A History
by James Gleick
Recommended by Stewart Brand
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Time Travel, Physics, and Most Recommended Books.
From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mindbending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. The story begins at the turn of the previous century, with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale t...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Time Travel, Physics, and Most Recommended Books.
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Stewart Brand
Writer; founder of the Whole Earth Catalog
“Some of the most cogent thinking about time that I think we’ve seen in a long time.”
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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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