Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
By: Thomas E. Ricks
4.44
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on…
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1. 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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2. 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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3. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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4. The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America
By: H.W. Brands
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling historian and Pulitzer-prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives and battles of Gen… read more
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5. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
By: Sarah Bakewell
4.03
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more
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6. 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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7. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
By: Gary J. Bass
4.29
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlo… read more
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8. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
By: Katja Hoyer
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more
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"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
9. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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10. 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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11. Cuba: An American History
By: Ada Ferrer
4.45
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Winner of The L. A. Times Book Prize (2021) in History “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (… read more
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12. The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
By: Max Hastings
4.40
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tens… read more
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13. 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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14. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
By: Steven Levitsky
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times… read more
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15. By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
By: Margaret A. Burnham
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, … read more
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16. Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
By: Matthew F. Delmont
4.53
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil righ… read more
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17. Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
By: David Leonhardt
4.28
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American D… read more
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18. Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
By: Amy B. Zegart
3.96
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating and authoritative account of espionage for the digital age, from one of America’s lea… read more
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19. After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It
By: Will Bunch
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of college—the great polit… read more
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20. The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy
By: James Risen
4.13
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Witnesses were mysteriously murdered. The FBI, NSA, CIA, and even the IRS were on the warpath. It w… read more
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21. Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
By: Thomas E. Ricks
4.44
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on… read more
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