Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution
9 best books like Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution (Forrest McDonald): The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall, Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, Helena, A Handful of Dust, On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State, The Making of the Middle Ages, A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
| Author | Isabel Wilkerson |
| ISBN | 0679444327 |
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.
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Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
| Author | Nina Willner |
| ISBN | 0062410334 |
In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family—of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall...
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
| Author | Robert A. Caro |
| ISBN | 0525656340 |
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books
For the first time in his long career, Robert...
“In Helena, the play of words and the fireworks, the exquisite descriptions of landscapes, and even the finished portraits of the heroine, her husband, and her son, are always subordinate to the author’s broad vision of the mixed anguish and hope with which the world of Constantine’s time...
| Author | Evelyn Waugh |
| ISBN | 0316926051 |
Laced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirizes a certain stratum of English life where all the characters have wealth, but lack practically every other credential. Murderously urbane, it depicts the breakup of a marriage in the London gentry, where the errant wife suffers from terminal...
| Author | Joseph R. Strayer |
| ISBN | 0691121850 |
The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600. Inspired by a lifetime of teaching and research, On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State is a classic work on what is known about the early history of the European state. This...
| Author | R.W. Southern |
| ISBN | 0300002300 |
An acknolwedged classic of european history, R.W. Southern's "The Middle Ages" focuses on the period between 900 and 1200 A.D. His geopgraphic focus is mostly northern france, with some asides to Germany, Italy, Southern France and England. His main thesis is the idea that this period saw the emergence...
A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
| Author | Vladislav M. Zubok |
| ISBN | 0807830984 |
Western interpretations of the Cold War--both realist and neoconservative--have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues Vladislav Zubok. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet...
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
| Author | Baltasar Gracián |
| ISBN | 0385421311 |
This book wasn't quite what I expected, yet it was still a good experience. If you have - or will - read Machiavelli's "The Prince", Sun Tzu's "The Art Of War" and/or Castiglione's "The Book Of The Courtier", this is another good book to this type of books. There's is also some certainty that the author read...
