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The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD

10 best books like The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD (Bill Minutaglio): The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia, The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica, Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America, Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins, Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power, Rome: A History in Seven Sackings, Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
AuthorDavid Treuer
A sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.

Dee Brown's 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee was the first truly popular book of Indian history ever published. But it promulgated the impression that American Indian...
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
AuthorChristina Thompson
ISBN0062060872
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.

For more than...
The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
AuthorLaurie Gwen Shapiro
ISBN1476753865
The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties’ most remarkable feat of science and daring: an expedition to Antarctica.

It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great...
Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America
AuthorJared Cohen
ISBN1501109820
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The strength and prestige of the American presidency has waxed and waned since George Washington. Accidental Presidents looks at eight men who came to the office without being elected to it. It demonstrates how the character of the man in that powerful seat affects...
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
AuthorAnnie Jacobsen
ISBN0316441430
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...
Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
AuthorAnna Merlan
ISBN1250159059
A riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories, exploring the causes and tenacity of this American malady, from Birthers to Pizzagate and beyond.

American society has always been fertile ground for conspiracy theories, but with the election of Donald Trump,...
Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
AuthorMatthew Kneale
ISBN1786492334
No city on earth has preserved its past as has Rome. Visitors stand on bridges that were crossed by Julius Caesar and Cicero, walk around temples visited by Roman emperors, and step into churches that have hardly changed since popes celebrated mass in them sixteen centuries ago.
These architectural...
Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
AuthorDavid K. Randall
ISBN0393609456
For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn’t noticed a swollen black lymph node on his groin—a sign of bubonic plague. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials...
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
AuthorTom O'Neill
”Manson himself had a fondness for the same phrase: ‘I am the man in the mirror,’ he said. ‘Anything you see in me is in you, I am you, and when you can admit that you will be free.”


Who is Charles Manson?

This book began as a 5000 word piece for Premiere Magazine with the...
Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
AuthorH.W. Brands
ISBN0525638008
From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy

In the early 1800s, three young men strode...
Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil
AuthorHamish McKenzie
"You'll tell me if it ever starts getting genuinely insane, right?"
--Elon Musk, TED interview

Hamish McKenzie tells how a Silicon Valley start-up's wild dream came true. Tesla is a car company that stood up against not only the might of the government-backed Detroit car manufacturers,...
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