19 must-read nonfiction books like Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement by Tomiko Brown-Nagin

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Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement

By: Tomiko Brown-Nagin

4.00

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

The Civil Rights movement that emerged in the United States after World War II was a reaction again…

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1. On Palestine

By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

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2. A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America

By: Lizabeth Cohen

3.86

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen sh… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America

By: Mae M. Ngai

4.11

Format: 559 pages, Paperback

This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage

4.31

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for histori… read more

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  • historical
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap labor."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Cuando el Estado se hace dueño de la principal riqueza de un país, corresponde preguntarse quién es el dueño del Estado."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

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6. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.25

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more

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  • politics
"... “Dangerous!"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Freedom is never very safe."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Who do you think is lying to us?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

7. Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan

By: Kim Phillips-Fein

3.49

Format: 465 pages,

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8. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

By: Ibram X. Kendi

4.54

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Blac… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction

9. Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

By: Ira Katznelson

3.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Redefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal, Fear Itselffinally examines this pivotal … read more

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10. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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11. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

By: Saidiya Hartman

4.46

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"

-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

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13. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

By: Marc Lamont Hill

4.21

Format: 227 pages, Hardcover

A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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15. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

By: Tiya Miles

3.95

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more

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  • historical
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"

-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

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16. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

By: Daniel Immerwahr

4.46

Format: 513 pages, Hardcover

A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."

-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"

-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

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18. How to Be an Antiracist

By: Ibram X. Kendi

4.37

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justi… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Racist"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"I use “anticapitalist"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"Internalized racism is the real Black on Black crime."

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"But what was the difference between Ebonics and so-called “standard"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

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19. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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20. Christmas on the Island (Mure, #3)

By: Jenny Colgan

3.80

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Christmas on the remote Scottish island of Mure is bleak, stark — and incredibly beautiful.It's a t… read more

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21. A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida (Historical Studies of Urban America)

By: Nathan Daniel Beau Connolly

4.29

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Many people characterize urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most … read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. The Pairing

By: Casey McQuiston

3.90

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

In #1 New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston's latest romantic comedy, two bisexual exes… read more

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"Some people dye their hair when they go through a breakup. I got a bus."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"This is what I get for assuming all women in safari hats can be trusted."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"He was the first great thing I ever let myself want. This time, I’m keeping him."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"A love that’s ended is the only kind I can have, because I can’t possibly lose it."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

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23. The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America

By: Gabriel Winant

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Men in hardhats were once the heart of America's working class; now it is women in scrubs. What doe… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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24. Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement

By: Tomiko Brown-Nagin

4.00

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

The Civil Rights movement that emerged in the United States after World War II was a reaction again… read more

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  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction

19 Best history books like Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement by Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Transform Your Habits

On Palestine

Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

Transform Your Habits

A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America

Lizabeth Cohen

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America

Mae M. Ngai

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

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16 Best history books like A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida (Historical Studies of Urban America) by Nathan Daniel Beau Connolly

Transform Your Habits

The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit

Thomas J. Sugrue

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America

Mae M. Ngai

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage

4.31

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Katrina: A History, 1915-2015

Andy Horowitz

4.26

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