History books 1700-present

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I would start by reading a U.S. history book written before 1945. Authors were pretty open and honest about the reality of how this country was founded and run (and how the world works), without the political correctness censure.

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ECM or LevFin?

Niall Ferguson's the Ascent of Money. Surprised no one's suggested this already. 

Personal favorites as of late have been by Daniel Lord Smail (neuroscience x history), David Blight (especially his Pulitzer winning biography of Frederick Douglass), Tim Snyder (THE guy out there for Eastern European history, really good reads in current context)

I'm in the middle of "A People's History of the United States" (1492-Present) by Howard Zinn which has been pretty good

• The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power
• A Short History of Russia: How to Understand the World’s Most Complex Nation
• Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
• The Rise and Fall of Great Powers

I just bought an AP History book, and it was objective