American History
From the founding fathers to modern America — the story of a nation
Jessica Luther
Dilemmas of the Modern Fan. University of Texas Press, 2020.
Alexis Coe
A Biography of George Washington. Viking, 2020.
Isabel Allende
On Impatient Love, Long Life, and Good Witches. Ballantine Books, 2021.
Robert Greene
The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998.
Thomas E. Ricks
What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country. Harper, 2020.
John David Turner
A Global History of Economic Bubbles. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Nikil Saval
A Secret History of the Workplace. Public Doubleday, 2014.
Margot Lee Shetterly
The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. William Morrow, 2016.
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The eye-opening and sometimes controversial tale of humanity that interweaves a geneticist’s hard data with stories from history, asking questions we’re still learning the answers to while transforming the way we think about evolution.
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