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In reply to the discussion: 2018 Nonfiction Book Club. [View all]

JonLP24

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5. I have a bad memory but I read a lot of non fiction
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 08:22 PM
Dec 2017

Last edited Thu Dec 14, 2017, 08:55 PM - Edit history (1)

Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience
Book by Laurence Gonzales

38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End
Book by Scott W. Berg (this would go to the top)

The Red Web
Book by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan

Inside the Company: CIA Diaries by Philip Agee

http://leaksource.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/inside-the-company-cia-diary-philip-agee.pdf
Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency
Book by James Bamford

Book I haven't read yet

Collusion
Collusion: How Russia Helped Trump Win the White House by ... - The Guardian
The Guardian › ... › Politics

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/14/collusion-how-russia-helped-trump-win-the-white-house-by-luke-harding-review

Also Washington's Spies which inspired the AMC show on the Culper ring.

Published in the late 1700s
Confessions of a British Spy
Book by Hempher
Memoirs of Mr. Hempher, The British Spy to the Middle East - Hempher, only one of the thousands of male and female agents employed and sent forth to all countries by this ministry, entrapped a person named Muhammad of Najd (al-wahhab) in Basra, misled him for several years, .

Wahabbism - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism

2018 Nonfiction Book Club. [View all] Neoma Dec 2017 OP
My suggested book list. Neoma Dec 2017 #1
Question ... left-of-center2012 Dec 2017 #2
Only that its non-fiction. Neoma Dec 2017 #3
Just one. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2017 #4
I have a bad memory but I read a lot of non fiction JonLP24 Dec 2017 #5
My lists. Jim__ Jan 2018 #6
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