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…
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1. Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
By: John D'Emilio
3.73
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
One of the most important figures of the American civil rights movement, Bayard Rustin taught Marti… read more
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2. Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It
By: Leon Trotsky
4.00
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
Why fascism was able to conquer only in those countries where social democratic or Stalinist partie… read more
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3. The Radical King
By: Cornel West , Martin Luther King Jr.
3.91
Format: 69 pages, Hardcover
A revealing collection that restores Dr. King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm X "The radic… read more
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4. Vietnam: A History
By: Stanley Karnow
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The most comprehensive, up-to-date, and balanced account we have."--Boston Globe. "Superb, balance… read more
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5. No Name in the Street
By: James Baldwin
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seve… read more
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6. Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
By: Martin Luther King Jr.
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
209 PAGES. read more
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7. Revolutionary Suicide
By: Huey P. Newton , J. Herman Blake
4.00
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
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8. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
By: Clayborne Carson , Martin Luther King Jr.
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Using Stanford University's voluminous collection of archival material, including previously unpubl… read more
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9. 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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10. Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare?
By: James H. Cone
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Reexamines the ideology of the two most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. read more
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11. Letter from the Birmingham Jail
By: Martin Luther King Jr.
2.96
Format: 7 pages, Hardcover
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12. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
By: Martin Luther King Jr. , None
4.36
Format: 39 pages, Paperback
Here, in the only major one-volume collection of his writings, speeches, interviews, and autobiogra… read more
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13. 1968: The Year That Rocked the World
By: Mark Kurlansky
4.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
Brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of the pivotal year of 1968, when televis… read more
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14. A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath
By: David Chanoff , Truong Nhu Tang , Doan Van Toai
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
When he was a student in Paris, Truong Nhu Tang met Ho Chi Minh. Later he fought in the Vietnamese … read more
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15. Why We Can't Wait
By: Martin Luther King Jr. , Jesse Jackson
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963 "Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the s… read more
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16. 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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17. 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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18. The 5 Principles of Parenting: Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans
By: Aliza Pressman
4.15
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Let go of perfect and become a transformative, positive influence in a child’s life while creating … read more
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19. Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
By: Mia Bay
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Critics' Top Book of the Year "This extraordinary book is a powerful addition t… read more
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20. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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21. 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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22. 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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"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
23. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
24. 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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25. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America
By: Joy-Ann Reid
4.57
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut and New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Sold Amer… read more
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26. Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
By: Matthew F. Delmont
4.53
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil righ… read more
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27. Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
By: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
4.39
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
We live, according to Eddie S. Glaude Jr., in a moment when the struggles of Black Lives Matter and… read more
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"[Trump] and his ideas are not exceptional. He and the people who support him are just the latest examples of the country's ongoing betrayal. . .When we make Trump exceptional, we let ourselves off th…"-Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
"Baldwin's words can sound harsh, as if he's throwing away millions of Americans and declaring them irrelevant to the life and future of our democracy. It's easy to read him that way, and sometimes, w…"-Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
28. 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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29. Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System
By: Ryan J. Reilly
3.95
Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition
The January 6th attack is an unprecedented crime in American history. Sprawling and openly politica… read more
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30. I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free (A Feeding the Soul Book)
By: Tabitha Brown
4.19
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Feeding the Soul (Because It’s My Business) presents an… read more
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31. Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal
By: Matthew T. Martens
4.55
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Noted Attorney and Seminary Graduate Matthew T. Martens Answers the Question: Does the Design and O… read more
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