18 must-read nonfiction books like Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the First Age of Terror by Bryan Burrough

Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the First Age of Terror

By: Bryan Burrough

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of , an account of the battle between the FBI & revolutionary movement…

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Cover of Enemies: A History of the FBI by Tim Weiner

1. Enemies: A History of the FBI

By: Tim Weiner

3.93

Format: 537 pages, Hardcover

Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI’s secret intelligence operations, from an author… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
"From 1966 to 1976 ... The primary cause in [the] decline in FBI counterespionage and counterintelligence cases was the ceaseless demand by Presidents Johnson and Nixon to focus on the political warfa…"

-Tim Weiner, Enemies: A History of the FBI

Cover of Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II by Keith Lowe

2. Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

By: Keith Lowe

4.22

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for anot… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Los británicos, al igual que los estadounidenses, recuerdan la Segunda Guerra Mundial como una época en la que su mejor generación salvó al mundo de la maldad del nazismo."

-Keith Lowe, Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

"While this has never been the mainstream view in Germany, there are still political groups there today who refuse to acknowledge the Holocaust on the grounds that what Germans in eastern Europe suffe…"

-Keith Lowe, Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

"The rationing system that was set up in Britain at the outbreak of the hostilities was as revolutionary as anything the Communists could have dreamed up. Almost every basic item of food was rationed …"

-Keith Lowe, Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

Cover of The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State by Lawrence Wright

3. The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State

By: Lawrence Wright

3.00

Format: 12 pages, Hardcover

Ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorkerrecall the path terror in the Middle East has … read more

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  • terrorism
  • politics
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  • nonfiction
Cover of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein

4. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

By: Rick Perlstein

4.33

Format: 308 pages,

Politically insightful, Nixonland recaptures the turbulent 60s & early 70s, revealing how Dick Nixo… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
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5. Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the First Age of Terror

By: Bryan Burrough

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of , an account of the battle between the FBI & revolutionary movement… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • terrorism
  • crime

6. Among the Thugs

By: Bill Buford

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quanti… read more

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7. The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957

By: Frank Dikötter

3.71

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

"The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a 'liberation.' In China the story of… read more

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8. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

By: Hunter S. Thompson

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, these are the articles that Hunter S.… read more

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Cover of Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill

9. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

By: Tom O'Neill

4.03

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more

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  • crime
Cover of American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild

10. 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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Cover of The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time by Yascha Mounk

11. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

By: Yascha Mounk

4.08

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more

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Cover of Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

12. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • politics
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

Cover of Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer

13. Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

By: Stephen Kinzer

4.09

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the ma… read more

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Cover of Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman

14. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

By: Ronen Bergman

4.40

Format: 784 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The divide between the combat-sated generals, who once had "a knife between their teeth" but later grasped the limits of force, and the majority of the people of Israel, is the sad reality in which M…"

-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

"Finally, a recruit would undergo one last test. The agency would send him home, to his own neighborhood and his own social circle, in disguise and with his alias. If he could circulate there, among t…"

-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

"Indeed, in many respects the story of Israel’s intelligence community as recounted in this book has been one of a long string of impressive tactical successes, but also disastrous strategic failures.…"

-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

Cover of G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage

15. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

By: Beverly Gage

4.37

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more

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Cover of Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 by Max Hastings

16. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

By: Max Hastings

4.30

Format: 896 pages, Hardcover

An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bes… read more

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"The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the …"

-Max Hastings, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

Cover of The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America by Coleman Hughes

17. The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

By: Coleman Hughes

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning tha… read more

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  • history
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"Neoracists believe that we must indoctrinate children to cure them of racism. I say that children are racially innocent by nature, and we should protect that racial innocence for as long as possible."

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"The majority of effort channeled toward achieving racial equity hasn't been applied to the part of life that has the biggest influence on people's skills and mindsets: namely birth to eighteen years …"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"By [college], many skills, attitudes, and habits have already been formed. We can have a much bigger impact on people at younger ages. Efforts to achieve true equity should focus instead on high-qual…"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"The common humanity and anti-racism of the civil rights movement had strong ties to Christianity. And Christianity promoted the value of interracial harmony: unity in Christ. But the appeal of Christ…"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

Cover of An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America by Edwin Raymond

18. An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America

By: Edwin Raymond

4.64

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A WASHINGTON POST BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2023A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2023“With illuminati… read more

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Cover of Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever by Joseph Cox

19. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever

By: Joseph Cox

4.12

Format: None pages, None

The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own… read more

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Cover of Ho by David Halberstam

20. Ho

By: David Halberstam

3.84

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Offering a rare Vietnamese perspective, this brief biography focuses on Ho's political development … read more

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Cover of How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev

21. How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler

By: Peter Pomerantsev

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propa… read more

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