19 Best nonfiction books like Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence by Keith Ellison

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Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence

By: Keith Ellison

4.39

Format: None pages, Audiobook

“An unforgettable reading experience.”―Eric HolderWith this powerful and intimate trial diary, Minn…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence by Keith Ellison , here is a list of 19 books like this:

1. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A sweeping collection of new and selected essays on the Obama era by the National Book Award-winnin… read more

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2. 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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"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

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3. Vanished in Vermillion: The Real Story of South Dakota’s Most Infamous Cold Case

By: Lou Raguse

3.91

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The result of hundreds of interviews, Vanished in Vermillion is a cold case story that flips the sc… read more

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4. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

By: Ibram X. Kendi

4.57

Format: 504 pages, Hardcover

An epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, Four Hundred Sou… read more

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"Black people will always find each other in the passage between death and America"

-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

"And again we confront the problem of history: it's usually the powerful who get to write it."

-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

"Z is for zealotry: national pride like an infinite zipline, hyperdrive, the fastest way down."

-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

"There's dust, a scratch in a groove, and here we are repeating the same two seconds of "Strange Fruit."

-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

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5. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more

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6. 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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7. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

By: Marc Lamont Hill

4.21

Format: 227 pages, Hardcover

A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more

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8. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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9. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

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10. Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution

By: Elie Mystal

4.59

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

According to commentator and lawyer Elie Mystal, Republicans are wrong when they tell you the First… read more

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11. The Late Americans

By: Brandon Taylor

3.38

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more

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12. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

By: Donovan X. Ramsey

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more

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13. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

By: Kamala Harris

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us,… read more

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"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

"Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

". . . Being a good person meant standing for something larger than yourself; that success is measured in part by what you help others achieve and accomplish."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

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14. Blowback A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump

By: Miles Taylor

4.44

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

Donald Trump will be president again, whether he is on the ballot or not. That is because Trumpism … read more

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15. 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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16. Standing My Ground: A Capitol Police Officer's Fight for Accountability and Good Trouble After January 6th

By: Harry Dunn

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The stirring memoir of Harry Dunn, a Capitol Police Officer on duty January 6th, who has become one… read more

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17. My Vanishing Country

By: Bakari Sellers

3.98

Format: 227 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis, My Vanishing Country is an eye-opening journey … read more

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18. This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

By: Ilhan Omar

4.26

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Ilhan Omar was eight years old when war broke out in Somalia. The youngest of seven children, her … read more

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"I grew up knowing that hard things only get harder when you don’t have real conversations about them."

-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

"The more we listen to and learn from those with different backgrounds and present circumstances from our own, the more we can find connections to our own lived experience."

-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

"As a refugee who fled civil war as a child, I am still trying to figure out where I fit in - which is perhaps why the most important note I found sticking to the wall outside my office had only three…"

-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

"As we continue to perfect our union, citizens, neighbors, coworkers, and family must keep expanding our circles of self-interest to learn and relearn the fundamental truth that we are all connected. …"

-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

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19. In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust

By: Richard Hurowitz

4.42

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

“ In the Garden of the Righteous brilliantly describes how in the midst of the brutality of the Hol… read more

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20. Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence

By: Keith Ellison

4.39

Format: None pages, Audiobook

“An unforgettable reading experience.”―Eric HolderWith this powerful and intimate trial diary, Minn… read more

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21. The Joy of Politics: Surviving Cancer, a Campaign, a Pandemic, an Insurrection, and Life's Other Unexpected Curveballs

By: Amy Klobuchar

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and revelatory memoir—on personal challenges, political turmoil, and the state of Ameri… read more

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17 Top audiobook books like Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi

Transform Your Habits

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

4.53

Transform Your Habits

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Ibram X. Kendi

4.57

Transform Your Habits

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig

4.67

Transform Your Habits

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

Michael Harriot

4.59

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