SOME  NONFICTION  BOOKS

                               [Read, reflected upon, and admired by me]

 

Triology on Gandhi:   author: Ramchandra Guha

1.     Gandhi Before India (2015)

2.     Gandhi: Years that Changed the World: 1914-1948. (2018)

3.     India after Gandhi (2019)


4.     Discovery of India   author: Jawaharlal Nehru (Latest paperbook edition 2004)

5.     Population Myth    author: S.Y. Quraishi (2021)

6.     Inglorious Empire   author: Shashi Tharoor (2016)

7.     Better Angels of our Nature   author: Steven PInker (2012)

8.     Enlightenment Now   author: Steven Pinker (2018)

9.     The most powerful Idea in the World   author: William Rosen (2010)

10.    Industrial Revolution   authors: not mentioned (2020)

11.    The narrow Corridor   authors: Duron AcoMoglu & James Robinson (2019)

12.    Origin Story     author: David Christian (2018)

13.    Team of Rivals   author: Doris Kearns Goodwin (2005)

14.    Franklin D. Roosevelt   author: Robert Dallek (2017)

15.    The Happiness Hypothesis   author: Jonathan Haidt (2006)

          

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