"Tremendous." - Marc Andreessen

"On the French Revolution." - Marc Andreessen

"A great biography of Edison." - Marc Andreessen

"One of the best books [of 2019]." - Marc Andreessen

3. Four books on the Spanish Civil War, which was the trial run for the hundred years of Western history that followed.The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas Homage to Catalonia by George OrwellSpain In Our Hearts by Adam HochschildMine Were Of Trouble by Peter Kemp

3. Four books on the Spanish Civil War, which was the trial run for the hundred years of Western history that followed.The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas Homage to Catalonia by George OrwellSpain In Our Hearts by Adam HochschildMine Were Of Trouble by Peter Kemp

4. Six books on the deep history of the American right.Lindbergh by Scott BergThe Ambassador by Susan RonaldThe Guarded Gate by Daniel OkrentThe Second Coming of the KKK by Linda GordonWar For Eternity by Benjamin TeitelbaumThe New Right by Michael Malice

6. Six books on the deep history of the American left.The God That Failed by Richard CrossmanThe Romance of American Communism by Vivian GornickWitness by Whittaker ChambersJoseph McCarthy by Arthur HermanDays of Rage by Bryan BurroughRadical Chic by Tom Wolfe

6. Six books on the deep history of the American left.The God That Failed by Richard CrossmanThe Romance of American Communism by Vivian GornickWitness by Whittaker ChambersJoseph McCarthy by Arthur HermanDays of Rage by Bryan BurroughRadical Chic by Tom Wolfe

7. A comprehensive biography and a key chronicle of Vladimir Lenin.Lenin by Victor SebestyenLenin On The Train by Catherine Merridale

18. Three books on the philosophical underpinnings of our time:The End of History and the Last Man by Francis FukuyamaAlexandre Kojève: Wisdom at the End of History by James NicholsBeyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

14. Two more books on who we are and how we got here, one on culture, the other on genetics:The WEIRDest People In The World by Joseph HenrichWho We Are And How We Got Here by David Reich

14. Two more books on who we are and how we got here, one on culture, the other on genetics:The WEIRDest People In The World by Joseph HenrichWho We Are And How We Got Here by David Reich

15. Two of Thomas Sowell's many brilliant books on how our current politics and culture came to be:A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political StrugglesThe Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

15. Two of Thomas Sowell's many brilliant books on how our current politics and culture came to be:A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political StrugglesThe Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

3. Four books on the Spanish Civil War, which was the trial run for the hundred years of Western history that followed.The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas Homage to Catalonia by George OrwellSpain In Our Hearts by Adam HochschildMine Were Of Trouble by Peter Kemp

3. Four books on the Spanish Civil War, which was the trial run for the hundred years of Western history that followed.The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas Homage to Catalonia by George OrwellSpain In Our Hearts by Adam HochschildMine Were Of Trouble by Peter Kemp

4. Six books on the deep history of the American right.Lindbergh by Scott BergThe Ambassador by Susan RonaldThe Guarded Gate by Daniel OkrentThe Second Coming of the KKK by Linda GordonWar For Eternity by Benjamin TeitelbaumThe New Right by Michael Malice

4. Six books on the deep history of the American right.Lindbergh by Scott BergThe Ambassador by Susan RonaldThe Guarded Gate by Daniel OkrentThe Second Coming of the KKK by Linda GordonWar For Eternity by Benjamin TeitelbaumThe New Right by Michael Malice

4. Six books on the deep history of the American right.Lindbergh by Scott BergThe Ambassador by Susan RonaldThe Guarded Gate by Daniel OkrentThe Second Coming of the KKK by Linda GordonWar For Eternity by Benjamin TeitelbaumThe New Right by Michael Malice

4. Six books on the deep history of the American right.Lindbergh by Scott BergThe Ambassador by Susan RonaldThe Guarded Gate by Daniel OkrentThe Second Coming of the KKK by Linda GordonWar For Eternity by Benjamin TeitelbaumThe New Right by Michael Malice

4. Six books on the deep history of the American right.Lindbergh by Scott BergThe Ambassador by Susan RonaldThe Guarded Gate by Daniel OkrentThe Second Coming of the KKK by Linda GordonWar For Eternity by Benjamin TeitelbaumThe New Right by Michael Malice

5. Two comprehensive biographies of Adolf Hitler.Hitler: A Global Biography by Brendan SimmsHitler: Ascent and Hitler: Downfall by Volker Ullrich

5. Two comprehensive biographies of Adolf Hitler.Hitler: A Global Biography by Brendan SimmsHitler: Ascent and Hitler: Downfall by Volker Ullrich