The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
By: Les Payne
4.34
Format: 612 pages, Hardcover
Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a near…
Want to Read $ 12.28"In America, the Jews sap the very life-blood of the so-called Negroes to maintain the state of Israel, its armies and its continues aggression against our brothers in the East."-Les Payne, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
"In America, the Jews sap the very life-blood of the so-called Negroes to maintain the state of Israel, its armies and its continues aggression against our brothers in the East."-Les Payne, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
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1. Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
By: Joshua Bloom , Waldo E. Martin Jr.
4.46
Format: 552 pages, Hardcover
In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed thems… read more
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2. Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
By: Taylor Branch
4.36
Format: 1062 pages, Paperback
First of a 3-volume social history, Parting the Waters is more than a biography of the Rev. Martin … read more
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3. The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
By: Charles Darwin , Nora Barlow
4.04
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
Charles Darwin's Autobiographywas first published in 1887, five years after his death. It was a bow… read more
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4. Ali: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
The definitive biography of an American icon, from a New York Timesbest-selling author with unique … read more
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5. Helen's Big World: The Life of Helen Keller
By: Doreen Rappaport , Matt Tavares
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This picturebook biography is an excellent and accessible introduction for young readers to learn a… read more
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6. Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
By: None , Johnny Smith
3.54
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Cassius Clay an obnoxious self-promoter, and few believ… read more
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8. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
By: Manning Marable
3.83
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Selected by The New York Times Book Reviewas a Notable Book of the Year Years in the making-the def… read more
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9. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
By: Richard B. Morris , Henry Steele Commager , Eric Foner
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) ma… read more
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10. FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
By: Steven Lomazow
4.33
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
THE HIDDEN ILLNESSES THAT SHAPED FDR’S LIFE AND CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY Conventional wisdo… read more
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"Researching this book has been a voyage of discovery and it is a privilege to present an unexpurgated medical biography of the most consequential American of the twentieth century."-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
"Another new and groundbreaking story in FDR Unmasked is about his highly consequential friendship with Vincent Astor, the closest with any man in his adult life. To truly understand the “real"-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
"FDR Unmasked chronicles Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life from a physician’s perspective. It tells a harrowing story of heroic achievement by a great leader determined to impart his vision of freedom …"-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
"FDR Unmasked is first to present convincing evidence of Roosevelt’s battle with prostate cancer, underpinned by FBI memoranda and reliable firsthand information from multiple physicians - even a shoc…"-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
11. Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
By: Claudia Clark
4.28
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
One of the great political friendships of the modern world, as told through key moments that shaped… read more
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"As she had done when she introduced the US president in Berlin, she addressed him publicly with the informal du for the first time since the NSA controversy in 2013."-Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
"Let me make two remarks. First I concentrate on the task ahead for 2016. I’m quite busy with that—thank you very much. And I’m looking with great interest in the American election campaign.’ For the …"-Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
"Obama’s next words captured the attention of the world and the amusement of those present. As he wagged his finger at the crowd, he scolded, ‘So stop it, all of you. I know you have to find something…"-Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
"In her usual manner, Merkel spoke in German. It is worth pointing out, however, that before the translator had an opportunity to convert her statements to English, Obama gave the chancellor and the p…"-Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
12. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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13. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
By: Michael Harriot
4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more
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14. Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
By: Nicole Eustace
3.61
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the dist… read more
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15. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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16. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
17. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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18. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
By: Beverly Gage
4.37
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more
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19. Cuba: An American History
By: Ada Ferrer
4.45
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Winner of The L. A. Times Book Prize (2021) in History “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (… read more
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20. The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
By: Les Payne
4.34
Format: 612 pages, Hardcover
Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a near… read more
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- social justice
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- audiobook
"In America, the Jews sap the very life-blood of the so-called Negroes to maintain the state of Israel, its armies and its continues aggression against our brothers in the East."-Les Payne, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
21. Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
By: Jefferson R. Cowie
4.50
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A prize-winning historian chronicles a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppres… read more
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"His body "was the corporeal archive of his pugnacious soul. The bullet [from a duel] caused him 'violent pain' on a regular basis, with bouts of blood gurgling into his mouth as well as probable pois…"-Jefferson R. Cowie, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
22. The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
By: Peniel E. Joseph
4.24
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to trans… read more
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23. Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
By: David Zucchino
4.43
Format: 426 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize winner, David Zucchino, comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup… read more
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24. His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
By: Jonathan Alter
4.34
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
From one of America’s most respected journalists and modern historians comes the highly acclaimed, … read more
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25. The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
By: Kai Bird
4.35
Format: 772 pages, Hardcover
An essential re-evaluation of the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter's presidential leg… read more
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"...Carter is sometimes perceived as a failure simply because he refused to make us feel good about the country. He insisted on telling us what was wrong and what it would take to make things better. …"-Kai Bird, The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
"Watching the podium dance that night from the convention floor was Paul Corbin, a longtime Kennedy family retainer. Corbin had been working for the Kennedys ever since he first encountered Bobby Kenn…"-Kai Bird, The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
"...Ironically, three decades later President Barack Obama introduced a universal health insurance bill modeled closely after the Carter bill. Mondale´s former aide Richard Moe wrote that Obamacare ¨b…"-Kai Bird, The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
"After it was all over, the Carter people were stunned by Kennedy´s conduct. Why? Why would the Kennedy crowd persist in defeat, knowing that their displays of rancor would only further weaken a Democ…"-Kai Bird, The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
26. Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
By: Yepoka Yeebo
3.79
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of t… read more
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- history
- biography
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27. The Black Box: Writing the Race
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define… read more
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- race
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28. The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
By: Charles M. Blow
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Editor’s Choice | A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book … read more
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"Racism doesn't wither, but is trained when to advance or retreat. It becomes self-regulating."-Charles M. Blow, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
"Protesting is a form of direct democracy, but in America national policy is made of representative democracy."-Charles M. Blow, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
"It took centuries for America to hone its instruments of oppression. Every time part of it fell, it simply re-emerged in a more elegant form. Battling racism in this country is like cutting heads off…"-Charles M. Blow, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
"The same year that the Civil War ended, the two states among those with the largest percentage of Black people – Mississippi, with 54 percent in the 1870 census, and South Carolina, with 59 percent –…"-Charles M. Blow, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
29. America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
By: Elizabeth Hinton
4.22
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapol… read more
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30. The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis
By: Norman Ohler
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Harro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas… read more
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31. Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution
By: Edward Williams
4.37
Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition
Backpacking around Australia in the year 2000, the author unwittingly found himself the target of o… read more
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"Do you want to live, Sander?"-Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution
"Scopolamine never asks for permission"-Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution
"was it even my own mind making the decisions?"-Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution
"Had I left some children behind somewhere in the world?"-Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution
