The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History
By: Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
3.62
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by …
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1. The Lessons of History
By: Will Durant , Ariel Durant
4.07
Format: 119 pages, Hardcover
In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for th… read more
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"We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"Democracy is the most difficult of all forms of government, since it requires the widest spread of intelligence, and we forgot to make ourselves intelligent when we made ourselves sovereign."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow he…"-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
2. Between the World and Me
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.40
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live wi… read more
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"Soft or hard, love was an act of heroism."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
3. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States
By: Albert O. Hirschman
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline ra… read more
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- philosophy
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- nonfiction
4. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America
By: Kirk Savage
3.57
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The United States of America originated as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. The Consolation of Philosophy
By: Boethius , None
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more
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6. The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy
By: Albert O. Hirschman
4.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
With engaging wit and subtle irony, Albert Hirschman maps the diffuse and treacherous world of reac… read more
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7. Monoculture: How One Story is Changing Everything
By: F.S. Michaels
4.01
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2011 NCTE George Orwell Award for outstanding contributions to the critical analysis … read more
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- cultural
- philosophy
- nonfiction
8. Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
By: Garry Wills
2.50
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
From one of America's most distinguished historians comes this classic analysis of Richard Nixon. B… read more
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9. The Sound of Things Falling
By: Juan Gabriel Vásquez , Anne McLean
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Juan Gabriel Vasquez has been hailed not only as one of South America's greatest literary stars, bu… read more
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10. Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts
By: James C. Scott
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Play fool, to catch wise."--proverb of Jamaican slaves Confrontations between the powerless and po… read more
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11. Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life
By: Theodore M. Porter
3.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
This investigation of the overwhelming appeal of quantification in the modern world discusses the d… read more
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12. The North Water
By: Ian McGuire
3.98
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
A ship sets sail with a killer on board . . . 1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arcti… read more
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"The redundancy of flesh, he thinks, the helplessness of meat, how can we conjure spirit from a bone?"-Ian McGuire, The North Water
"Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do."-Ian McGuire, The North Water
"Cleverness, he thinks, will get you nowhere; it is only the stupid, the brilliantly stupid, who will inherit the earth."-Ian McGuire, The North Water
"Death, he believes, is a kind of making, a kind of building up. What was one thing, he thinks, is become something else."-Ian McGuire, The North Water
13. American Pastoral
By: Philip Roth
3.94
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998) In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified g… read more
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"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"Exhibitionismul inerent unei marturisiri nu face decat sa agraveze suferinta."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"[...] ero una biografia in moto perpetuo, memoria sino al midollo delle ossa."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
14. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
By: Imani Perry
3.97
Format: 410 pages, Hardcover
An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South… read more
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- american history
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"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
15. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
By: David Brooks
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more
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- nonfiction
"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
16. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
17. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
18. 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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19. The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
By: Edward Dolnick
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Un apasionante thriller cultural. Un fascinante retrato de imperios antiguos y modernos, una mirada… read more
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- history
"The cliché has it that an unknown subject is a closed book, but Egypt was different. Egypt was an open book, with illustrations on every page, that no one knew how to read."-Edward Dolnick, The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
20. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
By: Clint Smith
4.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a… read more
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"How do you tell a story that has been told the wrong way for so long?"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the State of Virginia ,"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Jefferson believed himself to be a benevolent slave owner, but his moral ideals came second to, and were always entangled with, his own economic interests and the interests of his family."-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"But not enough people spoke about the reasons so many black children grow up communities saturated with poverty and violence. Not enough people spoke about how these realities were the result of deci…"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
21. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
By: Kate Crawford
3.99
Format: 288 pages, ebook
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality,… read more
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22. Worn: A People's History of Clothing
By: Sofi Thanhauser
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and captivatingly told history of clothing and the stuff it's made of--an unparalleled d… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
23. 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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- american
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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
24. The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
By: Ross Douthat
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Today the Western world seems to be in crisis. But beneath our social media frenzy and reality-tele… read more
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"I’m just saying that if this were the age in which some major divine intervention happened, whether long prophesied or completely unforeseen, there would be, in hindsight, a case that we should have …"-Ross Douthat, The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
25. The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
By: Joshua D. Rothman
4.31
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
In The Ledger and the Chain, acclaimed historian Joshua D. Rothman recounts the shocking story of t… read more
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- american
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26. How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship
By: Ece Temelkuran
4.06
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
’This is essential’ Margaret Atwood on Twitter‘She's one of the most acute and perceptive analysts … read more
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"Our mistake wasn't that we didn't do what we could have done, rather that we didn't know that we should have done it earlier."-Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship
"Today, the voice of populist infantile politics is amplified by social media allowing the ignorant to claim equality with the informed."-Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship
"Truth is not mathematical concept that needs to be proved with equations. Its singleness demands an intact moral compass, with certainties about what is good and bad."-Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship
27. Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change
By: Ben Austen
4.36
Format: None pages, None
Author of HIGH-RISERS Ben Austen's CORRECTION: PAROLE AND AMERICAN JUSTICE, an exploration of the U… read more
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28. What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez?: The American Revolution in Education
By: Geoffrey Galt Harpham
3.00
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Geoffrey Galt Harpham’s book takes its title from a telling anecdote. A few years ago Harpham met a… read more
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29. University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War
By: Alfred L. Brophy
3.69
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
University, Court, and Slave reveals long-forgotten connections between pre-Civil War southern univ… read more
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30. The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History
By: Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
3.62
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by … read more
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- nonfiction
31. The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer
By: Rick Jervis
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking true-crime story of a Texas border patrol agent turned serial killer, the four sex wor… read more
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