The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden
by Mark Owen
Recommended by Paul Graham
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The #1 New York Times bestselling firstperson account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy SEAL who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments.From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osa...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Paul Graham, Most Recommended Books, and History.
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Paul Graham
Co-founder of Y Combinator; essayist
“Simultaneously reading Rousseau's Confessions and No Easy Day. Triangulating...”
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“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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