Books like Baseless by Nicholson Baker

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Daniel Ellsberg's insider account exposes the hidden history of U.S. nuclear strategy from the Eisenhower era to the present, revealing how the decision‑to‑use authority was widely delegated and the ongoing dangers of the nation’s doomsday machine.

A reflective look at parenthood, childhood memories, and the objects that shaped a young man's life.

A gripping, nonfiction exposé of America's bioterror defense, from the anthrax attacks to the hunt for a smallpox cure and the race against rogue states.

Nicholson Baker's new novel is the story of Arno Strine, a temporary typist, who has perfected the knack of stopping time in its tracks and taking women's clothes off. He is hard at work on his autobiography, The Fermata, which proves in the telling to be a very provocative and altogether morally confused piece of work.

Cassidy’s Run reveals a 23‑year Cold War spy program called Operation SHOCKER, in which the FBI leaped to counter Soviet infiltration, using ordinary men like Sergeant Joe Cassidy to thwart nerve‑gas development.

Two strangers in separate cities connect over the telephone, each sharing more of themselves as conversation deepens.

The United States and Biological Warfare argues persuasively that the United States experimented with and deployed biological weapons during the Korean War. Endicott and Hagerman explore the political and moral dimensions of this issue, asking what restraints were applied or forgotten in those years of ideological and political passion and military crisis. For the first time, there is hard evidence that the United States lied both to Congress and to the American public in saying that the American biological warfare program was purely defensive and for retaliation only. The truth is that a large and sophisticated biological weapons system was developed as an offensive weapon of opportunity in the post-World War II years. From newly declassified U.S., Canadian, and British documents, and with the cooperation of the Chinese Central Archives in giving the authors the first access by foreigners to relevant classified documents, Endicott and Hagerman have been able to tell the previously hidden story of the extension of the limits of modern war to include the use of medical science, the most morally laden of sciences with respect to the sanctity of human life. An important book for anyone interested in the history and morality of modern warfare.

A sweeping history of the CIA, tracing its evolution from founding to present and examining controversial covert actions and the rise of secret prisons and torture in the post‑9/11 era.