11 must-read history books like Klan of Devils: The Murder of a Black Louisiana Deputy Sheriff by Stanley Nelson

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Klan of Devils: The Murder of a Black Louisiana Deputy Sheriff

By: Stanley Nelson

4.00

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1965, several Ku Klux Klan members riding in a pickup truck shot two Black deputie…

If you liked the history plot in Klan of Devils: The Murder of a Black Louisiana Deputy Sheriff by Stanley Nelson , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

By: Art Spiegelman

4.42

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spieglman's… read more

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  • history
"But here God didn't come. We were all on our own."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

"No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

"Samuel Beckett já disse: "Toda palavra é uma mancha desnecessária no silêncio e no vazio". Por outro lado, ele DISSE isso."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

"Anja? What is to tell? Everywhere I look I'm seeing Anja... From my good eye, from my glass eye, if they're open or they're close, always I'm thinking on Anja."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

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2. The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction

By: LeeAnna Keith

3.61

Format: 219 pages, Hardcover

On Easter Sunday, 1873, in the tiny hamlet of Colfax, Louisiana, more than 150 members of an all-bl… read more

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  • history
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3. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

By: David Talbot

4.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the mo… read more

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  • history
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4. The Quiet Game (Penn Cage #1)

By: Greg Iles

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The New York Timesbestselling author of Spandau Phoenixand Mortal Fearreturns with a rich and atmos… read more

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5. The Cold War: A New History

By: John Lewis Gaddis

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The “dean of Cold War historians” (The New York Times) now presents the definitive account of the g… read more

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  • history
"The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's own vision."

-John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History

"Enrollments in American colleges tripled between 1955 and 1970, 250% in the Soviet Union, 400% in France, and more than 200% in China by 1965. Gaddis writes, "What governments failed to foresee was t…"

-John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History

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6. The Pentagon's Brain

By: Annie Jacobsen

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of t… read more

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  • history
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7. Peak (Peak #1)

By: Roland Smith

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really … read more

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8. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

By: William L. Shirer

4.21

Format: 1147 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 ye… read more

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  • history
"One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool ( …"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had — or would shortly assume — the aura of a truly chari…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electr…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken ea…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

9. The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

By: None

3.22

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

Did Patrizia Reggiani murder her ex-husband, Maurizio Gucci, in 1995 because his spending was wildl… read more

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10. The Amish Wife

By: Gregg Olsen

3.49

Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition

The #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen solves a murder among the Am… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
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11. The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2)

By: Kim Michele Richardson

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

An Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller Bestselling historical fiction author Kim Mi… read more

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"Though Mama and I were the last of the Blues, the very last of our kind, and different from others, the books united every one of us."

-Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2)

Cover of Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia by Natasha Lance Rogoff

12. Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia

By: Natasha Lance Rogoff

4.15

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

"In this thrilling debut, television producer and filmmaker Rogoff recounts her mission to bring Se… read more

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  • history
Cover of The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan

13. The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

By: Rosemary Sullivan

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept... Using new technology, recently discovered doc… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
"The fact that Otto survived the horror of the concentration camps demonstrated his profound will to live."

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

"Fascism counts on people's credulity, on their craving to believe, on their fear that there is nothing to believe."

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

"While someone with the first person knowledge is still alive, while records are still available, while relatives of witnesses can come forward, the stories must be told."

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

"The Netherlands in 1940 was like a petri dish in which one can examine how people brought up in freedom react to catastrophe when it is brought to their door: It is a questions still worth asking tod…"

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

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14. Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy

By: Edward Ball

3.76

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Life of a Klansman tells the story of a warrior in the Ku Klux Klan, a carpenter in Louisiana who t… read more

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  • history
"The names of families are the front doors of history."

-Edward Ball, Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy

"White supremacy is not a marginal ideology. It is the early build of the country. It is a foundation on which the social edifice rises, bedrock of institutions. White supremacy also lies on the floor…"

-Edward Ball, Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy

"In May 1896, the thoughtful justices of the high court, men who help to clarify national standards for everyone, determine that "repellent intimacy" is a persuasive argument. The law of quarantine is…"

-Edward Ball, Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy

"The forty-fifth president of the United States is the son of a man, Fred C. Trump, who was arrested in New York one Memorial Day during the 1920s at a rally staged by the Ku Klux Klan. On May 31, 192…"

-Edward Ball, Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy

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15. Her Second Husband

By: Jane E. James

3.45

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Your husband’s dead. He’s never coming back. So why is he on a dating site asking you to go out wit… read more

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Cover of Klan of Devils: The Murder of a Black Louisiana Deputy Sheriff by Stanley Nelson

16. Klan of Devils: The Murder of a Black Louisiana Deputy Sheriff

By: Stanley Nelson

4.00

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1965, several Ku Klux Klan members riding in a pickup truck shot two Black deputie… read more

Similar categories in Stanley Nelson's Klan of Devils: The Murder of a Black Louisiana Deputy Sheriff book and Stanley Nelson's Klan of Devils: The Murder of a Black Louisiana Deputy Sheriff

  • history
  • true crime

14 must-read history books like The Pentagon's Brain by Annie Jacobsen

Transform Your Habits

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

Eric Schlosser

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Enemies: A History of the FBI

Tim Weiner

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

David Talbot

4.43

Transform Your Habits

The Pentagon's Brain

Annie Jacobsen

3.70

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