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Misha Saul Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World, Patrick Wyman

The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World

Patrick Wyman
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🚨New Kvetch🚨 I review The Verge by @Patrick_Wyman (special mention to 1493 by @CharlesCMann and h/t @razibkhan) Was 1490 - 1530 a hinge period in time? (Link below) https://t.co/EVbDLjOQL9

Paperback, 2022

$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, Tony Judt

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Tony Judt
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@gcochran99 That’s not what Tony Judt says in Postwar but could be wrong!

Paperback, 2006

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond
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I’m a bit late to it, but is this the single most important book to understand who we are today and how we got here? If I had to recommend only 2 books to understand that it would be this and Guns, Germs and Steel It’s a Trojan horse for 2 radical ideas: https://t.co/Nsho3we6um

Paperback, 2017

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest, Fernando Cervantes

Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest

Fernando Cervantes
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🚨New Kvetch🚨 Part II, Conquistadores: The Age of Heroes -Pizarro and the Inca -Qualms of conquest -How heroes die -Spain as the true successor to Rome -Women as arbiters of social (race) norms https://t.co/aGcoIZeiSE

Hardcover, 2021

$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Robert A. Caro

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Robert A. Caro
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Robert Caro on the release of The Power Broker: “New York Times printed everything Moses said as if it was a fact. You woke up one morning and you read a headline ‘MOSES RIPS INTO VENOMOUS BIOGRAPHY’” Always has been

Paperback, 1975

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The American Future, Simon Schama

The American Future

Simon Schama
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@ElonBachman To be fair I was addicted to Simon Schama’s a History of Britain when I was like 10

Paperback, 2010

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Joseph and His Brothers: Translated and Introduced by John E. Woods, Thomas Mann

Joseph and His Brothers: Translated and Introduced by John E. Woods

Thomas Mann
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@RuxandraTeslo Yes wrong entry point Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann is an excellent into into Genesis

Hardcover, 2005

$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II, Robert A. Caro

Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II

Robert A. Caro
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🚨New Kvetch🚨 Coke Stevenson: A Texan Love Story Whether his story represents the Platonic ideal for all men, or whether it's just one beautiful manifestation of the Anglo-American Protestant, here it is (From Robert Caro's 'Means of Ascent') https://t.co/DSHu1jT9s6

Paperback, 1991

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, Louise Perry

The Case Against the Sexual Revolution

Louise Perry
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🚨New Kvetch: Sex & Agency On Louise Perry’s excellent "The Case Against the Sexual Revolution" https://t.co/SdylUDN5Mx

Paperback, 2022

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: This Is 40, Judd Apatow

This Is 40

Judd Apatow
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Watching Judd Apatow’s “This is 40” with wife and laugh crying It’s literally a scene by scene, word by word script of our lives One of the grimmest things about aging is growing into comedies and dramas about your age group https://t.co/jQ3AmeGD3O

Paperback, 2013

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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