12 Best nonfiction books like Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City by Andrew J. Diamond

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Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City

By: Andrew J. Diamond

4.16

Format: 380 pages, ebook

"Effectively details the long history of racial conflict and abuse that has led to Chicago becoming…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City by Andrew J. Diamond , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. An Autobiography

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.44

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Her own powerful story up to 1972, told with warmth, brilliance, humor and conviction. With an intr… read more

Similar categories in Angela Y. Davis's An Autobiography book and Andrew J. Diamond's Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"I sank deep into the moment, husbanding this delight, hoarding it. For I knew it would be short-lived. Work. Struggle. Confrontation lay before us like a rock-strewn road. We would walk it ... But fi…"

-Angela Y. Davis, An Autobiography

"This Booker T. Washington syndrome permeated every aspect of the education I received in Birmingham. Work hard and you will be rewarded. A corollary of this principle was that the road would be harde…"

-Angela Y. Davis, An Autobiography

2. The Second Sex

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley

3.60

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. Lonesome Dove

By: Larry McMurtry

4.00

Format: 117 pages,

A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-- winning … read more

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4. Jim Thompson: The Unsolved Myst

By: William Warren

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

On Easter Day, 1967, American businessmen and founder of the modern Thai silk industry James H. W. … read more

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5. The Origins of Totalitarianism

By: Hannah Arendt

3.37

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twent… read more

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6. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

By: Robin D.G. Kelley

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of th… read more

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7. All the King's Men

By: Robert Penn Warren

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

More than just a classic political novel, Warren's tale of power and corruption in the Depression-e… read more

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8. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

By: Isabel Wilkerson

3.69

Format: 121 pages, Hardcover

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chroni… read more

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9. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

By: David Brooks

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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10. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

By: David Graeber

4.20

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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11. Victory City

By: Salman Rushdie

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Hidden in a clay pot. Sealed with wax. Buried at the heart of a ruined palace amidst the ashes of o… read more

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"History is a consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."

-Salman Rushdie, Victory City

"History is the consequence not only of people’s actions, but also of their forgetfulness."

-Salman Rushdie, Victory City

"fHistory is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."

-Salman Rushdie, Victory City

"In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat."

-Salman Rushdie, Victory City

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12. A Taste of Gold and Iron (Mahisti Dynasty, #1)

By: Alexandra Rowland

4.05

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The Goblin Emperor meets "Magnificent Century" in Alexandra Rowland's A Taste of Gold and Iron, whe… read more

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Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

13. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

By: Fintan O'Toole

4.34

Format: 616 pages, Hardcover

A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"

-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

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15. Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire

By: Caroline Elkins

4.26

Format: 896 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America

By: Carol Anderson

4.33

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández

17. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

By: Kelly Lytle Hernández

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Me… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

By: Howard W. French

4.31

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European histor… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure by Yascha Mounk

19. The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure

By: Yascha Mounk

3.73

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

One of Barack Obama's Recommended Reads for Summer  “ [A] brave and necessary book . . . Anyone in… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City

By: Andrew J. Diamond

4.16

Format: 380 pages, ebook

"Effectively details the long history of racial conflict and abuse that has led to Chicago becoming… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
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  • 21st century

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Transform Your Habits

An Autobiography

Angela Y. Davis

4.44

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Transform Your Habits

We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

Fintan O'Toole

4.34

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Transform Your Habits

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Greg Lukianoff

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

Calder Walton

4.30

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Evan Osnos

4.24

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Ezra Klein

4.22

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