Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
By: Thomas C. Leonard
4.11
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
In "Illiberal Reformers," Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and refor…
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1. The New Science of Politics: An Introduction (Walgreen Foundation Lectures)
By: Eric Voegelin
4.21
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
"Thirty-five years ago few could have predicted that The New Science of Politics would be a best-se… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
2. iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us
By: Jean M. Twenge
4.03
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A highly readable and entertaining first look at how today's members of iGen--the children, teens, … read more
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- cultural
- nonfiction
- sociology
3. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
By: Robert D. Putnam
3.77
Format: 67 pages,
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- cultural
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
4. Gender and the Politics of History
By: Joan Wallach Scott
3.53
Format: 39 pages, Paperback
Winner, in the original edition, of the 1989 Joan Kelly Prize of the American Historical Associatio… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
5. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
3.93
Format: 316 pages,
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
6. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
By: David Hackett Fischer
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
This book is the first volume in a cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English… read more
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- cultural
- american history
- american
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
7. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917
By: None , None
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
When former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries came out of retirement on the fourth of July, 1910 to… read more
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8. Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan
By: Kim Phillips-Fein
3.49
Format: 465 pages,
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9. On Human Nature
By: Roger Scruton
4.67
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger Scruton In this short… read more
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10. The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
By: Lisa McGirr
4.50
Format: 144 pages,
Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamor… read more
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11. The Way We Never Were: American Families & the Nostalgia Trap
By: Stephanie Coontz
3.80
Format: 281 pages,
The Way We Never Wereexamines two centuries of American family life and shatters a series of myths … read more
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12. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
By: Dava Sobel , Neil Armstrong
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorni… read more
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13. Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
By: Ira Katznelson
3.44
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Redefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal, Fear Itselffinally examines this pivotal … read more
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14. Troubled
By: Rob Henderson
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Oth… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
"Successful people tell the world they got lucky, then tell their loved ones about the importance of hard work and sacrifice. Critics of successful people tell the world those successful people got lu…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"People don't need motivation; they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: 'I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.' Seldom do people relish doing something har…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"Mom's friends were worried that their son isn't talking as much as other six-year-olds. They, like many parents, were concerned with how "smart" their kid is. "Should we be reading to him more?" they…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"You should keep your expectations in line with reality. If you view the military as a job, you will be miserable. It's not a job, it's a lot more than that. As long as you wear that uniform, it is yo…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
15. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
By: Neil Price
4.18
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
16. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
17. The Secret to Superhuman Strength
By: Alison Bechdel
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Fun Home, a profound graphic memoir of Bechdel's lifelong love affair with exerc… read more
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- nonfiction
"My transformation, thanks in part to Adrienne Rich, was easier than hers had been."-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
"Life many gay people of my generation, I would not behave like a teenager until I was in my twenties."-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
"Why have I spent so many hours of my life--very possibly as many as are actually recommended-- exercising ?!"-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
"Most people don't even try to get what they want because of the painful reckoning with their parents it entails."-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
18. 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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- cultural
- nonfiction
- sociology
"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
19. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
20. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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- american history
- american
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
21. Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
By: Stephen R. Platt
4.32
Format: 555 pages, Kindle Edition
As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
22. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
By: Max Hastings
4.30
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bes… read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the …"-Max Hastings, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
23. The Populist Delusion
By: Neema Parvini
4.37
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
The 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump unleashed a wave of populism not seen in America sin… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- sociology
"Left-wing progressivism"-Neema Parvini, The Populist Delusion
24. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
By: Kathleen Belew
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"Belew's book helps explain how we got to today's alt right."―Terry Gross, Fresh Air The white p… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
"The story of white power as a social movement exposes something broader about the enduring impact of state violence in America. It reveals one catastrophic ricochet of the Vietnam War, in the form of…"-Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
25. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
By: Kelly Lytle Hernández
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Me… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
26. Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
By: Thomas C. Leonard
4.11
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
In "Illiberal Reformers," Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and refor… read more
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- american history
- american
- history
- race
- politics
- eugenics
- nonfiction
- economics
- sociology
27. Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
By: Samuel Moyn
3.87
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisis “[A] daring new book.”—Becca Rothfeld, Washin… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
28. The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
By: Bryan Caplan
3.95
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Despite being immensely popular--and immensely lucrative—education is grossly overrated. In this ex… read more
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- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
- sociology
"Once everyone can enrich their souls for free, government subsidies for enrichment forfeit their rationale. To object, 'But most people don't use the Internet for spiritual enrichment' is actually a …"-Bryan Caplan, The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
29. The Habsburg Way: 7 Rules for Turbulent Times
By: Eduard Habsburg
4.26
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Few families in history are as renowned as the Habsburgs, one of the principal sovereign dynasties … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
30. Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP
By: Patrick Ruffini
4.10
Format: 336 pages, ebook
An eye-opening, revelatory account of the future of the Republican party as they unite working-clas… read more
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- politics
31. Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History ... and the University of North Carolina Press)
By: Samantha Seeley
4.25
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Who had the right to live within the newly united states of America? In the country's founding dec… read more
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- american history
- race
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