Recent History


Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
The Kite Runner
Columbine
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
War
Fear: Trump in the White House
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees: A Graphic Novel
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
1984 by George OrwellBottled Goods by Sophie van LlewynGulag by Anne ApplebaumOrdinary Men by Christopher R. BrowningThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
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