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When Character Was King by Peggy NoonanA Different Drummer by Michael K. DeaverThe Reagan Files by Jason Saltoun-EbinGod and Ronald Reagan by Paul KengorThe President Will See You Now by Peggy Grande
Essential Reagan
38 books — 7 voters
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownCadillac Desert by Marc ReisnerThe Last Outlaws by Thom HatchThe Beauty of the Rockies (Illustrated) by Enos MillsFur, Fortune, and Empire by Eric Jay Dolin
Best Nonfiction Books Western US History
246 books — 16 voters

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownEmpire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannUndaunted Courage by Stephen E. AmbroseBlood and Thunder by Hampton Sides
The American Frontier
691 books — 170 voters
1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonJohn Adams by David McCulloughA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
U.S. History Reading List
463 books — 168 voters

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreA Bright Shining Lie by Neil SheehanMatterhorn by Karl MarlantesThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienDispatches by Michael Herr
Vietnam War Books
221 books — 131 voters
Ghost Wars by Steve CollThe Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightDiplomacy by Henry KissingerLegacy of Ashes by Tim WeinerThe Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
American Foreign Policy
470 books — 288 voters

The Last Lion by William ManchesterThe Last Lion by William ManchesterThe Last Lion by William ManchesterThe Gathering Storm by Winston S. ChurchillChurchill by Martin Gilbert
All Things Winston Churchill
100 books — 36 voters
John Adams by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinWashington by Ron ChernowTruman by David McCulloughThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
Best Presidential Biographies (nonfiction)
470 books — 528 voters

The Last Place on Earth by Roland HuntfordThe Endurance by Caroline AlexanderThe Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-GarrardIn the Land of White Death by Valerian AlbanovThe Telescope in the Ice by Mark Bowen
Antarctic Non-Fiction
18 books — 11 voters
Endurance by Alfred LansingThe Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-GarrardThe Ice Master by Jennifer NivenIn the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton SidesThe Last Place on Earth by Roland Huntford
To the Poles
118 books — 81 voters

A Spy Among Friends by Ben MacintyreIron Curtain by Anne ApplebaumThe Triumph of Improvisation by James Graham WilsonThe Billion Dollar Spy by David E. HoffmanThe Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
The Cold War (nonfiction)
372 books — 114 voters
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. MassieThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynCatherine the Great by Robert K. MassiePeter the Great by Frederick DavidsonA People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes
Best Russian History Books
584 books — 425 voters


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