HISTORY
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
ESSENTIAL READING | AI: In Whom or What Do We Trust?
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Revisiting the Fall of the Shah of Iran
Scott Anderson honed his skills as a war correspondent, but his new book, King of Kings, has a cinematic quality as it re-examines how the Shah of Iran, Mohamad Reza Pahlavi, fell from power in 1979.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ESSENTIAL READING | An Apple a Day Didn’t Work Out Well
Apple is perhaps the single most important US tech company successfully supplying its commercial products to the world. This book presents a devastating picture of its foray into China and reveals the failure of the US Government to be a part of the considerations Apple took into account.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
ESSENTIAL READING | The Programs That Cemented US Power
Journalist Garrett Graff has authored 10 books, but his newest book, The Devil Reached Toward the Sky, is a book you should read and own.
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | The Outrageous and Innovative General Orde Wingate
Fire in the Night, by British journalists John Bierman and Colin Smith, examines the huge impact of a unique British officer, Major General Orde Wingate, who died in Burma in 1944 during World War II.
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | The Battle to Live “Like Free People”
Historian Benjamin Nathans of the University of Pennsylvania lifts his new book’s title from the traditional vodka toast of Soviet dissidents: to the “success of our hopeless cause”.