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Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz

Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War

Tony Horwitz

382 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
fiction biography history adventurous challenging fast-paced
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by Tim Wu

The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

Tim Wu

416 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction business psychology technology informative slow-paced
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

Brian Christian

496 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

3.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction science informative medium-paced
Spymaster's Prism: The Fight Against Russian Aggression by Jack Devine

Spymaster's Prism: The Fight Against Russian Aggression

Jack Devine

304 pages • missing pub info (editions)

4.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction crime history politics true crime informative tense medium-paced
World Order by Henry Kissinger

World Order

Henry Kissinger

432 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

4.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy by Rory Cormac

Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy

Rory Cormac

416 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

4.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman

The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy

David E. Hoffman

592 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran by David Crist

The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran

David Crist

656 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
Post-Truth by Lee McIntyre

Post-Truth

The MIT Press Essential Knowledge

Lee McIntyre

240 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

3.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction philosophy politics psychology informative reflective medium-paced
Night by Elie Wiesel

Night

The Night Trilogy #1

Elie Wiesel

120 pages • first pub 1958 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction history memoir dark emotional sad medium-paced