America’s Forgotten Slaves: The History of Native American Slavery in the New World and the United States
By: Charles River Editors
4.00
Format: 71 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
By: Sharon Weinberger
3.00
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency--the most authoritative acc… read more
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2. The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta
By: Marc Wortman
3.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The destruction of Atlanta is an iconic moment in American history--it was the centerpiece of Gone … read more
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3. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
By: Carol S. Dweck
4.00
Format: 96 pages,
Now updated with new research -- the book that has changed millions of lives. After decades of rese… read more
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4. Grant
By: Ron Chernow
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefel… read more
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5. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
By: Stacy Schiff
3.74
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man… read more
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6. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By: Isabel Wilkerson
4.53
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more
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"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
7. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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8. Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
By: Lesley M.M. Blume
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how one courageous American reporter un… read more
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"History is history,"-Lesley M.M. Blume, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
"Hiroshima was a decimated “death laboratory"-Lesley M.M. Blume, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
"War is ethically totally different from peace,"-Lesley M.M. Blume, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
"I covered it up, and John Hersey uncovered it,"-Lesley M.M. Blume, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
9. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.21
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more
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"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
10. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
By: Clint Smith
4.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a… read more
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"How do you tell a story that has been told the wrong way for so long?"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the State of Virginia ,"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Jefferson believed himself to be a benevolent slave owner, but his moral ideals came second to, and were always entangled with, his own economic interests and the interests of his family."-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"But not enough people spoke about the reasons so many black children grow up communities saturated with poverty and violence. Not enough people spoke about how these realities were the result of deci…"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
11. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
By: Annalee Newitz
3.79
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why … read more
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"Often it is in the most squalid and filthiest of places that we can uncover profound truths about a society that considers itself civilized."-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
"There was no giant sign proclaiming the end of life as they'd known it; instead, there was a mounting pile of annoyances and disappointments."-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
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12. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
By: Rachel Aviv
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more
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13. Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
By: Wajahat Ali
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of … read more
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"The Whiteness doesn't want us to be American. But since it can't remove all of us, it will always find ways to dominate the rest of us and make our lives uncomfortable."-Wajahat Ali, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
"Nearly 30 percent of the enslaved were originally Muslim, which means Muslims' stories, labor, tears, pain, and dreams have fertilized this country's soil from the beginning."-Wajahat Ali, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
"Like many great works of theater, I believe America is simultaneously a riotous comedy and a heartbreaking tragedy. Our hamartia, our fatal flaw, is racism. It haunts us every day."-Wajahat Ali, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
"But I already knew that, in America, if you aren't writing your story, your story will always be written for you. If you aren't telling your story, your story will always be told to you."-Wajahat Ali, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
14. On Juneteenth
By: Annette Gordon-Reed
4.18
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annet… read more
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"History is always being revised, as new information, comes to light and when different people see known documents and have their own responses to them, shaped by their individual experiences."-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
"Origin stories matter, for individuals, groups of people, and for nations. They inform our sense of self; telling us what kind of people we believe we are, what kind of nation we believe in. They usu…"-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
"Why would White Texans be more obstreperous than other White southerners? It has been suggested that this was because, unlike other Southern states, Texas had not been defeated militarily. They had w…"-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
15. Night of the Living Rez
By: Morgan Talty
3.91
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
How do the living come back to life? Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more
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"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez
16. Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy
By: Alastair Gee
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The harrowing story of the most destructive American wildfire in a century. There is no preceden… read more
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17. Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
By: Annaka Harris
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
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18. Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
By: Lyndsie Bourgon
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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"Organizations like the World Bank and Interpol have estimated that the global scale of illegal logging generates somewhere between $51 billion and $157 billion annually. Thirty percent of the world's…"-Lyndsie Bourgon, Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
"Scientists have stumbled on the remains of ancient woods in this way, locating root systems that continue to support the forest long after the body of the tree has disappeared. In this sense the tree…"-Lyndsie Bourgon, Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
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19. Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
By: Adam Minter
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
When you drop a box of unwanted items off at the local thrift store, where do they go? Probably acr… read more
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"Encouraging consumers to think more seriously about the financial, environmental, and personal costs of their consumption would be a major step in addressing the crisis of quality and the environment…"-Adam Minter, Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
20. Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
By: Thomas Healy
4.16
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In 1969, with America’s cities in turmoil and racial tensions high, civil rights leader Floyd McKis… read more
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21. Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains
By: Kerri Arsenault
3.67
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A galvanizing and powerful debut, Mill Town is an American story, a human predicament, and a moral … read more
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"We broke the rules of our family's way of life, rules they encouraged us to break; we chose different paths."-Kerri Arsenault, Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains
22. Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways
By: Derek Gow
3.97
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
Bringing Back the Beaver is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow's inspirational and often riotously f… read more
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23. We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered in a New Era of American Extremism
By: Andy Campbell
3.83
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A gripping investigation into the nation’s most notorious far-right group, revealing how they creat… read more
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24. Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
By: Adam Hochschild
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing … read more
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25. Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl
By: Markiyan Kamysh
3.29
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Trainspotting meets A Field Guide to Getting Lost in this rare portrait of the dystopian reality th… read more
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26. Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight Back
By: Kate Aronoff
3.97
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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27. Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name: The Change of Worlds for the Native People and Settlers on Puget Sound
By: David M. Buerge
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
This is the first thorough account of Chief Seattle and his times--the story of a half-century of t… read more
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28. I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv
By: Illia Ponomarenko
4.31
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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"So many millions of men and women, from high-ranking officials to regular folks like us, making the moral choice of not giving in to the dark—but doing what was right, no matter what."-Illia Ponomarenko, I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv
29. The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement
By: Christopher Simon Sykes
3.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most r… read more
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30. America’s Forgotten Slaves: The History of Native American Slavery in the New World and the United States
By: Charles River Editors
4.00
Format: 71 pages, Kindle Edition
*Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “The … read more
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