19 best-selling history books like Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing by Wil Haygood

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Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing

By: Wil Haygood

4.07

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the best-selling The Butler--an emotional, inspiring story of two teams from a p…

If you liked the history plot in Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing by Wil Haygood , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series) by Nathaniel Philbrick

1. Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

4.12

Format: 427 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea, comes a surprising account o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Midshipman Edward Pellew was in the British boat right behind Arnold's. The American general had escaped, but in his haste he had left behind his stock and buckle, which Pellew took as a keepsake. Ye…"

-Nathaniel Philbrick, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)

"In an October 6 letter to Lord Stirling, he set forth the principle that would guide his increasingly sophisticated intelligence-gathering efforts. "As we are often obliged to reason the designs of t…"

-Nathaniel Philbrick, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)

Cover of Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens And Hitler's Olympics by Jeremy Schaap

2. Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens And Hitler's Olympics

By: Jeremy Schaap

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In 1936, against a backdrop of swastikas flying and storm troopers goose-stepping, an African-Ameri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
  • audiobook
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3. Wiseguy

By: Nicholas Pileggi

0.00

Format: 798 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Wiseguy" is Nicholas Pileggi's remarkable bestseller, the most intimate account ever printed of li… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

4. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

By: Tavis Smiley , Wes Moore

4.26

Format: 91 pages, Hardcover

Two kids with the same name lived in the same decaying city. One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, de… read more

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5. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

By: Barack Obama

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voic… read more

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6. My Effin' Life

By: Geddy Lee

4.58

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul by Brian Kilmeade

7. The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul

By: Brian Kilmeade

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and th… read more

Similar categories in Brian Kilmeade's The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul book and Wil Haygood's Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides

8. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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9. When McKinsey Comes to Town

By: Walt Bogdanich

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

**A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive exposé of the world's most pre… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"One former McKinsey consultant wrote anonymously, ¨To those convinced that a secretive cabal controls the world, the usual suspect are Illuminati, Lizard People, or ´globalists.' They are wrong, natu…"

-Walt Bogdanich, When McKinsey Comes to Town

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10. My Darkest Prayer

By: S.A. Cosby

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby’s debut novel My Darkest Prayer is rep… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins

11. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

By: Vincent Bevins

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

Cover of The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart A. Reid

12. The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

By: Stuart A. Reid

4.40

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the US-sanctioned plot… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of 60 Songs That Explain the '90s by Rob Harvilla

13. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

By: Rob Harvilla

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
  • audiobook
"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."

-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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14. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

By: Beverly Gage

4.37

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir by Paul   Newman

15. The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir

By: Paul Newman

3.89

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis by George  Stephanopoulos

16. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

By: George Stephanopoulos

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Just Like You

By: Nick Hornby

3.37

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This warm, wise, highly entertaining twenty-first century love story is about what happens when the… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
"Als je hem voor de Nacht Zonder Jazz zou hebben gevraagd waar hij gelukkig van werd, dan zou hij niet goed hebben begrepen hoe relevant die vraag was. Nu wist hij het antwoord: naar bed gaan met Lucy…"

-Nick Hornby, Just Like You

Cover of The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World by A.J. Baime

18. The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

By: A.J. Baime

4.55

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman’s first four months in office, when this unlikel… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"After a few minutes Truman went back inside the White House, so he could call his mother and personally deliver the news: World War II was over. ("That was Harry," ninety-two-year-old Mamma Truman sa…"

-A.J. Baime, The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

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19. Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself

By: Luke Russert

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In Look for Me There , Luke Russert traverses terrain both physical and deeply personal. On his jou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We work our way back through the crowd. A few steps behind, holding Dad’s hand, I keep my eyes affixed to the back of his white polo shirt. The outline of his wallet is visible through his back pants…"

-Luke Russert, Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself

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20. The Bullet Swallower

By: Elizabeth Gonzalez James

3.79

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Entrances and Exits by Michael    Richards

21. Entrances and Exits

By: Michael Richards

4.12

Format: 425 pages, Hardcover

The man who brought the kavorka to the Seinfeld show through one of the most remarkable and beloved… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba

22. We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

By: Mariame Kaba

4.67

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this …"

-Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

Cover of Pandora’s Box: The Greed, Lust, and Lies that Broke Television by Peter Biskind

23. Pandora’s Box: The Greed, Lust, and Lies that Broke Television

By: Peter Biskind

3.54

Format: None pages, Hardcover

We are now lucky enough to be living through the era of so-called Peak TV, in which television, in … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Wayward (Wanderers, #2) by Chuck Wendig

24. Wayward (Wanderers, #2)

By: Chuck Wendig

4.21

Format: 816 pages, Hardcover

Five years ago, ordinary Americans fell under the grip of a strange new malady that caused them to … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks by Chris  Herring

25. Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks

By: Chris Herring

4.30

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive history of the 1990s New York Knicks, illustrat… read more

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  • history
  • basketball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Classic Krakauer: After the Fall, Mark Foo's Last Ride and Other Essays from the Vault by Jon Krakauer

26. Classic Krakauer: After the Fall, Mark Foo's Last Ride and Other Essays from the Vault

By: Jon Krakauer

4.14

Format: None pages, ebook

The gripping articles in Classic Krakauer, originally published in periodicals such as The New York… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity by Lilliana Mason

27. Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity

By: Lilliana Mason

3.89

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Political polarization in America is at an all-time high, and the conflict has moved beyond disagre… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Charm City Rocks by Matthew Norman

28. Charm City Rocks

By: Matthew Norman

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

When a single dad meets the former rock star crush of his youth, everything they thought they knew … read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The World's Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First Black Sports Hero by Michael Kranish

29. The World's Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First Black Sports Hero

By: Michael Kranish

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of The Boys in the Boat and Seabiscuit , a fascinating portrait of a groundbreakin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Men Can't Be Saved by Ben Purkert

30. The Men Can't Be Saved

By: Ben Purkert

3.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A knockout debut novel that tackles a haunting question: What do our jobs do to our souls? Seth is … read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing by Wil Haygood

31. Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing

By: Wil Haygood

4.07

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the best-selling The Butler--an emotional, inspiring story of two teams from a p… read more

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  • politics
  • adult
  • basketball
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  • audiobook

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Transform Your Habits

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S.A. Cosby

4.00

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60 Songs That Explain the '90s

Rob Harvilla

3.92

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The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir

Paul Newman

3.89

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Just Like You

Nick Hornby

3.37

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Stephen King

4.32

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Tananarive Due

4.47

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Don Winslow

4.42

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