This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
By: Matthew Karp
4.29
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
When the United States emerged as a world power in the years before the Civil War, the men who pres…
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1. Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery
By: Paul Collins
3.69
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Duel with the Devil is acclaimed historian Paul Collins’ remarkable true account of a stunning turn… read more
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2. Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
By: Donald L. Miller
4.18
Format: 671 pages, Hardcover
Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who bro… read more
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"With the Allies on the advance nearly everywhere and invasion talk in the air, London was a welcoming place for young airmen who were taking the fight to Hitler’s doorstep. The first stop for America…"-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
"In an equally fought battle of attrition both sides sometimes believe they are losing. With Overlord planned for the spring of 1944, Allied leaders became increasingly worried that their air forces w…"-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
3. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
4. Jailbird
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jailbirdtakes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in… read more
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5. The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
By: Robert A. Caro
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill… read more
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6. Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
By: Robert A. Caro
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon B. Johnson, cont… read more
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7. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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8. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more
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9. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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10. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
By: Noam Chomsky , Edward S. Herman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book . In this pathb… read more
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11. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
By: Colin Woodard
4.56
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red stat… read more
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12. Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)
By: Robert A. Caro
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, … read more
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13. Jazz
By: Toni Morrison
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, mid… read more
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14. The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)
By: Robert A. Caro
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON… read more
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15. The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters
By: James M. McPherson
3.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
More than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had "uprooted institutions that wer… read more
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16. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
By: David R. Roediger
4.38
Format: 234 pages,
Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson … read more
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17. Discourse on Colonialism
By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more
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18. Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
By: Jefferson R. Cowie
3.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An epic account of how middle-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals o… read more
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19. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
By: Ellen Meiksins Wood
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more
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20. Empire of Cotton: A Global History
By: Sven Beckert
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, a… read more
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21. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
By: Eric Foner
3.91
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
From a master historian, the story of Lincoln's--and the nation's--transformation through the cruci… read more
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22. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
By: Edward E. Baptist
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but… read more
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23. The Souls of Black Folk
By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more
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24. 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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25. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
By: David W. Blight
4.15
Format: 888 pages, Hardcover
As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was … read more
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"Douglass told white northern voters that 'The blood of the slave is on your garments. You have said that slavery is better than freedom. That war is better than peace. And that cruelty is better than…"-David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
26. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
27. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
28. The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
By: David I. Kertzer
4.28
Format: 623 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The most important book ever written about the Catholic Church… read more
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29. This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
By: Matthew Karp
4.29
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
When the United States emerged as a world power in the years before the Civil War, the men who pres… read more
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30. The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power
By: Noam Chomsky
4.19
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Two of our most celebrated intellectuals grapple with the uncertain aftermath of the American colla… read more
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31. No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding (The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures)
By: Sean Wilentz
3.89
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Americans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its original toleration of racia… read more
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