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Top mentioned books

Here are the most frequently recommended books on The Foreign Desk podcast:
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#1 Mentioned in 2 episodes

Our Own Worst Enemy

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Tom Nichols
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#2 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Forged in War, A Military History of Russia from its Beginnings to the present

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Mark Galeotti
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#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes

When the World Was Soft: Yindjibarndi Creation Stories

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Alex Mankiewicz
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#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes

The Penalty Kick

The Penalty Kick
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Robert McCrum
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#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes

How Tyrants Fall

and how nations survive
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Marcel Dirsus
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#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes

What Iranians Want

Women, Life and Freedom
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Arash Azizi
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#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Remember

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Joy Harjo
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#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes

How Shostakovich Changed My Mind

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Stephen Johnson
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#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes

The Rise of Duterte

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Richard Javad Heydarian
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#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant

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Ulysses Grant
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#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes

The Rise and Fall of the Department for International Development

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Sir Mark Lowcock
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#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Things I Don't Want to Know

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Deborah Levy
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#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes

The War That Doesn't Say Its Name

The Unending Conflict in the Congo
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Jason Stearns
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#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes

The First Populist, The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson

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David S. Brown
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#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes

The Ledger, accounting for failure in Afghanistan

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David Kilcullen
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#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Do Not Disturb

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Michela Wrong
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#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Tank, the ten war machines that change the world and the remarkable men behind them

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Mark Urban
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#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Changing My Mind

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Julian Barnes
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#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes

The Heartbeat of Iran

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Tara Kangalu
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#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes

The prime minister

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Anthony Trollope

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