Books like Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
12 books with a reading profile close to Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe. Outward-looking; a moderate read.
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Walter Isaacson chronicles the history of the digital age by tracing a lineage of collaboration that began with Ada Lovelace’s nineteenth-century visions of poetic science.
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Napoleon
by Paul Johnson
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Paul Johnson presents a critical assessment of Napoleon Bonaparte, framing the French leader not as a visionary hero, but as a precursor to the modern totalitarian state.
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
history, analytical
Walter Isaacson reconstructs the life of Albert Einstein by utilizing newly released personal letters to connect his scientific achievements with his defiant personality.
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
history, analytical
Vincent Bugliosi, the lead prosecutor in the Tate-LaBianca trials, provides a chronological account of the 1969 murders and the subsequent investigation into Charles Manson and his followers.
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The Rise and Fall of Osama Bin Laden
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Peter Bergen documents the biological and ideological trajectory of the man who engineered the September 11 attacks, moving from his origins as a wealthy Saudi son to his final years in a secluded Pakistani compound.
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Cleopatra: A Life
by Stacy Schiff
history, analytical
Stacy Schiff strips away centuries of Roman propaganda and cinematic myth to reconstruct the life of the last pharaoh of Egypt.
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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
by Jon Krakauer
history, analytical
Jon Krakauer traces the life of Pat Tillman from his career as an NFL safety for the Arizona Cardinals to his death by friendly fire in eastern Afghanistan.
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Lawrence Wright investigates the internal mechanics of the Church of Scientology, tracing its evolution from L.
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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Kristin Kobes Du Mez traces the seventy-year evolution of American evangelicalism from a religious movement focused on internal piety into a political force defined by militant patriarchy.
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All the President’s Men
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
In 1972, a botched burglary at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex triggered an investigation by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
by Jon Meacham
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Jon Meacham portrays Thomas Jefferson as a pragmatic political operative rather than a detached philosopher.
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