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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invas Ion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invas Ion to September 10, 2001

Steve Coll

736 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction history politics informative tense slow-paced
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher

The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

Max Fisher

389 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction psychology technology challenging informative medium-paced
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

Candice Millard

339 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0pricklypete's review
nonfiction biography history politics informative 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
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
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 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
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 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
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