6 Best american history books like From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War (American Ways) by David Reynolds

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From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War (American Ways)

By: David Reynolds

3.73

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A master historian's provocative new interpretation of FDR's role in the coming of World War II. Br…

If you liked the american history plot in From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War (American Ways) by David Reynolds , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of I and Thou by Martin Buber, Walter Kaufmann

1. I and Thou

By: Martin Buber , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here. Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been accl… read more

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  • nonfiction
"All real living is meeting."

-Martin Buber, I and Thou

"Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity."

-Martin Buber, I and Thou

"True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past."

-Martin Buber, I and Thou

"Feelings one "has"; love occurs. Feelings dwell in man, but man dwells in his love."

-Martin Buber, I and Thou

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2. Celia, A Slave

By: Melton A. McLaurin

3.52

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Compelling. . . a shocking tale. . . a remarkable account. . . . McLaurin succeeds admirably in us… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • american history
Cover of The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-45 by Paul Fussell

3. The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-45

By: Paul Fussell

3.91

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

The Boys’ Crusade is the great historian Paul Fussell’s unflinching and unforgettable account of th… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • american history
Cover of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Mauldon, Malcolm Bowie, Mark Overstall

4. Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more

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"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Cover of Brighton Rock by J.M. Coetzee, Graham Greene

5. Brighton Rock

By: J.M. Coetzee , Graham Greene

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has kill… read more

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6. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

By: Frederick Douglass

4.11

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • american history
"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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7. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

By: Carlo Ginzburg , John Tedeschi , Anne Tedeschi

3.57

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Vietnam War: A Concise International History by Mark Atwood Lawrence

8. The Vietnam War: A Concise International History

By: Mark Atwood Lawrence

3.94

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Vietnam War remains a topic of extraordinary interest, not least because of striking parallels … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

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10. The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories

By: Leo Tolstoy , Hugh McLean

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Leo Tolstoy combined detailed physical description with perceptive psychological insight to sweep a… read more

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Cover of Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America by Jennifer D. Keene

11. Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America

By: Jennifer D. Keene

4.01

Format: 511 pages, Hardcover

How does a democratic government conscript citizens, turn them into soldiers who can fight effectiv… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • american history
Cover of The Quiet American by Graham Greene, Robert  Stone

12. The Quiet American

By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more

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13. The Myth of the Eternal Return or Cosmos and History

By: Mircea Eliade , Willard R. Trask

4.00

Format: None pages,

This founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the Nor… read more

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14. Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan, Revised Edition

By: J. Samuel Walker

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

More than fifty years later, the decision that brought prompt and utter destruction to the cities o… read more

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15. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

By: Michelle Alexander

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more

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16. Othello

By: William Shakespeare

4.48

Format: None pages,

In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (betwee… read more

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Cover of War Stuff: The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War (Cambridge Studies on the American South) by Joan E. Cashin

17. War Stuff: The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War (Cambridge Studies on the American South)

By: Joan E. Cashin

3.36

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

In this path-breaking work on the American Civil War, Joan E. Cashin explores the struggle between … read more

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  • american history
  • history
Cover of From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War (American Ways) by David   Reynolds

18. From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War (American Ways)

By: David Reynolds

3.73

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A master historian's provocative new interpretation of FDR's role in the coming of World War II. Br… read more

Similar categories in David Reynolds's From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War (American Ways) book and David Reynolds's From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War (American Ways)

  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • american history

8 must-read history books like From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War (American Ways) by David Reynolds

Transform Your Habits

Celia, A Slave

Melton A. McLaurin

3.52

Transform Your Habits

The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-45

Paul Fussell

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

Carlo Ginzburg , John Tedeschi , Anne Tedeschi

3.57

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9 Best fiction books like Brighton Rock by J.M. Coetzee, Graham Greene

Transform Your Habits

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet

3.83

Transform Your Habits

A Handful of Dust

Evelyn Waugh

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Brighton Rock

J.M. Coetzee , Graham Greene

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Lucky Jim

Kingsley Amis , David Lodge

4.73

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