Garrett M. Graff Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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I have been excited about this book for months... @imaniperry is such a special writer and diving into the opening pages last night was quite a treat after a hard couple of days for our country.

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1) THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED, by Philip Zelikow — this story of trying to make peace in World War I was just the best kind of history, something that felt totally fresh and interesting and where I kept turning the pages not knowing the twists and turns ahead.

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I cannot tell you the last time a book so completely consumed me... I gasped out loud at the precise point you will too and then immediately real-time texted exclamation points to @thestackspod, who had told me to read this. Easily a contender for the best 25 novels I’ve read in my life.

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4) TEST GODS, by Nicholas Schmidle (@nickschmidle) — About the new race for space and the larger-than-life personalities who become enmeshed in such grand endeavors, this isn't the book you think it is when you start. With a twist, it ends up as much about the past as the future.

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This was such a good book — and I was so honored that my own book RAVEN ROCK makes a cameo. If you’ve ever loved or been loved, read BOMB SHELTER by @MaryLauraPh. https://twitter.com/conelrad6401240/status/1518213249493311488

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12) WILDLAND, by Evan Osnos (@eosnos) — Building off his New Yorker writing, Evan traces how the American dream broke over the over last generation, focusing on Chicago, Greenwich, CT, and Clarksburg, WV, and created the "dry kindling" necessary to ignite the Trump era and 1/6.

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5) William Taubman wrote two easy-to-access biographies of two key Soviet leaders, GORBACHEV: https://bookshop.org/books/gorbachev-his-life-and-times/9780393356205… and KHRUSCHEV, both of which are critical to understanding the world in which we live today:

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@RealRickCote @BulwarkOnline @NSLpodcast @DavidPriess @lawfareblog @BobbyChesney @steve_vladeck @davidfolkenflik @davidfrum @_BruceCampbell @jbf1755 @HC_Richardson Chernow is excellent, and a delight, but my actual best suggestion is Joan Waugh’s US GRANT: AMERICAN HERO, AMERICAN MYTH, about his place in our history.

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Amid the news torrent, I want to mention it's pub day for what's *my* most anticipated book of the summer: Rinker Buck's LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI. Rinker is an amazing writer & adventurer, and he built a flatboat to raft down America's most iconic river: https://t.co/Q5aqztSc3q

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3) HIS VERY BEST, by Jonathan Alter (@jonathanalter) — Ever since my RAVEN ROCK research, I've believed Jimmy Carter is wildly undervalued as a president and Alter's biography tries to reset a lot of that understanding of what we think we know about Carter and his time in office.

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