Animal City: The Domestication of America
By: Andrew A. Robichaud
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Why do America's cities look the way they do? If we want to know the answer, we should start by loo…
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1. From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America
By: Beth L. Bailey
3.68
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
From gentleman callers to big men on campus, from Coke dates to "parking," From Front Porch to Back… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
2. Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
By: Kim Phillips-Fein
4.21
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST An epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster―and an … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- history
- american history
3. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
4. Homeward Bound: American Families In The Cold War Era
By: Elaine Tyler May
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the 1950s, the term "containment" referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
5. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
By: George Chauncey
3.84
Format: None pages, Paperback
Gay New Yorkbrilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
6. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
By: William Cronon , John Putnam Demos , Tere LoPrete
3.66
Format: 296 pages,
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
7. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
By: Mae M. Ngai
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- history
- american history
8. Age of Fracture
By: Daniel T. Rodgers
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the ideas that most Americans lived by started to fra… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- american history
9. What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War
By: Chandra Manning
3.80
Format: 25 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, unprecedented account of why Union and Confederate soldiers identified slavery as the root… read more
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10. Discourse on Colonialism
By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more
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11. To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise
By: None
4.14
Format: 560 pages,
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12. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
By: David W. Blight
4.15
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In… read more
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13. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- american history
"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"The global Indigenous cause reached a major milestone in 2007 when the UN General Assembly passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Only four members of the assembly voted in oppos…"-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
14. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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15. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
16. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
By: Claudio Saunt
4.23
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East t… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- history
- american history
17. The Overstory
By: Richard Powers
4.12
Format: 502 pages, Paperback
The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning ev… read more
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"Human history was the story of increasingly disoriented hunger."-Richard Powers, The Overstory
"The confirmation of others: a sickness the entire race will die of."-Richard Powers, The Overstory
"Civilized yards are all alike. Every wild yard is wild in its own way."-Richard Powers, The Overstory
"Trees fall with spectacular crashes. Planting is silent and growth invisible."-Richard Powers, The Overstory
18. Miracle Creek
By: Angie Kim
3.87
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
A literary courtroom thriller about an immigrant family and a young single mother accused of killin… read more
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"That was the thing about lies: they demanded commitment. Once you lied, you had to stick to your story."-Angie Kim, Miracle Creek
"Having a special-needs child didn’t just change you; it transmuted you, transported you to a parallel world with an altered gravitational axis."-Angie Kim, Miracle Creek
"Good things and bad—every friendship and romance formed, every accident, every illness—resulted from the conspiracy of hundreds of little things, in and of themselves inconsequential."-Angie Kim, Miracle Creek
"Matt blinked - how long did that take? A tenth of a second? A hundredth? - then, where Henry's face had been, there was fire. Face, then blink, then fire. No, faster thant that. Face, blink, fire. Fa…"-Angie Kim, Miracle Creek
19. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By: Ilyon Woo
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
20. Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
By: Adom Getachew
4.12
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard hi… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
21. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
By: Gary Gerstle
4.19
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- american history
22. Married To A Daughter Of The Land: Spanish-Mexican Women And Interethnic Marriage In California, 1820-80
By: Maria Raque'l Casas
3.09
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The surprising truth about intermarriage in 19th-Century California. Until recently, most studies o… read more
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- history
23. Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy
By: Hidetaka Hirota
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Expelling the Poor examines the origins of immigration restriction in the United States, especially… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- american history
24. Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State (Volume 63) (American Crossroads)
By: Moon-Ho Jung
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
One of Smithsonian Magazine 's Favorite Books of 2022 This history reveals how radical threats to … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- american history
25. Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939
By: Natalia Molina
4.08
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
26. The 4-H Harvest: Sexuality and the State in Rural America
By: Gabriel N. Rosenberg
4.00
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
"Eureka! Who would have thought that a history of the 4-H club could brilliantly illuminate so many… read more
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- nonfiction
27. Animal City: The Domestication of America
By: Andrew A. Robichaud
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Why do America's cities look the way they do? If we want to know the answer, we should start by loo… read more
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28. Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920
By: Kristin L. Hoganson
3.74
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Histories of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era tend to characterize the United States as an expans… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
29. Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
By: Dylan Penningroth
4.27
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A prize-winning scholar draws on astonishing new research to demonstrate how Black people used the … read more
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- nonfiction
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30. Freedom's Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction
By: Stacey L. Smith
3.82
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusivel… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
31. Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States
By: Stephen Kantrowitz
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
This concise and revealing history reconsiders the Civil War era by centering one Native American t… read more
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- history
