Books like Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
12 books with a reading profile close to Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
history, biography
Candice Millard recounts the 1881 assassination of James A.
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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 River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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
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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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
history, biography
Jack Weatherford reconstructs the life of Temujin and the rise of the Mongol Empire by synthesizing traditional historical accounts with the Secret History of the Mongols.
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Seabiscuit
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 Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
history, biography
In 1951, doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took tissue samples from Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman with terminal cervical cancer, without her knowledge or consent.
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
by Erik Larson
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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Alexander the Great
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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The princes in the tower
by Alison Weir
history, biography
Alison Weir investigates the 1483 disappearance of Edward V and Richard, Duke of York, from the Tower of London.
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
by Ross King
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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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
by Andrea Wulf
history, biography
Andrea Wulf chronicles the life of Alexander von Humboldt, the nineteenth-century Prussian naturalist who envisioned the earth as a single living organism where all biological and physical forces are interconnected.
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