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Inside the Lives of America’s Commanders-in-Chief

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Knew Too Much

David Leavitt

Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. Atlas Books, 2006.

18 mins read

2 reads

The Disappearing Spoon

The Disappearing Spoon

Sam Kean

And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements. Little, Brown and Company, 2010.

21 mins read

2 reads

Twice as Hard

Twice as Hard

Jasmine Brown

The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2023.

19 mins read

4 reads

Talking Across the Divide

Talking Across the Divide

Justin Lee

How to Communicate with People You Disagree with and Maybe Change the World. TarcherPerigee, 2018.

14 mins read

1 reads

Stuff Matters

Stuff Matters

Mark Miodownik

Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World. Mariner Books, 2015.

20 mins read

0 reads

Traffic

Traffic

Tom Vanderbilt

Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us). Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

21 mins read

1 reads

Uncommon Grounds

Uncommon Grounds

Mark Pendergrast

The History of Coffee and How It Transformed the World. Basic Books, 2019.

21 mins read

3 reads

The Games

The Games

David Goldblatt

A Global History of the Olympics. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

21 mins read

2 reads

The Secret Lives of Color

The Secret Lives of Color

Kassia St. Clair

The Secret Lives of Color. Penguin Books, 2017.

19 mins read

1 reads

Midnight in Chernobyl

Midnight in Chernobyl

Adam Higginbotham

The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster. Transworld Digital, 2019.

16 mins read

1 reads

The Children of Ash and Elm

The Children of Ash and Elm

Neil Price

A History of the Vikings. Basic Books, 2020.

22 mins read

2 reads

Muhammad

Muhammad

Martin Lings

Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources. Inner Traditions, 2006.

21 mins read

2 reads

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