18 Best history books like Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861 by Robert W. Merry

Cover of Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861 by Robert W. Merry

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

By: Robert W. Merry

4.16

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Exploring a critical lesson about our nation that is as timely today as ever, Decade of Disunion sh…

If you liked the history plot in Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861 by Robert W. Merry , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote

1. The Civil War: A Narrative

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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Similar categories in Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative book and Robert W. Merry's Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan

2. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

Similar categories in Andrew O'Hagan's Caledonian Road book and Robert W. Merry's Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

  • audiobook
Cover of Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball by Keith O'Brien

3. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

By: Keith O'Brien

4.43

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more

Similar categories in Keith O'Brien's Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball book and Robert W. Merry's Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis by George  Stephanopoulos

4. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

By: George Stephanopoulos

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World by Eric Jay Dolin

5. Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World

By: Eric Jay Dolin

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The true story of five castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812―a tale of… read more

Similar categories in Eric Jay Dolin's Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World book and Robert W. Merry's Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World by David L. Roll

6. Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World

By: David L. Roll

4.44

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The fascinating story behind the most consequential presidential transition in US history, from Fra… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower by Michel Paradis

7. The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower

By: Michel Paradis

4.46

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew … read more

Similar categories in Michel Paradis's The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower book and Robert W. Merry's Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Chorus of the Union: How Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Set Aside Their Rivalry to Save the Nation by Edward Robert McClelland

8. Chorus of the Union: How Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Set Aside Their Rivalry to Save the Nation

By: Edward Robert McClelland

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An impassioned and timely exploration of Abraham Lincoln's long-time rivalry—and eventual alliance—… read more

Similar categories in Edward Robert McClelland's Chorus of the Union: How Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Set Aside Their Rivalry to Save the Nation book and Robert W. Merry's Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • civil war
Cover of Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War by Jon Grinspan

9. Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War

By: Jon Grinspan

4.48

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The propulsive story of the Wide Awake anti-slavery youth movement, an overlooked but pivotal facto… read more

Similar categories in Jon Grinspan's Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War book and Robert W. Merry's Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola Twilley

10. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

By: Nicola Twilley

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific my… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Twilley's Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves book and Robert W. Merry's Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum

11. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

Similar categories in Anne Applebaum's Autocracy, Inc. book and Robert W. Merry's Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

Cover of Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861 by Robert W. Merry

12. Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

By: Robert W. Merry

4.16

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Exploring a critical lesson about our nation that is as timely today as ever, Decade of Disunion sh… read more

Similar categories in Robert W. Merry's Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861 book and Robert W. Merry's Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South by Alan Pell Crawford

13. This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South

By: Alan Pell Crawford

4.36

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking, important recovery of history; the overlooked story—fully explored, of the critic… read more

Similar categories in Alan Pell Crawford's This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South book and Robert W. Merry's Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law by Neil Gorsuch

14. 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

Similar categories in Neil Gorsuch's Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law book and Robert W. Merry's Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House by H.R. McMaster

15. At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House

By: H.R. McMaster

4.08

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

A revealing account of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster’s turbulent and consequential thirte… read more

Similar categories in H.R. McMaster's At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House book and Robert W. Merry's Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of America's Deadliest Election: The Cautionary Tale of the Most Violent Election in American History by Dana Bash

16. America's Deadliest Election: The Cautionary Tale of the Most Violent Election in American History

By: Dana Bash

3.98

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Let chaos come.” The fast-paced story of the extraordinary election that led to hundreds of mur… read more

Similar categories in Dana Bash's America's Deadliest Election: The Cautionary Tale of the Most Violent Election in American History book and Robert W. Merry's Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Keera Duggan, #2) by Robert Dugoni

17. Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Keera Duggan, #2)

By: Robert Dugoni

4.49

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

A master manipulator accused of murder. An attorney sworn to defend her. Keera Duggan returns in a … read more

Similar categories in Robert Dugoni's Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Keera Duggan, #2) book and Robert W. Merry's Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

  • audiobook
Cover of Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments by Joe Posnanski

18. Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments

By: Joe Posnanski

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A moving celebration of the history of American football from the New York Times bestselling author… read more

Similar categories in Joe Posnanski's Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments book and Robert W. Merry's Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World by Ben Macintyre

19. The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World

By: Ben Macintyre

4.51

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue att… read more

Similar categories in Ben Macintyre's The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World book and Robert W. Merry's Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of An Insignificant Case by Phillip Margolin

20. An Insignificant Case

By: Phillip Margolin

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A new standalone legal thriller from the international bestselling author of GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTE… read more

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Cover of A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War by David S. Brown

21. A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War

By: David S. Brown

3.67

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From popular historian and author of the “marvelous” (The New York Times Book Review) The Last Amer… read more

Similar categories in David S. Brown's A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War book and Robert W. Merry's Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

  • american history
  • history
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

13 Best audiobook books like Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861 by Robert W. Merry

Transform Your Habits

Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

Keith O'Brien

4.43

Transform Your Habits

The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

George Stephanopoulos

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World

Eric Jay Dolin

3.97

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20 must-read fiction books like Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan

Transform Your Habits

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Transform Your Habits

You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Wren, the Wren

Anne Enright

3.55

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