History

December 28, 2022
100 Books
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Details	Rating
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation Jon Gertner	4.36
Russian Thinkers Isaiah Berlin Henry Hardy Aileen Kelly	5
Bomb Power : the Modern Presidency and the National Security State Garry Wills	5
Dealers of Lightning Michael A. Hiltzik	4
Augustus John Williams	4.43
Playing to the Edge Michael V. Hayden	4.33
History of Rome History of Rome Livy	0
The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century István Hargittai	0
Hard Drive James Wallace Jim Erickson	0
How the Scots Invented the Modern World Arthur Herman	3.67
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon	3.6
The Travels of Marco Polo Marco Polo Teresa Waugh Maria Bellonci (Translator)	3.5
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Vols 1-2 The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Vols 1-2 Plutarch Thomas North (Translator)	0
Caesar's Gallic Wars 58-50 BC Kate Gilliver	0
The Presidents Club Nancy Gibbs Michael Duffy	4
The Conquest of Gaul Gaius Julius Caesar	4
Plutarch's Lives: Volume II Plutarch John Dryden (Translator)	4
Selections from Plutarch's Lives Plutarch	3.8
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America Rick Perlstein	3.82
Collapse Jared Diamond	3.95
Miami and the Siege of Chicago Norman Mailer	4
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus Rick Perlstein	4.29
The Plantagenets Dan Jones	4.07
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book II Thucydides	3.29
Salt: A World History Mark Kurlansky	3.69
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany William L. Shirer	4.29
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Charles C. Mann	4.07
Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin	4.53
An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations Adam Smith Edwin Cannan	3.87
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors Dan Jones	4.08
The Decline of the West Oswald Spengler	2
Birmingham Irish Primo Levi Stuart J. Woolf (Translator)	4.33
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome Mary Beard	3.96
Rome Greg Woolf	0
The histories Herodotus	3.5
The Wise Men Walter Isaacson	4
The End of the Past Aldo Schiavone Margery J. Schneider (Translator)	0
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 Alfred Thayer Mahan	0
Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers Richard E. Neustadt Ernest R. May	0
The Dream Machine M. Mitchell Waldrop	4.31
The Lessons of History Will Durant Ariel Durant	3.67
Rocket Men Robert Kurson	4.44
Lenin Victor Sebestyen	0
Cognitive Gadgets Cecilia Heyes	0
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed Ben R. Rich Leo Janos	4.5
The Rhetorical Presidency Jeffrey K. Tulis	0
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom David W. Blight	3.72
A World Lit Only by Fire William Manchester	4
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America Garry Wills	5
Dark Sun Richard Rhodes	4.33
Fortune's Children Arthur T. Vanderbilt II Patrick Lawlor	3.5
The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew Lee Kuan Yew	4.5
Maoism Julia Lovell	3.5
Judge Thy Neighbor Patrick Bergemann	0
The Second Founding Eric Foner	3
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Peter Frankopan	4.2
The Shock of the Old David Edgerton	0
Scipio Africanus B.H. Liddell Hart	0
Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American B.H. Liddell Hart	0
These Truths: A History of the United States Jill Lepore	4.5
The End Of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War Alan Brinkley	0
Voices of protest Alan Brinkley	2
One Giant Leap Charles Fishman	4
An Impeccable Spy Owen Matthews	0
In the Shadow of Vesuvius In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny Daisy Dunn	0
How History Gets Things Wrong Alex Rosenberg	0
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century George Packer	0
The Unwinding George Packer	4.25
Chinese Spies Roger Faligot	0
State Capture State Capture Alex Hertel-Fernandez	0
The Great Game Peter Hopkirk	0
Prisoners of Geography Tim Marshall	3.77
Now It Can Be Told Leslie R. Groves	4
Virtue Politics : Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy James Hankins	0
What It Takes: The Way to the White House Richard Ben Cramer	4.5
This America Jill Lepore	4.67
It's Even Worse Than It Looks Thomas E. Mann	3.67
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad M.T. Anderson	4.25
The Compatriots: Dissidents, Hackers, Oligarchs, and Spies - The Story of Russia's Uncontrollable Emigres Andrei Soldatov Irina Borogan	0
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice Bill Browder	4.33
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird	0
The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms Kai Bird	0
Plagues and Peoples William H. McNeill	2
I Like to Watch Emily Nussbaum	3.73
Twilight of the American Century Andrew J. Bacevich	0
Music Ted Gioia	3
The Industrialists The Industrialists Jennifer Delton	0
Secret and sanctioned : covert operations and the American presidency Stephen F. Knott	0
The wages of destruction Adam Tooze	4
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World Adam Tooze	4.5
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 Paul Kennedy	4.5
Forces of Production David F. Noble	0
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World Gregory Clark	0
Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays Joan Acocella	0
Sid Meier's Memoir! Sid Meier	4
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture David Kushner	4.25
The Long Divergence Timur Kuran	0
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes Zachary D. Carter	3.4
The Deluge Adam Tooze	5
The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy Charles R. Morris	3.25

Details	Rating
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation Jon Gertner	4.36
Russian Thinkers Isaiah Berlin Henry Hardy Aileen Kelly	5
Bomb Power : the Modern Presidency and the National Security State Garry Wills	5
Dealers of Lightning Michael A. Hiltzik	4
Augustus John Williams	4.43
Playing to the Edge Michael V. Hayden	4.33
History of Rome History of Rome Livy	0
The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century István Hargittai	0
Hard Drive James Wallace Jim Erickson	0
How the Scots Invented the Modern World Arthur Herman	3.67
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon	3.6
The Travels of Marco Polo Marco Polo Teresa Waugh Maria Bellonci (Translator)	3.5
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Vols 1-2 The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Vols 1-2 Plutarch Thomas North (Translator)	0
Caesar's Gallic Wars 58-50 BC Kate Gilliver	0
The Presidents Club Nancy Gibbs Michael Duffy	4
The Conquest of Gaul Gaius Julius Caesar	4
Plutarch's Lives: Volume II Plutarch John Dryden (Translator)	4
Selections from Plutarch's Lives Plutarch	3.8
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America Rick Perlstein	3.82
Collapse Jared Diamond	3.95
Miami and the Siege of Chicago Norman Mailer	4
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus Rick Perlstein	4.29
The Plantagenets Dan Jones	4.07
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book II Thucydides	3.29
Salt: A World History Mark Kurlansky	3.69
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany William L. Shirer	4.29
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Charles C. Mann	4.07
Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin	4.53
An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations Adam Smith Edwin Cannan	3.87
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors Dan Jones	4.08
The Decline of the West Oswald Spengler	2
Birmingham Irish Primo Levi Stuart J. Woolf (Translator)	4.33
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome Mary Beard	3.96
Rome Greg Woolf	0
The histories Herodotus	3.5
The Wise Men Walter Isaacson	4
The End of the Past Aldo Schiavone Margery J. Schneider (Translator)	0
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 Alfred Thayer Mahan	0
Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers Richard E. Neustadt Ernest R. May	0
The Dream Machine M. Mitchell Waldrop	4.31
The Lessons of History Will Durant Ariel Durant	3.67
Rocket Men Robert Kurson	4.44
Lenin Victor Sebestyen	0
Cognitive Gadgets Cecilia Heyes	0
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed Ben R. Rich Leo Janos	4.5
The Rhetorical Presidency Jeffrey K. Tulis	0
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom David W. Blight	3.72
A World Lit Only by Fire William Manchester	4
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America Garry Wills	5
Dark Sun Richard Rhodes	4.33
Fortune's Children Arthur T. Vanderbilt II Patrick Lawlor	3.5
The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew Lee Kuan Yew	4.5
Maoism Julia Lovell	3.5
Judge Thy Neighbor Patrick Bergemann	0
The Second Founding Eric Foner	3
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Peter Frankopan	4.2
The Shock of the Old David Edgerton	0
Scipio Africanus B.H. Liddell Hart	0
Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American B.H. Liddell Hart	0
These Truths: A History of the United States Jill Lepore	4.5
The End Of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War Alan Brinkley	0
Voices of protest Alan Brinkley	2
One Giant Leap Charles Fishman	4
An Impeccable Spy Owen Matthews	0
In the Shadow of Vesuvius In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny Daisy Dunn	0
How History Gets Things Wrong Alex Rosenberg	0
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century George Packer	0
The Unwinding George Packer	4.25
Chinese Spies Roger Faligot	0
State Capture State Capture Alex Hertel-Fernandez	0
The Great Game Peter Hopkirk	0
Prisoners of Geography Tim Marshall	3.77
Now It Can Be Told Leslie R. Groves	4
Virtue Politics : Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy James Hankins	0
What It Takes: The Way to the White House Richard Ben Cramer	4.5
This America Jill Lepore	4.67
It's Even Worse Than It Looks Thomas E. Mann	3.67
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad M.T. Anderson	4.25
The Compatriots: Dissidents, Hackers, Oligarchs, and Spies - The Story of Russia's Uncontrollable Emigres Andrei Soldatov Irina Borogan	0
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice Bill Browder	4.33
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird	0
The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms Kai Bird	0
Plagues and Peoples William H. McNeill	2
I Like to Watch Emily Nussbaum	3.73
Twilight of the American Century Andrew J. Bacevich	0
Music Ted Gioia	3
The Industrialists The Industrialists Jennifer Delton	0
Secret and sanctioned : covert operations and the American presidency Stephen F. Knott	0
The wages of destruction Adam Tooze	4
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World Adam Tooze	4.5
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 Paul Kennedy	4.5
Forces of Production David F. Noble	0
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World Gregory Clark	0
Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays Joan Acocella	0
Sid Meier's Memoir! Sid Meier	4
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture David Kushner	4.25
The Long Divergence Timur Kuran	0
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes Zachary D. Carter	3.4
The Deluge Adam Tooze	5
The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy Charles R. Morris	3.25

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