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A list of books and readings mentioned at the 2016 Clements Center Summer Seminar of History and Statecraft.
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From Dissertation to Book
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3.86 avg rating — 387 ratings
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Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books
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3.91 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Conservative Internationalism: Armed Diplomacy under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan
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3.85 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Prince
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3.84 avg rating — 376,736 ratings
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Strange Victory: Hitler's Conquest of France
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4.12 avg rating — 201 ratings
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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
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4.11 avg rating — 22,776 ratings
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"Lessons" of the Past: The Use and Misuse of History in American Foreign Policy
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3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Rules of Game: Jutland and British Naval Command
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4.37 avg rating — 418 ratings
score: 96,
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U.S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic.
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3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
score: 95,
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That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession
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3.59 avg rating — 609 ratings
score: 94,
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A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War
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3.94 avg rating — 96 ratings
score: 93,
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The Two Cultures
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3.66 avg rating — 1,491 ratings
score: 92,
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Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
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4.03 avg rating — 409 ratings
score: 91,
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Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency, and Power
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James Mahoney (Editor)
4.38 avg rating — 26 ratings
score: 90,
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Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
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4.27 avg rating — 1,644 ratings
score: 89,
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Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
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4.08 avg rating — 21,903 ratings
score: 88,
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Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan
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4.03 avg rating — 250 ratings
score: 87,
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
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3.86 avg rating — 3,343 ratings
score: 86,
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Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project
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4.18 avg rating — 469 ratings
score: 85,
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Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History
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4.05 avg rating — 308 ratings
score: 84,
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Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger
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3.42 avg rating — 36 ratings
score: 83,
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Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
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3.56 avg rating — 2,454 ratings
score: 82,
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Reagan: The Life
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score: 81,
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General U.S. Grant's Writings (Complete and Unabridged Including His Personal Memoirs, State of the Union Address and Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to H
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3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 80,
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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4.17 avg rating — 575,083 ratings
score: 79,
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Empire of the Summer Moon
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score: 78,
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The Uncensored War: The Media and Vietnam
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3.87 avg rating — 87 ratings
score: 77,
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Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy
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4.33 avg rating — 43 ratings
score: 76,
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Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
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3.97 avg rating — 2,070 ratings
score: 75,
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Westmoreland's War: Reassessing American Strategy in Vietnam
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Gregory A. Daddis (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 91 ratings
score: 74,
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Embers Of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
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4.43 avg rating — 2,731 ratings
score: 73,
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Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam (Volume 1) (From Indochina to Vietnam: Revolution and War in a Global Perspective)
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3.78 avg rating — 27 ratings
score: 72,
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Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965
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3.97 avg rating — 177 ratings
score: 71,
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The Soul of Armies: Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Military Culture in the US and UK
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3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
score: 70,
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Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America's Atomic Age
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3.85 avg rating — 88 ratings
score: 69,
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Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations
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3.71 avg rating — 82 ratings
score: 68,
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Civilian Control of the Military: The Changing Security Environment
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3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 67,
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What Good Is Grand Strategy?: Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush
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3.92 avg rating — 159 ratings
score: 66,
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Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy
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3.72 avg rating — 116 ratings
score: 65,
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Grand Strategies in War and Peace
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Paul Kennedy (Editor)
3.86 avg rating — 59 ratings
score: 64,
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Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945
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3.84 avg rating — 105 ratings
score: 63,
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Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle
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4.14 avg rating — 188 ratings
score: 62,
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Learning in U.S. and Soviet Foreign Policy
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score: 61,
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How Leaders Reason: U.S. Intervention in the Caribbean Basin and Latin America
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score: 60,
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The Logic of Images in International Relations (Morningside Books)
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4.11 avg rating — 28 ratings
score: 59,
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Between Peace and War: The Nature of International Crisis
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3.68 avg rating — 25 ratings
score: 58,
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Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers
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3.77 avg rating — 658 ratings
score: 57,
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The World in Their Minds: Information Processing, Cognition, and Perception in Foreign Policy Decisionmaking
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score: 56,
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The Power of the Past: History and Statecraft
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Hal Brands (Editor)
3.96 avg rating — 24 ratings
score: 55,
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