19 Best history books like Kaufmann's: The Family That Built Pittsburgh’s Famed Department Store (Regional) by Marylynne Pitz

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Kaufmann's: The Family That Built Pittsburgh’s Famed Department Store (Regional)

By: Marylynne Pitz

3.89

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

In 1868, Jacob Kaufmann, the nineteen-year-old son of a German farmer, stepped off a ship onto the …

If you liked the history plot in Kaufmann's: The Family That Built Pittsburgh’s Famed Department Store (Regional) by Marylynne Pitz , here is a list of 19 books like this:

1. Detroit: An American Autopsy

By: Charlie LeDuff

3.40

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In the heart of America, a metropolis is quietly destroying itself. Detroit, once the richest city … read more

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2. Distress Signals

By: Catherine Ryan Howard

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A debut thriller that channels Gone Girl, from the newest writer to watch, Catherine Ryan Howard Th… read more

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3. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

By: Kara Swisher

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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4. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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5. My Name Is Barbra

By: Barbra Streisand

4.20

Format: 1040 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television. Barbra St… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Fame is a hollow trophy. No matter who you are, you can only eat one pastrami sandwich at a time."

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

"Once again I was struck by the power of music. Somehow, it can be the connective tissue between souls."

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

"There are some things I hope we can all agree upon: The antidote to lies is truth, the remedy to war is peace, and the solution to hate is love."

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

"Language gives us an insight into the way women are viewed in a male-dominated society . . . A man is commanding—a woman is demanding. A man is forceful—a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising—a wo…"

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

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6. Pet

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more

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7. You Never Know: A Memoir

By: Tom Selleck

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern Ca… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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8. Leslie F*cking Jones

By: Leslie Jones

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Som… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Dad"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"Some of the stories about my childhood is vague, because a bitch is 55 and I've smoked a lot of weed."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I was built for strong... I was never a victim. And even though really bad shit happened to me, I know it's my job to help other back girls and women get strong like me."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I even attended a Christian singles night lecture kind of thing—I was single, it was free, and it was Church. Honestly, that night should be an episode of American Horror Story. The woman leading it …"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

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9. The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life

By: Alex Trebek

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An alternate cover edition of this book, with ISBN 978198215799, can be found here. Longtime Jeo… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Keep your head up. Move forward. Keep going."

-Alex Trebek, The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life

"Courage is a conscious decision. You do it in a dangerous situation, when you have a choice."

-Alex Trebek, The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life

"There is nothing worse than deluding yourself and trying to make yourself out to be somebody you're not--somebody you're not comfortable being."

-Alex Trebek, The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life

"I just enjoy the moment I’m in. For me, life is a whole experience, not just a series of isolated moments. It’s like submerging yourself into a warm bath rather than sticking your toe under the fauce…"

-Alex Trebek, The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life

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10. Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

By: Danny Trejo

4.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For the first time, the full, fascinating, and inspirational true story of Danny Trejo’s journey fr… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
"...even in prison I could be free."

-Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

"...it's hard to teach anyone anything when they think they know everything already."

-Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

"When you're an addict you think the only person you're hurting is you. And that's not true."

-Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

"Once you know where drugs and alcohol will take you, you can never enjoy them the same way again."

-Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

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11. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

By: Patrick Bringley

4.07

Format: 240 pages, ebook

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

Cover of The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel

12. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

By: Michael Finkel

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worl… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous."

-Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

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13. The Hero of This Book

By: Elizabeth McCracken

3.77

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, abo… read more

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"As for me, I don't think writing is that hard, as long as you're comfortable with failure on every single level."

-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book

"My mother's favorite cats were male and nervous and needed her. "Come to Mommy," my mother would say to one of them. "Yes, I love you, too." "You are not that cat's mother," I said, sitting on the so…"

-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book

"I've always hated the notion, in life or in fiction, that the human personality is a puzzle to be solved, that we are a single flashback away from understanding why this person is cruel to her childr…"

-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book

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14. Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets

By: Burkhard Bilger

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

As a boy growing up in Oklahoma, Burkhard Bilger often heard his parents tell stories about the Ger… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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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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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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16. My Side of the River

By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and wh… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
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17. The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

By: Maria Smilios

4.33

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remar… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Missouria took in Mr. Morris’s information and this system of demarcating lives. Maps and lines had defined her entire life. They were drawn throughout history, straightened, elongated, bent up and d…"

-Maria Smilios, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

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18. Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

By: Mark Harmon

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account.… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne

19. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

Cover of Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career by Kristi Coulter

20. Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career

By: Kristi Coulter

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon, from the… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything by Kelly Weill

21. Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything

By: Kelly Weill

3.79

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Since 2015, there has been a spectacular boom in a centuries-old delusion: that the earth is flat. … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics by Kevin Hazzard

22. American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics

By: Kevin Hazzard

4.57

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the fi… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive by Carolyn Prusa

23. None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

By: Carolyn Prusa

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Maria Semple and Jennifer Weiner, this smart and witty debut novel follows Ramo… read more

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"After I gave him so much-parts of myself I didn't even know were there. After I snuffed out my wildness. After I glued myself with rubber cement to this life because of my love for him and the people…"

-Carolyn Prusa, None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

Cover of When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion by Julie Satow

24. When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion

By: Julie Satow

4.06

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

A glittering, glamorous portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visio… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Girl on the Carpathia : A Novel of the Titanic by Eileen Enwright Hodgetts

25. The Girl on the Carpathia : A Novel of the Titanic

By: Eileen Enwright Hodgetts

4.32

Format: 679 pages, Kindle Edition

A tragic collision with an iceberg. A ruthless quest to assign blame. Can one young woman stand her… read more

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Cover of Steel City Mafia: Blood, Betrayal and Pittsburgh’s Last Don (True Crime) by Paul N. Hodos

26. Steel City Mafia: Blood, Betrayal and Pittsburgh’s Last Don (True Crime)

By: Paul N. Hodos

3.63

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

Pittsburgh's small but lucrative Cosa Nostra mafia family was on the rise in 1985 with a newly crow… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Kaufmann's: The Family That Built Pittsburgh’s Famed Department Store (Regional) by Marylynne Pitz

27. Kaufmann's: The Family That Built Pittsburgh’s Famed Department Store (Regional)

By: Marylynne Pitz

3.89

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

In 1868, Jacob Kaufmann, the nineteen-year-old son of a German farmer, stepped off a ship onto the … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance by Mark Whitaker

28. Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance

By: Mark Whitaker

4.29

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

“ Smoketown brilliantly offers us a chance to see this other black renaissance and spend time with … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Steel City: A Story of Pittsburgh by William J. Miller Jr.

29. Steel City: A Story of Pittsburgh

By: William J. Miller Jr.

4.20

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Steel City is the story of the 1890s golden age of Pittsburgh when its technological innovations an… read more

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Cover of Isaly's Chipped Ham, Klondikes, and Other Tales from Behind the Counter by Brian Butko

30. Isaly's Chipped Ham, Klondikes, and Other Tales from Behind the Counter

By: Brian Butko

5.00

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Isaly’s grew from horse-drawn milk wagons to become the world’s largest dairy store chain. Stores i… read more

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Cover of The Whiskey Rebellion: A Distilled History of an American Crisis by Brady J. Crytzer

31. The Whiskey Rebellion: A Distilled History of an American Crisis

By: Brady J. Crytzer

4.15

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In March 1791 Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton shocked the western frontier when he proposed a… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

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4.24

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Barbra Streisand

4.20

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4.19

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3.87

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