Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond Ph.D.
4.5 on Amazon
10 HN comments
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Dava Sobel
4.5 on Amazon
5 HN comments
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
Malcolm Gladwell and Pushkin Industries
4.4 on Amazon
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Energy and Civilization: A History (The MIT Press)
Vaclav Smil
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3 HN comments
Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Robert D. Putnam
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Common Sense: The Origin and Design of Government
Thomas Paine and Coventry House Publishing
4.8 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition
Jared Diamond
4.5 on Amazon
2 HN comments
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World
Vincent Bevins, Tim Paige, et al.
4.8 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
Reeves Wiedeman
4.4 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (Politics of Place)
Tim Marshall
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2 HN comments
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr
4.7 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Jane Mayer
4.7 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi, Christopher Dontrell Piper, et al.
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In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
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brntonJune 17, 2021
Have a read of Dark Money (Mayer) and/or Democracy in Chains (MacLean) to get a picture of the why and how.
thundergolferonAug 16, 2021
Alex Tabarrok is a strident libertarian who is in the employ of the Mercatus Center, a place that was started with "ultraconservative" Koch brothers money and has long been funded by them. Read Dark Money to learn what the Koch's expect in return for the many millions they've poured into the Mercatus Center.
1. "ultraconservative" is Dark Money author Jane Mayer's term for the 'extreme' big-business liberatarian politics of Charles Koch and John Olin.