24 Top nonfiction books like The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War by Mark Bulik

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The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War

By: Mark Bulik

3.82

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

An “incisive and original” history of the 19th-century Irish secret society that instigated America…

"If history belongs to the winners, legend belongs to the losers."

-Mark Bulik, The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War

"If history belongs to the winners, legend belongs to the losers."

-Mark Bulik, The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War

"Gowen finally gave up on December 13, 1889. He secluded himself in a Washington hotel room, pulled out a gun and, in morbid imitation of his old enemies, killed a mine official—himself."

-Mark Bulik, The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War

"Gowen finally gave up on December 13, 1889. He secluded himself in a Washington hotel room, pulled out a gun and, in morbid imitation of his old enemies, killed a mine official—himself."

-Mark Bulik, The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War by Mark Bulik , here is a list of 24 books like this:

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1. D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

4.30

Format: 656 pages, Paperback

It is the young men born into the false prosperity of the 1920s and brought up in the bitter realit… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"No matter how bad things got, no matter how anxious the staff became, the commander had to “preserve optimism in himself and in his command. Without confidence, enthusiasm and optimism in the command…"

-Stephen E. Ambrose, D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

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2. The Between

By: Tananarive Due

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

When Hilton was just a boy, his aged grandmother saved him from drowning by pulling him out of a tr… read more

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3. The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down

By: Colin Woodard

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The inspiration for the NBC series Crossbones. In the early eighteenth century a number of the grea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. Leading with a Limp: Turning Your Struggles Into Strengths

By: Dan B. Allender

4.50

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

Leading with a Limp, along with its companion workbook, supplies practical direction to anyone who … read more

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  • nonfiction

5. The Prophetic Imagination

By: Walter Brueggemann

3.88

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction
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6. The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited

By: Scot McKnight

3.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Contemporary evangelicals have built a "salvation culture" but not a "gospel culture." Evangelicals… read more

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  • nonfiction

7. Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now

By: Walter Brueggemann

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Discussions about the Sabbath often center around moralistic laws and arguments over whether a pers… read more

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8. The Sicilian

By: Mario Puzo

4.29

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

After Mario Puzo wrote his internationally acclaimed The Godfather, he has often been imitated but … read more

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9. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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11. The Other Half of Church: Christian Community, Brain Science, and Overcoming Spiritual Stagnation

By: Michel Hendricks

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Could brain science be the key to spiritual formation? Why does true Christian transformation seem … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Agincourt, 1415: Field of Blood by Barry Renfrew

12. Agincourt, 1415: Field of Blood

By: Barry Renfrew

4.35

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping fictionalized account of the landmark battle that turned the tide of history.   On Octob… read more

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13. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

By: Joe Posnanski

4.56

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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14. Piñata

By: Leopoldo Gout

3.67

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

A Head Full of Ghosts meets Hereditary in Piñata, a terrifying possession tale by author and artist… read more

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15. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper by Daniel Stashower

16. American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper

By: Daniel Stashower

3.50

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Dem… read more

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

17. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity by Bill O'Reilly

18. Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity

By: Bill O'Reilly

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the latest book in the multimillion-selling Killing Series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard tell… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson

19. How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of f… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland

20. The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

By: Jonathan Freedland

4.37

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In a book that is part thrilling adventure, part exploration of some of the darkest secrets of the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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21. Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women's Voices from the Gulag

By: Monika Zgustová

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and unexpectedly inspirational account of women's suffering and resilience in Stalin's f… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"tenía diecinueve años y me sentía como una anciana cuya vida ya había pasado. Entonces me di cuenta de que uno es joven mientras hace planes para el futuro y ese futuro es un misterio que le atrae, p…"

-Monika Zgustová, Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women's Voices from the Gulag

"Experimenté algo todavía más cruel, más refinadamente cruel. En pleno invierno, cuando no hay luz nunca y el sol no aparece ni por asomo, me enviaron junto con otros presos a construir un muro con pi…"

-Monika Zgustová, Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women's Voices from the Gulag

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22. The Moth and the Mountain

By: Ed Caesar

3.79

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary true story about one man’s attempt to salve the wounds of war and save his own sou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Secret Lives of Planets: A User's Guide to the Solar System by Paul Murdin

23. The Secret Lives of Planets: A User's Guide to the Solar System

By: Paul Murdin

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Everyone's been looking up at the night sky this year as we've celebrated 50 years since Neil Armst… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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24. The End of the River

By: Simon Winchester

4.19

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Simon Winchester brings alive the dramatic history of America’s most storied, symbolic, and lawless… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War

By: Mark Bulik

3.82

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

An “incisive and original” history of the 19th-century Irish secret society that instigated America… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • labor
  • ireland
"If history belongs to the winners, legend belongs to the losers."

-Mark Bulik, The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War

"Gowen finally gave up on December 13, 1889. He secluded himself in a Washington hotel room, pulled out a gun and, in morbid imitation of his old enemies, killed a mine official—himself."

-Mark Bulik, The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War

Cover of This Is Ohio: The Overdose Crisis and the Front Lines of a New America by Jack Shuler

26. This Is Ohio: The Overdose Crisis and the Front Lines of a New America

By: Jack Shuler

4.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Every overdose is a policy failure. Such is the guiding element of journalist Jack Shuler’s new bo… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter: From the Battle for Moscow to Hitler's Bunker by Yelena Rzhevskaya

27. Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter: From the Battle for Moscow to Hitler's Bunker

By: Yelena Rzhevskaya

4.00

Format: 352 pages, ebook

By the will of fate I came to play a part in not letting Hitler achieve his final goal of disappear… read more

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28. We Are Not Refugees: True Stories of the Displaced

By: Agus Morales

4.17

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Never in history have so many people been displaced by political and military conflicts at home—mor… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Three Kings: Race, Class, and the Barrier-Breaking Rivals Who Redefined Sports and Launched the Modern Olympic Age by Todd Balf

29. Three Kings: Race, Class, and the Barrier-Breaking Rivals Who Redefined Sports and Launched the Modern Olympic Age

By: Todd Balf

3.24

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

For fans of The Boys in the Boat, and marking the 100th anniversary of the Paris Olympics, the neve… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights by Lawrence Goldstone

30. On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights

By: Lawrence Goldstone

4.15

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

Award-winning constitutional law historian, Lawrence Goldstone examines case-based evidence to reve… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Searching for the Messiah: Unlocking the "Psalms of Solomon" and Humanity's Quest for a Savior by Barrie Wilson

31. Searching for the Messiah: Unlocking the "Psalms of Solomon" and Humanity's Quest for a Savior

By: Barrie Wilson

3.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Over the centuries, people have longed for a messiah, whether a religious figure such as Jesus, a p… read more

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  • history

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4.30

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Colin Woodard

3.67

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Adam Hochschild

4.21

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4.24

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Rachel Maddow

4.45

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Kara Swisher

3.99

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Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party

Jonathan Karl

4.28

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Erik Larson

4.24

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