The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War
by A. J. Baime · 2 Jun 2014 · 502pp · 125,785 words
news of the new company, Ford-Afrique, made it to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau’s office. Morgenthau was an upstate New York Jewish gentleman farmer turned diplomat who mistrusted major corporations and their executives, whose judgment was easily clouded, the Treasury secretary believed, by a lust for profit. He had
Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution
by Richard Whittle · 15 Sep 2014 · 455pp · 131,569 words
, Scott, that he was moving back to a suburban house he had bought years earlier, while stationed at Langley Air Force Base, to “be a gentleman farmer.” The backyard had room for a small vegetable garden at best. Guay’s service record included a Bronze Star and nine oak leaf clusters for
The Wordy Shipmates
by Sarah Vowell · 30 Sep 2008 · 202pp · 62,773 words
of Southampton to preach a farewell sermon to the seven hundred or so colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Company. Led by Governor John Winthrop, a gentleman farmer and lawyer, these mostly Puritan dissenters are about to sail from England to New England on the flagship Arbella and ten other vessels in the
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
by Michael Lewis · 3 May 2021 · 285pp · 98,832 words
not heard from anyone else: not health care experts, not the CDC, not the armchair epidemiologists on Twitter and cable television, who reminded her of gentleman farmers who had never actually plowed a field or milked a cow. Carter proposed using the patients with flu-like symptoms who turned up in emergency
O Jerusalem
by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre · 31 Dec 1970 · 784pp · 229,648 words
neighbor's print shop into a miniature arms plant to make bullets for the Palestinians. Beside Solh sat his close friend and political ally, a gentleman farmer whose passionate devotion to Arab independence had earned him too half a lifetime in jail or exile. Syria's Jamil Mardam had, in fact, been
The Complete Novels Of George Orwell
by George Orwell · 3 Jun 2009 · 1,497pp · 492,782 words
, much overgrown by woodland, with all its pastures worn out and its hedges in a disgraceful condition. Its owner, Mr Pilkington, was an easy-going gentleman farmer who spent most of his time in fishing or hunting according to the season. The other farm, which was called Pinchfield, was smaller and better
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by Scott Anderson · 5 Aug 2013
landed aristocracy. After being educated at Eton, the future baronet had returned to Ireland and, in the early 1870s, took up the pleasant role of gentleman farmer of his family’s estate in County Westmeath. He married a woman from another wealthy Anglo-Irish family, with whom he soon had four daughters
Quicksilver
by Neal Stephenson · 9 Sep 2004 · 1,178pp · 388,227 words
titles: they were now scholars, meaning that they had scholarships, meaning that Newton would not have to go back home to Woolsthorpe and become a gentleman-farmer. They would continue to share a chamber at Trinity, and Daniel would continue to learn more from Isaac’s idle musings than he would from
…
—” “In God, of course. But don’t tell me you weren’t worried you’d be sent packing, and live out your days as a gentleman farmer in Woolsthorpe. There were other candidates. Men who’d curried favor in the right places, and memorized all of the medieval claptrap we were expected
Heaven's Command (Pax Britannica)
by Jan Morris · 22 Dec 2010 · 699pp · 192,704 words
, held his periodic courts. And at the top was Mr Rex, who had personally approved all the original settlers. Rex lived like a polite English gentleman-farmer upon a large scale, but rumour suggested that he was something rather more: and what capped the ineffable Englishness of his village, and made it
The Fields Beneath: The History of One London Village
by Gillian Tindall · 1 Oct 2002 · 286pp · 95,372 words
with them is even a piece of ‘the parlour wallpaper’, which looks like a late eighteenth-century ‘Chinese’ pattern: just the thing for an aspirant gentleman farmer. It was probably laid on the walls when the Morgan family, who farmed extensively in the district, took the place over. Crosby wrote in his
…
take their dogs and children for runs, owes something to the late eighteenth-century use of garden rollers. Just as, in our own day, the ‘gentleman farmer’ with an interest in the stock market as well is a feature of the Home Counties commuterlands, so was he a phenomenon in Kentish Town
…
nineteen acres ‘very tastefully’. But the house and possibly some land on the opposite side of the road were bought by a real if less gentlemanly farmer, Richard Mortimer, who already had substantial holdings in the Chalk Farm – Regent’s Park area, and had a ‘cow lair’ and field next to the
Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet
by Edward Luce · 13 May 2025 · 612pp · 235,188 words
All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
by Orlando Whitfield · 5 Aug 2024 · 306pp · 104,072 words
Flight of the WASP
by Michael Gross · 562pp · 177,195 words
Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right
by Jennifer Burns · 18 Oct 2009 · 495pp · 144,101 words
The Domestic Revolution
by Ruth Goodman · 15 Apr 2020
The Map That Changed the World
by Simon Winchester · 1 Jan 2001 · 361pp · 105,938 words
Ayn Rand and the World She Made
by Anne C. Heller · 27 Oct 2009 · 756pp · 228,797 words
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It
by Arthur Herman · 27 Nov 2001 · 510pp · 163,449 words
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
by Witold Rybczynski · 1 Jan 1999
The First Tycoon
by T.J. Stiles · 14 Aug 2009
The Railways: Nation, Network and People
by Simon Bradley · 23 Sep 2015 · 916pp · 248,265 words
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
by Liaquat Ahamed · 22 Jan 2009 · 708pp · 196,859 words
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
by Edwin Lefèvre and William J. O'Neil · 14 May 1923 · 650pp · 204,878 words
FreeCAD [How-To]
by Daniel Falck · 15 Feb 2012 · 54pp · 11,471 words
Europe: A History
by Norman Davies · 1 Jan 1996
Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol
by Iain Gately · 30 Jun 2008 · 686pp · 201,972 words
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
by Tom Standage · 1 Jan 2005 · 231pp · 72,656 words
Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer
by Michael Swaine and Paul Freiberger · 19 Oct 2014 · 459pp · 140,010 words
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
by Nancy Isenberg · 20 Jun 2016 · 709pp · 191,147 words
Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
by Edwin Frank · 19 Nov 2024 · 467pp · 168,546 words
First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents
by Gary Ginsberg · 14 Sep 2021 · 418pp · 134,401 words
Cyclopedia
by William Fotheringham · 22 Sep 2011 · 428pp · 117,419 words
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
by Simon Winchester · 31 Dec 1985 · 382pp · 127,510 words
The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
by Jonathan Kaufman · 14 Sep 2020 · 415pp · 103,801 words
The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations
by Sebastian Mallaby · 24 Apr 2006 · 605pp · 169,366 words
The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914
by Richard J. Evans · 31 Aug 2016 · 976pp · 329,519 words
The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939
by Adrian Tinniswood · 2 May 2016
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town
by Beth Macy · 14 Jul 2014 · 473pp · 140,480 words
Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism
by Peter Marshall · 2 Jan 1992 · 1,327pp · 360,897 words
The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World
by Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro · 11 Sep 2017 · 850pp · 224,533 words
Dawn of Detroit
by Tiya Miles · 13 Sep 2017 · 415pp · 127,092 words
Falling to Earth
by Al Worden · 26 Jul 2011 · 357pp · 121,119 words
Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
by Christopher Wylie · 8 Oct 2019
The Taste of Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World
by Lizzie Collingham · 2 Oct 2017 · 452pp · 130,041 words
Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
by Tao Leigh. Goffe · 14 Mar 2025 · 441pp · 122,013 words
Aerotropolis
by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay · 2 Jan 2009 · 603pp · 182,781 words
Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe
by Johnjoe McFadden · 27 Sep 2021
Eastern USA
by Lonely Planet
The Teeth of the Tiger
by Tom Clancy · 2 Jan 1998 · 553pp · 151,139 words
USA Travel Guide
by Lonely, Planet
A History of Modern Britain
by Andrew Marr · 2 Jul 2009 · 872pp · 259,208 words
Ayn Rand Cult
by Jeff Walker · 30 Dec 1998 · 525pp · 146,126 words
The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis
by Ruth Defries · 8 Sep 2014 · 342pp · 88,736 words
A Concise History of Modern India (Cambridge Concise Histories)
by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf · 27 Sep 2006
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
by Sarah Ogilvie · 17 Oct 2023
How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World’s Last Developmental Frontier
by Joe Studwell · 6 Dec 2025 · 393pp · 148,223 words
The Eternal City: A History of Rome
by Ferdinand Addis · 6 Nov 2018
Frommer's California 2007
by Harry Basch, Mark Hiss, Erika Lenkert and Matthew Richard Poole · 6 Dec 2006 · 769pp · 397,677 words
The Butcher's Guide to Well-Raised Meat: How to Buy, Cut, and Cook Great Beef, Lamb, Pork, Poultry, and More
by Joshua Applestone, Jessica Applestone and Alexandra Zissu · 6 Jun 2011 · 363pp · 11,523 words
Meat: A Benign Extravagance
by Simon Fairlie · 14 Jun 2010 · 614pp · 176,458 words
The Lost Art of Gratitude
by Alexander McCall Smith · 21 Sep 2009 · 249pp · 71,432 words
Frommer's California 2009
by Matthew Poole, Harry Basch, Mark Hiss and Erika Lenkert · 2 Jan 2009
Star's Reach: A Novel of the Deindustrial Future
by John Michael Greer · 14 Apr 2014 · 466pp · 159,321 words
Against the Grain: Extraordinary Gluten-Free Recipes Made From Real, All-Natural Ingredients
by Nancy Cain · 3 Feb 2015 · 467pp · 104,764 words
Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
by Michael Shellenberger · 28 Jun 2020
Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd · 15 Jan 2013 · 160pp · 53,435 words
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
by George Friedman · 30 Jul 2008 · 278pp · 88,711 words
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS
by Abraham Verghese · 1 Jan 1994 · 519pp · 169,973 words
Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future – Lessons From the World’s Limits
by Richard Davies · 4 Sep 2019 · 412pp · 128,042 words
Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way)
by Rachel Slade · 9 Jan 2024 · 392pp · 106,044 words
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
by William Cronon · 2 Nov 2009 · 918pp · 260,504 words
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress--And How to Bring It Back
by Marc J Dunkelman · 17 Feb 2025 · 454pp · 134,799 words