Current History Books
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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.41 — 39,527 ratings — published 2022
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 159,584 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 119,034 ratings — published 2019
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 7,219 ratings — published 2017
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 102,455 ratings — published
From Beirut to Jerusalem (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 13,054 ratings — published 1989
Shah of Shahs (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 7,975 ratings — published 1982
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 21,711 ratings — published 1997
Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 868 ratings — published 2023
Nakba: The Struggle to Decolonise Israel (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published
The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 4,003 ratings — published 2025
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 19,022 ratings — published 2025
The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America (Audiobook)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,823 ratings — published 2021
Beyond Dharma: Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 2.95 — 20 ratings — published 2018
Northeast India: A Political History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 35 ratings — published
Being Muslim in Hindu India: A Critical View (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.21 — 19 ratings — published
Flying Lies? (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.33 — 9 ratings — published
The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 920 ratings — published 2024
The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.28 — 2,116 ratings — published 2016
The New Icon: Savarkar and the Facts (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.60 — 25 ratings — published
Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,076 ratings — published 2024
The Snares (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.60 — 182 ratings — published 2025
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 965 ratings — published 2025
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 8,607 ratings — published 2024
Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 169 ratings — published 2008
The Great Game in the Buddhist Himalayas: India and China’s Quest for Strategic Dominance (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.10 — 70 ratings — published
God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America (A Council on Foreign Relations Book)
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avg rating 4.29 — 198 ratings — published 2024
Directionality of Humankind's Development. History (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.82 — 51 ratings — published
Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers’ Letters, 1914–18 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 19 ratings — published 1999
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 3,013 ratings — published 2024
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 42,285 ratings — published 2024
God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 6,957 ratings — published 2018
Primates of Park Avenue (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.16 — 16,952 ratings — published 2015
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 164,339 ratings — published 2024
The Age of AI and Our Human Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.44 — 5,244 ratings — published
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 4,808 ratings — published 1377
Human Acts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 70,891 ratings — published 2014
Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
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avg rating 3.74 — 117 ratings — published 2014
The Great Reset: And the War for the World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,187 ratings — published
Truth Worth Telling: A Reporter's Search for Meaning in the Stories of Our Times (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,100 ratings — published 2019
How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.94 — 562 ratings — published 2024
Battleground Ukraine: From Independence to the War with Russia (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 33 ratings — published 2024
Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 2,618 ratings — published 2024
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 15,072 ratings — published 2024
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.18 — 83,993 ratings — published 1962
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 4,254 ratings — published 2024
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 9,629 ratings — published 1965
This Is Not that Dawn (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.50 — 6 ratings — published 2023
A Treatise On Government Or The Politics Of Aristotle (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
“History, too, has a penchant for giving birth
to itself over and over again, and those whom it
appoints agents of change and progress
do not always accept their destinies willingly.”
― Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
to itself over and over again, and those whom it
appoints agents of change and progress
do not always accept their destinies willingly.”
― Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
