Tag: history
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The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big Con
The mark inside: a perfect swindle, a cunning revenge, and a small history of the big conAmy Reading; Alfred A. Knopf 2012 Â
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of JournalismDoris Kearns Goodwin; Simon and Schuster 2013 As Frederick Jackson Turner observed in a seminal paper delivered during the American Historical Association meeting in Chicago in 1893, the frontier had closed, and a distinctive phase of American history had thereby come to…
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Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Reza Aslan’s exploration of Jesus as an historical figure does an excellent job providing a context to the gospel stories.
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Thunderstruck
Thunderstruck is a fun read, and satisfying in it’s interconnectedness in a way that The Devil in the White City (the other book by Larson which I’ve read) is not
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The Ghost Map
The Ghost MapSteven Johnson; Riverhead Hardcover 2006 But Engels and Dickens suggested a new twist: that the advance of civilization produced barbarity as an unavoidable waste product, as essential to its metabolism as the gleaming spires and cultivated thought of polite society. The barbarians weren’t storming the gates. They were being bred from within.…
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The Way of the Knife
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the EarthMark Mazzetti; Penguin 2013Â Â
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Empires of the Sea
Empires of the SeaRoger Crowley; Random House Publishing Group 2008 The Maltese are the Basques of the Mediterranean, a unique micro-people formed by the particular position of their island at the center of every invasion, migration, and trading enterprise in the history of the sea. Crowley A man hit in the eye by an arrow…