14 best-selling race books like Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont

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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…

If you liked the race plot in Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild

1. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

By: Adam Hochschild

4.21

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

2. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

By: Timothy Egan

4.38

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

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3. 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

Similar categories in Jonathan Eig's King: A Life book and Matthew F. Delmont's Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot

4. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

By: Michael Harriot

4.59

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality by Tomiko Brown-Nagin

5. Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality

By: Tomiko Brown-Nagin

4.38

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The first major biography of one of our most influential but least known judicial activists that pr… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels

6. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

By: Robert Samuels

4.52

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

7. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

By: Antonia Hylton

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart A. Reid

8. The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

By: Stuart A. Reid

4.40

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the US-sanctioned plot… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass

9. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

By: Gary J. Bass

4.29

Format: 800 pages, Hardcover

A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlo… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage

10. 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

Similar categories in Beverly Gage's G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century book and Matthew F. Delmont's Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Age of Grievance by Frank Bruni

11. The Age of Grievance

By: Frank Bruni

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo

12. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

By: Ilyon Woo

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa

13. Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation

By: Linda Villarosa

4.46

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • "A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and di… read more

Similar categories in Linda Villarosa's Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation book and Matthew F. Delmont's Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners by Margaret A. Burnham

14. By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners

By: Margaret A. Burnham

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, … read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont

15. 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

Similar categories in Matthew F. Delmont's Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad book and Matthew F. Delmont's Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey

16. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

By: Donovan X. Ramsey

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor by Steve Kemper

17. Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor

By: Steve Kemper

4.37

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contending forces in Tokyo during th… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress by Wesley Lowery

18. American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress

By: Wesley Lowery

4.18

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

“American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” — Ibram X. Kendi, author of  How to Be an Ant… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street by Victor Luckerson

19. Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street

By: Victor Luckerson

4.38

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

A multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa’s Greenwood district, known as “Black… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The newspaper encouraged displaced entrepreneurs to open businesses in South Tulsa and continue smashing color barriers. But it also spoke to a larger argument about how the definition of black succe…"

-Victor Luckerson, Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street

Cover of Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe by Keith  O'Brien

20. Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe

By: Keith O'Brien

4.40

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered Hooker Chemical's d… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past by Kevin M. Kruse

21. Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

By: Kevin M. Kruse

3.93

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In this instant New York Times  bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Violence meant to seize and shore up power—a claim to sovereignty through the violence of the mob—is fundamentally American."

-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

"Although in this case it is an understandable, emotional reaction meant to decry antidemocratic violence, the notion that January 6 is 'not who we are' is one manifestation of what has become a regul…"

-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

"People may hear ‘white nationalism’ and assume it to be adjacent with patriotism, or at the very least consider it as pro-American. But after 1983 the nation at the heart of white nationalism was not…"

-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

21 Top audiobook books like Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont

Transform Your Habits

American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

Adam Hochschild

4.21

Transform Your Habits

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan

4.38

Transform Your Habits

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig

4.67

Transform Your Habits

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

Michael Harriot

4.59

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11 best-selling adult books like Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo

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The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

Transform Your Habits

The Frozen River

Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Let Us Descend

Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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