Kyle Harrison
to-read
The Deluge
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931
- Author
- Adam Tooze
- Published
- 2014
- Pages
- 672
- Recommended
- Once
Tooze on the fifteen years after 1916, when American financial power became the organising fact of the world economy and the attempt to build an order on it failed.
Why it’s on the list: Named in the replies to @typesfast asking for the best history book you’ve read — a crowd-sourced list Kyle recovered by hand and saved. Kyle’s line carries the author, so identification is unambiguous.
Where I saw it: In the replies to @typesfast asking “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” (June 5, 2025). Kyle recovered the reply list by hand and saved it to his “Books To Read” Apple Note; the full transcribed list lives on What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- World War I — the war the book starts inside.
- Economic History — the frame the argument works in.