22 Best history books like On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights by Lawrence Goldstone

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On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights

By: Lawrence Goldstone

4.15

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

Award-winning constitutional law historian, Lawrence Goldstone examines case-based evidence to reve…

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1. Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

4.24

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day , the inspiring story of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin M. Kruse

2. One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America

By: Kevin M. Kruse

3.59

Format: None pages, Hardcover

We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

3. Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now

By: Walter Brueggemann

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Discussions about the Sabbath often center around moralistic laws and arguments over whether a pers… read more

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4. To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever

By: Will Blythe

4.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

A thoroughly obsessive, intermittently uplifting, and occasionally unbiased account of the Duke-Nor… read more

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5. West Virginia

By: None

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Paperback

"Beautiful, menacing." --Publishers Weekly "A new and promising debut writer, who has found his own… read more

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6. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

By: Siddharth Kara

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more

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  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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7. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

By: Adam Hochschild

4.21

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial by Mona Chollet

8. In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

By: Mona Chollet

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a celebration by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
"En somme, si on voulait être cohérent, il faudrait soit lever le pied sur l'éducation des filles, soit intégrer à leur formation un sérieux entraînement à la guérilla contre le patriarcat, tout en s'…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"No obstante, algunas mujeres, vivan o no con hombres, se sientan o no llamadas por una vocación, encuentran otro modo de evitar ser engullidas por el papel de la devota sirvienta: no tener hijos; dar…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Certaines, cependant, qu'elles vivent avec les hommes ou pas, qu'elles se sentent ou non requises par une vocation, trouvent un autre moyen d'échapper à l'engloutissement dans le rôle de la servante …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Il serait temps que les femmes - souvent si peu sûres d'elles, de leurs capacités, de la pertinence de ce qu'elles ont à apporter, de leur droit à une vie pour elles-mêmes - apprennent à se défendre …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

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9. Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness

By: Laura Coates

4.20

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

This instant New York Times bestseller offers “a firsthand, eye-opening story of a prosecutor that … read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of Agincourt, 1415: Field of Blood by Barry Renfrew

10. Agincourt, 1415: Field of Blood

By: Barry Renfrew

4.35

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping fictionalized account of the landmark battle that turned the tide of history.   On Octob… read more

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Cover of The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic by Stephen Vladeck

11. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

By: Stephen Vladeck

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed legal scholar’s “essential” (Linda Greenhouse) exp… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • law
"But in order after order, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration most of what it wanted without endorsing principles that the justices would be bound to apply to future presidents, so that t…"

-Stephen Vladeck, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

Cover of Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships by Nina Totenberg

12. Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships

By: Nina Totenberg

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal succes… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta

13. 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
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church by Sarah McCammon

14. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team by Kara Goucher

15. The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team

By: Kara Goucher

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this unvarnished and affecting memoir, Olympian Kara Goucher reveals her experience of living th… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America by Eyal Press

16. Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America

By: Eyal Press

4.17

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of dirty work--the work that society considers… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
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17. The 6 Types of Working Genius

By: Patrick Lencioni

4.15

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

New York Times best-selling author Patrick Lencioni unveils a truly groundbreaking new model that w… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh

18. The Fortunes of Jaded Women

By: Carolyn Huynh

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Everyone in Orange County’s Little Saigon knew that the Duong sisters were cursed. It started with… read more

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Cover of How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson

19. How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of f… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy by Jamie Raskin

20. Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

By: Jamie Raskin

4.51

Format: 428 pages, Hardcover

In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the star… read more

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  • law
"If a person can grow through unthinkable trauma and loss, perhaps a nation may, too."

-Jamie Raskin, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

"Memory requires active engagement with the complexities of the past. It is not an unthinking or passive process, like breathing or (for most people) sleeping. I have found that good memory, like good…"

-Jamie Raskin, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

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21. The Devil and Harper Lee

By: Mark Seal

3.35

Format: 119 pages, ebook

In the 1970s, a mysterious man captivated and terrorized a small Alabama town. He was elegant and h… read more

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  • history
Cover of The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America by Michael Waldman

22. The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America

By: Michael Waldman

4.30

Format: 400 pages, ebook

An incisive analysis of how the Supreme Court’s new conservative supermajority is overturning decad… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • law
Cover of Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past by Kevin M. Kruse

23. Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

By: Kevin M. Kruse

3.93

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In this instant New York Times  bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Violence meant to seize and shore up power—a claim to sovereignty through the violence of the mob—is fundamentally American."

-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

"Although in this case it is an understandable, emotional reaction meant to decry antidemocratic violence, the notion that January 6 is 'not who we are' is one manifestation of what has become a regul…"

-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

"People may hear ‘white nationalism’ and assume it to be adjacent with patriotism, or at the very least consider it as pro-American. But after 1983 the nation at the heart of white nationalism was not…"

-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

Cover of Teaching While Black: A New Voice on Race and Education in New York City by Pamela Lewis

24. Teaching While Black: A New Voice on Race and Education in New York City

By: Pamela Lewis

4.60

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Teaching should never be color-blind. In a world where many believe the best approach toward eradic… read more

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25. The Myths of Meritocracy : a revisionist history anthology

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.42

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • history
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Cover of The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War by Mark Bulik

26. The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War

By: Mark Bulik

3.82

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

An “incisive and original” history of the 19th-century Irish secret society that instigated America… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"If history belongs to the winners, legend belongs to the losers."

-Mark Bulik, The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War

"Gowen finally gave up on December 13, 1889. He secluded himself in a Washington hotel room, pulled out a gun and, in morbid imitation of his old enemies, killed a mine official—himself."

-Mark Bulik, The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War

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27. We Are Not Refugees: True Stories of the Displaced

By: Agus Morales

4.17

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Never in history have so many people been displaced by political and military conflicts at home—mor… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Swingtime for Hitler: Goebbels’s Jazzmen, Tokyo Rose, and Propaganda That Carries a Tune by Scott Simon

28. Swingtime for Hitler: Goebbels’s Jazzmen, Tokyo Rose, and Propaganda That Carries a Tune

By: Scott Simon

3.74

Format: None pages, Audiobook

In this audio treasure trove, Simon explores the fascinating and unsettling history of how a Nazi s… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Democracy by David Rohde

29. Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Democracy

By: David Rohde

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

How Donald Trump subverted the law and Merrick Garland misjudged the need to hold him accountable b… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Three Kings: Race, Class, and the Barrier-Breaking Rivals Who Redefined Sports and Launched the Modern Olympic Age by Todd Balf

30. Three Kings: Race, Class, and the Barrier-Breaking Rivals Who Redefined Sports and Launched the Modern Olympic Age

By: Todd Balf

3.24

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

For fans of The Boys in the Boat, and marking the 100th anniversary of the Paris Olympics, the neve… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights by Lawrence Goldstone

31. On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights

By: Lawrence Goldstone

4.15

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

Award-winning constitutional law historian, Lawrence Goldstone examines case-based evidence to reve… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • african american
  • anti racist
  • sociology

17 must-read politics books like On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights by Lawrence Goldstone

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Kevin M. Kruse

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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

Adam Hochschild

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