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Books like Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

12 books with a reading profile close to Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy. Outward-looking and clear-cut; a moderate read.

1

The Universal Computer

by Martin Davis

Also outward-looking · technical, history

Martin Davis traces the evolution of modern computing through the mathematical logic developed between the seventeenth and mid-twentieth centuries.
2

Machines Who Think

by Pamela McCorduck, Cli Cfe

Also outward-looking · technical, history

Pamela McCorduck chronicles the evolution of artificial intelligence from its roots in ancient mythology and clockwork automata to the formal 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project.
3

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

by Tom Holland

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

Tom Holland chronicles the collapse of the Roman Republic, beginning with the rise of Sulla and concluding with the establishment of the principate under Augustus.
4

The Johnstown Flood

by David McCullough

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

The book reconstructs the 1889 disaster in Pennsylvania, where the South Fork Dam collapsed after days of heavy rain.
5

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam

by Harold G. Moore

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

Lieutenant General Harold G.
6

The Longest Day: June 6, 1944

by Cornelius Ryan

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

Cornelius Ryan reconstructs the D-Day invasion by weaving together hundreds of individual accounts from Allied and German soldiers, as well as French civilians.
7

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

by Hampton Sides

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

In 1879, Lieutenant George De Long led the USS Jeannette toward the North Pole, fueled by the incorrect scientific theory of an Open Polar Sea.
8

Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

by Erik Larson

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

Erik Larson reconstructs the 1900 hurricane that leveled Galveston, Texas, focusing on meteorologist Isaac Cline and the technical failings of the fledgling U.S.
9

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

by S.C. Gwynne

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

S.C.
10

Fermat's Enigma

by Simon Singh

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

Simon Singh chronicles the three-century pursuit of a solution to Pierre de Fermat’s Last Theorem, a deceptively simple conjecture stating that no three positive integers a, b, and c satisfy the equation a^n + b^n = c^n…
11

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

by Mark Bowden

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

Mark Bowden reconstructs the October 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, where elite US Army Rangers and Delta Force operators attempted to capture two top lieutenants of Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid.
12

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

by Adam Higginbotham

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

Adam Higginbotham reconstructs the events leading up to the 1986 explosion of Reactor Number Four at the V.I.

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