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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

by Marc Levinson  · 1 Jan 2006  · 477pp  · 135,607 words

ninety-five-day strike. Finally, the major ship lines brought the conflict to an end by pushing aside the stevedores’ association and their own rabidly anti-Communist counsel and taking charge of negotiations. The union achieved its greatest desire: it was finally able to negotiate face-to-face with the ship operators

World Travel: An Irreverent Guide

by Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever  · 19 Apr 2021  · 366pp  · 110,374 words

for sushi and izakayas, and a lot of bars. In 1949, Chiang Kai-sehk and his Chinese nationalists (I think you could charitably call them anti-Communists) retreated to Taiwan from the mainland, ceding their country to Mao Zedong. Two million of them flooded Taiwan, many from military or administrative backgrounds. The

Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks

by Keith Houston  · 23 Sep 2013

covertly funded by the US Central Intelligence Agency and the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, with the aim of making up for the lack of anti-Communist rhetoric emanating from the popular—and left-wing—New Statesman. Its CIA funding became public knowledge in 1967, prompting the resignation of its editor and

The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City

by Alan Ehrenhalt  · 23 Apr 2012  · 281pp  · 86,657 words

to be a magnet for newly arrived Asian immigrants. The first to come in large numbers were Vietnamese, many of them supporters of the fallen anti-Communist regime in Saigon, admitted as refugees under federal laws of asylum. Some had been senior officials of the South Vietnamese government, and had spent much

The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View From the Future

by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway  · 30 Jun 2014  · 105pp  · 18,832 words

situate the narrator in China in the Second (or Neocommunist) People’s Republic? NO: The doubt-mongers we wrote about in Merchants of Doubt were anti-communists who opposed environmental regulations for fear that government encroachment in the marketplace would become a backdoor to communism. They believed that political freedom was tied

Red Rabbit

by Tom Clancy and Scott Brick  · 2 Jan 2002

'mysterious circumstances.' Hard to say what sort of chap he actually was, but there is a school of thought that says he was a rabid anti-Communist, but decidedly not a pro-Nazi. Perhaps just a man who picked a bad place and time to be born. We may never know for

Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

by Hunter S. Thompson  · 1 Jan 1966  · 308pp  · 103,890 words

, busts or acid caps they could muster; Sonny considered them all chickenshit—and that was that. The Angels, like all other motorcycle outlaws, are rigidly anti-Communist. Their political views are limited to the same kind of retrograde patriotism that motivates the John Birch Society, the Ku Klux Klan and the American

Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, the Untold Story

by Jeffrey Kluger  · 11 Nov 2025  · 305pp  · 98,394 words

for Kennedy. Rockefeller had gotten divorced in 1962, had remarried in May of 1963, and was thus effectively ruined by scandal. Goldwater, a hard-right anti-communist, had the whiff of a warmonger about him and scared voters, who were already jumpy over the nuclear arms race with the Soviets and the

Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

by Carl Sagan  · 11 May 1998  · 272pp  · 76,089 words

some surprise when published in America, is based on compilations by the House Armed Services Committee. 188 • Billions and Billions Communist Manifesto—which makes the anti-Communist justification for American intervention in Nicaragua a little difficult to rationalize; the deficiencies of the argument would be better understood, however, had the Soviet Union

The Rum Diary

by Hunter S. Thompson  · 1 Jan 1998  · 235pp  · 68,317 words

. Call the paper if you need anything. I will, she said. Goodbye. I spent most of the day in the library, taking notes on previous anti-communist investigations and looking for background material on people involved in hearings that were scheduled to start on Thursday. I avoided Sala, hoping he wouldn't

the office. At two-thirty I had to go to the Caribe to talk to one of the Congressmen who had come down for the anti-communist investigation. I drove over there and talked to the man for two hours. We sat on the terrace and drank rum punch, and when I

Zeitgeist

by Bruce Sterling  · 1 Nov 2000  · 333pp  · 86,662 words

The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall

by Mary Elise Sarotte  · 6 Oct 2014  · 587pp  · 119,432 words

The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale

by Simon Clark and Will Louch  · 14 Jul 2021  · 403pp  · 105,550 words

Lonely Planet Mongolia (Travel Guide)

by Lonely Planet, Trent Holden, Adam Karlin, Michael Kohn, Adam Skolnick and Thomas O'Malley  · 1 Jul 2018

Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

by Donnie Eichar  · 20 Oct 2014  · 232pp  · 68,570 words

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

by Mary L. Trump  · 13 Jul 2020  · 269pp  · 72,752 words

How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities

by John Cassidy  · 10 Nov 2009  · 545pp  · 137,789 words

User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work & Play

by Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant  · 7 Nov 2019

99%: Mass Impoverishment and How We Can End It

by Mark Thomas  · 7 Aug 2019  · 286pp  · 79,305 words

Central Europe Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

Broke: How to Survive the Middle Class Crisis

by David Boyle  · 15 Jan 2014  · 367pp  · 108,689 words

Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street

by William Poundstone  · 18 Sep 2006  · 389pp  · 109,207 words

Cards of Identity

by Nigel Dennis  · 16 Jul 2014

Armed Humanitarians

by Nathan Hodge  · 1 Sep 2011  · 390pp  · 119,527 words

Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China

by Leslie T. Chang  · 6 Oct 2008  · 419pp  · 125,977 words

The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World's Oil Market

by Leah McGrath Goodman  · 15 Feb 2011  · 553pp  · 168,111 words

The Power Elite

by C. Wright Mills and Alan Wolfe  · 1 Jan 1956  · 568pp  · 174,089 words

On Nature and Language

by Noam Chomsky  · 16 Apr 2007

Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

by Anthony M. Townsend  · 29 Sep 2013  · 464pp  · 127,283 words

The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey Into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future

by Geoffrey Cain  · 28 Jun 2021  · 340pp  · 90,674 words

The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives

by Ernest Scheyder  · 30 Jan 2024  · 355pp  · 133,726 words

A Schoolmaster's War

by Jonathan Ree

The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

by M. Mitchell Waldrop  · 14 Apr 2001

J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2022: For Preparing Your 2021 Tax Return

by J. K. Lasser Institute  · 21 Dec 2021

Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science

by Benjamin Breen  · 16 Jan 2024  · 384pp  · 118,573 words

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion ofSafety

by Eric Schlosser  · 16 Sep 2013  · 956pp  · 267,746 words

Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base

by Annie Jacobsen  · 16 May 2011  · 572pp  · 179,024 words

Prisoner's Dilemma: John Von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb

by William Poundstone  · 2 Jan 1993  · 323pp  · 100,772 words

The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism

by Joyce Appleby  · 22 Dec 2009  · 540pp  · 168,921 words

The Big U

by Neal Stephenson  · 2 Jan 1984  · 344pp  · 103,532 words

The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy

by Sasha Issenberg  · 1 Jan 2007  · 534pp  · 15,752 words

Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles

by Ruchir Sharma  · 8 Apr 2012  · 411pp  · 114,717 words

Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World

by Joshua B. Freeman  · 27 Feb 2018  · 538pp  · 145,243 words

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

by Kapka Kassabova  · 4 Sep 2017  · 361pp  · 107,679 words

The Docks

by Bill Sharpsteen  · 5 Jan 2011  · 326pp  · 29,543 words

The Shifts and the Shocks: What We've Learned--And Have Still to Learn--From the Financial Crisis

by Martin Wolf  · 24 Nov 2015  · 524pp  · 143,993 words

Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier  · 29 Mar 2017

King Richard: Nixon and Watergate--An American Tragedy

by Michael Dobbs  · 24 May 2021  · 426pp  · 117,722 words

The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation

by Scott Carney and Jason Miklian  · 28 Mar 2022  · 553pp  · 153,028 words

Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science

by James Poskett  · 22 Mar 2022  · 564pp  · 168,696 words

Korea--Culture Smart!

by Culture Smart!  · 15 Jun 201  · 124pp  · 37,476 words

1989 The Berlin Wall: My Part in Its Downfall

by Peter Millar  · 1 Oct 2009  · 220pp  · 88,994 words

Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible

by Stephen Braun and Douglas Farah  · 1 Apr 2008  · 459pp  · 109,490 words

Why the West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future

by Ian Morris  · 11 Oct 2010  · 1,152pp  · 266,246 words

The Economists' Hour: How the False Prophets of Free Markets Fractured Our Society

by Binyamin Appelbaum  · 4 Sep 2019  · 614pp  · 174,226 words

The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America

by Gabriel Winant  · 23 Mar 2021  · 563pp  · 136,190 words

Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe

by Paul Sen  · 16 Mar 2021  · 444pp  · 111,837 words

All the Money in the World

by Peter W. Bernstein  · 17 Dec 2008  · 538pp  · 147,612 words

Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey Into Space

by Stephen Walker  · 12 Apr 2021  · 546pp  · 164,489 words

GDP: The World’s Most Powerful Formula and Why It Must Now Change

by Ehsan Masood  · 4 Mar 2021  · 303pp  · 74,206 words

The Cold War

by Robert Cowley  · 5 May 1992  · 546pp  · 176,169 words

Engines of War: How Wars Were Won & Lost on the Railways

by Christian Wolmar  · 1 Nov 2011  · 410pp  · 122,537 words

Red Moon Rising

by Matthew Brzezinski  · 2 Jan 2007  · 497pp  · 124,144 words

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

by Yuval Noah Harari  · 1 Mar 2015  · 479pp  · 144,453 words

Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton  · 19 Sep 2016  · 1,048pp  · 187,324 words

On Anarchism

by Noam Chomsky  · 4 Nov 2013  · 171pp  · 53,428 words

Southeast Asia on a Shoestring Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet  · 30 May 2012

Warnings

by Richard A. Clarke  · 10 Apr 2017  · 428pp  · 121,717 words

Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society

by Eric Posner and E. Weyl  · 14 May 2018  · 463pp  · 105,197 words

The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder

by Sean McFate  · 22 Jan 2019  · 330pp  · 83,319 words

War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt

by Kwasi Kwarteng  · 12 May 2014  · 632pp  · 159,454 words

Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags

by Tim Marshall  · 21 Sep 2016  · 276pp  · 78,061 words

A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order

by Richard Haass  · 10 Jan 2017  · 286pp  · 82,970 words

Lonely Planet's 2016 Best in Travel

by Lonely Planet  · 30 Sep 2015  · 190pp  · 50,133 words

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

by Chris Hedges  · 31 Aug 2002  · 218pp  · 61,301 words

What’s Your Type?

by Merve Emre  · 16 Aug 2018  · 384pp  · 112,971 words

The Crying of Lot 49

by Thomas Pynchon  · 1 Jan 1966  · 165pp  · 47,320 words

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber  · 1 Jan 2010  · 725pp  · 221,514 words

Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service

by Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal  · 1 Jan 2010  · 427pp  · 127,496 words

Do You Sincerely Want To Be Rich?

by Charles Raw, Bruce Page and Godfrey Hodgson  · 16 May 2005  · 552pp  · 169,398 words

Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate

by M. E. Sarotte  · 29 Nov 2021  · 791pp  · 222,536 words

The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth

by Nicolas Niarchos  · 20 Jan 2026  · 654pp  · 170,150 words

The Man Who Invented the Computer

by Jane Smiley  · 18 Oct 2010  · 253pp  · 80,074 words

Culture Shock! Costa Rica 30th Anniversary Edition

by Claire Wallerstein  · 1 Mar 2011

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel

by Edwin Frank  · 19 Nov 2024  · 467pp  · 168,546 words

The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

by Tim Wu  · 14 May 2016  · 515pp  · 143,055 words

An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan

by Jason Elliot  · 1 Aug 2011  · 535pp  · 167,111 words

The Rough Guide to Prague

by Humphreys, Rob

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

by William Easterly  · 1 Mar 2006

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (Politics of Place)

by Tim Marshall  · 10 Oct 2016  · 306pp  · 79,537 words

The Capitalist Manifesto

by Johan Norberg  · 14 Jun 2023  · 295pp  · 87,204 words

On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey Into South Asia

by Steve Coll  · 29 Mar 2009  · 413pp  · 128,093 words

Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking

by Charles Seife  · 27 Oct 2009  · 356pp  · 95,647 words

Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World

by Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell  · 29 Jul 2019  · 164pp  · 44,947 words

America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy

by Robert B. Zoellick  · 3 Aug 2020

Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis

by Benjamin Kunkel  · 11 Mar 2014  · 142pp  · 45,733 words

The Forgotten Man

by Amity Shlaes  · 25 Jun 2007  · 514pp  · 153,092 words

When Einstein Walked With Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought

by Jim Holt  · 14 May 2018  · 436pp  · 127,642 words

The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?

by Michael J. Sandel  · 9 Sep 2020  · 493pp  · 98,982 words

The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge

by Matt Ridley  · 395pp  · 116,675 words

Little Failure: A Memoir

by Gary Shteyngart  · 7 Jan 2014

Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam

by H. R. McMaster  · 7 May 1998  · 615pp  · 175,905 words

The Old Patagonian Express

by Paul Theroux  · 23 Sep 1979

To the Edge of the World: The Story of the Trans-Siberian Express, the World's Greatest Railroad

by Christian Wolmar  · 4 Aug 2014  · 323pp  · 94,406 words

Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership

by Andro Linklater  · 12 Nov 2013  · 603pp  · 182,826 words

Rogue States

by Noam Chomsky  · 9 Jul 2015

This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America

by Ryan Grim  · 7 Jul 2009  · 334pp  · 93,162 words

Homage to Catalonia

by George Orwell  · 19 Sep 2011  · 227pp  · 81,989 words

A Life in Secrets

by Sarah Helm  · 1 Jan 2005  · 563pp  · 179,626 words

Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future

by Johan Norberg  · 31 Aug 2016  · 262pp  · 66,800 words

May We Be Forgiven

by A. M. Homes  · 14 Jun 2012

Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

by Ray Jayawardhana  · 10 Dec 2013  · 203pp  · 63,257 words

Lonely Planet China (Travel Guide)

by Lonely Planet and Shawn Low  · 1 Apr 2015  · 3,292pp  · 537,795 words

Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy

by Benjamin Barber  · 20 Apr 2010  · 454pp  · 139,350 words

We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

by Adam Winkler  · 27 Feb 2018  · 581pp  · 162,518 words

Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America Into the Space Age

by Robert Stone and Alan Andres  · 3 Jun 2019

Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945

by Leo Marks  · 1 Jan 1998  · 677pp  · 195,722 words

Darwin Among the Machines

by George Dyson  · 28 Mar 2012  · 463pp  · 118,936 words

Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins

by Andrew Cockburn  · 10 Mar 2015  · 389pp  · 108,344 words

The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times

by Giovanni Arrighi  · 15 Mar 2010  · 7,371pp  · 186,208 words

Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

by Alan Weisman  · 23 Sep 2013  · 579pp  · 164,339 words

Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

by Kathryn Schulz  · 7 Jun 2010  · 486pp  · 148,485 words

How Asia Works

by Joe Studwell  · 1 Jul 2013  · 868pp  · 147,152 words

More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy

by Philip Coggan  · 6 Feb 2020  · 524pp  · 155,947 words

The America That Reagan Built

by J. David Woodard  · 15 Mar 2006

Complexity: A Guided Tour

by Melanie Mitchell  · 31 Mar 2009  · 524pp  · 120,182 words

Checkpoint Charlie

by Iain MacGregor  · 5 Nov 2019  · 401pp  · 119,043 words

Destined for War: America, China, and Thucydides's Trap

by Graham Allison  · 29 May 2017  · 518pp  · 128,324 words

The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977

by Gershom Gorenberg  · 1 Jan 2006  · 600pp  · 165,682 words

Underland: A Deep Time Journey

by Robert Macfarlane  · 1 May 2019  · 489pp  · 136,195 words

Political Ponerology (A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes)

by Andrew M. Lobaczewski  · 1 Jan 2006  · 396pp  · 116,332 words

SEDATED: How Modern Capitalism Created Our Mental Health Crisis

by James. Davies  · 15 Nov 2021  · 307pp  · 88,085 words

Step by Step the Life in My Journeys

by Simon Reeve  · 15 Aug 2019  · 309pp  · 99,744 words

Narcotopia

by Patrick Winn  · 30 Jan 2024  · 425pp  · 131,864 words

Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life

by Kristen R. Ghodsee  · 16 May 2023  · 302pp  · 112,390 words

The Enlightened Capitalists

by James O'Toole  · 29 Dec 2018  · 716pp  · 192,143 words

Lonely Planet Poland

by Lonely Planet  · 892pp  · 229,939 words

The River of Lost Footsteps

by Thant Myint-U  · 14 Apr 2006

Poland - Culture Smart!

by Allen, Gregory;Lipska, Magdalena;Culture Smart!;  · 15 Jun 2023  · 125pp  · 35,679 words

Tunnel 29

by Helena Merriman  · 24 Aug 2021  · 333pp  · 101,677 words

Bosnia and Herzegovina

by Tim. Clancy  · 15 Mar 2022  · 716pp  · 209,067 words

The Dream of Europe: Travels in the Twenty-First Century

by Geert Mak  · 27 Oct 2021  · 722pp  · 223,701 words

Coastal California Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

Danube (Panther)

by Claudio Magris  · 10 Jan 2011  · 459pp  · 154,280 words

The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West

by Shaun Walker  · 15 Apr 2025  · 465pp  · 155,902 words

Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

by William Blum  · 31 Mar 2002

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

by Daniel Yergin  · 23 Dec 2008  · 1,445pp  · 469,426 words

The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory

by Andrew J. Bacevich  · 7 Jan 2020  · 254pp  · 68,133 words

Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

by Katja Hoyer  · 5 Apr 2023

The New Class War: Saving Democracy From the Metropolitan Elite

by Michael Lind  · 20 Feb 2020

The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication From Ancient Times to the Internet

by David Kahn  · 1 Feb 1963  · 1,799pp  · 532,462 words

I, Warbot: The Dawn of Artificially Intelligent Conflict

by Kenneth Payne  · 16 Jun 2021  · 339pp  · 92,785 words

Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History

by Alex von Tunzelmann  · 7 Jul 2021  · 337pp  · 87,236 words

Cuba: An American History

by Ada Ferrer  · 6 Sep 2021  · 723pp  · 211,892 words

The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America

by Mehrsa Baradaran  · 7 May 2024  · 470pp  · 158,007 words

This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

by Peter Pomerantsev  · 29 Jul 2019  · 240pp  · 74,182 words

The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World

by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian  · 7 Oct 2024  · 336pp  · 104,899 words

The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice

by Fredrik Deboer  · 3 Aug 2020  · 236pp  · 77,546 words

Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind

by Annalee Newitz  · 3 Jun 2024  · 251pp  · 68,713 words

Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe

by Norman Davies  · 27 Sep 2011

Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age

by Lizabeth Cohen  · 30 Sep 2019

The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900

by David Edgerton  · 7 Dec 2006  · 353pp  · 91,211 words

Angrynomics

by Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth  · 15 Jun 2020  · 194pp  · 56,074 words

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin  · 18 Dec 2007  · 1,041pp  · 317,136 words

The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

by Evan Friss  · 5 Aug 2024  · 493pp  · 120,793 words

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

by Liaquat Ahamed  · 22 Jan 2009  · 708pp  · 196,859 words

Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right

by Jennifer Burns  · 18 Oct 2009  · 495pp  · 144,101 words

Becoming Kim Jong Un: A Former CIA Officer's Insights Into North Korea's Enigmatic Young Dictator

by Jung H. Pak  · 14 Apr 2020  · 395pp  · 103,437 words

The Post-American World: Release 2.0

by Fareed Zakaria  · 1 Jan 2008  · 344pp  · 93,858 words

The end of history and the last man

by Francis Fukuyama  · 28 Feb 2006  · 446pp  · 578 words

The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made

by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas  · 28 Feb 2012  · 1,150pp  · 338,839 words

If Then: How Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

by Jill Lepore  · 14 Sep 2020  · 467pp  · 149,632 words

No Such Thing as Society

by Andy McSmith  · 19 Nov 2010  · 613pp  · 151,140 words

In-N-Out Burger

by Stacy Perman  · 11 May 2009  · 454pp  · 122,612 words

Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America

by Cass R. Sunstein  · 6 Mar 2018  · 434pp  · 117,327 words

McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

by Misha Glenny  · 7 Apr 2008  · 487pp  · 147,891 words

Lords of the Desert: The Battle Between the US and Great Britain for Supremacy in the Modern Middle East

by James Barr  · 8 Aug 2018  · 539pp  · 151,425 words

Winds of Change

by Peter Hennessy  · 27 Aug 2019  · 891pp  · 220,950 words

The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America

by Jon C. Teaford  · 1 Jan 2006  · 395pp  · 115,753 words

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

by Steven Pinker  · 13 Feb 2018  · 1,034pp  · 241,773 words

Behind the Berlin Wall: East Germany and the Frontiers of Power

by Patrick Major  · 5 Nov 2009  · 669pp  · 150,886 words

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

by Alice Schroeder  · 1 Sep 2008  · 1,336pp  · 415,037 words

Bleeding Edge: A Novel

by Thomas Pynchon  · 16 Sep 2013  · 532pp  · 141,574 words

China's Good War

by Rana Mitter

Free Market Missionaries: The Corporate Manipulation of Community Values

by Sharon Beder  · 30 Sep 2006  · 273pp  · 34,920 words

1947: Where Now Begins

by Elisabeth Åsbrink  · 31 Jul 2016  · 215pp  · 60,489 words

State of Emergency: The Way We Were

by Dominic Sandbrook  · 29 Sep 2010  · 932pp  · 307,785 words

The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy

by David Hoffman  · 1 Jan 2009  · 719pp  · 209,224 words

Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex

by Yasha Levine  · 6 Feb 2018  · 474pp  · 130,575 words

Capitalism: the unknown ideal

by Ayn Rand  · 15 Aug 1966  · 400pp  · 129,841 words

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America

by Annie Jacobsen  · 11 Feb 2014  · 612pp  · 181,985 words

Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order

by Parag Khanna  · 4 Mar 2008  · 537pp  · 158,544 words

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

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