The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915
By: Jon Grinspan
4.02
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A penetrating, character-filled history “in the manner of David McCullough” (WSJ), revealing the de…
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1. A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
By: Philip Caputo
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The 40th-anniversary edition of the classic Vietnam memoir—featured in the PBS documentary series T… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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"The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain."-Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
"There was so much human suffering in these scenes that I could not respond to it."-Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
"Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy."-Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
"We had survived, but in war, a man does not have to be killed or wounded to become a casualty. His life, his sight, or limbs are not the only things he stands to lose."-Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
2. Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945
By: Rana Mitter
4.00
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The epic, untold story of China's devastating eight-year war of resistance against Japan For decade… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more
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4. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
5. 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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6. 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
"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
7. 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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8. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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9. The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West
By: Chris Wimmer
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of the "Legends of the Old West" podcast, a book exploring the overlapping narrati… read more
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- historical
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
10. Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather
By: Mark Seal
4.36
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
This “wickedly pacey page-turner” (Total Film) unfurls the behind-the-scenes story of the making of… read more
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11. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
By: Jon Meacham
4.46
Format: 676 pages, Hardcover
The life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln, exploring why and how Lincoln confronted secession… read more
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- historical
- politics
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12. The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
By: Brad Meltzer
3.81
Format: 413 pages, Hardcover
In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington’s bodyguards. Was… read more
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- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
13. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
By: Fareed Zakaria
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more
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14. Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
By: Elizabeth Varon
4.15
Format: 516 pages, ebook
An authoritative biography of the controversial Confederate general, who later embraced Reconstruct… read more
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"I have some little reputation, but my men made it all for me. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, Article in -Sumter Republican-, October 29, 1864."-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
"...the power of battle is in generalship more than in the number of soldiers. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (1876)"-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
"[The] object of politics is to relieve the distress of the people and to provide for their future comfort. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, Letter to the New Orleans Times, June 8, 1867."-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
"It does not look like generalship to lose a battle and a cause and then lay the responsibility upon others. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (1896)"-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
15. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
16. The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
By: Adam Serwer
4.25
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
"Trump summoned the most treacherous forces in American history and conducted them with the ease of… read more
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- american history
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"The cruelty is the point"-Adam Serwer, The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
"Multiracial democracy is hard and messy and sometimes rude, but it is preferable to the alternatives"-Adam Serwer, The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
"American religious pluralism, however imperfectly practiced, is centuries older than the European commitment to purging anti-Semitism, which is younger than Israel itself."-Adam Serwer, The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
"Since the Civil War, American Jews have built a place for themselves here much the way other minorities have-by holding the United States accountable to its own principles"-Adam Serwer, The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
17. Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
By: Kevin M. Kruse
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the… read more
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"Violence meant to seize and shore up power—a claim to sovereignty through the violence of the mob—is fundamentally American."-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
"Although in this case it is an understandable, emotional reaction meant to decry antidemocratic violence, the notion that January 6 is 'not who we are' is one manifestation of what has become a regul…"-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
"People may hear ‘white nationalism’ and assume it to be adjacent with patriotism, or at the very least consider it as pro-American. But after 1983 the nation at the heart of white nationalism was not…"-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
18. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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- the united states of america
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19. Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta--and Then Got Written Out of History
By: Howell Raines
3.59
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist reveals the little-known story of the Union soldiers from Alaba… read more
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- nonfiction
20. The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915
By: Jon Grinspan
4.02
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A penetrating, character-filled history “in the manner of David McCullough” (WSJ), revealing the de… read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- the united states of america
- 19th century
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- 20th century
21. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
By: Nancy Pelosi
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more
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