21 must-read nonfiction books like The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit by Randy E. Barnett

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The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit

By: Randy E. Barnett

4.27

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

A renowned constitutional scholar and a rising star provide a balanced and definitive analysis of t…

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1. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

By: Joe Simpson

4.23

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in?"

-Joe Simpson, Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

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2. The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind--and Changed the History of Free Speech in America

By: Thomas Healy

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A gripping intellectual history reveals how conservative justice Oliver Wendell Holmes became a fre… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • law
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3. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

By: Mary Beard

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of Reconstruction

By: Charles Lane

4.34

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

The untold story of the slaying of a Southern town's ex-slaves and a white lawyer's historic battle… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • law
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5. The Swimming-Pool Library

By: Alan Hollinghurst

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an en… read more

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6. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

8. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

9. 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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10. One Summer: America, 1927

By: Bill Bryson

4.09

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

In One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports read… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous."

-Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927

"He [Henry Ford] seldom let facts or logic challenge the certainty of his instincts"

-Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927

"The romance of travel wasn't always terribly evident to those who were actually experiencing it."

-Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927

"Even with the benefit of steroids most modern players still couldn't hit as many home runs as Babe Ruth hit on hotdogs."

-Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927

11. The Battle for the Falklands

By: Max Hastings , Simon Jenkins

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

"Must be read by all our military people and anyone who wants to find out what really happened on t… read more

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12. Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway

By: None , None

4.43

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without questi… read more

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13. Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865

By: James Oakes

4.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A powerful history of emancipation that reshapes our understanding of Lincoln, the Civil War, and t… read more

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14. Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime

By: Eliot A. Cohen

3.86

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The orthodoxy regarding the relationship between politicians and military leaders in wartime democr… read more

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15. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877

By: Richard B. Morris , Henry Steele Commager , Eric Foner

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) ma… read more

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16. Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)

By: John Updike

3.58

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—… read more

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"You were never in Texas,"

-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)

"They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him."

-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)

"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."

-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)

"The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you’re going before you go there."

-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)

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17. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • law
"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

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18. Social Justice Fallacies

By: Thomas Sowell

4.45

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this instant New York Times bestseller, renowned economist Thomas Sowell demolishes the myths th… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962

By: Max Hastings

4.40

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tens… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. The Ghost Ship (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #3)

By: Kate Mosse

4.05

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Next in the #1 Sunday Times bestselling series, New York Times bestselling author Kate Mosse return… read more

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22. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point

By: Steven Levitsky

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure

By: Yascha Mounk

3.73

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

One of Barack Obama's Recommended Reads for Summer  “ [A] brave and necessary book . . . Anyone in… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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24. Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism

By: Stephen Breyer

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A provocative, brilliant analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that dec… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • law
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25. In Defense of the Second Amendment

By: Larry Correia

4.54

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

What part of the Second Amendment don't you understand? That's the question posed by award-winni… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Gun control isn't about guns, it's about control."

-Larry Correia, In Defense of the Second Amendment

"We Should Ban the AR-15 (or Insert Scary Gun of the Week Here)!"

-Larry Correia, In Defense of the Second Amendment

"I bought forty-two more AR-15 magazines last week. I didn’t need them. I’ve already got shelves full for my rifles. I just bought them on principle because Congress said I shouldn’t have them."

-Larry Correia, In Defense of the Second Amendment

"Ten years. No difference. Meanwhile, we had bad guys turning up all the time committing crimes, and guess what was marked on the mags found in their guns? MILITARY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT USE ONLY. Becau…"

-Larry Correia, In Defense of the Second Amendment

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26. The People's Justice: Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories that Define Him

By: Amul Thapar

4.17

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"Amul Thapar has done what even gifted law professors and professional 'Court watchers' often fail … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • law
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27. The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit

By: Randy E. Barnett

4.27

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

A renowned constitutional scholar and a rising star provide a balanced and definitive analysis of t… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • law
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28. Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law

By: Neil Gorsuch

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

America has always been a nation of laws. But today our laws have grown so vast and reach so deeply… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • law
Cover of The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage by Jonathan Turley

29. The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage

By: Jonathan Turley

4.50

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

A timely, revelatory look at freedom of speech—our most basic right and the one that protects all t… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • law
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30. Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution

By: Myron Magnet

4.16

Format: 158 pages, Kindle Edition

When Clarence Thomas joined the Supreme Court in 1991, he found with dismay that it was interpretin… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine

By: William Edward Nelson

3.21

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

Discusses the history of the Fourteenth Amendment, considers the intent of its framers and assesses… read more

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20 best-selling history books like The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit by Randy E. Barnett

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The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind--and Changed the History of Free Speech in America

Thomas Healy

4.14

Transform Your Habits

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Mary Beard

3.59

Transform Your Habits

The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of Reconstruction

Charles Lane

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)

Robert A. Caro

4.36

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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers

Tom Standage

3.95

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The Everlasting Man

G.K. Chesterton

4.16

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Social Justice Fallacies

Thomas Sowell

4.45

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Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

Nellie Bowles

4.05

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