10 must-read history books like America's Religious History: Faith, Politics, and the Shaping of a Nation by Thomas S. Kidd

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America's Religious History: Faith, Politics, and the Shaping of a Nation

By: Thomas S. Kidd

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Religion, race, and American history. America's Religious History is an up-to-date, narrative-based…

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1. Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency

By: Bill O'Reilly , Martin Dugard

4.50

Format: 24 pages,

From the team of Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, bestselling authors of the blockbuster Killingser… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"He is himself again, more himself than at any time on this Earth." Nancy Reagan on her husband"

-Bill O'Reilly, Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency

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2. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

By: David McCullough

4.25

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

Published on the fortieth anniversary of its initial publication, this edition of the classic book … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"One has the feeling that if you could pick it up and turn it over, you would see MADE IN AMERICA stamped on it."

-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

"What I wanted-what I needed-was a story wherein the principal characters took on something big and admirable and difficult, and did it right."

-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

"Nothing lasts forever. The most unforseen circumstances will swamp you and baffle the wisest calculations. Only vitality and plenty of it helps you. Washington A. Roebling quoted by"

-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

"Everywhere about her, lesser men, witless, vulgar, corrupt, men of narrow ambition and the cheapest of values, were prospering as never before, grabbing up power, money, or just about anything else t…"

-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

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3. Brave Companions: Portraits in History

By: David McCullough

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780671792763 From Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Li… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"…the little known events of a given time, and people who are not in the headlines can be what matters most in the long run – and the long run is the measure of history."

-David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History

"Mainly, writing means a good deal of hard thinking … yet sometimes the very struggle of getting the words down on paper does result in unexpected discoveries or clarifications."

-David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History

"The problem, as Thornton Wilder said, lies in the effort to employ the past tense in such a way that it does not rob those events of their character of having occurred in freedom."

-David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History

"In writing history, to catch the feeling and well as the truth of other times, it is of utmost importance … to convey the sense that things need not have happened as they did…the past, after all, is …"

-David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History

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4. What Is The Trinity? (Crucial Questions, #10)

By: R.C. Sproul

4.24

Format: 74 pages, Kindle Edition

The Trinity is truly a mystery. This doctrine teaches that the God of Christianity is one in His es… read more

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  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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5. The Baptist Story: From English Sect to Global Movement

By: Michael A.G. Azad Haykin , Anthony L. Chute , Nathan A. Finn

3.40

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

The Baptist Story is a narrative history spanning over four centuries of a diverse group of people … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • church history
  • theology
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6. Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot

By: Bill O'Reilly , Martin Dugard

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Ken… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness

By: Jerry Bridges

2.84

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

The Discipline of Grace offers a clear and and thorough explanation of the gospel and what it means… read more

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  • christianity
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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8. The Weight of Glory

By: C.S. Lewis

4.38

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The classic Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis, the most important Christian writer of the 20th century,… read more

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  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
"He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only."

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

"Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future."

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

"Have courage, dear heart, for there is nothing to be afraid of and never has been."

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

"Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

9. Discipling: How to Help Others Follow Jesus

By: Mark Dever

3.33

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

Before ascending to heaven, Jesus instructed his followers to "make disciples of all nations." But … read more

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10. The Biggest Story: How the Snake Crusher Brings Us Back to the Garden

By: Don Clark , Kevin DeYoung

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time there lived a man and a woman. They were the happiest people on the planet. True, … read more

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11. American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation

By: Jon Meacham

4.32

Format: 650 pages, Hardcover

The American Gospel-literally, the good news about America-is that religion shapes our public life … read more

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12. The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For

By: David McCullough

3.60

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A New York TimesBestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored hi… read more

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13. The Story of Christianity: Volume 2: The Reformation to the Present Day

By: Justo L. González

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

This highly informative, narrative history covers the events, persons, external influences, and for… read more

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14. The Longest Day

By: Cornelius Ryan

4.25

Format: 131 pages,

The classic account of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan's unsurpa… read more

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15. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

By: Abigail Shrier

4.06

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more

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"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

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16. Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West

By: Andrew Wilson

4.51

Format: 473 pages, Kindle Edition

How 7 Transformational Events in 1776 Paved the Way for Today’s Post-Christian West With dizzyin… read more

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  • history
  • church history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • nonfiction
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17. Finding the Right Hills to Die on: The Case for Theological Triage

By: Gavin Ortlund

4.34

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

In theology, just as in battle, some hills are worth dying on. But how do we know which ones? When … read more

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  • christianity
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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18. Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age

By: Samuel James

4.44

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

How the Habitat of Internet Technology Undermines Christian Wisdom With advancements in internet te… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • theology
Cover of Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World by Joe Rigney

19. Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World

By: Joe Rigney

4.54

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Who are you when the teeth come out? For every true act of leadership, there is an equal and mo… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
"The Scriptures regularly use the metaphor of a body to speak about human social life. The church is the body of Christ, with many members (1 Cor. 12). Marriage is a “one flesh"

-Joe Rigney, Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World

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20. Raising Emotionally Strong Boys: Tools Your Son Can Build On for Life

By: David Thomas

4.58

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

About those meltdowns, blowups, and one-word answers . . . Some say that's just how boys are--pr… read more

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21. Deep Discipleship: How the Church Can Make Whole Disciples of Jesus

By: J.T. English

4.48

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

Everyone is being discipled. The question what is discipling us?     The majority of Christians to… read more

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  • christianity
  • nonfiction
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22. 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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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. The Air We Breathe: How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality

By: Glen Scrivener

4.50

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Is Christianity history? Or is Christian history the deepest explanation of the modern world?Today … read more

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  • history
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  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
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24. Untangling Emotions: God's Gift of Emotions

By: J. Alasdair Groves

4.42

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Christians often view their emotions in one of two ways: either they don't matter at all or they ar… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes

By: Nancy R. Pearcey

4.51

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

How the Script for Masculinity Turned Toxic--and How to Fix It "Why Can't We Hate Men?" asks a hea… read more

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  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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26. America's Religious History: Faith, Politics, and the Shaping of a Nation

By: Thomas S. Kidd

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Religion, race, and American history. America's Religious History is an up-to-date, narrative-based… read more

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27. The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?

By: Jim Davis

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

We are currently experiencing the largest and fastest religious shift in US history. It is greater … read more

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  • religion
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Cover of Prayer: How Praying Together Shapes the Church (9marks: Building Healthy Churches) by John Onwuchekwa

28. Prayer: How Praying Together Shapes the Church (9marks: Building Healthy Churches)

By: John Onwuchekwa

4.41

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Prayer is as necessary to the Christian as breathing is to the human body--but it often doesn't com… read more

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29. Are We Living in the Last Days?: Four Views of the Hope We Share about Revelation and Christ’s Return

By: Bryan Chapell

4.59

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Will Jesus's return be preceded by a single world government? Will every person have a government-i… read more

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30. Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda

By: Megan Basham

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

“This may just be the single most important book on modern Evangelicalism in recent years. It is bo… read more

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31. When Christians Disagree: Lessons from the Fractured Relationship of John Owen and Richard Baxter

By: Tim Cooper

4.06

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Two Oppositional Figures in Church History Shed Light on Division in the Church Today Our curren… read more

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