Devil Dogs, Ice Man, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
by Evan Wright
appears in History and Nonfiction.
Based on Evan Wright's National Magazine Awardwinning story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq invasion that inspired the HBO(R) original miniseries. Within hours of 9/11, America's war on terrorism fell to those like the twentythree Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into ope...
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Consider Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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