Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement
By: Dan Abrams
4.32
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
"Poignant, sometimes harrowing." – Wall Street Journal The defense lawyer for Martin Luther King, …
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1. Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
By: Hampton Sides
3.92
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won--a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory In the fal… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
2. Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
By: Bruce Watson
4.25
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A majestic history of the summer of '64, which forever changed race relations in America In the su… read more
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3. 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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- history
- historical
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
4. The White House Plumbers
By: Egil “Bud” Krogh
3.35
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
NOW A FIVE-PART HBO SERIES, STARRING WOODY HARRELSON AND JUSTIN THEROUX The true story of The Whit… read more
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- history
- historical
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
By: Brad Meltzer
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes the little-known true sto… read more
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- history
- historical
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. 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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7. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
By: Michael Harriot
4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more
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- social justice
- african american
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8. 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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9. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
By: Robert Samuels
4.52
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism… read more
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- audiobook
10. The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America
By: H.W. Brands
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling historian and Pulitzer-prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives and battles of Gen… read more
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- politics
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- nonfiction
11. Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
By: Da’Shaun Harrison
4.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Exploring anti-fatness and anti-Blackness at the intersections of race, police violence, gender ide… read more
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- social justice
- audiobook
"Ugly is political. It is the determiner for who does and does not work; who does and does not Love; who does and does not die; who does and does not eat."-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
"What is the utility of "body positivity" if it only seeks to provide one with a false sense of confidence rather than to liberate all from that which cages the body?"-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
"What would it mean for us to lean into Insecurity as a political tool in which we free ourselves from insisting that we perform "perfection" and total confidence in order to advocate for our collecti…"-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
"What I am really naming here is the complicatedness of feeling both affirmed and harmed by your assault because your body is never really your own when you're fat and Black, and the trauma you arrive…"-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
12. The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden: The Biography (Bestselling Historical Nonfiction)
By: Peter L. Bergen
4.18
Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition
The world’s leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the first time the definitive biography … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope—And Hard Pills to Swallow—About Fighting for Black Lives
By: Andre Henry
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A leading voice for social justice reveals how he stopped arguing with white people who deny the on… read more
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- race
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
14. 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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- race
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
15. 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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- race
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- african american
- audiobook
16. 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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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. Cuba Libre!: Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History
By: Tony Perrottet
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Historian and travel writer Tony Perrottet chronicles the events of the Cuban Revolution and the fi… read more
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- history
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
By: Ty Seidule
4.42
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
"When we identify our history, we can change the narrative."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
"Whenever Lee made a decision regarding enslaved people he chose profit over human decency."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
"History is always changing. We link the past to our conception of the present and we always have."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
"When people have no political outlet nor means of changing a racist society, rioting is their only voice."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
19. 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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- history
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- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
20. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
4.05
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more
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- race
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- audiobook
21. Got Your Number: The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own
By: Mike Greenberg
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
ESPN personality ( Get Up and #Greeny ) and New York Times bestselling author Mike Greenberg partne… read more
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- audiobook
22. American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress
By: Wesley Lowery
4.18
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
“American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” — Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Ant… read more
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- audiobook
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. Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution
By: T.J. English
3.98
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
To underworld kingpins Meyer Lansky and Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Cuba was the greatest hope for the… read more
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- historical
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Life and Work
By: Victoria Ortiz
3.90
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
A 2020 Sydney Taylor Honor Book The life and career of the fiercely principled Supreme Court Justic… read more
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- politics
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- social justice
- audiobook
26. The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
By: Ben Raines
4.34
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An NPR Best Book of the Year. The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved peop… read more
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- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- social justice
- african american
- audiobook
27. Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency
By: Mark K. Updegrove
4.19
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed author and historian Mark K. Updegrove, head of the LBJ Foundation and presidential histo… read more
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28. We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
By: Caleb Gayle
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A landmark work of untold American history that reshapes our understanding of identity, race, and b… read more
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- social justice
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29. Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement
By: Dan Abrams
4.32
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
"Poignant, sometimes harrowing." – Wall Street Journal The defense lawyer for Martin Luther King, … read more
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30. Operation Pineapple Express: The Incredible Story of a Group of Americans Who Undertook One Last Mission and Honored a Promise in Afghanistan
By: Scott Mann
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An edge-of-your-seat thriller about a group of retired Green Bere… read more
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- history
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31. The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age
By: Patrick Parr
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
2019 Washington State Book Awards Finalist Martin Luther King Jr. was a cautious nineteen-year-old… read more
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