Books like The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
12 books with a reading profile close to The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
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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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
by Sheri Fink
history, analytical
Sheri Fink documents the medical crisis at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans during the five days following Hurricane Katrina.
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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
by Jon Krakauer
history, analytical
Jon Krakauer documents several sexual assault cases occurring between 2010 and 2012 in Missoula, Montana, focusing on the experiences of female students at the University of Montana.
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
history, analytical
Michael Pollan argues that plants manipulate human cravings to ensure their own evolutionary success.
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Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
by Tom O'Neill
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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Columbine
by Dave Cullen
history, analytical
Dave Cullen reconstructs the 1999 high school massacre by synthesizing police records, journals, and survivors' accounts.
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All the President’s Men
history, analytical
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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The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe
history, analytical
In 1959, the United States selected seven military test pilots to become the first astronauts for Project Mercury.
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
history, analytical
Lawrence Wright investigates the internal mechanics of the Church of Scientology, tracing its evolution from L.
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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
history, analytical
Kristin Kobes Du Mez traces the seventy-year evolution of American evangelicalism from a religious movement focused on internal piety into a political force defined by militant patriarchy.
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