15 Top history books like Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein

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Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980

By: Rick Perlstein

4.34

Format: 1107 pages, Hardcover

A complex portrait of President Ronald Reagan that charts the rise of the modern conservative brand…

If you liked the history plot in Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. 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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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
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2. 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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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction

3. 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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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction

4. 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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5. The Fifties

By: David Halberstam

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Fiftiesis a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Ha… read more

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6. A Brief History of Neoliberalism

By: David Harvey

3.76

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guid… read more

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7. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

By: Robert A. Caro

3.25

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman pr… read more

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8. 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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9. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Doris Kearns Goodwin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of Team of Rivals, captures the Progr… read more

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10. The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

By: Greg Grandin

4.29

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, … read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • the united states of america
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Having been born into a large litter and raised, as one republican put it, in a shared New World household, Spanish American nations were socialized at an early age. The United States, in contrast, w…"

-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

"Taking Texas, Adams feared, would lock in the worldview that Jackson represented. The country was already fighting what Adams considered a perpetual war on Native Americans, a crusade that Jacksonian…"

-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

"In other words, the United States won independence from Great Britain in a revolutionary war that was, among other reasons, fought to deny Great Britain the right to establish a western border; then,…"

-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

"The Confederate flag stopped flying as the pennant of reconciliation, the joining of the southern military tradition to northern establishment might to spread Americanism abroad. It now was the banne…"

-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

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11. 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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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980

By: Rick Perlstein

4.34

Format: 1107 pages, Hardcover

A complex portrait of President Ronald Reagan that charts the rise of the modern conservative brand… read more

Similar categories in Rick Perlstein's Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 book and Rick Perlstein's Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980

  • american history
  • american
  • biography
  • history
  • the united states of america
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
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13. Watergate: A New History

By: Garrett M. Graff

4.49

Format: 832 pages, Hardcover

From Garrett​ Graff, comes the first definitive narrative history of Watergate, exploring the full … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford

By: Richard Norton Smith

4.46

Format: 992 pages, Hardcover

From the preeminent presidential scholar and acclaimed biographer of historical figures including G… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy by Adam Tooze

15. Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

By: Adam Tooze

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021'A complex … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
"What has made central bankers into the exemplar of modern crisis-fighting is the vacuum created by the evisceration of organized labor, the absence of inflationary pressure, and more broadly, the lac…"

-Adam Tooze, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

"Despite the successful suppression campaign in February, the coronavirus crisis of 2020 could easily have been a major liability for Xi's regime. Instead, it became an occasion for what has been aptl…"

-Adam Tooze, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

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16. Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right

By: Matthew Dallek

3.97

Format: None pages, Audiobook

How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism At… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Dallek's Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right book and Rick Perlstein's Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980

  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
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17. The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties

By: Christopher Caldwell

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A major American intellectual makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms inte… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland by Steven Hyden

18. There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland

By: Steven Hyden

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album,  Born in the U.S.A. —a record … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World by Patrick Wyman

19. The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World

By: Patrick Wyman

4.15

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

20. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • the united states of america
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
Cover of Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation by Tom McGrath

21. Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation

By: Tom McGrath

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In Triumph of the Yuppies, Tom McGrath presents the first-ever book-length history of the Yuppie ph… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook

11 Top audiobook books like Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein

Transform Your Habits

The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

Greg Grandin

4.29

Transform Your Habits

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

Beverly Gage

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980

Rick Perlstein

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Watergate: A New History

Garrett M. Graff

4.49

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14 Top history books like The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties by Christopher Caldwell

Transform Your Habits

The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization

Patrick J. Buchanan

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Black & Tan: A Collection of Essays and Excursions on Slavery, Culture War, and Scripture in America

Douglas Wilson

3.02

Transform Your Habits

Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture

Aaron Renn

4.23

Transform Your Habits

America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

Christopher F. Rufo

4.30

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