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Recommended by 3 notable people, including James Clear and Maria Popova
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A New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis PostDispatch, BookPage, Slate, Men?s JournalWhen Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote: ?Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.? It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. With unbridled ho...
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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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