A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House
By: Jonathan W. White
4.13
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The forgotten but essential story of how President Lincoln welcomed African Americans to his White …
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1. Mourning Lincoln
By: Martha Hodes
3.65
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
How did individual Americans respond to the shock of President Lincoln’s assassination? Diaries, le… read more
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2. Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
By: James L. Swanson
3.78
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
A fascinating tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal. A gripping hour-by-hour account told through … read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
3. Fortune's Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth
By: Terry Alford
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
With a single shot from a pistol small enough to conceal in his hand, John Wilkes Booth catapulted … read more
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4. American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
By: Michael W. Kauffman
3.08
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
It is a tale as familiar as our history primers: A deranged actor, John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraha… read more
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5. 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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- politics
- presidents
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House
By: Jared Cohen
4.27
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author of Accidental Presidents explores what happens after the most pow… read more
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- audiobook
7. 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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"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
8. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
By: Michael Harriot
4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more
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- nonfiction
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9. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
By: Joe Posnanski
4.56
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
10. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
By: Beverly Gage
4.37
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more
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- audiobook
11. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
By: Matt Singer
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
12. The American Queen
By: Vanessa Miller
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In 1869 a kingdom rose in the South. And Louella was its queen. Over the twenty-four years she’s be… read more
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13. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
By: Jon Meacham
4.46
Format: 676 pages, Hardcover
The life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln, exploring why and how Lincoln confronted secession… read more
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- history
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- presidents
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- audiobook
14. The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
By: Matthew Gabriele
3.65
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle … read more
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- history
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15. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
4.17
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
"Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current… read more
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"Slavery didn’t end in 1865, it just evolved. The North won the Civil War, but the South won the narrative war"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
"I actually think the great evil of American slavery wasn’t involuntary servitude and forced labor. The true evil of American slavery was the narrative we created to justify it. They made up this ideo…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
"I actually think the great evil of American slavery wasn’t involuntary servitude and forced labor. The true evil of American slavery was the narrative we created to justify it. They made up this ideo…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
"We now know, thanks to developments in DNA analysis, that one in three African American males carries a Y-DNA signature inherited from a direct white male ancestor. Say, a great great great grandfath…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
16. How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of f… read more
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17. Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
By: Ty Seidule
4.42
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty… read more
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"When we identify our history, we can change the narrative."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
"Whenever Lee made a decision regarding enslaved people he chose profit over human decency."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
"History is always changing. We link the past to our conception of the present and we always have."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
"When people have no political outlet nor means of changing a racist society, rioting is their only voice."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
18. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
By: Camilla Townsend
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
19. The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
By: Brenda Wineapple
4.07
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
America's first presidential impeachment: A prize-winning author tells the story of the efforts by … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
By: Allen C. Guelzo
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the C… read more
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21. The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
By: Joanne B. Freeman
4.09
Format: 450 pages, Hardcover
In The Field of Blood, the historian Joanne B. Freeman offers a new and dramatically rendered portr… read more
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22. Off the Air
By: Christina Estes
3.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts thought-provoking and entertaining, Emmy Award winning reporter Christina Estes introdu… read more
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"My serial killer radar starts screaming."-Christina Estes, Off the Air
"His eyes conduct a polygraph of my face."-Christina Estes, Off the Air
"Might I interest you in murder and a meal?"-Christina Estes, Off the Air
"Attention is the drug of choice in local news."-Christina Estes, Off the Air
23. The First Populist: A Life of Andrew Jackson
By: David S. Brown
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A timely, “solidly researched [and] gracefully written” ( The Wall Street Journal ) biography of Pr… read more
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- audiobook
24. The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
By: Robert S. Levine
3.99
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Robert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his absorbing a… read more
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25. The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
By: Manisha Sinha
4.23
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction that fundamentally alters our view of thi… read more
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26. The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
By: Lindsay M. Chervinsky
4.20
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The US Constitution never established a presidential cabinet--the delegates to the Constitutional C… read more
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27. The North Star: Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln
By: Julian Sher
4.21
Format: 465 pages, Hardcover
A riveting, dramatic account of the years, months and days leading up to the assassination of Abrah… read more
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- history
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28. The Bitter Truth
By: Shanora Williams
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An upstanding political candidate. A determined stalker. A shattering lost weekend. Now, when his w… read more
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29. A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House
By: Jonathan W. White
4.13
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The forgotten but essential story of how President Lincoln welcomed African Americans to his White … read more
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30. Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
By: Jon Grinspan
4.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The propulsive story of the Wide Awake anti-slavery youth movement, an overlooked but pivotal facto… read more
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31. Crying in the Rain: The Perfect Harmony and Imperfect Lives of the Everly Brothers
By: Mark Ribowsky
4.18
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The Everly Brothers—aka Don and Phil to fans with an intimate appreciation for them—seemed to exist… read more
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