By Andy Warcrime
https://t.co/NPDMTKyRF7 selected the best 50 nonfiction books of the last 25 years. I picked another ten from my creaky bookshelves (apologies for bias toward older titles). 1/x
— Andy Warcrime (@andywarcrime) November 21, 2019
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I limited my selections to books that sold at least pretty well on release (not obscure) and imho that are page turners, not just “important,” etc. (Numbering is random, not ranked.) What’s on your list? 2/x
— Andy Warcrime (@andywarcrime) November 21, 2019
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1. Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
2. Michelle Goldberg, Kingdom Come: The Rise of Christian Nationalism
3. Jon Ronson, Them! Adventures with Extremists 3/x— Andy Warcrime (@andywarcrime) November 21, 2019
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4. Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unraveling of the American Consensus
5. Chalmers Johnson, Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
6. Paul Berman, Power and the Idealists: Or, the Passion of Joschka Fischer and Its Aftermath 4/x— Andy Warcrime (@andywarcrime) November 21, 2019
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7. Anne Norton, Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire
8. Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edward Burke to Sarah Palin
9. Michael Azzerad, Our Band Could Be Your Life
10. Simon Reynolds, Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 5/end— Andy Warcrime (@andywarcrime) November 21, 2019
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Another bias is these are books I return to fairly often, so if I had to predict what I would select 10 years from now (assuming I’m alive) Tim Weiner’s CIA history, Malcolm Byrne’s Iran-Contra book, and J. Hoberman’s book on Reagan-era cinema might go on it. 6/coda
— Andy Warcrime (@andywarcrime) November 21, 2019
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20 years after that, someone else can put a history of the Trump era on their list. Luke Harding’s Collusion was interesting for its time, but events have so rapidly outpaced what was known only a couple of years ago. 6/coda end
— Andy Warcrime (@andywarcrime) November 21, 2019
Posted on November 20, 2019