The Fifties: An Underground History
By: James R. Gaines
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A bold and original argument that upends the myth of the Fifties as a decade of conformity to celeb…
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1. The Songlines
By: Bruce Chatwin
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In this extraordinary book, Bruce Chatwin has adapted a literary form common until the eighteenth c… read more
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"A journey is a fragment of Hell."-Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
"Senza costrizione non si potrebbe fondare nessun insediamento. [...]"-Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
"Quali sono, quindi le prime impressioni che un bimbo nomade ha del mondo? Un capezzolo dondolante e una cascata d'oro."-Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
"Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence."-Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
2. 1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History
By: Jay Winik
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
**New York Times Bestseller** Jay Winik brings to life in "gripping" detail (The New York Times Boo… read more
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- american history
- biography
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3. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
By: Kiese Laymon
4.03
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique, stirring, and powerful new voices in Am… read more
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- politics
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4. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
By: Rick Perlstein
4.33
Format: 308 pages,
Politically insightful, Nixonland recaptures the turbulent 60s & early 70s, revealing how Dick Nixo… read more
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- american
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5. Goebbels: A Biography
By: Peter Longerich , Alan Bance , Jeremy Noakes , Lesley Sharpe
3.33
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
From renowned German Holocaust historian Peter Longerich comes the definitive one-volume biography … read more
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6. 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
7. 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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- american history
- american
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. 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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- biography
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. The Nineties
By: Chuck Klosterman
3.87
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more
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"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
10. 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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- audiobook
11. 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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12. Dreamland: An Autobiography
By: Bob Lazar
3.88
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
Bob Lazar is the reason Area 51 became infamous in the 1980s and his recent appearance on Joe Rogan… read more
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"The late nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, one of the best known and most respected UFO investigators, became the highest profile Lazar debunker, and although he often told his audiences that he wa…"-Bob Lazar, Dreamland: An Autobiography
13. The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
By: Les Payne
4.34
Format: 612 pages, Hardcover
Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a near… read more
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- biography
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"In America, the Jews sap the very life-blood of the so-called Negroes to maintain the state of Israel, its armies and its continues aggression against our brothers in the East."-Les Payne, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
14. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
By: Michael Schulman
4.09
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more
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- history
- audiobook
15. 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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- american
- biography
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
By: Matthew Gabriele
3.65
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle … read more
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- history
- audiobook
17. His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
By: Jonathan Alter
4.34
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
From one of America’s most respected journalists and modern historians comes the highly acclaimed, … read more
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- audiobook
18. Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution
By: H.W. Brands
3.92
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands offers a fresh and dramatic narrative of the Amer… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free
By: Sarah Weinman
3.55
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murde… read more
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- history
- biography
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History
By: Mitch Landrieu
4.03
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
The New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate statues confronts the racism that shapes us and a… read more
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- american
- biography
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- audiobook
"Once we start to listen rather than speak, see rather than look away, we will realize a simple truth: we are all the same."-Mitch Landrieu, In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History
21. Holding the Note: Profiles in Popular Music
By: David Remnick
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker gat… read more
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- audiobook
22. Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
By: S.C. Gwynne
4.34
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel… read more
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- american
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- nonfiction
23. God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America's Most Hated Man
By: Jack Kelly
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Benedict Arnold committed treason— for more than two centuries, that’s all that most Americans have… read more
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- biography
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- politics
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- audiobook
24. He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters
By: Schuyler Bailar
4.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Go‑to expert on gender identity, Schuyler Bailar, offers an essential, urgent guide that changes th… read more
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- lgbt
- feminism
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- audiobook
25. The First Populist: A Life of Andrew Jackson
By: David S. Brown
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A timely, “solidly researched [and] gracefully written” ( The Wall Street Journal ) biography of Pr… read more
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- american
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- audiobook
26. The Fifties: An Underground History
By: James R. Gaines
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A bold and original argument that upends the myth of the Fifties as a decade of conformity to celeb… read more
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- environment
- audiobook
27. The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis
By: Norman Ohler
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Harro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas… read more
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28. Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West
By: Anne F. Hyde
4.08
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A fresh history of the West grounded in the lives of mixed-descent … read more
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29. Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
By: Jon Grinspan
4.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The propulsive story of the Wide Awake anti-slavery youth movement, an overlooked but pivotal facto… read more
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30. America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War
By: H.W. Brands
4.37
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over Amer… read more
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31. Culture Is Bad for You: Inequality and the Creative Class
By: Orian Brook
3.87
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Culture will keep you fit and healthy. Culture will bring communities together. Culture will improv… read more
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