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Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
The American Experiment: The Vineyard of Liberty, The Workshop of Democracy, and The Crosswinds of Freedom
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Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
The American Experiment: The Vineyard of Liberty, The Workshop of Democracy, and The Crosswinds of Freedom
James MacGregor Burns
November 2014
11
finished reading:
Landslide: Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan, and the Dismantling of Modern American Politics
Jonathan Darman
November 2014
6
finished reading:
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes
Tamim Ansary
November 2014
2
finished reading:
On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller
Richard Norton Smith
October 2014
22
finished reading:
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
Francis Fukuyama
October 2014
7
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On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
Alice Goffman
October 2014
1
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro
September 2014
21
finished reading:
The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation
Drew Westen
September 2014
19
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American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company
Bryce G. Hoffman
finished reading:
Strategy: A History
Lawrence Freedman
September 2014
14
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The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters
Gregory Zuckerman
September 2014
8
finished reading:
A Dance with Dragons
George R.R. Martin
September 2014
3
finished reading:
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
September 2014
2
finished reading:
A Feast for Crows
George R.R. Martin
August 2014
31
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The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
Rick Perlstein
August 2014
25
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A Storm of Swords
George R.R. Martin
August 2014
15
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A Clash of Kings
George R.R. Martin
August 2014
13
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After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405
John Darwin
August 2014
6
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A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin
July 2014
27
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The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
Bernard Bailyn
July 2014
24
finished reading:
American Desperado: My Life--From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset
Jonathan Roberts;Evan Wright
July 2014
19
finished reading:
Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age
Matthew Brzezinski
July 2014
11
finished reading:
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
Michio Kaku
July 2014
8
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
July 2014
5
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The Metaphysical Club
Louis Menand
June 2014
27
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The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
Dan Jones
June 2014
23
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After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
Alan S. Blinder
June 2014
18
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All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power
Nomi Prins
June 2014
12
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Andrew Carnegie
David Nasaw
June 2014
6
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Catch-22
Joseph Heller
May 2014
22
finished reading:
The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia
David E. Hoffman
May 2014
17
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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg
May 2014
15
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The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
Jeff Sharlet
May 2014
12
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Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
Joshua Greene
May 2014
10
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Wall Street: A History, Updated Edition
Charles R. Geisst
May 2014
2
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
Russell Shorto
April 2014
27
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Den of Thieves
James B. Stewart
April 2014
21
finished reading:
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
Robert Wright
April 2014
16
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The Last Days of the Incas
Kim MacQuarrie
April 2014
12
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The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
Amanda Ripley
April 2014
10
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Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice
Kevin Cullen, . Murphy
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The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
Matt Taibbi
April 2014
6
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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
Colin Woodard
April 2014
4
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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Michael Lewis
April 2014
1
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Lawrence Wright
March 2014
29
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Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City
Nelson Johnson
March 2014
26
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American Pastoral
Philip Roth
March 2014
21
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The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
Ron Chernow
March 2014
15
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A Crime in the Neighborhood
Suzanne Berne
March 2014
14
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
March 2014
9
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
March 2014
4
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The Price of Justice: A True Story of Greed and Corruption
Laurence Leamer
March 2014
1
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
Robert K. Massie
February 2014
22
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Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
Max Blumenthal, To Be Announced
February 2014
15
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
February 2014
12
finished reading:
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson
February 2014
10
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BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family
Mara Shalhoup
February 2014
9
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Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
February 2014
6
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Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow
February 2014
3
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
January 2014
30
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Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution
Brett Martin
January 2014
27
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The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court
Jeffrey Toobin
January 2014
24
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Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
Robert M. Gates
January 2014
20
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High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society
Carl L. Hart
January 2014
18
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
Doris Kearns Goodwin
January 2014
14
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
January 2014
13
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The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
David E. Hoffman
January 2014
10
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Ron Chernow
January 2014
6
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Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy
January 2014
4
finished reading:
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Stephen Greenblatt
December 2013
29
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
December 2013
27
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Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House
Peter Baker
December 2013
21
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee
December 2013
17
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
December 2013
8
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Doris Kearns Goodwin
November 2013
26
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Matterhorn
Karl Marlantes
November 2013
21
finished reading:
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Scott Anderson
November 2013
12
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Double Down: Game Change 2012
Mark Halperin, John Heilemann
November 2013
8
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The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War
Stephen Kinzer
November 2013
6
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Timothy Egan
November 2013
1
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The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849
Cecil Woodham-Smith, Charles Woodham
October 2013
28
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The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
John Kelly
October 2013
22
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What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People
Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins
October 2013
20
finished reading:
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
Howard Zinn
October 2013
19
finished reading:
The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow, Christopher Hitchens
October 2013
11
finished reading:
Fate of the states: the new geography of American prosperity
Meredith Whitney
October 2013
7
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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Liaquat Ahamed
October 2013
2
finished reading:
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 2
Edward Gibbon
September 2013
30
finished reading:
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
Flannery O'Connor
September 2013
26
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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
I thought I was getting a book on cognitive psychology for a general audience and wound up with self-help dreck. The title w...
finished reading:
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck
September 2013
18
finished reading:
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
September 2013
15
finished reading:
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt
September 2013
9
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Post Office
Charles Bukowski
September 2013
06
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girls: A Paean
Kelman has a talent for aphorisms. The excerpts from Homer would have been more effective at conveying the timelessness of t...
finished reading:
girls: A Paean
Nic Kelman
September 2013
1
finished reading:
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Edward Gibbon, David P. Womersley
finished reading:
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Tom Franklin
August 2013
19
finished reading:
The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45
Stephen E. Ambrose
August 2013
16
finished reading:
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
Daniel J. Boorstin
August 2013
13
finished reading:
The Thirty Years War
Cicely Veronica Wedgwood
July 2013
30
finished reading:
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
Bruce Bueno De Mesquita, Alastair Smith
July 2013
22
finished reading:
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
George Packer
July 2013
17
finished reading:
In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Steven Levy
July 2013
6
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Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics
Nicholas Wapshott
July 2013
3
finished reading:
The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara
June 2013
30
finished reading:
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
June 2013
11
finished reading:
Terrible Swift Sword
Bruce Catton
June 2013
7
finished reading:
Thinking the Twentieth Century: Intellectuals and Politics in the Twentieth Century
Tony Judt, Timothy Snyder
June 2013
3
finished reading:
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Michael B. Oren
May 2013
31
finished reading:
The Coming Fury
Bruce Catton, E.B. Long
May 2013
20
finished reading:
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Barbara W. Tuchman
May 2013
10
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Tim Weiner
April 2013
28
finished reading:
The Borgias: The Hidden History
G.J. Meyer
April 2013
23
finished reading:
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
Tom Reiss
April 2013
18
finished reading:
A History of the English Speaking Peoples, 4 Vols
Winston Churchill
April 2013
5
finished reading:
Judas Deputy
Mackie Carson
March 2013
18
finished reading:
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
William L. Shirer
March 2013
6
finished reading:
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
Anthony Everitt
March 2013
2
finished reading:
Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street
Neil Barofsky
March 2013
1
finished reading:
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
G.J. Meyer
February 2013
20
finished reading:
The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
Thomas Hager
February 2013
19
finished reading:
Hoover's FBI
Cartha D. DeLoach
February 2013
16
finished reading:
Nothing Like it in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
Stephen E. Ambrose
February 2013
8
finished reading:
Nixonland: America's Second Civil War and the Divisive Legacy of Richard Nixon 1965-1972
Rick Perlstein
January 2013
29
finished reading:
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Tony Judt
January 2013
16
finished reading:
Fields of Fire
James Webb
January 2013
3
finished reading:
FDR
Jean Edward Smith
December 2012
26
finished reading:
The Second World War
Antony Beevor
December 2012
3
finished reading:
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
H.W. Brands
November 2012
22
finished reading:
Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West
Anthony Pagden
November 2012
18
finished reading:
The Politics of Change in Georgia: A Political Biography of Ellis Arnall
Harold P. Henderson
November 2012
11
finished reading:
Who Stole the American Dream? Can We Get It Back?
Hedrick Smith
October 2012
15
finished reading:
Talmadge: A Political Legacy, A Politician's Life: A Memoir
Herman E. Talmadge, Mark Royden Winchell
October 2012
3
finished reading:
Eisenhower in War and Peace
Jean Edward Smith
September 2012
25
reviewed
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Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Ascendacy
When Ralph Reed rolled the stone aside and staggered out of his crypt to launch a direct mail campaign in the 2012 presidenti...
finished reading:
Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Ascendacy
Nina J. Easton
September 2012
20
finished reading:
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
H.W. Brands
September 2012
9
finished reading:
The Birth of Britain
Winston Churchill
August 2012
28
finished reading:
A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America
James Webb
August 2012
24
finished reading:
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
Karen Abbott
August 2012
16
reviewed
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Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush vs. Gore
The narrative was often incomplete and misleading. Cultural and political biases abound. Compared to most other books in th...
finished reading:
All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
Joe Nocera, Bethany McLean