Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan

7 best books like Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan (Rajiv Chandrasekaran): The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59, Netherland, Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Author

Lawrence Wright

A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews...

I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59

Author	Douglas Edwards
ISBN	0547416997

Comparing Google to an ordinary business is like comparing a rocket to an Edsel. No academic analysis or bystander’s account can capture it. Now Doug Edwards, Employee Number 59, offers the first inside view of Google, giving readers a chance to fully experience the bizarre mix of camaraderie and...

Netherland

Author	Joseph O'Neill
ISBN	0307377040

In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans--a banker originally from the Netherlands--finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. Alone and untethered, feeling lost in the country he had come to regard...

Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins

Author	Annie Jacobsen
ISBN	0316441430

The definitive, character-driven history of CIA covert operations and U.S. government-sponsored assassinations, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Pentagon's Brain

Since 1947, domestic and foreign assassinations have been executed under the CIA-led covert action...

Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

Author	Jim Mattis
ISBN	0812996836

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis--the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers of our time--and Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and combat Marine.

Call...

Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War

Author	Robert M. Gates
ISBN	0307959473

From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vividly written account of his experience serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Before Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House in 2006, he thought he’d left Washington...

Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives

Author	Tim Harford
ISBN	1594634793

"We've seen again and again that real creativity, excitement, and humanity lie in the messy parts of life, not the tidy ones."


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