When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America
By: Heather Hendershot
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A riveting, blow-by-blow account of how the network broadcasts of the 1968 Democratic convention sh…
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1. The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
By: Stephen Kinzer
3.94
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate … read more
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- history
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- audiobook
2. The Known World
By: Edward P. Jones
4.33
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Known Worldis a daring and ambitious work by… read more
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3. Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
By: Jill Leovy
3.50
Format: 140 pages, Hardcover
On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man was shot and killed on a sidewalk minute… read more
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4. The Informant
By: Kurt Eichenwald
3.11
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes an outrageous story of greed, cor… read more
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5. My Beloved World
By: Sonia Sotomayor
3.74
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
An instant American icon--the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court--tells the story of her life… read more
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6. The Colossus of New York
By: Colson Whitehead
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates… read more
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7. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By: Rachel Maddow
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more
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- history
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- audiobook
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
8. Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
By: Cody Keenan
4.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “At a time when the meaning of America is up for grabs, Cody Keenan’s n… read more
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- politics
- history
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- audiobook
9. The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening
By: Ari Shapiro
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered, a stirring memoir-in-essays that is also a lo… read more
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- journalism
- nonfiction
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"We'd drive west to the fog of the coast. In Oregon, nobody calls it the beach, maybe to discourage false hopes of warm and sun."-Ari Shapiro, The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening
10. Night Watch
By: Jayne Anne Phillips
3.79
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more
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11. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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- history
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12. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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13. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
By: Robert Samuels
4.52
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism… read more
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14. 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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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- journalism
- audiobook
"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
15. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- journalism
- audiobook
16. The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture
By: Tricia Romano
4.28
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A rollicking history of America's most iconic weekly newspaper told through the voices of its legen… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- journalism
- audiobook
17. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
By: Jeffrey Toobin
4.16
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
By: Philip Gefter
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning writer reveals the behind-the-scenes story of the provocative play, the groundbrea… read more
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- history
- audiobook
19. American Spirits
By: Russell Banks
3.88
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From one of America’s most celebrated storytellers come three dark, interlocking tales about the re… read more
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20. The Land of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things #2)
By: John Connolly
3.91
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
Twice upon a time - for that is how some stories should continue . . . Phoebe, an eight-year-old… read more
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"They were books speaking to other books, which was what books did, because no book was ever created in isolation, and literature was a long, ongoing conversation between stories."-John Connolly, The Land of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things #2)
"To do nothing in the face of another's misfortune is to be no better than those who might have caused it to begin with, and the measure of the best of us is that we can correctly measure our own inco…"-John Connolly, The Land of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things #2)
"Raging against it, or despairing, would not change anything. The past does not imprison us. We may offer ourselves up as its captives, but equally, we can choose to open the cell door and walk free. …"-John Connolly, The Land of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things #2)
"You have to love not one dog, but all dogs," he would explain to Ceres. "You only have them for a short time, you see. To them it's a lifetime, while for you it's never long enough. So you love each …"-John Connolly, The Land of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things #2)
21. The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future
By: Franklin Foer
3.87
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Franklin Foer tells the definitive insider story of the first two years of the Biden presidency, wi… read more
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- audiobook
22. The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic
By: Daniel de Visé
4.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, an… read more
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- history
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23. Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
By: Joan Biskupic
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Editor's Choice "Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the co… read more
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- audiobook
24. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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25. Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power
By: Timothy W. Ryback
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler’s Private Library , a dramatic recounting of th… read more
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26. The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968
By: Luke A. Nichter
4.07
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
The unknown story of the election that set the tone for today’s fractured politics “The book is a… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- american history
27. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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- politics
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- audiobook
28. Ted Kennedy: A Life
By: John A. Farrell
4.35
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
An enthralling and groundbreaking new biography of one of modern America's most fascinating and con… read more
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29. When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America
By: Heather Hendershot
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A riveting, blow-by-blow account of how the network broadcasts of the 1968 Democratic convention sh… read more
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30. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
By: Nancy Pelosi
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more
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31. 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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