White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret
By: A.J. Baime
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A riveting biography of Walter White, a little-known Black civil rights leader who passed for white…
Want to Read $ 16.99"The sooner you people find that you can't depend on David and the Lord," Darrow said, "but get busy yourselves, the better off you will be. If the Lord was going to do anything for you, he would've done it already." (Clarence Darrow)"-A.J. Baime, White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret
"The sooner you people find that you can't depend on David and the Lord," Darrow said, "but get busy yourselves, the better off you will be. If the Lord was going to do anything for you, he would've done it already." (Clarence Darrow)"-A.J. Baime, White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret
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1. 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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2. Detroit: An American Autopsy
By: Charlie LeDuff
3.40
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In the heart of America, a metropolis is quietly destroying itself. Detroit, once the richest city … read more
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3. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
By: Daniel Okrent
3.89
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 … read more
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4. 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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"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
5. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more
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6. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
7. 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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8. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.71
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more
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9. Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House
By: Jared Cohen
4.27
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author of Accidental Presidents explores what happens after the most pow… read more
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10. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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11. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.42
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more
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12. Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
By: Tomiko Brown-Nagin
4.38
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The first major biography of one of our most influential but least known judicial activists that pr… read more
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13. Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe
By: David Maraniss
4.02
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
A riveting new biography of America’s greatest all-around athlete by the bestselling author of the … read more
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14. 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
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15. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
By: George Stephanopoulos
4.45
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more
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16. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
By: Jeffrey Toobin
4.16
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more
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17. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By: Ilyon Woo
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more
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18. By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
By: Margaret A. Burnham
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, … read more
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19. 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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"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
20. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America
By: Joy-Ann Reid
4.57
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut and New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Sold Amer… read more
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21. Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
By: Matthew F. Delmont
4.53
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil righ… read more
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22. Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
By: Joan Biskupic
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Editor's Choice "Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the co… read more
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23. Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street
By: Victor Luckerson
4.38
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
A multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa’s Greenwood district, known as “Black… read more
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"The newspaper encouraged displaced entrepreneurs to open businesses in South Tulsa and continue smashing color barriers. But it also spoke to a larger argument about how the definition of black succe…"-Victor Luckerson, Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street
24. Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson
By: Rebecca Boggs Roberts
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A nuanced portrait of the first acting woman president, written with fresh and cinematic verve by a… read more
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25. White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret
By: A.J. Baime
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A riveting biography of Walter White, a little-known Black civil rights leader who passed for white… read more
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"The sooner you people find that you can't depend on David and the Lord," Darrow said, "but get busy yourselves, the better off you will be. If the Lord was going to do anything for you, he would've d…"-A.J. Baime, White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret
26. The Love You Save: A Memoir
By: Goldie Taylor
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings meets Educated in this harrowing, deeply hopeful memoir of family, … read more
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27. All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
By: Darcy Lockman
4.16
Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition
Why do men do so little at home? Why do women do so much? Why don't our egalitarian values match ou… read more
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"It is a truism that motherhood makes many women feminist."-Darcy Lockman, All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
"Men are not socialized to feel guilty for having freedom or for not being there for other people."-Darcy Lockman, All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
"I became my own worst enemy, conflicted about my right to ask, self-conscious about my rising anger, and too often stuck with the choice between fighting or just taking care of it, whatever it was, o…"-Darcy Lockman, All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
"Joan Williams at the Center for WorkLife Law said "My strongest advice to young women: Don't just try to find a man who's supportive of women. That's a threshold. But consider, what is his attitude t…"-Darcy Lockman, All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
28. The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America
By: Nicholas Buccola
4.49
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
How the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to… read more
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29. To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq
By: Robert Draper
4.30
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Dead Certain comes the definitive, revelatory reck… read more
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30. A Most Tolerant Little Town: A Forgotten Story of Desegregation in America
By: Rachel Louise Martin
4.22
Format: 384 pages, ebook
An intimate portrait of a small town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forg… read more
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31. Delivered Under Fire: Absalom Markland and Freedom's Mail
By: Candice Shy Hooper
3.75
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
During the Civil War his movements from battlefield to battlefield were followed in the North and i… read more
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