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John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening
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great destiny, Seneca reminds us, is great slavery.
Ryan Holiday • Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent
martinet,
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
En route across the Atlantic, Jefferson arranged for the captain of the Ceres to transport hares, rabbits, and partridges back to friends
Jon Meacham • Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
The classics were their comic books; they’d grown up on Plutarch’s Lives—“the bible for heroes,” as Emerson declared—and came of age with their heads buried in the adventures of Odysseus and Richard the Lionheart and Sigurd the Dragonslayer. They understood that in ancient Greece, entire wars could pivot on the performance of one or two extraordina
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Miraculous as it appears in retrospect, Ramsay’s invasion fleet of more than six thousand ships went undetected by the Germans.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
jingoism;