Books like The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
12 books with a reading profile close to The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond. Deep and outward-looking; a moderate read.
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Nancy Isenberg dismantles the myth of American class mobility by tracing the persistent existence of a marginalized white underclass from the colonial era to the present.
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Angela Davis connects disparate liberation efforts through a framework of intersectional internationalism.
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Joseph J.
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Adam Hochschild details the private seizure of the Congo River basin by King Leopold II of Belgium and the subsequent industrial exploitation of the region.
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Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
by Reza Aslan
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Reza Aslan separates the historical figure of Jesus from the religious depictions established by later Christian tradition.
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
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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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
by Mary Beard
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Mary Beard tracks the evolution of the Roman state from its mythic eighth-century BCE origins to the pivotal year 212 CE, when Emperor Caracalla granted universal citizenship to all free inhabitants of the empire.
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History of Beauty
by Umberto Eco
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Umberto Eco examines the shifting definitions of aesthetics in Western civilization from ancient Greece to the dawn of the twenty-first century.
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The Guns of August
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Barbara Tuchman chronicles the opening month of World War I, tracing the rigid military planning and diplomatic failures that led to a global stalemate.
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Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
by Tom O'Neill
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Tom O’Neill spent twenty years investigating the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders, uncovering discrepancies in the official prosecution narrative established by Vincent Bugliosi.
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