5 Best biography memoir books like Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy by Larry Tye

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Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy

By: Larry Tye

3.94

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on first-ever r…

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1. It Can't Happen Here

By: Sinclair Lewis , Christopher Hurt , Michael R. Meyer

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrow… read more

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  • politics
  • audiobook
"NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

2. Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)

By: Robert A. Caro

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

3. An American Tragedy

By: Richard R. Lingeman , Theodore Dreiser

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

On one level, An American Tragedyis the story of the corruption and destruction of one man, Clyde G… read more

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4. The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian

By: Shelby Foote

3.55

Format: None pages, Paperback

A narrative history of the American Civil War, which covers not only the battles and the troop move… read more

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5. Richard Nixon: The Life

By: John A. Farrell

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Brilliantly researched, authoritatively crafted by a prize-winning biographer, and lively on the pa… 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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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

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7. President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier

By: C.W. Goodyear

4.30

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” ( The Washington Post ) biography of the extraordina… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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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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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

By: Steve Coll

4.44

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
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  • audiobook
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11. The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler

By: David I. Kertzer

4.28

Format: 623 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The most important book ever written about the Catholic Church… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

By: Beverly Gage

4.37

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Watergate: A New History

By: Garrett M. Graff

4.49

Format: 832 pages, Hardcover

From Garrett​ Graff, comes the first definitive narrative history of Watergate, exploring the full … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics by Lawrence O'Donnell

14. Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics

By: Lawrence O'Donnell

4.41

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the celebrated host of MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthral… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Most politicians are more frustrated by the way their own party disappoints them than the way the other party opposes them. They expect opposition from the opposing party. That’s the way it’s suppose…"

-Lawrence O'Donnell, Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics

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15. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
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  • audiobook
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16. Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power

By: Timothy W. Ryback

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler’s Private Library , a dramatic recounting of th… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Putin: His Life and Times

By: Philip Short

4.32

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the Un… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice by David Enrich

18. Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice

By: David Enrich

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times’s Business Investigations Editor and #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers c… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"On January 6, months of fearmongering and lies about voter fraud and a stolen election exploded into a deadly insurrection. Jones Day wasn't to blame, but it wasn't not to blame either. The firm had …"

-David Enrich, Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice

Cover of Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy by Larry Tye

19. Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy

By: Larry Tye

3.94

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on first-ever r… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • law
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

20. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid

21. A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution

By: Anna Reid

3.96

Format: 431 pages, Kindle Edition

A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Thoroughly researched, stylish and entertaining' Financial … read more

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  • politics
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16 Top audiobook books like Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy by Larry Tye

Transform Your Habits

It Can't Happen Here

Sinclair Lewis , Christopher Hurt , Michael R. Meyer

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

4.45

Transform Your Habits

President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier

C.W. Goodyear

4.30

Transform Your Habits

A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland

Troy Senik

4.16

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28 Best history books like A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid

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American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

Benjamin E. Park

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Our Enemies Will Vanish

Yaroslav Trofimov

4.42

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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