10 must-read american history books like America in the Gilded Age by Sean Dennis Cashman

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America in the Gilded Age

By: Sean Dennis Cashman

3.73

Format: 425 pages, Paperback

The third and updated edition of the classic account of America in the latter half of the nineteent…

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1. The Hit (Will Robie, #2)

By: David Baldacci

4.16

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Will Robie is a master of killing.A highly skilled assassin, Robie is the man the U.S. government c… read more

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"She apparently didn't expect any trouble but she also never expected everything to go perfectly either. That was a good rule to live by Robie knew. Because perfection was rarely the case in the field."

-David Baldacci, The Hit (Will Robie, #2)

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2. Orientalism

By: None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."

-None, Orientalism

"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."

-None, Orientalism

"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."

-None, Orientalism

"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."

-None, Orientalism

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3. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

4. Complete Works

By: Plato , Benjamin Jowett , Jonathan Barnes , Anthony Kenny , None , Stanley Lombardo , Paul Woodruff , Brad Inwood , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper , C.D.C. Reeve , Alexander Nehamas , Nicholas P. White , Donald J. Zeyl , David Gallop , Nicholas D. Smith , D.S. Hutchinson , None , Rosamond Kent Sprague , Karen Bell , None , Diskin Clay , None , None , None , None , None , None , Mary Louise Gill , None , None , None , None , None , Paul Ryan

3.86

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920

By: None

4.21

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

With America's current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat … read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. A People's History of the United States

By: Howard Zinn

3.00

Format: None pages,

Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the Unit… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction

7. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

By: Erik Larson

3.86

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hit… read more

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8. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

By: Edwin A. Abbott , Banesh Hoffmann

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertai… read more

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9. 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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10. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

By: Dan Jones

4.41

Format: 636 pages, Hardcover

An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

By: Timothy Egan

4.38

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more

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  • politics
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  • history
  • nonfiction
"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

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12. 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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  • politics
  • american history
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  • 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

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13. The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021

By: Peter Baker

4.46

Format: 725 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "The most comprehensive and detailed account of the Trump presidency ye… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper

By: Daniel Stashower

3.50

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Dem… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. The Old Lion

By: Jeff Shaara

4.24

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara, The Old Lion a brilliant novel tracing the life… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
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16. Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America

By: Michael Hiltzik

3.81

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for … read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

By: Christina Thompson

4.24

Format: 365 pages, Hardcover

A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intel… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Vision is not so much about just looking but knowing what to look for. It's experience."

-Christina Thompson, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

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18. The Lobotomist's Wife

By: Samantha Greene Woodruff

4.04

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

An enthralling historical novel of a compassionate and relentless woman, a cutting-edge breakthroug… read more

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19. The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

By: Walter Johnson

4.38

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told thr… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"One of the things about people who have little left to lose, of course, is that they have everything to gain. On August 9, 2014, the disinherited of St. Louis rose again to take control of their hist…"

-Walter Johnson, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

"Viewed from St. Louis, the history of capitalism in the United States seems to have as much to do with eviction and extraction as with exploitation and production. History in St. Louis unfolded at th…"

-Walter Johnson, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

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20. His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine

By: S.C. Gwynne

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon come… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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21. America in the Gilded Age

By: Sean Dennis Cashman

3.73

Format: 425 pages, Paperback

The third and updated edition of the classic account of America in the latter half of the nineteent… read more

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  • american history
  • history
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15 Top history books like America in the Gilded Age by Sean Dennis Cashman

Transform Your Habits

Orientalism

None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Complete Works

Plato , Benjamin Jowett , Jonathan Barnes , Anthony Kenny , None , Stanley Lombardo , Paul Woodruff , Brad Inwood , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper , C.D.C. Reeve , Alexander Nehamas , Nicholas P. White , Donald J. Zeyl , David Gallop , Nicholas D. Smith , D.S. Hutchinson , None , Rosamond Kent Sprague , Karen Bell , None , Diskin Clay , None , None , None , None , None , None , Mary Louise Gill , None , None , None , None , None , Paul Ryan

3.86

Transform Your Habits

A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920

None

4.21

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14 Top audiobook books like Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson

Transform Your Habits

Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

Joan Druett

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Pacific: The Ocean of the Future

Simon Winchester

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

Neil Price

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

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