8 must-read race books like Separated: Inside An American Tragedy by Jacob Soboroff

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Separated: Inside An American Tragedy

By: Jacob Soboroff

4.16

Format: 292 pages, ebook

NBC News and MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff, winner of the 2019 Walter Cronkite Award for his r…

If you liked the race plot in Separated: Inside An American Tragedy by Jacob Soboroff , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. 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

Similar categories in Rachel Maddow's Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism book and Jacob Soboroff's Separated: Inside An American Tragedy

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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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2. Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party

By: Jonathan Karl

4.28

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

An extraordinary view into the politics of our times, Tired of Winning explores how Donald Trump re… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Karl's Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party book and Jacob Soboroff's Separated: Inside An American Tragedy

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
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3. White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America

By: Anthea Butler

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelic… read more

Similar categories in Anthea Butler's White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America book and Jacob Soboroff's Separated: Inside An American Tragedy

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother by Peggy O'Donnell Heffington

4. Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother

By: Peggy O'Donnell Heffington

3.77

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A historian explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood  in this “timely… read more

Similar categories in Peggy O'Donnell Heffington's Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother book and Jacob Soboroff's Separated: Inside An American Tragedy

  • nonfiction
  • social issues
  • history
  • audiobook
"Even after becoming a mother, fulfilling the role society demands of you, you still can't win."

-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother

"Parenthood is demanded of us, but we are asked to parent in isolated bubbles, supported--to put it crudely--by our bank accounts and little else."

-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother

"COVID-19 exposed what women with children and without both already knew: that despite the expectation we all become mothers, we receive little support once we do."

-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother

"In light of our failure to account for the pressures, anxieties, and dangers of modern life, it's possible to argue that the decision to opt out of parenthood is perfectly rational. The decision to h…"

-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother

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5. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

By: Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more

Similar categories in Roxanna Asgarian's We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America book and Jacob Soboroff's Separated: Inside An American Tragedy

  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

Similar categories in Tim Alberta's The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism book and Jacob Soboroff's Separated: Inside An American Tragedy

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election by Michael Isikoff

7. Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election

By: Michael Isikoff

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From veteran award-winning investigative journalists Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman, the epic … read more

Similar categories in Michael Isikoff's Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election book and Jacob Soboroff's Separated: Inside An American Tragedy

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl

8. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

By: Jonathan M. Metzl

4.10

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences—even for the white vo… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan M. Metzl's Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland book and Jacob Soboroff's Separated: Inside An American Tragedy

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • social issues
  • audiobook
"It's a narrative about how "whiteness" becomes a formation worth living and dying for, and how, in myriad ways and on multiple levels, white Americans bet their lives on particular sets of meanings a…"

-Jonathan M. Metzl, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

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9. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point

By: Steven Levitsky

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times… read more

Similar categories in Steven Levitsky's Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point book and Jacob Soboroff's Separated: Inside An American Tragedy

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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10. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.

4.17

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

"Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current… read more

Similar categories in Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow book and Jacob Soboroff's Separated: Inside An American Tragedy

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"Slavery didn’t end in 1865, it just evolved. The North won the Civil War, but the South won the narrative war"

-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

"I actually think the great evil of American slavery wasn’t involuntary servitude and forced labor. The true evil of American slavery was the narrative we created to justify it. They made up this ideo…"

-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

"I actually think the great evil of American slavery wasn’t involuntary servitude and forced labor. The true evil of American slavery was the narrative we created to justify it. They made up this ideo…"

-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

"We now know, thanks to developments in DNA analysis, that one in three African American males carries a Y-DNA signature inherited from a direct white male ancestor. Say, a great great great grandfath…"

-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

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11. Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next

By: Bradley Onishi

4.33

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

Watching the eerie footage of the January 6 insurrection, Bradley Onishi wondered: If I hadn't left… read more

Similar categories in Bradley Onishi's Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next book and Jacob Soboroff's Separated: Inside An American Tragedy

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

By: Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more

Similar categories in Thomas F. Schaller's White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy book and Jacob Soboroff's Separated: Inside An American Tragedy

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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13. The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War

By: Jeff Sharlet

4.02

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An unmatched guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, Jeff Sharlet journeys into cor… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Sharlet's The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War book and Jacob Soboroff's Separated: Inside An American Tragedy

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
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14. Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth

By: Rachel Maddow

4.35

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2010, the words “earthquake swarm” entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of M… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Maddow's Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth book and Jacob Soboroff's Separated: Inside An American Tragedy

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
"A trained Soviet KGB operative then heading its successor outfit, the FSB, Putin had done the sitting Russian president the memorable favor of successfully derailing the criminal investigation into t…"

-Rachel Maddow, Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth

"It's easy to look back on those strange days at the end of September 2003 and identify the warnings signs about Putin and Russia that American policy makers missed. But it would be unfair to them, an…"

-Rachel Maddow, Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth

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15. Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America

By: Christopher Wylie

4.36

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For the first time, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower tells the inside story of the data mining… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Wylie's Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America book and Jacob Soboroff's Separated: Inside An American Tragedy

  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We can already see how algorithms competing to maximize our attention have the capacity to not only transform cultures but redefine the experience of existence. Algorithmically reinforced “engagement"

-Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America

"Soon we were sharing personal information without the slightest hesitation. This was encouraged, in part, by a new vocabular. What were in effect privately owned surveillance networks became “communi…"

-Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America

"Soon we were sharing personal information without the slightest hesitation. This was encouraged, in part, by a new vocabulary. What were in effect privately owned surveillance networks became “commun…"

-Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America

"If we want to understand why these technology companies behave this way we should listen to the words of those who built them. Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist behind Facebook, Palantir, and Paypa…"

-Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America

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16. Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education

By: Sola Mahfouz

4.58

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doo… read more

Similar categories in Sola Mahfouz's Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education book and Jacob Soboroff's Separated: Inside An American Tragedy

  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy by Brian Stelter

17. Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy

By: Brian Stelter

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The  New York Times  bestselling author of  HOAX,  “[a] rare look inside the profoundly influential… read more

Similar categories in Brian Stelter's Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy book and Jacob Soboroff's Separated: Inside An American Tragedy

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
Cover of Separated: Inside An American Tragedy by Jacob Soboroff

18. Separated: Inside An American Tragedy

By: Jacob Soboroff

4.16

Format: 292 pages, ebook

NBC News and MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff, winner of the 2019 Walter Cronkite Award for his r… read more

Similar categories in Jacob Soboroff's Separated: Inside An American Tragedy book and Jacob Soboroff's Separated: Inside An American Tragedy

  • audiobook
  • race
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • journalism
  • social issues
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19. White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America’s Heartland

By: Dick Lehr

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

For fans of I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, the thrilling true story of a would-be terrorist attack again… read more

Similar categories in Dick Lehr's White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America’s Heartland book and Jacob Soboroff's Separated: Inside An American Tragedy

  • audiobook
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • social issues
Cover of Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind by Annalee Newitz

20. Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind

By: Annalee Newitz

3.99

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A sharp and timely book about the dark art of manipulation through weaponized storytelling Best-… read more

Similar categories in Annalee Newitz's Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind book and Jacob Soboroff's Separated: Inside An American Tragedy

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America (A Council on Foreign Relations Book) by Bruce Hoffman

21. God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America (A Council on Foreign Relations Book)

By: Bruce Hoffman

4.36

Format: 439 pages, Kindle Edition

Shocking acts of terrorism have erupted from violent American far-right extremists in recent years,… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

5 best-selling adult books like Separated: Inside An American Tragedy by Jacob Soboroff

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Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

4.45

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We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Separated: Inside An American Tragedy

Jacob Soboroff

4.16

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Dick Lehr

4.13

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On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

Elise Loehnen

3.80

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Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen

Suzanne Scanlon

4.22

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This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

Lyz Lenz

3.99

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Jenni Nuttall

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