The Freemasons: A History of the World's Most Powerful Secret Society

8 best books like The Freemasons: A History of the World's Most Powerful Secret Society (Jasper Ridley): All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, The Madonnas of Leningrad, The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years, Dracula, Prince of Many Faces: His Life and His Times, Bushworld, Running for My Life: One Lost Boy's Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games, Alexander II and the Modernization of Russia, Rat Bastards

All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

Author	Stephen Kinzer
ISBN	0471678783

An American Coup & the Roots of Middle East Terror
Half a century ago, the United States overthrew a Middle Eastern government for the first time. The victim was Mohammad Mossadegh, the democratically elected prime minister of Iran. Although the coup seemed a success at first, today it serves...

The Madonnas of Leningrad

Author	Debra Dean
ISBN	0060825316

Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. And while the elderly Russian woman cannot hold on to fresh memories—the details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchild—her distant past is preserved: vivid images that rise unbidden of...

The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years

Author	Edward Klein
ISBN	0312312938

Death was merciful to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, for it spared her a parent's worst nightmare: the loss of a child. But if Jackie had lived to see her son, JFK Jr., perish in a plane crash on his way to his cousin's wedding, she would have been doubly horrified by the familiar pattern in the tragedy. Once...

Dracula, Prince of Many Faces: His Life and His Times

Author	Radu Florescu
ISBN	0316286567

Dracula, Prince of Many Faces reveals the extraordinary life and times of the infamous Vlad Dracula of Romania (1431 - 1476), nicknamed the Impaler. Dreaded by his enemies, emulated by later rulers like Ivan the Terrible, honored by his countrymen even today, Vlad Dracula was surely one of the most...

Bushworld

Author

Maureen Dowd

From Washington to Kennebunkport to Texas to old Europe and new Europe, during the past two decades Maureen Dowd has trained her binoculars on the Bush dynasty, putting them, as both 41 and 43 have complained to her, "on the couch." Here she wittily dissects the Oedipal loop-de-loop between father and...

Running for My Life: One Lost Boy's Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games

Author	Lopez Lomong
ISBN	1595555153

Running for My Life is not a story about Africa or track and field athletics. It is about outrunning the devil and achieving the impossible faith, diligence, and the desire to give back. It is the American dream come true and a stark reminder that saving one can help to save thousands more.

Lopez...

Alexander II and the Modernization of Russia

Author	W.E. Mosse
ISBN	1850435138

This work tells the story of the reforming Tsar who modernized Russia after her defeat in the Crimean War. Few spheres of Russian life were untouched by his reforms. In the face of bitter opposition, he liberated millions of serfs and secured their endowment with land. He reformed the Russian courts,...

Rat Bastards

Author	John "Red" Shea
ISBN	0061907545

You've met the Italian mob
in "The Godfather," now welcome
to the real-life world of Irish
America's own murderous clan
of organized crime

The man who has remained silent for more than a decade finally speaks, revealing the gritty true story of his life inside the infamous...