19 must-read nonfiction books like The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made by Patricia O'Toole

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The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made

By: Patricia O'Toole

3.94

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

“Lucid and elegant...On Wilson’s tortured entrance into World War I, [O’Toole] is truly superb...As…

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1. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

By: Stephen Kotkin

3.97

Format: 976 pages, Hardcover

A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has th… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Russia was a genuine great power, but with a tragic flaw. Its vicious, archaic autocracy had to be emasculated for any type of better system to emerge. Unmodern in principle, let alone in practice, t…"

-Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

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2. The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century

By: Scott Miller

3.94

Format: 450 pages, Hardcover

In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassi… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Coolidge

By: Amity Shlaes

3.76

Format: 536 pages, Hardcover

Calvin Coolidge, who served as president from 1923 to 1929, never rated highly in polls. The shy Ve… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • biography memoir
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. -Calvin Coolidge"

-Amity Shlaes, Coolidge

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4. Still Life With Crows (Pendergast, #4)

By: Douglas Preston , Lincoln Child

4.21

Format: 571 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to… read more

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  • audiobook
"Chauncy made a huge effort to control himself. “I had lunch at Maisie’s Diner."

-Douglas Preston, Still Life With Crows (Pendergast, #4)

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5. Witness to a Trial (The Whistler, #0.5)

By: John Grisham

3.75

Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition

A startling and original courtroom drama from New York Times #1 Best Seller John Grisham that is th… read more

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  • audiobook
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6. The Highwayman (Walt Longmire, #11.5)

By: Craig Johnson

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When Wyoming highway patrolman Rosey Wayman is transferred to the beautiful and imposing landscape … read more

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  • audiobook
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7. Cronkite

By: Douglas Brinkley

4.81

Format: 539 pages, Hardcover

For decades, Walter Cronkite was known as "the most trusted man in America." Millions across the na… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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8. Spirit of Steamboat (Walt Longmire, #9.1)

By: Craig Johnson

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

A holiday tale from the New York Timesbestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery series, the i… read more

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  • audiobook
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9. Hoover: The Life and Times of Herbert Hoover

By: Kenneth Whyte

3.21

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, Herbert … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction

10. Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

By: Theodore Dalrymple

4.06

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Here is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it pers… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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11. Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse

By: James L. Swanson

3.57

Format: 160 pages,

On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, received a telegram… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
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12. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

By: Jon Meacham

3.44

Format: 336 pages,

Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this r… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
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13. I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)

By: Robert Graves

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54. Set in the… read more

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14. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

3.49

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Pulitzer for History, No Ordinary Timeis a chronicle of one of the most vibrant & rev… read more

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15. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

By: Candice Millard

4.24

Format: None pages,

At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Dou… read more

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16. Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

By: Gordon S. Wood

4.16

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winnin… read more

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17. Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

By: H.W. Brands

3.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, magisterial biography of the man generally considered the greatest president of the twe… read more

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18. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

By: Daniel Okrent

3.89

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

19. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

By: David McCullough

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Hardcover

On December 31, 1999, after nearly a century of rule, the United States officially ceded ownership … read more

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20. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Doris Kearns Goodwin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of Team of Rivals, captures the Progr… read more

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21. A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland

By: Troy Senik

4.16

Format: 384 pages, ebook

“A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable” (National Review) biography of Grover Cleveland—the honest, p… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • biography memoir
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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23. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

By: David McCullough

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. Blackout (Berlin Wartime Thriller #1)

By: Simon Scarrow

4.20

Format: 451 pages, Kindle Edition

Berlin, December 1939 As Germany goes to war, the Nazis tighten their terrifying grip. Paranoia … read more

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  • audiobook
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26. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.60

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

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27. Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence

By: Ken Auletta

4.12

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Twenty years ago, Ken Auletta wrote one of the iconic New Yorker profiles for which he is famous, o… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
" Harvey Weinstein took pride in not paying bills ,"

-Ken Auletta, Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence

"By suing his former lawyer, Baez’s attorney, Joe Tacopina, said Harvey had waived attorney-client privilege, allowing Tacopina on Baez’s behalf to denounce Harvey as ' a vile fiend ' and a ' rapist ."

-Ken Auletta, Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence

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28. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency

By: Andy Greenberg

4.50

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrenc… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola

29. The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America

By: Nicholas Buccola

4.49

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

How the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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30. The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding

By: Ryan S. Walters

3.61

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

"Presidents are ranked wrong. In The Jazz Age Defending Warren G. Harding, Ryan Walters mounts a c… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • presidents
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
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31. The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made

By: Patricia O'Toole

3.94

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

“Lucid and elegant...On Wilson’s tortured entrance into World War I, [O’Toole] is truly superb...As… read more

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  • world war i
  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • biography memoir
  • us presidents
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

17 Top audiobook books like The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made by Patricia O'Toole

Transform Your Habits

The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century

Scott Miller

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Coolidge

Amity Shlaes

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Still Life With Crows (Pendergast, #4)

Douglas Preston , Lincoln Child

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Witness to a Trial (The Whistler, #0.5)

John Grisham

3.75

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Transform Your Habits

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party

Jonathan Karl

4.28

Transform Your Habits

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

Erik Larson

4.24

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