The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
By: Eric Foner
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes tha…
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1. Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
By: Nancy MacLean
4.29
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
Behind today’s headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political establ… read more
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"Both Buchanan and Calhoun[...] were concerned wit the "failure of democracy to preserve liberty"-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
"Interestingly, these conclusions issued from purely abstract thought experiments, not from any research on political practice."-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
"...as Einhorn points out: "The anti-government rhetoric that continues to saturate our political life is rooted support for slavery rather than liberty"-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
"[...] Rothbard explained, was "that it was intervention of the State that in itself created the classes and the conflict", not the labor relations of the economy, as previous thinkers believed"-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
2. Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
By: W.E.B. Du Bois , David Levering Lewis
3.90
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most i… read more
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3. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
By: Rick Perlstein
4.33
Format: 308 pages,
Politically insightful, Nixonland recaptures the turbulent 60s & early 70s, revealing how Dick Nixo… read more
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4. The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861
By: Don E. Fehrenbacher , None , David Morris Potter
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
"David M. Potter's magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the comin… read more
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5. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
By: Daniel Walker Howe
4.42
Format: 288 pages,
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6. The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
By: Andrés Reséndez
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A landmark history -- the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across … read more
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7. The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South
By: Bruce Levine
3.53
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the riveting story of how that confl… read more
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8. 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
9. The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America
By: H.W. Brands
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling historian and Pulitzer-prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives and battles of Gen… read more
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10. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
By: Stephen Vladeck
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed legal scholar’s “essential” (Linda Greenhouse) exp… read more
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"But in order after order, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration most of what it wanted without endorsing principles that the justices would be bound to apply to future presidents, so that t…"-Stephen Vladeck, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
11. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
By: Jon Meacham
4.46
Format: 676 pages, Hardcover
The life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln, exploring why and how Lincoln confronted secession… read more
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12. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
4.17
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
"Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current… read more
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"Slavery didn’t end in 1865, it just evolved. The North won the Civil War, but the South won the narrative war"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
"I actually think the great evil of American slavery wasn’t involuntary servitude and forced labor. The true evil of American slavery was the narrative we created to justify it. They made up this ideo…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
"I actually think the great evil of American slavery wasn’t involuntary servitude and forced labor. The true evil of American slavery was the narrative we created to justify it. They made up this ideo…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
"We now know, thanks to developments in DNA analysis, that one in three African American males carries a Y-DNA signature inherited from a direct white male ancestor. Say, a great great great grandfath…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
13. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
By: Eric Foner
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes tha… read more
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14. Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice
By: Bruce Levine
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A “powerful” ( The Wall Street Journal ) biography of one of the 19th century’s greatest statesmen,… read more
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15. Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism
By: Erwin Chemerinsky
4.42
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Why originalism is a flawed, incoherent, and dangerously ideological method of constitutional inter… read more
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16. 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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17. The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero
By: Peter S. Canellos
4.34
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
The “superb” ( The Guardian ) biography of an American who stood against all the forces of Gilded A… read more
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18. Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War
By: Steve Inskeep
3.86
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in… read more
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19. I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
By: Kidada E. Williams
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From a groundbreaking scholar, a heart-wrenching reexamination of the struggle for survival in the … read more
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20. Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
By: Steve Luxenberg
4.18
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
Separate is a myth-shattering narrative of one of the most consequential Supreme Court cases of the… read more
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21. How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart
By: Jamal Greene
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FINALIST | “Essential and fresh and vital . . . It i… read more
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"Strong rights protection is far from harmless. The proliferation of strong rights can frustrate the democratic will and erode the solidarity of communities. Judicial dominion over constitutional righ…"-Jamal Greene, How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart
