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124 books

The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam

The Best and the Brightest

David Halberstam

720 pages • first pub 1969 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
The Final Days by Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

The Final Days

Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

470 pages • first pub 1976 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
nonfiction history politics informative reflective slow-paced
The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990 by Marilyn B. Young

The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990

Marilyn B. Young

448 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
nonfiction history informative fast-paced
All the President's Men by Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

All the President's Men

Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

349 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative medium-paced
Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes Of A Native Son by James Baldwin

Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes Of A Native Son

James Baldwin

241 pages • first pub 1961 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
nonfiction classics essays memoir race challenging reflective slow-paced
The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour M. Hersh

The Dark Side of Camelot

Seymour M. Hersh

528 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
nonfiction biography history politics informative medium-paced
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut

When We Cease to Understand the World

Benjamín Labatut

192 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
fiction historical literary short stories challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

David Foster Wallace

336 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
fiction short stories challenging reflective slow-paced
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein

Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

Rick Perlstein

671 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman

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

David E. Hoffman

592 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced