15 Best american history books like Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 by Thomas E. Ricks

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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…

If you liked the american history plot in Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 by Thomas E. Ricks , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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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

Similar categories in Adam Hochschild's American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis book and Thomas E. Ricks's Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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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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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Jonathan Eig's King: A Life book and Thomas E. Ricks's Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America by H.W. Brands

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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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq by Steve Coll

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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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass

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

Similar categories in Gary J. Bass's Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia book and Thomas E. Ricks's Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 by Katja Hoyer

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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"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

Cover of The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell

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

Similar categories in Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet book and Thomas E. Ricks's Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage

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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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer

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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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962 by Max Hastings

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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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham

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

Similar categories in Jon Meacham's And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle book and Thomas E. Ricks's Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky

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

Similar categories in Steven Levitsky's Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point book and Thomas E. Ricks's Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners by Margaret A. Burnham

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

Similar categories in Margaret A. Burnham's By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners book and Thomas E. Ricks's Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont

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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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream by David Leonhardt

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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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence by Amy B. Zegart

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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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It by Will Bunch

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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy by James Risen

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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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 by Thomas E. Ricks

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

Similar categories in Thomas E. Ricks's Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 book and Thomas E. Ricks's Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • african american
  • audiobook

20 best-selling audiobook books like Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 by Thomas E. Ricks

Transform Your Habits

American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

Adam Hochschild

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

Stacy Schiff

3.74

Transform Your Habits

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig

4.67

Transform Your Habits

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

Sarah Bakewell

4.03

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19 Best audiobook books like The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy by James Risen

Transform Your Habits

President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier

C.W. Goodyear

4.30

Transform Your Habits

UFO: The Inside Story of the U.S. Government's Search for Alien Life Here―and Out There

Garrett M. Graff

3.73

Transform Your Habits

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

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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