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- history
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14. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
By: Kim Ghattas
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Black Wave is a paradigm-shifting recasting of the modern history of the Middle East, telling the l… read more
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"Beyond the headlines about war and death, the region is alive with music, art, books, theater, social entrepreneurship, advocacy, libraries, cafes, bookshops, poetry, and so much more, as old and you…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Every king had tried to put his imprint on the city and the mosque; some were worse than others. King Faisal had been a parsimonious man and the expansion works reflected as much—measured and reasona…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Although our countries have been changed by the hegemonizing influences of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the headlines in the Western media have always reduced matters of extraordinary depth and comple…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
15. The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden: The Biography (Bestselling Historical Nonfiction)
By: Peter L. Bergen
4.18
Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition
The world’s leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the first time the definitive biography … read more
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- terrorism
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16. The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
By: Craig Whitlock
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how th… read more
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"To reinforce the message, Obama administration officials touted statistics that distorted what was really happening on the ground. The Bush administration had done the same, but Obama staffers in the…"-Craig Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
"Ryan Crocker, who served as the top U.S. diplomat in Kabul under both Bush and Obama, said the gusher of contracts to support U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan virtually guaranteed that extortion, …"-Craig Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
17. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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18. Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq
By: Melvyn P. Leffler
3.74
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A vivid portrayal of what drove George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003--an outcome that was in no wa… read more
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19. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
By: Jeffrey Toobin
4.16
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more
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20. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
By: Jeff Pearlman
4.20
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definiti… read more
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21. What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life
By: Billy Dee Williams
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades—a heralded actor who's played the… read more
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22. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
By: Andy Greenberg
4.50
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrenc… read more
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23. Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End
By: Jerry Dunleavy
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER This explosive book is the definitive account of the Biden administration's… read more
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24. No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
By: Sarah Frier
4.11
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning reporter Sarah Frier reveals an inside, never-before-told, behind-the-scenes look at … read more
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"Mosseri’s answer to the important question was perfect by Facebook standards: “Technology isn’t good or bad—it just is,"-Sarah Frier, No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
25. Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
By: James M. Scott
4.40
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies o… read more
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26. The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival
By: Ron DeSantis
4.03
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
No American leader has accomplished more for his state than Governor Ron DeSantis. Now he reveals h… read more
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27. The Soldier's Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II
By: David Chrisinger
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A beautiful reckoning with the life and work of the legendary journalist Ernie Pyle, who gave World… read more
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28. Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11
By: Joseph Pfeifer
4.55
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the first FDNY chief to respond to the 9/11 attacks, an intimate memoir and a tribute to those… read more
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29. The 1998 Yankees: The Inside Story of the Greatest Baseball Team Ever
By: Jack Curry
4.14
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
Discover the inside story of the 1998 Yankees' unprecedented talent with this gripping account from… read more
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30. The Midrange Theory
By: Seth Partnow
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
At its core, the goal of any basketball team is relatively take and make good shots while preventi… read more
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31. 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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"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.
