The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives
By: Bryant Simon
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South
By: Eugene D. Genovese
3.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
A stimulating analysis of the society and economy in the slave south. read more
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- american history
- economics
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- nonfiction
2. Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture
By: Karen L. Cox
3.68
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
From the late nineteenth century through World War II, popular culture portrayed the American South… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- american history
- school
3. A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
By: Bruce Cannon Gibney
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In his "remarkable" (Men's Journal) and "controversial" (Fortune) book -- written in a "wry, amusin… read more
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- politics
- economics
- history
- nonfiction
4. Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment
By: C. Vann Woodward , Willie Lee Rose
3.23
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
Just seven months into the Civil War, a Union fleet sailed into South Carolina's Port Royal Sound, … read more
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- american history
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5. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
By: Richard White
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The transcontinental railroads of the late nineteenth century were the first corporate behemoths. T… read more
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- american history
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- economics
6. Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s
By: Pete Daniel
3.76
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
This sweeping work of cultural history explores a time of startling turbulence and change in the So… read more
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7. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
By: Candice Millard
4.24
Format: None pages,
At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Dou… read more
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8. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
By: Candice Millard
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject po… read more
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9. Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
By: Daniel K. Richter
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening ac… read more
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10. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
By: Elizabeth Hinton
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the United States today, one in every 31 adults is under some form of penal control, including o… read more
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11. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
By: Imani Perry
3.97
Format: 410 pages, Hardcover
An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South… read more
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"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
12. American Black Widow
By: Gregg Olsen
3.75
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell comes the chilling, unputdownable stor… read more
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- history
13. Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1)
By: M.R. Carey
4.17
Format: 499 pages, Paperback
From bestselling author M. R. Carey comes a brilliant genre-defying story of humanity's expansion … read more
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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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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- economics
"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
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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- 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
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
17. The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
By: John Wood Sweet
3.79
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its lo… read more
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- history
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18. Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing
By: Emily Lynn Paulson
3.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
She signed up for the sisterhood, free cars, and the promise of a successful business of her own. I… read more
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19. 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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20. American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World
By: Gregg Olsen
3.55
Format: 497 pages, Kindle Edition
From the #1 bestselling author comes the shocking true-crime story of a mother and wife, her distur… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
21. Apeirogon
By: Colum McCann
4.25
Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition
From the National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an ep… read more
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"We are running from our pain to our pain."-Colum McCann, Apeirogon
"We have words but sometimes they're not enough."-Colum McCann, Apeirogon
"When you divide death by life you find a circle."-Colum McCann, Apeirogon
"He had learned that the cure for fate was patience."-Colum McCann, Apeirogon
22. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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23. Rage
By: Bob Woodward
4.17
Format: 475 pages, Hardcover
An unprecedented and intimate tour de force of original reporting on the Trump presidency from Bob … read more
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"Trump is the wrong man for the job."-Bob Woodward, Rage
"Cohn offered one more argument against steel tariffs. "We're not a steel-producing nation. We're a good-producing nation. If we increase the price of steel, out goods become overprices and we can't c…"-Bob Woodward, Rage
"Many foreign policy leaders had said that Trump gave Kim (Kim Jong Un, dictator of North Korea) too much by agreeing to meet without formal, written conditions. "So, have you given Kim too much power…"-Bob Woodward, Rage
"Kushner said that Scott Adam's approach could be applied to Trump's recent February 4 State of the Union speech when he had claimed, "Our economy is the best it has ever been." The economy was indeed…"-Bob Woodward, Rage
24. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
By: Kelly Lytle Hernández
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Me… read more
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25. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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26. Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
By: Buddy Levy
4.42
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came… read more
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- history
27. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
4.36
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more
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"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
28. Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (Civil War America)
By: Amy Murrell Taylor
4.43
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing thei… read more
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29. Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction
By: Nell Irvin Painter
3.83
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
The first major migration to the North of ex-slaves. read more
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30. The Most
By: Jessica Anthony
3.37
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightl… read more
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31. The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives
By: Bryant Simon
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Captivating and brilliantly conceived. . . [ The Hamlet Fire ] will provide readers with insights … read more
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