16 must-read history books like City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future by Mark Pendergrast

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City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future

By: Mark Pendergrast

3.84

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

What we can learn from Atlanta's struggle to reinvent itself in the 21st Century Atlanta is on the …

If you liked the history plot in City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future by Mark Pendergrast , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

1. Unaccustomed Earth

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Eight stories--longer and more emotionally complex than any Lahiri has yet written--that take us fr… read more

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Cover of The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss

2. The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

By: Tom Reiss

4.48

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo - a stunning feat of historical… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

3. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

By: Richard Rothstein

2.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Precious Little Sleep

By: Alexis Dubief

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Expert, Hilarious, and Tactically Comprehensive Baby Sleep Book Parenting a baby or toddler is … read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. Zorba the Greek

By: None , None , Nikos Kazantzakis

4.04

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

The classic novel, international sensation, and inspiration for the film starring Anthony Quinn exp… read more

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"فالروح نفسها تبدو وكأنها بحر وغيمة وعطر"

-None, Zorba the Greek

"كم هو حزين ان تسير بمفردك على ساحل البحر"

-None, Zorba the Greek

"إنّني أعتقد - ليسامحني الله - أنّني سعيد."

-None, Zorba the Greek

"You can knock on a deaf man's door forever."

-None, Zorba the Greek

6. What the Heck Is EOS?: A Complete Guide for Employees in Companies Running on EOS

By: Gino Wickman , None

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Has your company struggled to roll EOS out to all levels of your organization? Do your employees un… read more

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7. American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

By: Nick Bilton

4.40

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"It was time to bring in the people with the calculators."

-Nick Bilton, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

"This is one of those rare government buildings in which someone who uses a calculator for a living can wield more power than a person who carries a gun."

-Nick Bilton, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

8. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

By: Robert A. Caro

3.25

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman pr… read more

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9. The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life

By: Richard Florida

3.99

Format: 244 pages,

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10. Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

By: Sheri Fink

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of the best investigative journalism, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstruc… read more

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11. Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

By: Jeff Speck

4.43

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it d… read more

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12. The Nineties

By: Chuck Klosterman

3.87

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

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13. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

Cover of Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth by Noa Tishby

14. Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

By: Noa Tishby

4.34

Format: None pages, Audiobook

AUDIO EXCLUSIVE: INCLUDES THE SONG “ELATION STATION” BY INFECTED MUSHROOM!A “fascinating and very m… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The truth is, there is absolutely nothing that can be said of Israel, that cannot be said of Pakistan."

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"Instead of helping people move forward UNRWA keeps the Palestinian people in an eternal loop of displacement. Instead of solving the problem in any meaningful way, they have overseen the problem's ex…"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"Here's the nugget: settling the refugee problem would mean ending the war against Israel. And as of now, the Palestinians and many of the Arab world have been refusing to do so. The best way to keep …"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"There is almost no difference between the establishment of Israel and Pakistan. They were both created as a safe haven for persecuted groups: Jews and Muslims. They are both engaged in land disputes.…"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

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15. The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

By: Jake Bittle

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, P… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

By: Werner Herzog

4.25

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century by Alice  Wong

17. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

By: Alice Wong

4.47

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

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18. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

By: Henry Grabar

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • urbanism
Cover of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr

19. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • 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

Cover of The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center by Rhaina Cohen

20. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

By: Rhaina Cohen

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Why do we place romantic partnership on a pedestal? What do we lose when we expect one person to me… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman

21. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

By: Jennifer Ackerman

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries by Greg Melville

22. Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries

By: Greg Melville

4.00

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our de… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it."

-Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries

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23. The Jade Setter of Janloon (The Green Bone Saga, #0.5)

By: Fonda Lee

4.31

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Fonda Lee returns to the world of the Green Bone Saga with a new standalone novella. The rapidly… read more

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"I'm only a humble jade setter, but I'm content with the last thing I was able to fix."

-Fonda Lee, The Jade Setter of Janloon (The Green Bone Saga, #0.5)

"Once the big clans move, they're like trains that're too fast and heavy to be stopped. People like us can only get out of the way."

-Fonda Lee, The Jade Setter of Janloon (The Green Bone Saga, #0.5)

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24. Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

By: Alexandra Lange

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • urbanism
"These early successes were a boon to developers, who could now confidently double their shopping area and add the final technological breakthrough that made a mall a mall: air-conditioning."

-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

"People often tell me that they get lost in malls. Malls are a habitat. Some of us are natives. If you grew up hiking, you know to look for blazes. If you grew up with malls, you know to look for the …"

-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

Cover of Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It by M. Nolan Gray

25. Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It

By: M. Nolan Gray

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

What if scrapping one flawed policy could bring US cities closer to addressing debilitating housing… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • urban studies
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • urbanism
Cover of Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities by Ryan Gravel

26. Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities

By: Ryan Gravel

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

**Winner, Phillip D. Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment** **A Planetiz… read more

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  • urban studies
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • urbanism
Cover of The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness by Emily Anthes

27. The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness

By: Emily Anthes

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, thought-provoking journey into our built environment Modern humans are an indoor … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta by Dan Immergluck

28. Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta

By: Dan Immergluck

4.05

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

An incisive examination of how growth-at-all-costs planning and policy have exacerbated inequality … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • urbanism
Cover of The Fight to Save the Town: Reimagining Discarded America by Michelle Wilde Anderson

29. The Fight to Save the Town: Reimagining Discarded America

By: Michelle Wilde Anderson

4.03

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and eye-opening study of wealth inequality and the dismantling of local government in fo… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • urbanism
Cover of Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation by Edward L. Glaeser

30. Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation

By: Edward L. Glaeser

3.28

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with ho… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • urban planning
  • history
  • urbanism
Cover of City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future by Mark Pendergrast

31. City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future

By: Mark Pendergrast

3.84

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

What we can learn from Atlanta's struggle to reinvent itself in the 21st Century Atlanta is on the … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • urban studies
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • urbanism

12 Best politics books like City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future by Mark Pendergrast

Transform Your Habits

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein

2.89

Transform Your Habits

The Nineties

Chuck Klosterman

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

Oliver Franklin-Wallis

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

Noa Tishby

4.34

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20 must-read audiobook books like The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle

Transform Your Habits

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

Siddharth Kara

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

Dan Egan

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

Oliver Franklin-Wallis

4.44

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