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Books like Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
The best books like Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History are The Devil in the White City, A Short History of Nearly Everything, and Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson is about natural disaster, hubris, weather science. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Devil in the White City
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Erik Larson · History
The Devil in the White City tells two stories that unfolded simultaneously in Chicago in 1893.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - A Short History of Nearly Everything
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson · Science
A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's attempt to understand the scientific story of everything — from the Big Bang to the emergence of modern humans — by spending three years talking to scientists and reading science history.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou · Business
Bad Blood is Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou's account of Theranos, the blood-testing startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes that claimed its proprietary technology could run hundreds of diagnostic tests from a single finger-prick of blood.
A kindred history read.
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- A People's History of the United States
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A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn · History
Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, first published in 1980, retells American history from the perspective of those who rarely appear in conventional textbooks: Native Americans, enslaved people, industrial workers, women, immigrants, and dissidents of various kinds.
Both dig into american history.
Read the summary → - American Nations
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Colin Woodard · History
American Nations is Colin Woodard's argument that North America is not a single nation but a continent of 11 distinct regional cultures, each founded by different waves of settlers with different values, institutions, and political philosophies, and that understanding those foundational cultures is more useful for explaining American political conflict than the standard red-state/blue-state framing.
Both dig into american history.
Read the summary → - Americana
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Bhu Srinivasan · History
Americana is Bhu Srinivasan's attempt to tell the history of American capitalism through its defining industries and the entrepreneurs who built them.
Both dig into american history.
Read the summary → - Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi · History
Stamped from the Beginning is Ibram X.
Both dig into american history.
Read the summary → - The Best and the Brightest
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David Halberstam · History
David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest, published in 1972, is both a history of American intervention in Vietnam and a study of institutional failure.
Both dig into hubris.
Read the summary → - The Big Change
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Frederick Lewis Allen · History
The Big Change is Frederick Lewis Allen's account of how the United States was transformed between 1900 and 1950, covering the shifts in technology, economics, social life, and values that remade American society in half a century.
Both dig into american history.
Read the summary → - Empty Mansions
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Bill Dedman · Biography
Empty Mansions is the biography of Huguette Clark, an extraordinarily wealthy woman who died in 2011 at the age of 104, having spent the last twenty years of her life in a hospital room she chose not to leave despite being in good health and owning a Santa Barbara estate, a Fifth Avenue apartment, and a Connecticut mansion — all maintained, staffed, and largely unvisited.
Both dig into american history.
Read the summary → - Into Thin Air
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Jon Krakauer · Memoir
Into Thin Air is Jon Krakauer's firsthand account of the May 1996 Everest expedition that killed eight climbers in a single afternoon.
Both dig into hubris.
Read the summary → - Startup
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Jerry Kaplan · Business
Startup is Jerry Kaplan's account of GO Corporation, the pen-computing company he co-founded in 1987 and ran until it collapsed in 1994.
Both dig into hubris.
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Books like Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History: quick answers
What are the best books like Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History?
The best books like Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson are The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, American Nations by Colin Woodard, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History, such as natural disaster, hubris, weather science.
What should I read after Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History?
A natural next read after Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History is The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. A kindred history read. Other strong choices are A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.
What books are similar to Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson?
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History centers on natural disaster, hubris, weather science. Books with a similar feel include The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, American Nations by Colin Woodard, Americana by Bhu Srinivasan — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
