The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics
By: Dan T. Carter
4.20
Format: 580 pages, Paperback
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1. Washington: A Life
By: Ron Chernow
4.16
Format: 904 pages, Hardcover
The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a brea… read more
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"Many mickles make a muckle."-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"Washington grew as a leader because he engaged in searching self- criticism. “I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors,"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this, because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults or remove the prejudices whic…"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"An essential difference between the American and French revolutions was that the American version allowed a search for many truths, while French zealots tried to impose a single sacred truth that all…"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
2. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
By: David Fromkin
4.21
Format: 635 pages, Paperback
The critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling account of how the modern Middle East came into… read more
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"Reginald Wingate… wrote that “Moslems in general have hitherto regarded the Hejaz revolt, and our share in it, with suspicion or dislike"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
"Clayton and his colleagues believed French colonial administration to be incapable of allowing a country to retain its own character. What the French termed their “civilizing mission"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
"[T]he sheer magnitude of Britain’s commitment and loss at Gallipoli made it seem vital years later that she should play a major role in the postwar Middle East to give some sort of meaning to so grea…"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
"Fear of Russian expansionism was at the heart of the Porte’s policy. The Turkish ambassador told Deedes that if the Allies won the war, they would cause or allow the Ottoman Empire to be partitioned,…"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
3. It Can't Happen Here
By: Sinclair Lewis , Christopher Hurt , Michael R. Meyer
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrow… read more
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"NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged."-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
"So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting."-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
"It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class."-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
"Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on."-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
4. Confessions of a Mask
By: Yukio Mishima
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Confessions of a Maskis the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact tha… read more
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5. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
By: Christopher Clark
3.79
Format: None pages,
On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more
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6. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
By: Rick Perlstein
4.33
Format: 308 pages,
Politically insightful, Nixonland recaptures the turbulent 60s & early 70s, revealing how Dick Nixo… read more
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8. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
By: Michael Parenti
4.41
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more
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"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
9. The Hunger
By: Alma Katsu
0.00
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
The Hunger is a tense and gripping reimagining of one of America's most fascinating historical mome… read more
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10. Peter the Great: His Life and World
By: Robert K. Massie
4.14
Format: 909 pages, Paperback
Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the… read more
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11. White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
By: Kevin M. Kruse
4.08
Format: None pages, Hardcover
During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place… read more
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- race
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12. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
By: T.J. Stiles
3.91
Format: 2 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created mo… read more
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13. Black Rednecks and White Liberals
By: Thomas Sowell
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This book presents the kind of eye-opening insights into the history and culture of race for which … read more
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14. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
By: Rick Perlstein
3.00
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
A bold and astute narrative history of conservatism's climb and one of the best-reviewed books of 2… read more
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15. The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South 1932-1968
By: None
3.68
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
In 1948, a group of conservative white southerners formed the States' Rights Democratic Party, soon… read more
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16. 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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17. Grant
By: Ron Chernow
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefel… read more
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18. President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
By: C.W. Goodyear
4.30
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” ( The Washington Post ) biography of the extraordina… read more
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19. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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20. Just as I Am
By: Cicely Tyson
4.51
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Just as I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. … read more
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"The most potent antidote to reticence is survival."-Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am
"To soar toward what's possible, you must leave behind what's comfortable."-Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am
"Turning a blind eye to our history has not saved us from its consequences."-Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am
"Social transformation is not measured in weeks or months, but in generation."-Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am
21. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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22. 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
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23. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
By: Anne Applebaum
3.91
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding… read more
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"Unity is an anomaly. Polarization is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal."-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will."-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Olga Tokarczuk, 2019: We horen niet langer de harmonie van de wereld, maar de kakofonie van geluiden, een ondraaglijke ruis waarin we wanhoping een een rustiger melodie proberen te ontdekken, al is h…"-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state: at times when people fear death, they go along with measures that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will save them—ev…"-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
24. 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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25. Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s
By: Nicole Hemmer
4.17
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A bold new history of modern conservatism that finds its origins in the populist right-wing politic… read more
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26. Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
By: Adam Tooze
3.84
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021'A complex … read more
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- politics
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"What has made central bankers into the exemplar of modern crisis-fighting is the vacuum created by the evisceration of organized labor, the absence of inflationary pressure, and more broadly, the lac…"-Adam Tooze, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
"Despite the successful suppression campaign in February, the coronavirus crisis of 2020 could easily have been a major liability for Xi's regime. Instead, it became an occasion for what has been aptl…"-Adam Tooze, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
27. 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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28. Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
By: Craig Whitlock
4.39
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest publi… read more
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"After a decade of U.S. wars and surging defense budgets, an expectation of special treatment had taken root in the Navy. Many officers felt they were owed something extra for enduring long deployment…"-Craig Whitlock, Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
29. But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle
By: Glenn T. Eskew
3.69
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
Birmingham served as the stage for some of the most dramatic and important moments in the history o… read more
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30. The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics
By: Dan T. Carter
4.20
Format: 580 pages, Paperback
Combining biography with regional and national history, Dan T. Carter chronicles the dramatic rise … read more
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31. From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism
By: Joseph E. Lowndes
3.88
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The role the South has played in contemporary conservatism is perhaps the most consequential politi… read more
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