The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. And Robert F. Kennedy
By: David Margolick
4.11
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
No issue in America in the 1960s was more vital than civil rights, and no two public figures were m…
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1. The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
By: Chris Whipple
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions--and i… read more
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"At a farewell party, his staff presented him with a gift: a beaten-up car seat—a nod to his Secret Service code name."-Chris Whipple, The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
"When government works, it is usually because the chief understands the fabric of power, threading the needle where policy and politics converge."-Chris Whipple, The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
2. The Moon Is Down
By: John Steinbeck
3.93
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Taken by surprise, a small coastal town is overrun by an invading army with little resistance. The … read more
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"The fool supply was controlled..."-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down
"We have taken on a job, haven’t we?"-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down
"The flies have conquered the flypaper."-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down
"...rose like cream to the top of milk."-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down
3. Truman
By: David McCullough
3.31
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events… read more
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4. The Fifth Assassin (Culper Ring, #2)
By: Brad Meltzer
4.29
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, there have been more than two dozen assassination atte… read more
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5. Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
By: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. , Robert F. Kennedy
3.60
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over it… read more
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6. Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours that Made History
By: Andrew Cohen
1.00
Format: 168 pages, ebook
On two consecutive days in June 1963, in two lyrical speeches, John F. Kennedy pivots dramatically … read more
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7. The Spy Who Loved Me (James Bond, #10)
By: Ian Fleming
4.10
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
'He was about six feet tall, slim and fit. The eyes in the lean , slightly tanned face were a very … read more
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8. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin , Suzanne Toren
4.28
Format: 916 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Lincoln PrizeAcclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political… read more
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"An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
"And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
"(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,"-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
"I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
9. The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence
By: Clint Hill , Lisa McCubbin Hill , Gerald Blaine
3.65
Format: 304 pages, ebook
The New York Timesbestselling and extraordinary true story of the critical events leading up to and… read more
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10. Shadow Divers
By: Robert Kurson
4.04
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which t… read more
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11. Murder in the White House (Capital Crimes, #1)
By: Margaret Truman
2.35
Format: 62 pages,
In a town where the weapon of choice is usually a well-aimed rumor, the strangling of Secretary of … read more
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12. The Partly Cloudy Patriot
By: Sarah Vowell , None
4.33
Format: 57 pages,
Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy road… read more
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13. The Inner Circle (Culper Ring, #1)
By: Brad Meltzer
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
"There are stories no one knows. Hidden stories. I love those stories. And since I work in the Nati… read more
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14. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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15. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
By: Daniel James Brown
3.59
Format: 464 pages,
In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Il… read more
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16. A Pirate Looks at Fifty
By: Jimmy Buffett , None
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
For the millions of fans of Jimmy Buffett's music as well as his bestselling books, Tales From Marg… read more
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17. Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man
By: Walter Stahr
4.13
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From one of our most acclaimed new biographers--the first full life of the leader of Lincoln's "tea… read more
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18. The Right Stuff
By: Tom Wolfe
4.08
Format: 432 pages,
Tom Wolfe began The Right Stuffat a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism.… read more
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19. 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
20. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
21. 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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22. Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
By: Tim Miller
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Former Republican political operative Tim Miller admits what no one else on the right ever will: th… read more
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" Why We Did It is a book about the people who submitted to every whim of a comically unfit and detestable man who crapped all over them and took over the party they had given their life to. It’s abou…"-Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
23. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
By: Nikole Hannah-Jones
4.62
Format: 590 pages, Hardcover
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a revealing vision of the American past and present. … read more
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24. To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment
By: Bret Baier
4.40
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
Instant New York Times Bestseller #1 New York Times bestselling author Bret Baier reveals how Geo… read more
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25. 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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26. What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
By: Michael Eric Dyson
4.11
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
A stunning follow up to New York Times bestseller Tears We Cannot Stop, a timely exploration of Ame… read more
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"Maleness has functioned in our race much like whiteness has in the larger culture: its privileges have been rendered normal, its perspectives natural, its biases neutral, its ideas superior, its ange…"-Michael Eric Dyson, What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
"The artist in Hansberry saw in the photograph of a black woman being manhandled by white cops all the suffering, all the injustice, all the offense to black life. The brutality was grave enough; the …"-Michael Eric Dyson, What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
"Jimmy and his activist friends were there to tell Bobby about the suffering that had scarred each black person in that room; that had scarred or killed people they loved; that had buried their commun…"-Michael Eric Dyson, What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
"As hip hop has made clear—and black religion, too, for that matterwhen we conceive of the horrors we confront, they have a masculine tint; we measure the terrors we face by calculating their harm to …"-Michael Eric Dyson, What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
27. Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
By: Laurence Leamer
3.83
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scan… read more
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28. A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
By: Mark Dawidziak
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his my… read more
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"I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends will call it.' -- EDGAR ALLAN POE"-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
"The glow of the fireside poets failed to warm a world coping with the cold realities of a new century. Their light faded as we became less sure of comforting messages and more intrigued by Poe's trou…"-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
29. The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America
By: Michael Waldman
4.30
Format: 400 pages, ebook
An incisive analysis of how the Supreme Court’s new conservative supermajority is overturning decad… read more
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30. The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. And Robert F. Kennedy
By: David Margolick
4.11
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
No issue in America in the 1960s was more vital than civil rights, and no two public figures were m… read more
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31. Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps
By: Jon Favreau
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From your friends at Pod Save America and Crooked Media comes a useful and illustrated guide to sa… read more
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