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Books recommended by Patrick Collison

Patrick Collison recommends 28 books, among them A Vast Machine, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters and Freedom's Forge.

A Vast Machine

Paul N. Edwards

History

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters

Jason Stearns

History

Freedom's Forge

Arthur Herman

History

From Counterculture to Cyberculture

Fred Turner

Technology

I Didn't Do It for You

Michela Wrong

History

Longitude

Dava Sobel

History

Making Silicon Valley

Christophe Lecuyer

Technology

Medieval Technology and Social Change

Lynn White

Technology

Men, Machines, and Modern Times

Elting E. Morison

Technology

Myth of the Machine

Lewis Mumford

Technology

Nixon Agonistes

Garry Wills

History

Nixonland

Rick Perlstein

Biography & memoir

Out of Mao's Shadow

Philip P. Pan

Economics & politics

Pacific

Simon Winchester

History

Plagues and Peoples

William McNeill

History

Postcards from Tomorrow Square

James Fallows

Economics & politics

Revolution in the Valley

Andy Hertzfeld

History

Technics and Civilization

Lewis Mumford

Technology

The City in History

Lewis Mumford

History

The Cowshed

Ji Xianlin

History

The Idea Factory

Jon Gertner

History

The Journalist And The Murderer

Janet Malcolm

History

The Little Kingdom

Michael Moritz

History

The Long Way

Bernard Moitessier

History

The Old Way

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

History

The Rise and Fall of American Growth

Robert J. Gordon

History

The Scramble for Africa

Thomas Pakenham

Economics & politics

Tuxedo Park

Jennet Cot

History