The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953
By: Eric Foner , Melvyn P. Leffler
4.03
Format: 246 pages,
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1. All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America (Pivotal Moments in American History)
By: Glenn C. Altschuler
3.51
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The birth of rock 'n roll ignited a firestorm of controversy--one critic called it "musical riots p… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
- school
2. The Man in the High Castle
By: Philip K. Dick
3.60
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assume… read more
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"Don’t you feel it?"-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find."-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"Dreadful low-class jingoistic racist invectives, unworthy of me."-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine."-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
3. Homeward Bound: American Families In The Cold War Era
By: Elaine Tyler May
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the 1950s, the term "containment" referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
4. The Vietnam War: A Concise International History
By: Mark Atwood Lawrence
3.94
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Vietnam War remains a topic of extraordinary interest, not least because of striking parallels … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
5. The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953
By: Eric Foner , Melvyn P. Leffler
4.03
Format: 246 pages,
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- american history
- russia
- history
- school
- war
- college
- nonfiction
6. Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America
By: Jennifer D. Keene
4.01
Format: 511 pages, Hardcover
How does a democratic government conscript citizens, turn them into soldiers who can fight effectiv… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
7. The Imperial Presidency
By: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
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8. The Devil's Arithmetic
By: Jane Yolen
3.00
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Hannah thinks tonight Passover Seder will be the same as always. But this year she will be mysterio… read more
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9. Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
By: Stephen Kotkin
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
In the Cold War era that dominated the second half of the twentieth century, nobody envisaged that … read more
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10. The Crucible
By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby
3.60
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most… read more
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11. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
By: Mary L. Dudziak
4.25
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
In 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for steali… read more
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12. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"The establishment of the missions and presidios from San Diego and Los Angeles and Santa Barbara to Carmel, San Francisco, and Sonoma, traces the colonization of California's Indigenous nations. The …"-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
13. The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End
By: Robert Gerwarth
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War… read more
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14. Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe
By: Michael S. Neiberg
3.45
Format: None pages, Hardcover
After Germany's defeat in World War II, Europe lay in tatters. Millions of refugees were dispersed … read more
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15. Othello
By: William Shakespeare
4.48
Format: None pages,
In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (betwee… read more
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16. Lyndon B. Johnson (The American Presidents, #36)
By: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. , Sean Wilentz , Charles Peters
4.29
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
The towering figure who sought to transform America into a "Great Society" but whose ambitions and … read more
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17. The Warm Hands of Ghosts
By: Katherine Arden
4.02
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despit… read more
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- war
"Winter said there's ghosts all around you. Faland snorted. When you swim in the ocean there's water all around you, but no one mentions it."-Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts
18. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more
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- nonfiction
- russia
- history
- war
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
19. Ring Shout
By: P. Djèlí Clark
3.99
Format: 185 pages, Hardcover
In America, demons wear white hoods. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America,… read more
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"Who says all the fantasies with sword-wielding heroes and heroines have to be in Middle Earth, Westeros, or even our dreams of Africa past—“copper sun or scarlet sea?"-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout
"There were two brothers, Truth and Lie. One day they get to playing, throwing cutlasses up into the air. Them cutlasses come down and fast as can be-swish!-chop each of their faces clean off! Truth b…"-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout
20. Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess
By: Evan Drellich
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The reporter who broke the Houston Astros' cheating scandal reveals how a baseball team could so dr… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
21. Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
By: Emmanuel Acho
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have.” So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide… read more
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- history
"It's not white people's job to police the feelings of black people, but as fellow human beings, please rant black people the right to the full gamut of emotions regarding their wounds."-Emmanuel Acho, Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
"White privilege is about the word white, not rich. It's having advantage built into your life. It's not saying your life hasn't been hard; it's saying your skin color hasn't contributed to the diffic…"-Emmanuel Acho, Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
