American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears
By: Farah Stockman
4.30
Format: 418 pages, Hardcover
What happens when Americans lose their jobs? In this illuminating story of ruin and reinvention, P…
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1. Janesville: An American Story
By: None , Amy Goldstein
4.10
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A Washington Post reporter’s intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors’ … read more
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2. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Randolph Hogan
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This is Marquez's account of a real-life event. In 1955, eight crew members of the destroyer Caldas… read more
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3. Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America
By: Alissa Quart
3.37
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Families today are squeezed on every side—from high childcare costs and harsh employment policies t… read more
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4. 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
5. The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
By: Jake Bittle
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, P… read more
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6. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
7. High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
By: Ben Austen
4.33
Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition
Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction b… read more
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8. Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers
By: Frank Figliuzzi
3.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways… read more
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9. Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
By: Eyal Press
4.17
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of dirty work--the work that society considers… read more
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10. 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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11. Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs
By: Benjamin Herold
3.89
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, hist… read more
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12. Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
By: Adam Minter
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
When you drop a box of unwanted items off at the local thrift store, where do they go? Probably acr… read more
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"Encouraging consumers to think more seriously about the financial, environmental, and personal costs of their consumption would be a major step in addressing the crisis of quality and the environment…"-Adam Minter, Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
13. Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services―Notes of a Former Caseworker
By: Jessica Pryce
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow , a former caseworker’s searing, clear-eyed inves… read more
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14. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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15. The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City
By: Kim Foster
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
James Beard Award–winning author Kim Foster reveals a new portrait of hunger and humanity in Americ… read more
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16. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
By: Pamela Prickett
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more
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17. American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears
By: Farah Stockman
4.30
Format: 418 pages, Hardcover
What happens when Americans lose their jobs? In this illuminating story of ruin and reinvention, P… read more
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18. The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach
By: Sarah Stodola
3.58
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A captivating exploration of beach resort culture—from its roots in fashionable society to its unde… read more
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19. Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
By: Alec MacGillis
3.90
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon’s impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cit… read more
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20. Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing
By: Andrew Ross
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening investigation of America’s rural and suburban housing crisis, told through a searing… read more
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21. The Nation City: Why Mayors Are Now Running the World
By: Rahm Emanuel
3.72
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
At a time of anxiety about the effectiveness of our national government, Rahm Emanuel provides a cl… read more
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