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The Best History Books, Summarized in 10 Minutes

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The 5 best history books of all time

The 48 Laws of Power

by Robert Greene

The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene distills three thousand years of history into blunt, practical laws for gaining power, defending yourself, and understanding how people really operate.

The Snowball (Warren Buffett's Biography)

by Alice Schroeder

The Snowball by Alice Schroeder is the definitive biography of Warren Buffett, tracing how a numbers-obsessed kid from Omaha compounded small beginnings into extraordinary wealth and hard-won wisdom.

The Laws of Human Nature

by Robert Greene

The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene decodes the hidden forces driving human behavior, teaching you how to read people accurately and master your own self-destructive impulses.

The True Believer

by Eric Hoffer

The True Believer by Eric Hoffer explains why ordinary people join mass movements, what those movements do to their minds, and how fanaticism rises, spreads, and eventually burns out.

The Art of War

by Sun Tzu

The Art of War by Sun Tzu is a 2,500-year-old Chinese military classic about winning conflicts through planning, deception, and knowing yourself and your opponent.

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The Coming Wave

Mustafa Suleyman

In The Coming Wave, Mustafa Suleyman explains how AI and synthetic biology are about to reshape everything, and why keeping them under control may be the defining challenge of our lifetime.