The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics (Politics and Society in Modern America)
By: Jefferson R. Cowie
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The New Deal: where does it fit in the big picture of American history? What does it mean for us to…
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1. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
2. A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
By: Lizabeth Cohen
3.86
Format: 576 pages, Paperback
In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen sh… read more
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- american history
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- economics
3. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
4.16
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
"With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a white-w… read more
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- american history
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"There was a saying on the island: "[I]t is a pity to spoil a good mate by making him a master."-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"Unable to sleep for the third night in a row, he continued to dwell obsessively on the circumstances of the ship's sinking. He could not get the creature out of his mind."-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"Many of the so-called American characteristics,’ a chronicler of the [WW2 University of Minnesota starvation] experiment wrote, ‘—abounding energy, generosity, optimism—become intelligible as the exp…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"How much of assumed national and personal character comes from the fact that we have never truly known need to the point of having our character tested? Willing conscientious objectors underwent cont…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
4. Purity
By: Jonathan Franzen , Lucie Mikolajková
4.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom Young Pip Tyler doesn't know… read more
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5. City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
By: Kelly Lytle Hernández
4.80
Format: None pages,
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6. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
By: Patricia Nelson Limerick
3.86
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
The 'settling' of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, … read more
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7. D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time
By: Melvyn Stokes
3.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, produc… read more
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8. Gilead (Gilead, #1)
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.85
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three gener… read more
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"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
9. Discipling: How to Help Others Follow Jesus
By: Mark Dever
3.33
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
Before ascending to heaven, Jesus instructed his followers to "make disciples of all nations." But … read more
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10. White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race
By: None
4.31
Format: 1056 pages, Paperback
Lily white. White knights. The white dove of peace. White lie, white list, white magic. Our languag… read more
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11. The Return of Martin Guerre
By: Natalie Zemon Davis
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost won his case, when a man with a wooden leg swaggered i… read more
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12. The Origins of Totalitarianism
By: Hannah Arendt
3.37
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twent… read more
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13. Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917
By: Matthew Frye Jacobson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
How a new American identity was forged by immigration and expansion a century ago. In Barbarian Vir… read more
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14. The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America
By: None
4.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
American feminism has always been about more than the struggle for individual rights and equal trea… read more
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15. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
By: Lizabeth Cohen
3.95
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
The lives of Chicago workers are traced in the mid thirties to reveal how their experiences as citi… read more
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16. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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17. The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
By: Jill Lepore
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society King Philip's War, t… read more
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18. The Story of American Freedom
By: Eric Foner
3.67
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
From the Revolution to our own time, freedom has been America's strongest cultural bond and its mos… read more
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19. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
20. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By: Rachel Maddow
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more
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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
21. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
By: Dan Jones
4.41
Format: 636 pages, Hardcover
An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more
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22. The Wintringham Mystery
By: Anthony Berkeley
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Republished for the first time in nearly 95 years, a classic winter country house mystery by the fo… read more
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"For a minute or two they remained in complete silence--the silence of people who know each other so well that words are merely an accessory rather than a necessity."-Anthony Berkeley, The Wintringham Mystery
23. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
24. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By: Tiya Miles
3.95
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more
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"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
25. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
4.14
Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Natha… read more
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26. Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally work… read more
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27. The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics (Politics and Society in Modern America)
By: Jefferson R. Cowie
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The New Deal: where does it fit in the big picture of American history? What does it mean for us to… read more
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28. The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy
By: David Neiwert
4.10
Format: 543 pages, Kindle Edition
"An important book, offering the clearest explanation of how dark forces conspired to overthrow our… read more
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"Many observers, including historians, compared it to previous periods of societal strife in the United States, including the Civil War and the Civil Rights era. “What’s different about almost all tho…"-David Neiwert, The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy
"That, in fact, is how the American right had come to deal with reality: just throw so much misinformation out there that the public becomes unable to discern fact from fiction—at which point right-wi…"-David Neiwert, The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy
"One of the peculiar realities of conspiracism is that people who believe in conspiracy theories rarely ever believe just one; most conspiracy theories are interconnected by the nature of their afactu…"-David Neiwert, The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy
"A central feature of the spread of far-right politics is the intimidation directed at mainstream liberals and even Republicans who refuse to participate in their incoherent conspiracism: As with all …"-David Neiwert, The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy
29. The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
By: Gabriel Winant
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Men in hardhats were once the heart of America's working class; now it is women in scrubs. What doe… read more
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30. Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
By: Margot Canaday
4.18
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A masterful history of the LGBT workforce in America Workplaces have traditionally been viewed as … read more
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31. Voices of Freedom: A Documentary History, Volume 1
By: Eric Foner
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Edited by Eric Foner and coordinated with each chapter of the text, this companion to Give Me Liber… read more
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