American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, DC
By: Shahan Mufti
4.31
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
One of Publishers Weekly’ s Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 | A New York Times Book Review Editors' C…
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Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
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4. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
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5. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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By: Stuart A. Reid
4.40
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4.37
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3.58
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10. An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder
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3.33
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11. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
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4.60
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4.36
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3.89
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4.27
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By: Yepoka Yeebo
3.79
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17. When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day
By: Garrett M. Graff
4.59
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18. The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy
By: James Risen
4.13
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19. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
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4.23
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