Books like The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
12 books with a reading profile close to The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt. Outward-looking; a moderate read.
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
by Eric Metaxas
history, philosophy
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German theologian who chose to leave a safe academic post in New York to return to Nazi Germany during Hitler’s rise.
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
by Tom Holland
Also outward-looking · 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.
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
The 1619 Project argues that the arrival of the White Lion privateer in the Virginia colony, carrying enslaved Africans, represents the foundational moment of the United States.
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The princes in the tower
by Alison Weir
history, narrative
Alison Weir investigates the 1483 disappearance of Edward V and Richard, Duke of York, from the Tower of London.
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
by Andrea Wulf
history, narrative
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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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Siddhartha Mukherjee traces the evolution of oncology from ancient surgical records to contemporary genetic research.
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Child's History of England (Annotated and Illustrated)
by Charles Dickens, Toby Davidson
history, narrative
In this work, Charles Dickens provides a chronological narrative of English history spanning from the ancient Roman invasions under Julius Caesar to the seventeenth-century Glorious Revolution.
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Robert K.
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Homage to Catalonia
history, narrative
George Orwell recounts his personal involvement in the Spanish Civil War, specifically his time serving within the POUM militia on the Aragon front and in Barcelona.
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All the President’s Men
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
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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Germany
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Neil MacGregor examines five centuries of German history through the lens of thirty specific objects and monuments.
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Walter Isaacson chronicles the life of the most versatile Founding Father, tracing his evolution from a runaway apprentice in Boston to a world-renowned scientist and diplomat.
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