Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act
By: Nicholson Baker
3.84
Format: 450 pages, Hardcover
A major new work, a hybrid of history, journalism, and memoir, about the modern Freedom of Informat…
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1. The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
By: Robert A. Caro
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill… read more
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2. Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
By: Robert A. Caro
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon B. Johnson, cont… read more
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3. Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)
By: Robert A. Caro
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, … read more
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4. The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)
By: Robert A. Caro
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON… read more
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5. HHhH
By: Laurent Binet
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Deux parachutistes tchecoslovaques envoyes par Londres sont charges d'assassiner Reinhard Heydrich,… read more
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6. American Slavery, American Freedom
By: Edmund S. Morgan
4.21
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and quality. Ge… read more
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7. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A sweeping collection of new and selected essays on the Obama era by the National Book Award-winnin… read more
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8. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
By: Ellen Meiksins Wood
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more
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9. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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10. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
By: Stephen Vladeck
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed legal scholar’s “essential” (Linda Greenhouse) exp… read more
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- nonfiction
- government
- journalism
"But in order after order, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration most of what it wanted without endorsing principles that the justices would be bound to apply to future presidents, so that t…"-Stephen Vladeck, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
11. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
By: Keith O'Brien
4.43
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more
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12. It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO
By: Felix Gillette
4.03
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
The inside story of HBO, the start-up company that reinvented television--by two veteran media repo… read more
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13. On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
By: Ronald C. White Jr.
4.45
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic an… read more
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- nonfiction
14. Stalin's War: A New History of World War II
By: Sean McMeekin
4.28
Format: 768 pages, Hardcover
A major new history of the Second World War by a prize-winning historian We remember World War I… read more
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- military fiction
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- nonfiction
15. The Topeka School
By: Ben Lerner
3.50
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive famil… read more
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"The problem for him in high school was that debate made you a nerd and poetry made you a pussy – even if both could help you get to the vaguely imagines East Coast city from which your experiences in…"-Ben Lerner, The Topeka School
16. The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
By: Katherine Stewart
4.28
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Democracy in Chains and Dark Money, a revelatory investigation of the Religious Righ… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- united states
"Christian nationalism exploits and intensifies inequality, and dominionism is its logical endpoint and the actual engine of the so-called culture wars."-Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
"Are we a nation in which one brand of religion enjoys a place of privilege? Are we a nation of laws—except in cases where the law offends the feelings of those who subscribe to our preferred religion…"-Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
"This is not a book I could have imagined writing a dozen years ago. When an older couple from another town attempted to set up and lead a Bible club at my daughter's public elementary school in South…"-Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
17. The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini
By: Joe Posnanski
3.83
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Joe Posnanski enters the colorful world of Harry Houdini and his legions of devoted fans to explore… read more
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18. Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind
By: Sarah Posner
4.05
Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition
A stunning feat of reportage that explains one of the central mysteries of the Trump era: the unhol… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
19. Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act
By: Nicholson Baker
3.84
Format: 450 pages, Hardcover
A major new work, a hybrid of history, journalism, and memoir, about the modern Freedom of Informat… read more
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- true crime
- politics
- military fiction
- united states
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- government
- journalism
20. The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis
By: Jared Yates Sexton
4.04
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the author of American Rule and the host of The Muckrake Podcast , an ambitious account of how… read more
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- nonfiction
"Media members and politicians were largely affluent and privileged and out of touch with what was happening on the ground in other parts of the country."-Jared Yates Sexton, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis
21. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
By: Evan Friss
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more
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