16 Best nonfiction books like Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents by Pete Souza

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Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents

By: Pete Souza

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From Pete Souza, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Obama: An Intimate Portrait, comes a p…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents by Pete Souza , here is a list of 16 books like this:

1. Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine

By: Damon Tweedy

0.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the un… read more

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2. What Happened

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

4.50

Format: 191 pages,

"In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I w… read more

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3. Consequential President, A

By: Michael D'Antonio

3.88

Format: 64 pages,

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4. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

By: Imani Perry

3.97

Format: 410 pages, Hardcover

An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South… read more

Similar categories in Imani Perry's South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation book and Pete Souza's Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents

  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Cover of Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show by Jonathan Karl

5. Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show

By: Jonathan Karl

4.48

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

***THE INSTANT New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and IndieBound BESTSELLER*** An NP… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Karl's Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show book and Pete Souza's Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul by Michael Fanone

6. Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul

By: Michael Fanone

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent warning about the growing threat to our democracy from… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"That’s why “reforming"

-Michael Fanone, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul

"Mom, they tried to kill me."

-Michael Fanone, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul

"I wasn't a "good" cop or a "bad" cop. I was an "every" cop."

-Michael Fanone, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul

"To say that members of Congress have egos is like saying that I like cold beer."

-Michael Fanone, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul

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7. Different for Boys

By: Patrick Ness

3.82

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

Friendship, masculinity, sex—Anthony Stevenson has a lot of questions. Is it different for boys who… read more

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"We can't kiss. Because that would make us gay."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

"Because nothing I did with Charlie ever once felt like that kiss with Jack."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

"You know, the way teenage guys talk about sex, you'd think all of us were having it all the time, nonstop."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

"Although doesn't really matter how many time you do it: you think it's going to make your life less lonely, but it never does."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

Cover of I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year by Carol Leonnig

8. I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

By: Carol Leonnig

4.39

Format: 476 pages, Kindle Edition

The instant #1 New York Times bestseller | A Washington Post Notable Book | One of NPR's Best Books… read more

Similar categories in Carol Leonnig's I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year book and Pete Souza's Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal by Mary L. Trump

9. The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal

By: Mary L. Trump

4.10

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

America is suffering from PTSD― The Reckoning diagnoses its core causes and helps us begin the heal… read more

Similar categories in Mary L. Trump's The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal book and Pete Souza's Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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10. Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

By: Pete Buttigieg

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Once described by the Washington Post as “the most interesting mayor you’ve never heard of,” Pete B… read more

Similar categories in Pete Buttigieg's Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future book and Pete Souza's Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents

  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"As I raised the glass and said, "South Bend is back," the roar of the crowd at once reflected, certified, and caused it to be so."

-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

"Yet even now he looked on his days as mayor -- not governor or lieutenant governor or baseball team owner or naval aviator -- as the best job he'd ever had."

-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

"At one point I learned that when I'd told them my college coursework in Arabic might make me a good intelligence officer, they had recorded that my minor at Harvard had been in aerobics."

-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

"I had a professional background in economic development and was fluent in the language of business - even while having fought and bled politically for organized labor in the auto industry."

-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

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11. Strange Planet (Strange Planet, #1)

By: Nathan W. Pyle

4.33

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Straight from the mind of New York Times bestselling author Nathan W. Pyle comes an adorable and pr… read more

Similar categories in Nathan W. Pyle's Strange Planet (Strange Planet, #1) book and Pete Souza's Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents

  • art
  • humor
  • adult
"Where is your pain? In my emotions. I don't understand. No one ever does."

-Nathan W. Pyle, Strange Planet (Strange Planet, #1)

Cover of Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro by Rachel Slade

12. Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro

By: Rachel Slade

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the containe… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro book and Pete Souza's Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America by Dahlia Lithwick

13. Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

By: Dahlia Lithwick

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Senior Editor and one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, tells the… read more

Similar categories in Dahlia Lithwick's Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America book and Pete Souza's Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents

  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Being told you are believed without consequences being levied is neither justice nor power. And that is the real problem when women's pain is substituted for actual justice. Pain seems to have a sell…"

-Dahlia Lithwick, Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

Cover of Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House by Rachel Maddow

14. Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House

By: Rachel Maddow

4.32

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

The untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House: the wild crimes, audacious c… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Maddow's Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House book and Pete Souza's Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
"Agnew was like Nixon's id -- without the burden of much actual knowledge or curiosity or responsibility to the country at large."

-Rachel Maddow, Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House

"I had turned over a log and exposed to the light a scurrying colony of unpleasant creatures whose only reaction was one of annoyance that I had been so crass as to disturb their settled way of life. …"

-Rachel Maddow, Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House

"It is a rare man or woman who is ever really changed by ascension to high office, or tempered by the solemnity of the oaths they have sworn or by the national duties they have shouldered. And Spiro A…"

-Rachel Maddow, Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House

Cover of The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch by Charlie Berens

15. The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch

By: Charlie Berens

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller A hilarious full-color guide to Midwestern culture, from comedian and jou… read more

Similar categories in Charlie Berens's The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch book and Pete Souza's Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents

  • nonfiction
  • humor
  • biography
Cover of Cool Food: Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Bite at a Time by Robert Downey Jr.

16. Cool Food: Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Bite at a Time

By: Robert Downey Jr.

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Cool Food, celebrated actor and philanthropist Robert Downey Jr. and New York Times-bestselling … read more

Similar categories in Robert Downey Jr.'s Cool Food: Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Bite at a Time book and Pete Souza's Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents

  • nonfiction
Cover of Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age (Dumpty, #2) by John Lithgow

17. Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age (Dumpty, #2)

By: John Lithgow

4.20

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Following the success of his New York Times bestseller Dumpty, award-winning actor, author, and ill… read more

Similar categories in John Lithgow's Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age (Dumpty, #2) book and Pete Souza's Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents

  • history
  • politics
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of I Have Something to Tell You by Chasten Glezman Buttigieg

18. I Have Something to Tell You

By: Chasten Glezman Buttigieg

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A moving, hopeful, and refreshingly candid memoir by the husband of former Democratic presidential … read more

Similar categories in Chasten Glezman Buttigieg's I Have Something to Tell You book and Pete Souza's Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents

  • politics
  • adult
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"That gay expereince in Tulsa is just as gay and valid as other, more visible experience in the media, and attempting to police anyone’s gayness sets a dangerous precedent. It equates identity with pr…"

-Chasten Glezman Buttigieg, I Have Something to Tell You

"I was reaching my hand over the person in front of me to shake hands with Obama when a random guy barreled into me from behind. I turned to look at what had happened, and in the meantime, I felt a ha…"

-Chasten Glezman Buttigieg, I Have Something to Tell You

Cover of Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents by Pete Souza

19. Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents

By: Pete Souza

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From Pete Souza, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Obama: An Intimate Portrait, comes a p… read more

Similar categories in Pete Souza's Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents book and Pete Souza's Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents

  • art
  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • humor
  • presidents
  • photography
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps by Jon  Favreau

20. 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

Similar categories in Jon Favreau's Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps book and Pete Souza's Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • humor
  • nonfiction
Cover of True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between by Gretchen Whitmer

21. True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

By: Gretchen Whitmer

4.34

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventi… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Whitmer's True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between book and Pete Souza's Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents

  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • adult

7 best-selling adult books like Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents by Pete Souza

Transform Your Habits

Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show

Jonathan Karl

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

Pete Buttigieg

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Strange Planet (Strange Planet, #1)

Nathan W. Pyle

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age (Dumpty, #2)

John Lithgow

4.20

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8 Top adult books like I Have Something to Tell You by Chasten Glezman Buttigieg

Transform Your Habits

The House of Hidden Meanings

RuPaul

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Talking to My Angels

Melissa Etheridge

3.95

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Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

Pete Buttigieg

4.20

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That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Amanda Jones

4.14

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