Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House
By: Joshua Zeitz
4.01
Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition
The author of Lincoln's Boys takes us inside Lyndon Johnson's White House to show how the legendary…
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1. The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
By: Jonathan Alter
3.93
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
This is the story of a political miracle--the perfect match of man and moment. Franklin Delano R… read more
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2. The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
By: Kirstin Downey
4.22
Format: 458 pages, Hardcover
Frances Perkins is no longer a household name, yet she was one of the most influential women of the… read more
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3. The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
By: Robert A. Caro
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill… read more
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5. I Was Anastasia
By: Ariel Lawhon
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Audio CD
Ariel Lawhon, a rising star in historical suspense, unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in … read more
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6. My Beloved World
By: Sonia Sotomayor
3.74
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
An instant American icon--the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court--tells the story of her life… read more
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7. The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team
By: Ben Lindbergh , Sam Miller
3.34
Format: None pages, Hardcover
What would happen if two statistics-minded outsiders were allowed to run a professional baseball te… read more
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8. Richard Nixon: The Life
By: John A. Farrell
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Brilliantly researched, authoritatively crafted by a prize-winning biographer, and lively on the pa… read more
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9. The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society
By: Julian E. Zelizer
3.69
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A majestic big-picture account of the Great Society and the forces that shaped it, from Lyndon John… read more
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10. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
By: Peter Frankopan
3.77
Format: None pages,
From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more
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11. Revenge of the Sith
By: Matthew Woodring Stover , George Lucas
2.83
Format: 288 pages,
The turning point for the entire Star Wars saga is at hand After years of civil war, the Separatist… read more
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12. 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs -- The Election that Changed the Country
By: None
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Beginning with former president Theodore Roosevelt's return in 1910 from his African safari, Chace … read more
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13. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
14. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
By: Yascha Mounk
4.08
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more
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15. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
16. The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs
By: Laura Tremaine
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Offering a path for a new way to think about friendships, The Life Council will inspire and equip y… read more
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17. The Yellow House
By: Sarah M. Broom
3.90
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhoo… read more
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"We own what belongs to us whether we claim it or not."-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"Absences allow us one power over them. They do not speak a word. We say of them what we want. Still, they hover, pointing fingers at our backs."-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"...the house was not tethered to its foundation, that what held the house to its foundation of sill on piers, wood on bricks, was the weight of us all in the house, the weight of the house itself, th…"-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"When the house fell down, it can be said, something in me opened up. Cracks help a house resolve internally its pressures and stresses, my engineer friend had said. Houses provide a frame that bears …"-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
18. The Lazy Genius Kitchen: Have What You Need, Use What You Have, and Enjoy It Like Never Before
By: Kendra Adachi
4.07
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lazy Genius Way comes a fresh perspective for get… read more
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19. Peril
By: Bob Woodward
4.09
Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition
The book covers the end of the Trump presidency and the early months of the Biden presidency. Th… read more
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"Graham said, "I can get an affidavit tomorrow saying the world is flat."-Bob Woodward, Peril
20. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
By: Mustafa Suleyman
3.86
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more
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21. The Lazy Genius Way: Embrace What Matters, Ditch What Doesn't, and Get Stuff Done
By: Kendra Adachi
4.13
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Being a Lazy Genius isn't about doing more or doing less. It's about doing what matters to you. "I… read more
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22. Watergate: A New History
By: Garrett M. Graff
4.49
Format: 832 pages, Hardcover
From Garrett Graff, comes the first definitive narrative history of Watergate, exploring the full … read more
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23. We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City
By: Justin Fenton
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city as citizens demanded justice for Freddie Gray,… read more
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24. The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution
By: Ryan Grim
3.99
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A riveting insider account of the progressive movement in Congress centering A.O.C., Rashida Tlaib,… read more
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25. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
By: Kamala Harris
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us,… read more
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"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
". . . Being a good person meant standing for something larger than yourself; that success is measured in part by what you help others achieve and accomplish."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
26. James Monroe: A Life
By: Tim McGrath
4.20
Format: 738 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary life of James Monroe: soldier, senator, diplomat, and the last Founding Father to… read more
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27. Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House
By: Joshua Zeitz
4.01
Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition
The author of Lincoln's Boys takes us inside Lyndon Johnson's White House to show how the legendary… read more
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28. Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East
By: Philip H. Gordon
3.87
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
One of Foreign Affairs' Best of Books of 2021 and "Books For The Century"! "Book of the Week" on Fa… read more
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29. The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
By: William I. Hitchcock
4.34
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
An original and penetrating assessment of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, showing Ike’s enormous in… read more
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30. Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
By: Robert Dallek
4.13
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
A one-volume biography of Roosevelt by the #1 New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, focusin… read more
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31. The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage
By: Jonathan Cohn
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Jonathan Cohn's The Ten Year War is the definitive account of the battle over Obamacare, based on i… read more
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