5 must-read history books like From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism by Joseph E. Lowndes

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From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism

By: Joseph E. Lowndes

3.88

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The role the South has played in contemporary conservatism is perhaps the most consequential politi…

If you liked the history plot in From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism by Joseph E. Lowndes , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The Wind in the Willows

By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more

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"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

2. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

By: Rick Perlstein

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

A bold and astute narrative history of conservatism's climb and one of the best-reviewed books of 2… read more

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3. The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South 1932-1968

By: None

3.68

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

In 1948, a group of conservative white southerners formed the States' Rights Democratic Party, soon… read more

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4. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

By: Cathy Park Hong

4.21

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the trut… read more

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  • nonfiction
"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"The avant-garde genealogy could be tracked through stories of bad-boy white artists who “got away with it,"

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there’s a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn’t one."

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

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5. The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism

By: Matthew Continetti

4.08

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A magisterial intellectual history of the last century of American conservatism When most people t… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • american history
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6. Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s

By: Nicole Hemmer

4.17

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A bold new history of modern conservatism that finds its origins in the populist right-wing politic… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • american history
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7. The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics

By: Dan T. Carter

4.20

Format: 580 pages, Paperback

Combining biography with regional and national history, Dan T. Carter chronicles the dramatic rise … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • american history
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8. From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism

By: Joseph E. Lowndes

3.88

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The role the South has played in contemporary conservatism is perhaps the most consequential politi… read more

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  • history
  • american history
Cover of The Revolution of ’28: Al Smith, American Progressivism, and the Coming of the New Deal by Robert Chiles

9. The Revolution of ’28: Al Smith, American Progressivism, and the Coming of the New Deal

By: Robert Chiles

4.22

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

The Revolution of ’28 explores the career of New York governor and 1928 Democratic presidential nom… read more

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  • american history

5 Best politics books like From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism by Joseph E. Lowndes

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The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism

Matthew Continetti

4.08

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Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s

Nicole Hemmer

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics

Dan T. Carter

4.20

Transform Your Habits

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Joseph E. Lowndes

3.88

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16 Top audiobook books like Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

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Erika Lee , Erika Lee

4.33

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Min Jin Lee

4.33

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All You Can Ever Know

Nicole Chung

3.77

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Elaine Hsieh Chou

3.84

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