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Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 by Thomas E. Ricks

Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

Thomas E. Ricks

448 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

4.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced
How To Stage A Coup: And Ten Other Lessons from the World of Secret Statecraft by Rory Cormac

How To Stage A Coup: And Ten Other Lessons from the World of Secret Statecraft

Rory Cormac

412 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction politics
The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays by Richard Hofstadter

The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays

Richard Hofstadter

346 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction essays history politics informative reflective slow-paced
The Embattled Vote in America: From the Founding to the Present by Allan J. Lichtman

The Embattled Vote in America: From the Founding to the Present

Allan J. Lichtman

336 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

4.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets by Matthew Connelly

The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets

Matthew Connelly

560 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

3.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction history politics dark informative slow-paced
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