16 Best history books like Persist by Elizabeth Warren

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Persist

By: Elizabeth Warren

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The inspiring, influential senator and bestselling author mixes vivid personal stories with a passi…

"Plans are the essential means by which we chart a course for our collective future."

-Elizabeth Warren, Persist

"And early on I learned that no one gives you anything for free. If you really care about something, if you really want something, you have to fight for it."

-Elizabeth Warren, Persist

"Whether the future looks scary or bright, plans are hopes made practical. They reassure people that there's a roadmap that will take them to a better place and they give people a reason to join in the effort to get there."

-Elizabeth Warren, Persist

"Despite the overwhelming evidence of the impact of racism, today the fundamental idea of race neutrality continues to claim an elevated status in law. The consequence, Professor Ibram Kendi observes, is that these legal battles "ended up principally outlawing 'intention to discriminate'" so that "[i]ntent--not outcome--became the preferred proof of discrimination." Kendi argues that the focus on state of mind (intent to discriminate) rather than the effect of specific actions (discriminatory impact) undermines the push for equality."

-Elizabeth Warren, Persist

If you liked the history plot in Persist by Elizabeth Warren , here is a list of 16 books like this:

1. What Happened

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

4.50

Format: 191 pages,

"In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I w… read more

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2. Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In

By: Bernie Sanders

3.94

Format: None pages,

Throughout the Presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders galvanized voters with his progressive platfor… read more

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3. It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism

By: Bernie Sanders

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billion… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"The goal of any democratic, moral, and rational nation must be to create a society where people are healthy, happy and able to live long and productive lives. Not just the rich and the powerful, but …"

-Bernie Sanders, It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism

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4. I Swear: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan

By: Katie Porter

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An honest, inspiring, and laugh-out-loud funny memoir about re-energizing our politics and standing… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Parkland: Birth of a Movement

By: Dave Cullen

3.98

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers a deeply moving account of the extraordin… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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6. Persist

By: Elizabeth Warren

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The inspiring, influential senator and bestselling author mixes vivid personal stories with a passi… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Warren's Persist book and Elizabeth Warren's Persist

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"Plans are the essential means by which we chart a course for our collective future."

-Elizabeth Warren, Persist

"And early on I learned that no one gives you anything for free. If you really care about something, if you really want something, you have to fight for it."

-Elizabeth Warren, Persist

"Whether the future looks scary or bright, plans are hopes made practical. They reassure people that there's a roadmap that will take them to a better place and they give people a reason to join in th…"

-Elizabeth Warren, Persist

"Despite the overwhelming evidence of the impact of racism, today the fundamental idea of race neutrality continues to claim an elevated status in law. The consequence, Professor Ibram Kendi observes,…"

-Elizabeth Warren, Persist

Cover of The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris

7. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

By: Kamala Harris

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us,… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

"Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

". . . Being a good person meant standing for something larger than yourself; that success is measured in part by what you help others achieve and accomplish."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

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8. Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

By: Pete Buttigieg

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Once described by the Washington Post as “the most interesting mayor you’ve never heard of,” Pete B… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"As I raised the glass and said, "South Bend is back," the roar of the crowd at once reflected, certified, and caused it to be so."

-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

"Yet even now he looked on his days as mayor -- not governor or lieutenant governor or baseball team owner or naval aviator -- as the best job he'd ever had."

-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

"At one point I learned that when I'd told them my college coursework in Arabic might make me a good intelligence officer, they had recorded that my minor at Harvard had been in aerobics."

-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

"I had a professional background in economic development and was fluent in the language of business - even while having fought and bled politically for organized labor in the auto industry."

-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

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9. Every Day Is a Gift: A Memoir

By: Tammy Duckworth

4.56

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this  New York Times  bestselling book, learn the incredible story of Illinois senator and Iraq … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

By: Dahlia Lithwick

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Senior Editor and one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, tells the… read more

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  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"Being told you are believed without consequences being levied is neither justice nor power. And that is the real problem when women's pain is substituted for actual justice. Pain seems to have a sell…"

-Dahlia Lithwick, Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

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11. Trust: America's Best Chance

By: Pete Buttigieg

4.14

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Pete Buttigieg demonstrates how a breakdown of trust is central to our nation’s current predicament… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The truth is our election system is flawed. But it will only be improved if we trust it enough to use it to elect people committed to fixing it."

-Pete Buttigieg, Trust: America's Best Chance

"To love a country, as to love a person, is to love a flawed and exquisite creation, to see what is best in it, to be angry when it is not what it could be, precisely because you have seen glimmers of…"

-Pete Buttigieg, Trust: America's Best Chance

"When no one’s word is authoritative, any crank is as credible as the next person. It is the irony at the heart of conspiracy thinking: You can’t trust anyone these days, so you may as well place some…"

-Pete Buttigieg, Trust: America's Best Chance

Cover of The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism by Steve Kornacki

12. The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism

By: Steve Kornacki

4.19

Format: None pages, Audiobook

17 Hours and 27 Minutes From MSNBC correspondent Steve Kornacki, a lively and sweeping history o… read more

Similar categories in Steve Kornacki's The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism book and Elizabeth Warren's Persist

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency by Jonathan   Allen

13. Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency

By: Jonathan Allen

3.87

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Almost no one thought Joe Biden could make it back to the White House—not Donald Trump, not the two… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power

By: Susan Page

4.16

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Featuring more than 150 exclusive interviews with those who know her best—and a series of in-depth,… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America by Stacey Abrams

15. Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

By: Stacey Abrams

4.42

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"This is a narrative that describes the urgency that compels me and millions more to push for a dif… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"…any voter denied a say in democracy has been harmed, and a remedy is in order regardless of the effect on an electoral outcome."

-Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

"I embrace identity politics because for the marginalized, the disadvantaged, and the minority groups still grappling for purchase in our politics, identity is the strongest defense against invisibili…"

-Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

"Difference is real, and to acknowledge such does no harm to the American identity as a whole. The vibrance of our identity politics reaffirms the complexity of our nation and the underpinning of our …"

-Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

"My non-concession speech on November 16, 2018, served as a declaration of intent. We have been taught to expect concessions not only to the outcome of an electoral contest but to the system that unde…"

-Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

Cover of I Have Something to Tell You by Chasten Glezman Buttigieg

16. I Have Something to Tell You

By: Chasten Glezman Buttigieg

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A moving, hopeful, and refreshingly candid memoir by the husband of former Democratic presidential … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"That gay expereince in Tulsa is just as gay and valid as other, more visible experience in the media, and attempting to police anyone’s gayness sets a dangerous precedent. It equates identity with pr…"

-Chasten Glezman Buttigieg, I Have Something to Tell You

"I was reaching my hand over the person in front of me to shake hands with Obama when a random guy barreled into me from behind. I turned to look at what had happened, and in the meantime, I felt a ha…"

-Chasten Glezman Buttigieg, I Have Something to Tell You

Cover of This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman by Ilhan Omar

17. This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

By: Ilhan Omar

4.26

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Ilhan Omar was eight years old when war broke out in Somalia. The youngest of seven children, her … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"I grew up knowing that hard things only get harder when you don’t have real conversations about them."

-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

"The more we listen to and learn from those with different backgrounds and present circumstances from our own, the more we can find connections to our own lived experience."

-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

"As a refugee who fled civil war as a child, I am still trying to figure out where I fit in - which is perhaps why the most important note I found sticking to the wall outside my office had only three…"

-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

"As we continue to perfect our union, citizens, neighbors, coworkers, and family must keep expanding our circles of self-interest to learn and relearn the fundamental truth that we are all connected. …"

-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

Cover of Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps by Jon  Favreau

18. Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps

By: Jon Favreau

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From your friends at Pod Save America  and Crooked Media comes a useful and illustrated guide to sa… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America by Dan Pfeiffer

19. Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America

By: Dan Pfeiffer

4.15

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

“BATTLING THE BIG LIE is an important read for anyone who’s wondering how the far right traffics in… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Kill Shot: A Shadow Industry, a Deadly Disease by Jason Dearen

20. Kill Shot: A Shadow Industry, a Deadly Disease

By: Jason Dearen

4.41

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning investigative journalist's horrifying true crime story of America's deadliest drug… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Kamala's Way: An American Life by Dan Morain

21. Kamala's Way: An American Life

By: Dan Morain

3.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A revelatory biography of the first Black woman to stand for Vice President, charting how the daugh… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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I Swear: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan

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4.23

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Parkland: Birth of a Movement

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3.98

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3.84

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3.95

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