No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding (The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures)
By: Sean Wilentz
3.89
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Americans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its original toleration of racia…
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1. The Age of Reform
By: Richard Hofstadter
3.91
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and preeminent histo… read more
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- politics
- american history
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"Third parties are like bees: once they have stung, they die."-Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform
"Major parties have lived more for patronage than for principles; their goal has been to bind together a sufficiently large coalition of diverse interests to get into power; and once in power, to arra…"-Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform
"What came in the end was only a small war and a quick victory; when the farmers and the gentlemen finally did coalesce in politics, they produced only the genial reforms of Progressivism; and the man…"-Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform
2. The Radicalism of the American Revolution
By: Gordon S. Wood
4.08
Format: 447 pages, Paperback
In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analys… read more
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- american
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- american revolution
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"the republican revolution was the greatest utopian movement in American history. The revolutionaries aimed at nothing less than a reconstruction of American society....They sought to reconstruct a so…"-Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
"The idea of labor, of hard work, leading to increased productivity was so novel, so radical, in the overall span of Western history that most ordinary people, most of those who labored, could scarcel…"-Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
3. America's Constitution: A Biography
By: Akhil Reed Amar
4.25
Format: 657 pages, Hardcover
In America’s Constitution, one of this era’s most accomplished constitutional law scholars, Akhil R… read more
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- american history
- american
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4. The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
By: Robert A. Caro
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill… read more
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- politics
- american history
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5. Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
By: Joseph J. Ellis
3.50
Format: 218 pages, ebook
A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning Americ… read more
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- american revolution
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6. American Slavery, American Freedom
By: Edmund S. Morgan
4.21
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and quality. Ge… read more
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7. Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
By: Eric Foner
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now,… read more
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8. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
By: David R. Roediger
4.38
Format: 234 pages,
Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson … read more
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9. Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
By: Noam Chomsky , None , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
The best of Chomsky's recent talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power. In a … read more
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10. Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare?
By: James H. Cone
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Reexamines the ideology of the two most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. read more
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11. The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
By: Manisha Sinha
4.00
Format: 100 pages, Hardcover
Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by rac… read more
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12. Battle Cry of Freedom
By: James M. McPherson
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more
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13. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
By: Robert A. Caro
3.25
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman pr… read more
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14. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
By: Eric Foner
3.91
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
From a master historian, the story of Lincoln's--and the nation's--transformation through the cruci… read more
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15. 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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16. 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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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"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
17. Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
By: Esau McCaulley
4.43
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
Growing up in the American South, Esau McCaulley knew firsthand the ongoing struggle between despai… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
"Prayer for leaders and criticism of their practices are not mutually exclusive ideas. Both have biblical warrant in the same letter."-Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
"While I was at home with much of the theology in evangelicalism, there were real disconnects. First, there was the portrayal of the Black church in these circles. I was told that the social gospel ha…"-Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
18. 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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- politics
- nonfiction
19. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
By: Keith O'Brien
4.43
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
20. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
By: Rebecca Boyle
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
21. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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- race
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- nonfiction
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
22. This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
By: Matthew Karp
4.29
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
When the United States emerged as a world power in the years before the Civil War, the men who pres… read more
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- american
- history
- race
- the united states of america
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- civil war
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23. On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
By: Ronald C. White Jr.
4.45
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic an… read more
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- civil war
24. 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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25. 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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- american
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26. It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me
By: Rex Chapman
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A powerful memoir from the University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran, and social media … read more
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27. 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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28. Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
By: Kate Masur
4.20
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beg… read more
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29. No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding (The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures)
By: Sean Wilentz
3.89
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Americans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its original toleration of racia… read more
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30. The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" About the “Lost Cause"
By: James W. Loewen
4.33
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
Most Americans hold basic misconceptions about the Confederacy, the Civil War, and the actions of s… read more
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31. The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union
By: Stephen Puleo
4.54
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The groundbreaking biography of a forgotten civil rights hero. In the tempestuous mid-19th century… read more
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