Teddy Roosevelt, the Secret Service, and the Birth of the FBI
By: Willard M. Oliver
3.66
Format: 240 pages, ebook
Most people believe the Federal Bureau of Investigation began under J. Edgar Hoover in the 1920s or…
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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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"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
2. On Palestine
By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more
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"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
3. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
By: David Fromkin
4.21
Format: 635 pages, Paperback
The critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling account of how the modern Middle East came into… read more
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"Reginald Wingate… wrote that “Moslems in general have hitherto regarded the Hejaz revolt, and our share in it, with suspicion or dislike"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
"Clayton and his colleagues believed French colonial administration to be incapable of allowing a country to retain its own character. What the French termed their “civilizing mission"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
"[T]he sheer magnitude of Britain’s commitment and loss at Gallipoli made it seem vital years later that she should play a major role in the postwar Middle East to give some sort of meaning to so grea…"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
"Fear of Russian expansionism was at the heart of the Porte’s policy. The Turkish ambassador told Deedes that if the Allies won the war, they would cause or allow the Ottoman Empire to be partitioned,…"-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
4. Dawn (The Night Trilogy #2)
By: Elie Wiesel , Frances Frenaye
3.66
Format: 320 pages,
Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-contr… read more
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5. A Man Without a Country
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir." -Los Angeles… read more
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6. Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century
By: Dorothy Roberts
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A decade after the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race,… read more
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7. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
By: Lindsay C. Gibson
4.39
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering… read more
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"Hate is a normal and involuntary reaction when somebody tries to control you for no good reason. It signals that the person is extinguishing your emotional life force by getting his or her needs met …"-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
"If parents don’t label their own behavior as abusive, their child won’t label it that way either. Even as adults, many people have no idea that what happened to them in childhood was abusive. As a re…"-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
"How many people get to be awake and aware for the emergence of the person they were always meant to be? How many people get to have two lifetimes in one? So tell me, is it worth the pain to get to li…"-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
"No child can be good enough to evoke love from a highly self-involved parent. Nevertheless, these children come to believe that the price of making a connection is to put other people first and treat…"-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
8. Richard Nixon: The Life
By: John A. Farrell
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Brilliantly researched, authoritatively crafted by a prize-winning biographer, and lively on the pa… read more
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9. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
By: Benjamin Lorr
3.95
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more
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10. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
By: Ronan Farrow
4.40
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered abou… read more
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"All the women before feel I am their fault," she said. "And if there were women after me, I feel that is my fault."-Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
"Trying to get ahold of Davis later on, i asked Jonathan, "Who would have Lanny Davis's number?" He replied, I don't know, Pol Pot?"-Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
11. 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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12. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.60
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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"When someone loves loudly, with everything they have in them, the withholding of that loud love, even briefly, feels impossible to endure."-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"If I am going to be afraid, I might as well do it honest. Arm in arm with everyone I love, adorned in blood and bruises, singing jokes on our way to the grave."-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"I have wanted to die enough times in my life to understand the idea that wanting to die is not a foolish thing... I don't mean to prop up the idea of wanting an exit, but for me, not to imagine it as…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"Of the many things America loves to pat itself on the back about, one of the things is an obsession with exploration, or the desire to seek places beyond the places you are from or the places you hav…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
13. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
By: Timothy Egan
4.13
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken nat… read more
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"There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty."-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
"Of all the foes which attack the woodlands of North America, no other is so terrible as fire."-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
"Ideas take on their own trajectory, but they die without people to carry them into the corridors of power."-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
"Onward and upward he pushed until rock, ground, and forest came to an end, until there was nothing but a sharp edge of blunt earth protruding in the late light of the range, where he could see well b…"-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
14. Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
By: Daniel James Brown
4.49
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga… read more
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15. Acid for the Children
By: Flea
4.08
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
The strange tale of a boy named Flea starts in Rye, NY. It was all very normal. But soon his parent… read more
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"Bein famous don't mean shit"-Flea, Acid for the Children
"Such a fool was I. It's a fool who's seduced by that which feels good. Nothing but a simple fool."-Flea, Acid for the Children
"We sat up through the night snorting and talking. It all felt so important, meaningful and good, all be it in that weird coke way. In the years to come, during all night coked out blab-fests, even du…"-Flea, Acid for the Children
16. Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell (Frontier Lawmen)
By: Tom Clavin
4.03
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The true story of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the famous Battle at the OK Corral, by the N… read more
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17. Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter (Frontier Lawmen)
By: Tom Clavin
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times… read more
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18. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
4.05
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more
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19. The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories
By: Ilan Pappé
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Following his critically acclaimed investigation of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1940s,… read more
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20. Rush: Revolution, Madness, and the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
By: Stephen Fried
4.28
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
The remarkable story of Benjamin Rush, medical pioneer and one of our nation's most provocative and… read more
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21. Teddy Roosevelt, the Secret Service, and the Birth of the FBI
By: Willard M. Oliver
3.66
Format: 240 pages, ebook
Most people believe the Federal Bureau of Investigation began under J. Edgar Hoover in the 1920s or… read more
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