Books like Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
12 books with a reading profile close to Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford. Outward-looking; a moderate read.
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Also outward-looking · history, biography
Candice Millard recounts the 1881 assassination of James A.
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
by Erik Larson
Also outward-looking · history, biography
Erik Larson chronicles Winston Churchill’s first year as Prime Minister, focusing on the period from May 1940 to May 1941 during the height of the German Blitz.
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Also outward-looking · history, biography
Following a stinging electoral defeat in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt headed into the Amazon basin to map an unchartered tributary alongside Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon.
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AMERICAN STRUGGLE
by Jon Meacham
Also outward-looking · history, biography
Jon Meacham analyzes four centuries of American political and social friction to explain how structural divisions have repeatedly threatened national stability.
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5
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
by Ross King
Also outward-looking · history, biography
Ross King reconstructs the four-year ordeal of painting the Sistine Chapel, focusing on the volatile relationship between Michelangelo Buonarroti and Pope Julius II.
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel
Also outward-looking · history, biography
Dava Sobel chronicles the eighteenth-century race to determine a ship's east-west position at sea, a challenge that caused frequent shipwrecks and stunted global trade.
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Alexander the Great
Also outward-looking · history, biography
Philip Freeman traces the trajectory of the Macedonian king from his tutelage under Aristotle to his sudden death at age thirty-two.
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder
history, biography
Tracy Kidder follows the life and medical philosophy of Dr.
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Seabiscuit
Also outward-looking · history, biography
In the depths of the Great Depression, an undersized, crooked-legged horse named Seabiscuit became an unlikely racing icon.
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
history, biography
In 1879, James Murray began the monumental task of compiling the first Oxford English Dictionary, a project requiring the categorization of every word in the language alongside its chronological history.
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The Wright Brothers
Also outward-looking · history, biography
David McCullough recounts the lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright, focusing on the five-year period between 1903 and 1908.
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Curry
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Lizzie Collingham traces the evolution of Indian cuisine by analyzing how centuries of migration, conquest, and trade dictated the contents of the subcontinent's kitchen.
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