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Henry Kissinger is a former United States secretary of state and national security adviser who served under presidents Nixon and Ford. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for his role in negotiating the ceasefire in Vietnam, and he is one of the faces of the political philosophy Realpolitik. One of his memoirs, The White House Years, won the National Book Award in 1980.

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Robert J. McMahon is an American historian who is a distinguished scholar of the Cold War and US foreign relations. Currently a professor at Ohio State University, he is the author of a number of books, including The Cold War in the Third World, Colonialism and Cold War, and The Cold War on the Periphery.

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H. W. Brands is the author of more than 30 books on American history. He is currently the chair of the History Department at the University of Texas, Austin, and has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

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Richard Nixon: The Life (2017) is a thorough biography of one of the most controversial American presidents. Tracing Nixon’s life from his humble upbringing through his meteoric political ascent to his crashing downfall in the Watergate scandal, it reveals a complex, troubled, and sentimental man.

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John A. Farrell is a writer and journalist. He previously worked on the Spotlight team at the Boston Globe and has also written biographies of Clarence Darrow and Tip O’Neill. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Richard Nixon: The Life.

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Shutdown (2021) explores the unprecedented shock COVID-19 dealt the world economy. The story begins with the revelation of the disease in January 2020 by Chinese President Xi Jinping and ends precisely a year later with the inauguration of US President Joe Biden, and through this history, Shutdown shows how markets and governments reeled from the blow, how they regained their footing, and what we might learn for the next worldwide crisis.

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Alan Tooze is a professor of economic history at Columbia University and the author of numerous award-winning books, including The Wages of Destruction, a history of the Nazi economy, Deluge, which traces the fallout of the First World War, and Crashed, an autopsy of the Great Recession.

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Evan Osnos is a journalist who has worked as a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2008. Previously, he worked for the Chicago Tribune – first as a metro reporter and then as a national and foreign correspondent stationed in the Middle East and China. His book Age of Ambition won the 2014 National Book Award for nonfiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

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The American War in Afghanistan (2021) is an in-depth look at one of the defining conflicts of the twenty-first century. This exhaustively-researched analysis dives into the details of this protracted and complex military occupation.

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Carter Malkasian was the special assistant for strategy to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2015 to 2019. His previous works include War Comes to Garmser and Illusions of Victory.

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