Engaging, illuminating, and authoritative, Ralph Keyes's The Hidden History of Coined Words explores the etymological underworld of terms and expressions and uncovers plenty of hidden gems.
The Invention of Scarcity
Deborah Valenze
audiobookSecond Class : How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women
Batya Ungar-Sargon
audiobookThe Higher Learning in America : A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men
Thorstein Veblen
bookFree Enterprise
Lawrence B. Glickman
audiobookCommand and Persuade
Peter Baldwin
audiobookWho Owns This Sentence? : A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
David Bellos, Alexandre Montagu
audiobookLooking for the Good War
Elizabeth D. Samet
audiobookDemocracy by Petition
Daniel Carpenter
audiobookIrreligion
John Allen Paulos
audiobookThe Enlightenment : An Idea and Its History
J. C. D. Clark
audiobookA History of American Higher Education
John R. Thelin
audiobookBig Fiction : How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
Dan Sinykin
audiobook