17 must-read nonfiction books like The Leo Frank Case: The Controversial History of the Arrest and Trial of a Jewish Man Wrongly Convicted of Murder in the Early 20th Century by Charles River Editors

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The Leo Frank Case: The Controversial History of the Arrest and Trial of a Jewish Man Wrongly Convicted of Murder in the Early 20th Century

By: Charles River Editors

2.59

Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition

*Includes pictures *Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts *Includes a bibliography for further…

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1. Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory

By: Deborah E. Lipstadt

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. Yet … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Despite its veneer of impartial scholarship, Butz’s book is replete with the same expressions of traditional anti-Semitism, philo-Germanism and conspiracy theory as the Holocaust denial pamphlets pri…"

-Deborah E. Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory

"There is a psychological dimension to the deniers’ and minimizers’ objectives: The general public tends to accord victims of genocide a certain moral authority. If you devictimize a people you strip …"

-Deborah E. Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory

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2. History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier

By: Deborah E. Lipstadt

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Now a major motion picture starring Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall and Tom Wilkinson. “A compelling bo… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. Stranger in a Strange Land

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.92

Format: 525 pages, Paperback

NAME: Valentine Michael Smith ANCESTRY: Human ORIGIN: Mars Valentine Michael Smith is a human … read more

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"Secrecy begets tyranny."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

"Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

"He's an honest politician--he stays bought."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

"Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

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4. The Camp of the Saints

By: Norman R. Shapiro , Jean Raspail

3.63

Format: 416 pages,

By the year 2000 there will on present projections be seven billion people swarming on the surface … read more

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5. Alexander Hamilton

By: Ron Chernow

3.77

Format: 32 pages,

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the … read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Jewish Supremacism

By: David Duke

3.83

Format: None pages,

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  • history

7. Go Set a Watchman

By: Harper Lee

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning… read more

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8. John Adams

By: David McCullough

3.71

Format: 435 pages,

The enthralling, often surprising story of John Adams, one of the most important and fascinating Am… read more

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9. Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World

By: William H. McRaven

4.00

Format: 2 pages, Audiobook

Listening Length: 1 hour and 53 minutes If you want to change the world, start off by making you… read more

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  • nonfiction

10. The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)

By: Pearl S. Buck

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble W… read more

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11. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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  • nonfiction
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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12. The Amish Wife

By: Gregg Olsen

3.49

Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition

The #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen solves a murder among the Am… read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show

By: Jonathan Karl

4.48

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

***THE INSTANT New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and IndieBound BESTSELLER*** An NP… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. Call Us What We Carry

By: Amanda Gorman

4.28

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, Amanda Gorman’s remarkable new collection reveal… read more

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"Loss is the cost of loving"

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"We write Because you might listen."

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"And the norms and notions of what “just is"

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"We've learned that quiet isn't always peace."

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

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15. 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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  • 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

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16. This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy

By: Jonathan Martin

4.00

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency by… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

By: Anne Applebaum

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Unity is an anomaly. Polarization is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal."

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will."

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Olga Tokarczuk, 2019: We horen niet langer de harmonie van de wereld, maar de kakofonie van geluiden, een ondraaglijke ruis waarin we wanhoping een een rustiger melodie proberen te ontdekken, al is h…"

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state: at times when people fear death, they go along with measures that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will save them—ev…"

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

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18. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

By: Robin DiAngelo

4.17

Format: 7 pages, Audiobook

Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility i… read more

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"I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don't. In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow."

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"For those of us who work to raise the racial consciousness of whites, simply getting whites to acknowledge that our race gives us advantages is a major effort. The defensiveness, denial, and resistan…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"How can I say that if you are white, your opinions on racism are most likely ignorant, when I don't even know you? I can say so because nothing in mainstream US culture gives us the information we ne…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"Habitus maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways. .... Thus, white fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of ra…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

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19. This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

By: Tiffany Jewell

4.40

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Who are you? What is your identity? What is racism? How do you choose your own path? How do you sta… read more

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"Your privilege is something you don't often think about. It's often invisible to you until you take a moment to gain some insight and awareness into your whole self."

-Tiffany Jewell, This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

"Using the term Asian to describe all folx from Asian countries and ancestry does not acknowledge the vast and varied histories, cultures, and experiences of everyone."

-Tiffany Jewell, This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

"Someone described racism to me as the smog we breathe. It is all around us; racism is everywhere. Our lives are polluted by racism and it harms us all. The more we are aware of this smog of racism, t…"

-Tiffany Jewell, This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

"Folx will be committed to trying to fit you into the box. They will tell you you're too young to make a difference, that you should focus on getting good grades and going to college. They may also te…"

-Tiffany Jewell, This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

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20. The White Man's Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon

By: Dana Schwartz

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Narrated by the voice of a once-in-a-generation Twitter account @GuyInYourMFA: a handbook for the w… read more

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"In addition to bearing him thirteen children, Soya was privileged to copy the 1,225-page War and Peace by hand eight times while Tolstoy was editing it, because Tolstoy needed clean drafts to send al…"

-Dana Schwartz, The White Man's Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon

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21. A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism

By: Paul A. Hanebrink

3.46

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive account of the evolution and exploitation of the Judeo-Bolshevik myth, from… read more

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Cover of The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens by Richard N. Haass

22. The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens

By: Richard N. Haass

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A New York Times Bestseller A provocative guide to how we must reenvision citizenship if Americ… read more

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23. The Leo Frank Case: The Controversial History of the Arrest and Trial of a Jewish Man Wrongly Convicted of Murder in the Early 20th Century

By: Charles River Editors

2.59

Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition

*Includes pictures *Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts *Includes a bibliography for further… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece: The Myth is Collapsing by Adonis A. Georgiades

24. Homosexuality in Ancient Greece: The Myth is Collapsing

By: Adonis A. Georgiades

4.20

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

It is not in the purpose of this research to take a position in favour of, or against homosexuality… read more

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16 Best history books like The Leo Frank Case: The Controversial History of the Arrest and Trial of a Jewish Man Wrongly Convicted of Murder in the Early 20th Century by Charles River Editors

Transform Your Habits

Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory

Deborah E. Lipstadt

4.01

Transform Your Habits

History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier

Deborah E. Lipstadt

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Alexander Hamilton

Ron Chernow

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Jewish Supremacism

David Duke

3.83

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21 must-read audiobook books like The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens by Richard N. Haass

Transform Your Habits

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

4.45

Transform Your Habits

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

Liz Cheney

4.60

Transform Your Habits

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

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