12 Best politics books like Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest by Lawrence Roberts

Cover of Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest by Lawrence Roberts

Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest

By: Lawrence Roberts

4.29

Format: 467 pages, Kindle Edition

A vivid account of the largest act of civil disobedience in US history, in Richard Nixon’s Washingt…

If you liked the politics plot in Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest by Lawrence Roberts , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir

By: Philip Caputo

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The 40th-anniversary edition of the classic Vietnam memoir—featured in the PBS documentary series T… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain."

-Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir

"There was so much human suffering in these scenes that I could not respond to it."

-Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir

"Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy."

-Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir

"We had survived, but in war, a man does not have to be killed or wounded to become a casualty. His life, his sight, or limbs are not the only things he stands to lose."

-Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir

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2. Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom

By: Condoleezza Rice

4.10

Format: 13 pages, Audio CD

From the former Secretary of State and bestselling author -- a sweeping look at the global struggle… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero

By: Timothy Egan

4.09

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of o… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. The Quiet American

By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more

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5. No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington

By: Condoleezza Rice

3.00

Format: None pages, ebook

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6. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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7. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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8. Welcome to Dunder Mifflin: The Ultimate Oral History of The Office

By: Brian Baumgartner

4.28

Format: 352 pages, ebook

The official oral history book of The Office, featuring exclusive interviews with every major playe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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9. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

By: Vincent Bevins

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

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10. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

By: John McWhorter

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

People of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question… read more

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  • politics
  • history
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"To tar America as insufficiently aware of slavery is more about smugness and noble victimhood than forging something new and needed."

-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

"Antiracism should focus strongly on ending the war on drugs, and there is no need for legions of whites to be instructed in how privileged they are for this to happen."

-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

"[P]rofound social change can happen without the entire populace being junior scholars about racist injustice. Such change has been happening world-wide for several centuries."

-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

"They are unreachable for the simple reason that they are arguing from religion rather than reason, trying to foist their dogma into the public square out of a misguided sense that they are the world'…"

-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

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11. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

By: Jacob Mikanowski

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

By: Max Hastings

4.30

Format: 896 pages, Hardcover

An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bes… read more

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  • politics
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  • audiobook
"The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the …"

-Max Hastings, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

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13. We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City

By: Justin Fenton

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city as citizens demanded justice for Freddie Gray,… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

By: Gloria Dickie

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of 2023 A Scientific American Best… read more

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  • history
  • audiobook
"Whenever people had asked me which bear was my favorite, I had dithered and hedged. "I like them all equally," I would say, diplomatically. Sun bears were cute with lolling tongues. Grizzlies were em…"

-Gloria Dickie, Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

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15. The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

By: Viet Thanh Nguyen

3.96

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited new novel from one of America’s most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Com… read more

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"Imagine always having to live with a hyphen dividing you!"

-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

"[B]ooks mean something different when return to them later, leavened with age."

-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

"[B]ooks meant something different when we returned to them later, leavened by life."

-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

"We were the unwanted, the unneeded, and the unseen, invisible to all but ourselves. And you are so happy you don’t know whether to laugh or cry."

-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

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16. A History of Women in 101 Objects

By: Annabelle Hirsch

4.21

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Discover the hidden history of women—and the world—through this visual exploration of intimate obje… read more

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"Pans and other such objects are the very opposite of monuments. They don't commemorate revolutions or victories on the battlefield; don't allude to great contracts or those moments of upheaval that h…"

-Annabelle Hirsch, A History of Women in 101 Objects

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17. The Fall of Richard Nixon: A Reporter Remembers Watergate

By: Tom Brokaw

3.56

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The last year of the Nixon presidency was filled with power politics, legal jiu-jitsu and high-stak… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest by Lawrence Roberts

18. Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest

By: Lawrence Roberts

4.29

Format: 467 pages, Kindle Edition

A vivid account of the largest act of civil disobedience in US history, in Richard Nixon’s Washingt… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

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20. Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland

By: Henry Hemming

4.33

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Four Shots in the Night is the story of the killing of Frank Hegarty, an IRA member turned British … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Triumph of Nancy Reagan

By: Karen Tumulty

4.27

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

A Washington Post Notable Book The definitive biography of the fiercely vigilant and politically a… read more

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16 Top audiobook books like Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest by Lawrence Roberts

Transform Your Habits

Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom

Condoleezza Rice

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Transform Your Habits

Welcome to Dunder Mifflin: The Ultimate Oral History of The Office

Brian Baumgartner

4.28

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Eruption

Michael Crichton

3.91

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You Like It Darker

Stephen King

4.32

Transform Your Habits

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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