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1,014 history books, including Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle With Modernity, Ordinary Men and Origin Story.

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Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle With Modernity

John Murray Cuddihy

History

Ordinary Men

Christopher R. Browning

History

Origin Story

David Christian

History

Our Kids

Robert Putnam

History

Our Lost Declaration

Mike Lee

History

Our Man

George Packer

History

Out of Mao's Shadow

Philip P. Pan

Economics & politics

Out of the House of Bondage

Thavolia Glymph

History

Outbreak Culture

Pardis Sabeti

History

Outlaw Platoon

Sean Parnell

History

Pacific

Simon Winchester

History

Packing for Mars

Mary Roach

History

Pagans & Christians

Robin Lane Fox

Spirituality & religion

Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy

Michael Baxandall

Arts & entertainment

Painting as a Pastime

Winston Churchill

Arts & entertainment

Pale Rider

Laura Spinney

History

Pandaemonium

Humphrey Jennings

History

Pandemic 1918

Catharine Arnold

History

Parting the Waters

Taylor Branch

History

Patriots

A.J. Langguth

History

Peace Denied

Gareth Porter

History

Peddling Prosperity

Paul Krugman

Economics & politics

Permanent Record

Edward Snowden

History

Plagues and Peoples

William McNeill

History

Planet Google

Randall E. Stross

Technology

Platoon Leader

James R. McDonough

History

Plutarch’s Lives

Plutarch

History

Polio

David M. Oshinsky

History

Political Fictions

Joan Didion

History

Politicide

Baruch Kimmerling

Economics & politics

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