6 Top nonfiction books like A People's History of the New Boston by Jim Vrabel

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A People's History of the New Boston

By: Jim Vrabel

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Although Boston today is a vibrant and thriving city, it was anything but that in the years followi…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in A People's History of the New Boston by Jim Vrabel , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Americanah

By: None , Jashar Awan

3.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, … read more

Similar categories in None's Americanah book and Jim Vrabel's A People's History of the New Boston

  • race
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2. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

By: Richard Rothstein

2.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more

Similar categories in Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America book and Jim Vrabel's A People's History of the New Boston

  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
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3. Defiance of the Patriots

By: Benjamin L. Carp

3.83

Format: 95 pages, Hardcover

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Similar categories in Benjamin L. Carp's Defiance of the Patriots book and Jim Vrabel's A People's History of the New Boston

  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Nathaniel Philbrick, the bestselling author ofIn the Heart of the Seaand Mayflower, brings his prod… read more

Similar categories in Nathaniel Philbrick's Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution book and Jim Vrabel's A People's History of the New Boston

  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick

5. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

3.88

Format: 461 pages, Hardcover

HOW DID AMERICA BEGIN? This simple question launches acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick on an … read more

Similar categories in Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War book and Jim Vrabel's A People's History of the New Boston

  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"W"

-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

"The moment any of them gave up on the difficult work of living with their neighbors--and all of the compromise, frustration, and delay that inevitably entailed--they risked losing everything."

-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

"Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust; Fear not the things thou suffer must; For, whom he loves he doth chastise, And then all tears wipes from their eyes. William Bradford Plymouth Colony Governor"

-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

"For all they had suffered during those first terrible winters in America, their best years were behind them, in Leiden. Never again would they know the same rapturous sense of divine fellowship that …"

-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

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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

Similar categories in Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents book and Jim Vrabel's A People's History of the New Boston

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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7. A People's History of the New Boston

By: Jim Vrabel

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Although Boston today is a vibrant and thriving city, it was anything but that in the years followi… read more

Similar categories in Jim Vrabel's A People's History of the New Boston book and Jim Vrabel's A People's History of the New Boston

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • cities
  • activism
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8. Hidden History of Boston

By: Dina Vargo

3.78

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Boston is one of America's most historic cities, but it has quite a bit of unseen past. Riotous mob… read more

Similar categories in Dina Vargo's Hidden History of Boston book and Jim Vrabel's A People's History of the New Boston

  • history

7 must-read history books like A People's History of the New Boston by Jim Vrabel

Transform Your Habits

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein

2.89

Transform Your Habits

Defiance of the Patriots

Benjamin L. Carp

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution

Nathaniel Philbrick

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

Nathaniel Philbrick

3.88

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20 Top history books like Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick

Transform Your Habits

1776

David McCullough

4.09

Transform Your Habits

George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution

Don Yaeger , Brian Kilmeade

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox

Shelby Foote

2.60

Transform Your Habits

His Excellency: George Washington

Joseph J. Ellis

3.75

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