5 best-selling nonfiction books like One Nation Under Gold: How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries by James Ledbetter

Cover of One Nation Under Gold: How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries by James Ledbetter

One Nation Under Gold: How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries

By: James Ledbetter

3.36

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

One Nation Under Gold examines the countervailing forces that have long since divided America―wheth…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in One Nation Under Gold: How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries by James Ledbetter , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of True Grit by Charles Portis

1. True Grit

By: Charles Portis

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more

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2. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

By: Erik Larson

3.86

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hit… read more

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Cover of The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill by Brad Meltzer

3. The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill

By: Brad Meltzer

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes the little-known true sto… read more

Similar categories in Brad Meltzer's The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill book and James Ledbetter's One Nation Under Gold: How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries

  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

By: Michael Schur

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the creator of The Good Place and the cocreator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-… read more

Similar categories in Michael Schur's How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question book and James Ledbetter's One Nation Under Gold: How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries

  • nonfiction
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. —MAYA ANGELOU"

-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

"Part of the wonder of being human is that we get to learn about the extraordinary levels of virtue of which other humans are capable."

-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

"Our behaviors create deep grooves in our personalities, like a heavy chair forming impressions in a shaggy rug, and it becomes harder and harder to escape them."

-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

"... There is no way to achieve a higher-level enjoyment from running, because there's no way to achieve any enjoyment from running, because there is nothing enjoyable about running. Running is awful,…"

-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

Cover of Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper

5. Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

By: Anderson Cooper

3.82

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestsell… read more

Similar categories in Anderson Cooper's Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty book and James Ledbetter's One Nation Under Gold: How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries

  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein

6. Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing

By: Jacob Goldstein

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money i… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
Cover of One Nation Under Gold: How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries by James Ledbetter

7. One Nation Under Gold: How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries

By: James Ledbetter

3.36

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

One Nation Under Gold examines the countervailing forces that have long since divided America―wheth… read more

Similar categories in James Ledbetter's One Nation Under Gold: How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries book and James Ledbetter's One Nation Under Gold: How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business

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Michael Lewis

4.30

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4.38

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Michael Lewis

4.15

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4.25

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