The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero
By: Peter S. Canellos
4.34
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
The “superb” ( The Guardian ) biography of an American who stood against all the forces of Gilded A…
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1. All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
By: John Taliaferro
4.27
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
From secretary to Abraham Lincoln to secretary of state for Theodore Roosevelt, John Hay remained a… read more
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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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3. The Hemingses of Monticello
By: Annette Gordon-Reed
3.77
Format: 342 pages,
This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had … read more
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4. Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
By: Noah Feldman
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America's leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicia… read more
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5. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
6. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
By: Richard B. Morris , Henry Steele Commager , Eric Foner
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) ma… read more
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7. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Doris Kearns Goodwin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of Team of Rivals, captures the Progr… read more
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8. 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
9. 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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10. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
By: Stacy Schiff
3.74
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man… read more
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11. 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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12. 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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13. Romney: A Reckoning
By: McKay Coppins
4.36
Format: 416 pages, ebook
A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more
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14. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
By: Stephen Vladeck
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed legal scholar’s “essential” (Linda Greenhouse) exp… read more
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"But in order after order, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration most of what it wanted without endorsing principles that the justices would be bound to apply to future presidents, so that t…"-Stephen Vladeck, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
15. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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16. 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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17. On the House: A Washington Memoir
By: John Boehner
3.91
Format: None pages, Audio CD
This program is read by the author. * INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 WALL STREET JOURNA… read more
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"A leader without followers is just a man out taking a walk"-John Boehner, On the House: A Washington Memoir
"It's just golf... hit the ball, find the ball, hit it again"-John Boehner, On the House: A Washington Memoir
"Get the right people on the bus, and then find them the right seat"-John Boehner, On the House: A Washington Memoir
"The mark of a good leader is to prepare those who will succeed you."-John Boehner, On the House: A Washington Memoir
18. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
By: Jon Meacham
4.46
Format: 676 pages, Hardcover
The life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln, exploring why and how Lincoln confronted secession… read more
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19. The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III
By: Andrew Roberts
4.25
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away … read more
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20. Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
By: Yossi Klein Halevi
4.12
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentato… read more
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"Sometimes, in political arguments with Palestinians, I would be told: Why are we arguing about who owns the land, when in the end the land will own us both?"-Yossi Klein Halevi, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
"The notion of a people chosen by God wasn't intended to bestow privilege but responsibility. Jewish history attests that this role carries more burden than glory. The classical way Jews understood th…"-Yossi Klein Halevi, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
"We are trapped, you and I, in a seemingly hopeless cycle. Not a "cycle of violence" -- a lazy formulation that tells us nothing about why our conflict exists, let alone how to end it. Instead, we're …"-Yossi Klein Halevi, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
21. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
By: Eric Foner
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes tha… read more
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22. The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
By: Joseph J. Ellis
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in d… read more
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23. 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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24. Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
By: H.W. Brands
4.01
Format: 452 pages, Kindle Edition
From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the sho… read more
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25. Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
By: Roger Lowenstein
4.24
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From renowned journalist and master storyteller Roger Lowenstein, a revelatory financial investigat… read more
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26. The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It
By: Dorothy A. Brown
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert o… read more
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"Once again, a single sentence would hold the key. I found it in The Economic Status of Black Women: An Exploratory Investigation, a 1990 staff report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: On averag…"-Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It
27. Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
By: Stephen Budiansky
4.22
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket bal… read more
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28. Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism
By: Stephen Breyer
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A provocative, brilliant analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that dec… read more
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29. The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero
By: Peter S. Canellos
4.34
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
The “superb” ( The Guardian ) biography of an American who stood against all the forces of Gilded A… read more
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30. The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
By: Akhil Reed Amar
4.41
Format: 817 pages, Hardcover
A history of the American Constitution's formative decades from a preeminent legal scholar When … read more
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"with all America and the world looking on, the Federalists in New York at the end of the process reaffirmed what had been clear from the beginning: ratification would be “in toto, and for ever."-Akhil Reed Amar, The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
"in 1775 there arose a remarkable civic society that aimed to end slavery itself. The society was formed not by Johnson, nor in Johnson’s vaunted London, nor indeed anywhere in Britain proper, but rat…"-Akhil Reed Amar, The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
31. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
By: Nancy Pelosi
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more
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