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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Russian Thinkers
Bomb Power : the Modern Presidency and the National Security State
Dealers of Lightning
Augustus
Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
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History of Rome

The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century
Hard Drive
How the Scots Invented the Modern World
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Travels of Marco Polo
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The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Vols 1-2

Caesar's Gallic Wars 58-50 BC
The Presidents Club
The Conquest of Gaul
Plutarch's Lives: Volume II
Lives, Volume IV: Alcibiades and Coriolanus. Lysander and Sulla
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Miami and the Siege of Chicago
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
The Plantagenets
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book II
Salt: A World History
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
The Wealth of Nations
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
The Decline of the West, Vol 1: Form and Actuality
If This Is A Man / The Truce
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Rome
The histories
The Wise Men
The End of the Past
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers
The Dream Machine
The Lessons of History
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
Cognitive Gadgets
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
The Rhetorical Presidency
Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom
A World Lit Only by Fire
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
Fortune's Children
The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew
Maoism
Judge Thy Neighbor
The Second Founding
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
The Shock of the Old
Scipio Africanus
Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American
These Truths: A History of the United States
The End Of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
Voices of protest
One Giant Leap
An Impeccable Spy
Pliny's Oyster
How History Gets Things Wrong
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
The Unwinding
Chinese Spies
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State Capture

The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia
Prisoners of Geography
Now It Can Be Told
Virtue Politics : Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy
What It Takes: The Way to the White House
This America
It's Even Worse Than It Looks
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
The Compatriots: Dissidents, Hackers, Oligarchs, and Spies - The Story of Russia's Uncontrollable Emigres
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy:  Brothers in Arms
Plagues and Peoples
I Like to Watch
Twilight of the American Century
Music
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The Industrialists

Secret and sanctioned : covert operations and the American presidency
The wages of destruction
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
Forces of Production
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays
Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
The Long Divergence
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
The Deluge
The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy

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