LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval
By: Kyle Longley
4.19
Format: 361 pages, Hardcover
1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales: political, military, econom…
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1. The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
By: Wayne Coffey , Jim Craig , Ken Morrow
4.21
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
The true story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and the Miracle on Ice, which Sports Illustrat… read more
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"The most enduring heroes are people who don't try to be."-Wayne Coffey, The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
"You push on, do your best, and if you are really brave, you dream big, doubts and fears be damned. This is the stuff that miracles are made of, and the proof was there to see, on February 22, 1980."-Wayne Coffey, The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
"You can't look back. You can't dial up euphoria on demand, or try to recreate what happened a quarter century ago. You move forward and you live your life and try to be a better person every day than…"-Wayne Coffey, The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
2. The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
By: Jonathan Alter
3.93
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
This is the story of a political miracle--the perfect match of man and moment. Franklin Delano R… read more
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3. Every Man Dies Alone
By: Hans Fallada , Michael Hofmann , Geoff Wilkes
4.26
Format: 543 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is the gripping tale of an ordinary man's … read more
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"Because it is written that you reap what you sow, and the boy had sown good corn."-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone
"Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour."-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone
"Qu'un seul être souffre injustement, et que, pouvant y changer quelque chose, je ne le fasse pas, parce que je suis lâche et que j'aime trop ma tranquillité..."-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone
"Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't bring children into the world to have them shot."-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone
4. The Collapse of the Third Republic
By: William L. Shirer
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
On June 17, 1940 William L. Shirer stood in the streets of Paris and watched the unending flow of g… read more
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5. 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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"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
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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7. The Second Sex
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley
3.60
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more
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8. Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
By: Daniel Ellsberg
3.59
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
In 1971 former Cold War hard-liner Daniel Ellsberg made history by releasing the Pentagon Papers-a … read more
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9. Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
By: William Deresiewicz
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and l… read more
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10. The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War
By: Stephen Kinzer
4.01
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen … read more
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11. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
By: Richard Hofstadter
4.12
Format: 434 pages, Paperback
Anti-intellectualism in American Life was awarded the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction. It is a b… read more
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"To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury...."-Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
"A large segment of the public willingly resigns itself to political passivity in a world in which it cannot expect to make well-founded judgments."-Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
"The intellectual as ideologist, having had a leading role in purveying to the country each innovation and having frequently hastened the country into the acceptance of change, is naturally felt to ha…"-Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
"Tocqueville saw that the life of constant action and decision which was entailed by the democratic and businesslike character of American life put a premium upon rough and ready habits of mind, quick…"-Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
12. Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House
By: Jared Cohen
4.27
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author of Accidental Presidents explores what happens after the most pow… read more
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13. Romney: A Reckoning
By: McKay Coppins
4.36
Format: 416 pages, ebook
A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more
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14. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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15. White Holes
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more
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16. Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
By: Tim Miller
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Former Republican political operative Tim Miller admits what no one else on the right ever will: th… read more
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" Why We Did It is a book about the people who submitted to every whim of a comically unfit and detestable man who crapped all over them and took over the party they had given their life to. It’s abou…"-Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
17. Gangsters vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America
By: Michael Benson
3.97
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Goodreads Top Nonfiction of 2022 The stunning true story of the rise of Nazism in America in the… read more
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18. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
By: Abigail Shrier
4.06
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more
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"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
19. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
By: Ronen Bergman
4.40
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from… read more
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"The divide between the combat-sated generals, who once had "a knife between their teeth" but later grasped the limits of force, and the majority of the people of Israel, is the sad reality in which M…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
"Finally, a recruit would undergo one last test. The agency would send him home, to his own neighborhood and his own social circle, in disguise and with his alias. If he could circulate there, among t…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
"Indeed, in many respects the story of Israel’s intelligence community as recounted in this book has been one of a long string of impressive tactical successes, but also disastrous strategic failures.…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
20. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
By: Gary J. Bass
4.29
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlo… read more
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21. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bri… read more
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"Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if we considered the very real possibility that some of the en…"-Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
22. Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
By: Robert A. Caro
4.44
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson… read more
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"People are always asking me why I chose Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson to write about. Well, I must say I never thought of my books as the stories of Moses or Johnson. I never had the slightest inte…"-Robert A. Caro, Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
23. Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity
By: Bill O'Reilly
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the latest book in the multimillion-selling Killing Series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard tell… read more
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24. King Richard: Nixon and Watergate — An American Tragedy
By: Michael Dobbs
4.25
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
In January 1973, Richard Nixon had just been inaugurated after winning re-election in a historic la… read more
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25. The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism
By: Adam Nagourney
4.22
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping behind-the-scenes look at the last four turbulent decades of “the paper of record,” The … read more
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26. Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass
By: Ramin Setoodeh
3.66
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the editor in chief of Variety and author of the New York Times bestseller Ladies Who Punch, t… read more
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27. Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson
By: Rebecca Boggs Roberts
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A nuanced portrait of the first acting woman president, written with fresh and cinematic verve by a… read more
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28. All This Marvelous Potential: Robert Kennedy's 1968 Tour of Appalachia
By: Matthew Algeo
4.13
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In early 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy ventured deep into the heart of eastern Kentucky to gauge … read more
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29. LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval
By: Kyle Longley
4.19
Format: 361 pages, Hardcover
1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales: political, military, econom… read more
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30. The Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made
By: Cliff Sloan
4.29
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The inside story of how one president forever altered the most powerful legal institution in the co… read more
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31. The Hidden History of the White House: Power Struggles, Scandals, and Defining Moments
By: Corey Mead
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Presented by the hit podcast American History Tellers, The Hidden History of the White House reveal… read more
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