14 best-selling history books like The Making of the President 1972 by Theodore H. White

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The Making of the President 1972

By: Theodore H. White

4.00

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

End of the Postwar World Solitary Man Road to Cedar Point From the Liberal Idea to the Liberal Theo…

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1. The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

By: Michael Shaara

4.33

Format: 345 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two drea… read more

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  • american history
"Never let them see you run."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

"Southern women like their men religious and a little mad."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

"He was one of those, like Stuart, who looked on war as God's greatest game."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

"…[W]e have a country here where the past cannot keep a good man in chains, and that's the nature of the war."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

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2. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3.96

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

Second only to Slaughterhouse-Five of Vonnegut's canon in its prominence and influence, God Bless Y… read more

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  • american
"Sons of suicides seldom do well."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

"God damn it, you've got to be kind."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

"Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

"May I ask you a highly personal question?" "It's what life does all the time."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

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3. Storm of Steel

By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. The Making of the President 1972

By: Theodore H. White

4.00

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

End of the Postwar World Solitary Man Road to Cedar Point From the Liberal Idea to the Liberal Theo… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
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5. A Moveable Feast

By: Ernest Hemingway

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. What It Takes: The Way to the White House

By: Richard Ben Cramer

3.06

Format: 220 pages,

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
Cover of Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua  Green

7. Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency

By: Joshua Green

3.77

Format: 342 pages,

From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partn… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. Sister Carrie

By: Theodore Dreiser

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving h… read more

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  • american
Cover of Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1) by Ernest H. Shepard, A.A. Milne

9. Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1)

By: Ernest H. Shepard , A.A. Milne

4.38

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends in which Pooh Bear uses a balloon to get honey,… read more

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"I might have known,"

-Ernest H. Shepard, Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1)

"Think, think, think."

-Ernest H. Shepard, Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1)

"It's so much more friendly with two."

-Ernest H. Shepard, Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1)

"Washing, this modern behind the ears nonsense."

-Ernest H. Shepard, Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1)

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10. Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987

By: Bob Woodward

4.00

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Veilis the story of the covert wars that were waged in Central America, Iran and Libya in a secreti… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. Quarto de Despejo: Diário de Uma Favelada

By: Carolina Maria de Jesus , None

4.47

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

O diário da catadora de papel Carolina Maria de Jesus deu origem à este livro, que relata o cotidia… read more

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  • history
"Why is it that the saints of June are honored with fire?"

-Carolina Maria de Jesus, Quarto de Despejo: Diário de Uma Favelada

"A noite está tépida. O céu está salpicado de estrelas. Eu que sou exótica gostaria de recortar um pedaço do céu para fazer um vestido"

-Carolina Maria de Jesus, Quarto de Despejo: Diário de Uma Favelada

"Eskiden unlu maddeler pahalı idi. Şimdi de pirinç ve fasulye onları gölgede bıraktı.Yeni zenginler gibi asillerin tarafına geçtiler. Demek siz de, fasulye ve pirinç, bizi terkettiniz?"

-Carolina Maria de Jesus, Quarto de Despejo: Diário de Uma Favelada

"Skeçler yazıp sirk müdürüne götürdüm. Bana, "Ne yazık ki zencisiniz." diye cevap verdiler. Kıvırcık saçlarımla, esmer tenimi ne kadar sevdiğimi unutuyorlar halbuki. Hatta zencilerin saçlarını beyazla…"

-Carolina Maria de Jesus, Quarto de Despejo: Diário de Uma Favelada

12. The Blessing Way (Leaphorn & Chee, #1)

By: Tony Hillerman

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim… read more

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13. The Gods of Guilt (Mickey Haller, #5; Harry Bosch Universe, #23)

By: Michael Connelly

2.76

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Defense attorney Mickey Haller returns with a haunting case in the gripping new thriller from #1 Ne… read more

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14. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis

4.15

Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more

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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

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15. All the President’s Men

By: Bob Woodward , Carl Bernstein

4.18

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

The full account of the Watergate scandal from the two Washington Post reporters who broke the stor… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
"The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up the hierarchical line of editors) was 'What have you done for me today?' Yesterday was for the hist…"

-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men

"Bernstein looked like one of those counterculture journalists that Woodward despised. Bernstein thought that Woodward's rapid rise at the Post had less to do with his ability than his Establishment c…"

-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men

"Rosenfeld runs the metropolitan staff, the Post's largest, like a football coach. He prods his players, letting them know that he has promised the front office results, pleading, yelling, cajoling, p…"

-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men

"Simons, as restrained as Bradlee could be hard-charging and obstreperous, liked to tell of watching Bradlee grind his cigarrettes out in a demitasse cup during a formal dinner party. Bradlee was one …"

-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men

16. A Christmas Carol, The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth

By: Charles Dickens , None

4.19

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

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17. The Red Badge of Courage

By: Stephen Crane

3.68

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more

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18. The Reversal (Harry Bosch, #16; Mickey Haller, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #19)

By: Michael Connelly

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profi… read more

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19. Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign

By: Jonathan Allen , Amie Parnes

4.23

Format: 400 pages,

It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton … read more

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20. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

By: Hunter S. Thompson

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, these are the articles that Hunter S.… read more

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21. The Selling of the President

By: Joe McGinniss

4.19

Format: 45 pages, Paperback

What makes you cast your ballot? A Presidential candidate or a good campaign? How he stands on the … read more

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22. The Powers That Be

By: David Halberstam

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Gives an account of power at work in America. read more

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23. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

By: Amity Shlaes

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Challenging conventional history, Amity Shlaes offers a reinterpretation of the Great Depression. S… read more

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24. Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7)

By: Michael Connelly

4.56

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning ar… read more

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25. A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland

By: Troy Senik

4.16

Format: 384 pages, ebook

“A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable” (National Review) biography of Grover Cleveland—the honest, p… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
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26. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

By: Liz Cheney

4.60

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers be… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

By: Charles Spencer

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Tim… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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28. Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

By: Tim Miller

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Former Republican political operative Tim Miller admits what no one else on the right ever will: th… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
" Why We Did It is a book about the people who submitted to every whim of a comically unfit and detestable man who crapped all over them and took over the party they had given their life to. It’s abou…"

-Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

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29. The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

By: Jon Meacham

4.26

Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politi… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
"The opposite of fear is hope, defined as the expectation of good fortune not only for ourselves but for a group to which we belong. Fear feeds anxiety and produces anger; hope, particularly in a poli…"

-Jon Meacham, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

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30. How to Be an Antiracist

By: Ibram X. Kendi

4.37

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justi… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Racist"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"I use “anticapitalist"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"Internalized racism is the real Black on Black crime."

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"But what was the difference between Ebonics and so-called “standard"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

Cover of Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman

31. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

By: Maggie Haberman

4.09

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidenc… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
"Trump is to business what professional wrestling is to sports: part of it, certainly, but also a cartoonish parody of it."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

"[White House Chief of Staff and Four-Star General John] Kelly shared with [Mick} Mulvaney {who was appointed when Kelly resigned] his view that Trump was the most flawed person he had ever met."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

11 best-selling american history books like The Making of the President 1972 by Theodore H. White

Transform Your Habits

The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

Michael Shaara

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Making of the President 1972

Theodore H. White

4.00

Transform Your Habits

What It Takes: The Way to the White House

Richard Ben Cramer

3.06

Transform Your Habits

Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency

Joshua Green

3.77

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The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

Dan Jones

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

Dan Jones

4.41

Transform Your Habits

The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066

Marc Morris

4.34

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The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

Charles Spencer

4.06

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