18 Top nonfiction books like Great Society: A New History by Amity Shlaes

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Great Society: A New History

By: Amity Shlaes

4.05

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The author of the New York Times bestsellers The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a provocative an…

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1. What Has Government Done to Our Money? and The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar

By: Murray N. Rothbard

4.28

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

The Mises Institute is pleased to present this very beautiful hardbound edition of Rothbard's most … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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"...большинство стран под воздействием Британии вернулись к золотому стандарту, установив искусственно завышенный курс национальной валюты. В результате была построена типичная финансовая пирамида, в …"

-Murray N. Rothbard, What Has Government Done to Our Money? and The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar

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2. The Closing of the American Mind

By: Allan Bloom

3.93

Format: 233 pages,

The Closing of the American Mind,a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary … read more

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  • cultural
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy

By: Thomas Sowell

3.49

Format: 16 pages, Hardcover

This is the revised and enlarged edition of a new kind of introduction to economics for the general… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business

4. The Law

By: Frédéric Bastiat

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

How is it that the law enforcer itself does not have to keep the law? How is it that the law permit… read more

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5. Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality

By: Thomas Sowell

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

It is now more than three decades since the historic Supreme Court decision on desegregation, Brown… read more

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6. The Anti-capitalistic Mentality

By: Ludwig von Mises , Bettina Bien Greaves

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

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7. Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe

By: Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

4.45

Format: 270 pages, ebook

The Ground Is Moving The death of George Floyd at the hands of police in the summer of 2020 shocked… read more

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  • cultural
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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8. The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

By: Douglas Brunt

4.23

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the … read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"But the prevailing and indelible lesson, learned through traumatic personal experience, was his understanding of the family’s security. War and industrial innovation could destroy the life a family h…"

-Douglas Brunt, The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

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9. Social Justice Fallacies

By: Thomas Sowell

4.45

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this instant New York Times bestseller, renowned economist Thomas Sowell demolishes the myths th… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
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10. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

By: Abigail Shrier

4.06

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more

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  • cultural
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

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11. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

By: Nellie Bowles

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

By: Gad Saad

3.94

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

The West’s commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism has never been more seriously threate… read more

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"We envy people whose traits compete with our desirability as a mate."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

"Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

"To be a truly wise person requires that we recognize those domains best served by our intellect versus those best guided by our emotions."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

"There is no "black mind" or "white mind", no "white male of knowing", there is only one truth, and we find it through the scientific method."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

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13. One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General

By: William P. Barr

4.01

Format: 591 pages, Kindle Edition

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  The former attorney general provides a candid account of his… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
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14. The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism

By: Matthew Continetti

4.08

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A magisterial intellectual history of the last century of American conservatism When most people t… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford

By: Richard Norton Smith

4.46

Format: 992 pages, Hardcover

From the preeminent presidential scholar and acclaimed biographer of historical figures including G… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
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  • audiobook
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16. The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties

By: Christopher Caldwell

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A major American intellectual makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms inte… read more

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  • cultural
  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
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Cover of Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants by H.W. Brands

17. Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants

By: H.W. Brands

4.13

Format: None pages, Audio CD

From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteen… read more

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  • american history
  • american
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  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Great Society: A New History

By: Amity Shlaes

4.05

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The author of the New York Times bestsellers The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a provocative an… read more

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  • american history
  • american
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  • historical
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  • audiobook
Cover of Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse by Timothy P. Carney

19. Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse

By: Timothy P. Carney

3.93

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Now a Washington Post Bestseller. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump proclai… read more

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"Granting that you have more money than others, and that you don’t deserve such wealth—but stopping there—allows you to settle the score by paying your taxes and advocating more redistribution. This r…"

-Timothy P. Carney, Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse

"Local and state governments can help civil society by building towns and cities in ways more conducive to neighborliness and community building. Walkability is a big thing. Mixing residential and com…"

-Timothy P. Carney, Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse

"But what if what the working class—white, black, Hispanic, etc.— needs most isn’t a check from the government but inclusion in community? And what if the most accessible form of community—the church—…"

-Timothy P. Carney, Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse

"Surely man has free will, and there are famous stories of humans persisting in and strengthening their faith all alone. Saint Patrick was a slave left alone in a field with sheep in pagan Ireland as …"

-Timothy P. Carney, Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse

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20. Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative

By: Glenn C. Loury

4.26

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A shockingly frank memoir from a prize-winning economist, reflecting on his remarkable personal ody… read more

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Cover of Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda by Megan Basham

21. Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda

By: Megan Basham

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

“This may just be the single most important book on modern Evangelicalism in recent years. It is bo… read more

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13 must-read audiobook books like Great Society: A New History by Amity Shlaes

Transform Your Habits

The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

Douglas Brunt

4.23

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Social Justice Fallacies

Thomas Sowell

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

Abigail Shrier

4.06

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Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

Nellie Bowles

4.05

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The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency

Chris Whipple

4.28

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Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists

Bill O'Reilly

4.19

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Jonathan Karl

4.28

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McKay Coppins

4.36

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