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Book Recommendations
Erich von Däniken
Graduating to the Next Level | Ancient Aliens
Chariots of the Gods
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Rick Perlstein
Redefining American Capitalism | Libertarianism
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
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Smedley Butler
A Veteran's Warning | Smedley Butler
War is a Racket
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Radley Balko
The Quartering of Troops | Police Militarization
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces
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Phil Knight
Manufacturing a Better Foot | Running Shoes
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
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James D. Hornfischer
A Veteran's Story on Veterans Day
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
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Jonathan Haidt
Hitting Rock Bottom | Just World and Shattered Assumptions
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
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Lawrence Wright
Clearing the Planet | Scientology
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
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Iris Chang
Playing the Victim | Historical Revisionism and Japan
Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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Eric Schlosser
The Time Winter Almost Came: A Brief History of the Cold War (Patreon Exclusive)
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
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Lisa Duggan
Redefining American Capitalism | Libertarianism
Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed
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Alex Beam
American Exceptionalism but as a Religion | Mormons
American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church
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Stephen Kinzer
A Veteran's Warning | Smedley Butler
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
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Stephen Kinzer
Extracting Black Gold | History of Oil
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
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Chris McDougall
Manufacturing a Better Foot | Running Shoes
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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Marco Polo
Accidentally Inspiring Colonialism | Marco Polo
The Travels of Marco Polo
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Dante Alighieri
Abandoning All Hope | Heaven and Hell
The Divine Comedy
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Viktor Frankl
Death Anxiety | Death Comes for All
Man's Search For Meaning
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Brian Christian
Asking Better: Getting to Know Knowing Better Better
The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive
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Ayn Rand
Redefining American Capitalism | Libertarianism
Atlas Shrugged
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Joanna Brooks
American Exceptionalism but as a Religion | Mormons
Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and the Problem of Racial Innocence
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Devin Leonard
Delivering our Democracy | US Postal Service
Neither Snow Nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service
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Alex Epstein
Extracting Black Gold | History of Oil
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
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Yuval Noah Harari
Acknowledging the Past | Columbus in Context
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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BBC Radio
Losing Paradise | Angels and Demons
Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained
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John Green
Imaginary Friends | Parasocial Relationships
Paper Towns
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Laura Hillenbrand
Playing the Victim | Historical Revisionism and Japan
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
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Thomas Cahill
Ireland: Europe's Appendix
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
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