Top Non-Fiction
Discover the best non-fiction books with our curated list of top reads. Explore biographies, history, science, and more to expand your knowledge and inspire your next great read.
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The Power Broker
by Robert A. Caro
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible …
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Path Between The Seas
by David McCullough
The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was …
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The Fifties
by David Halberstam
The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation …
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New York 1960
by Robert A.M. Stern
This is the third volume (and the fourth chronologically) in architect and historian Robert A. M. Stern's monumental series of documentary studies of New York …
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Kennedy & Nixon
by Christopher Matthews
Details the long standing friendship which existed between Kennedy and Nixon which began in 1946 when both were elected as congressmen, but degenerated into distrust …
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Washington Goes to War
by David Brinkley
From one of America's most celebrated television newscasters comes an irresistible, wonderfully anecdotal social and political portrait of Washington during World War II. 11 photos.
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The Final Days
by Bob Woodward
Portrays the post-Watergate White House of Richard Nixon, as the President, his family, his staff, and many legislators tried desperately to prevent his resignation.
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In The Nature Of Materials
by Henry-Russell Hitchcock
This is the definitive study of Frank Lloyd Wright and his work, an eloquent summation of an outstanding career that spanned nearly seventy years of …
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The Encyclopedia of New York City
by Kenneth T. Jackson
Offers a wealth of facts about New York from prehistory to the present, containing more than four thousand entries on a wide range of topics
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Zero 3 Bravo
by Mariana Gosnell
Mariana Gosnell takes the reader along on her extraordinary voyage across the U.S. in her single-engine Luscombe Silvaire, Zero Three Bravo. Enticed by the ribbon …
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The Selling of the President
by Joe McGinniss
What makes you cast your ballot? A Presidential candidate or a good campaign? How he stands on the issues or how he stands up to …
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The Boys on the Bus
by Timothy Crouse
Reporter Timothy Crouse's behind-the-scenes coverage of the political press corps during the 1972 presidential campaign. An enlightening study in journalism and the political process. Photographs, …
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The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe
When the future began... The men had it. Yeager. Conrad. Grissom. Glenn. Heroes...the first Americans in space...battling the Russians for control of the heavens...putting their …
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The Nightingale's Song
by Robert Timberg
How the legacy of the Vietnam War changed the lives of five Naval Academy graduates: John McCain, Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, John Poindexter and James …