The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America’s First Subway
By: Doug Most
4.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew more congested, the streets…
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1. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
By: Rich Cohen
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A legendary tale, both true and astonishing, from the author of Israel is Real and Sweet and LowWhe… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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2. Living History
By: Hillary Rodham Clinton
3.76
Format: 567 pages, Paperback
The Phenomenal #1 Worldwide Bestseller—With a New Afterword Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hun… read more
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"Fail to plan, plan to fail."-Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
"What did you do with the time and talents i gave you? God's question..."-Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
"In this world and the world of tomorrow, we must go forward together or not at all."-Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
"Rumors become the story du jour. And while our past experiences may have seemed like ancient history to us, every detail of our lives was being sifted and combed as if we were some sort of archaeolog…"-Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
3. The Death and Life of Great American Cities
By: Jane Jacobs
4.30
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arroganc… read more
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"We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
4. One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
By: Michael Dobbs
4.24
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to … read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. Michael Jordan: The Life
By: Roland Lazenby
4.31
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
The definitive biography of a legendary athleteThe Shrug. The Shot. The Flu Game. Michael Jordan is… read more
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6. America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
By: Stephen Colbert , Tom Johnson , David Javerbaum , Jon Stewart , Steve Bodow , Samantha Bee , Ben Karlin , Brendan Hay , None , Tim Carvell , None , None , Scott Jacobson , None , Chris Regan , None , Jason Ross , None , None
2.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Jon Stewart, host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show, and his coterie of patriots… read more
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- american history
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- audiobook
7. Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
By: Don Yaeger , Brian Kilmeade
3.81
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
From the authors of the New York Timesbestseller George Washington's Secret Six, the little-known s… read more
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8. The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
By: James D. Hornfischer
2.50
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do … read more
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9. The World Without Us
By: Alan Weisman
4.09
Format: 296 pages,
A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers… read more
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10. Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
By: J. Anthony Lukas
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of 3 different awards, this is a story of the busing crisis in Boston. read more
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11. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
By: James Howard Kunstler
3.85
Format: None pages,
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- history
12. Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley’s Swingin’ A’s
By: Jason Turbow
3.00
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
How the Oakland A's of the 1970s--a revolutionary band of brawling Hall of Famers--won three straig… read more
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13. The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America’s First Subway
By: Doug Most
4.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew more congested, the streets… read more
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- new york
- american history
- engineering
- history
- nonfiction
- transport
- audiobook
14. World Gone By (Joe Coughlin, #3)
By: Dennis Lehane
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Late spring, 1943. The world is at war but the American mob is in its heyday. Former crime boss Joe… read more
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15. The Lost Cause
By: Cory Doctorow
3.65
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
It's thirty years from now and we're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely.… read more
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16. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.34
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more
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- history
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"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
17. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
18. Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
By: Anderson Cooper
3.77
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting histor… read more
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19. The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
By: Tim Wu
4.16
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
"Persuasive and brilliantly written, the book is especially timely given the rise of trillion-dolla… read more
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20. Mussolini's Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
By: Caroline Moorehead
3.75
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling biography of Edda Mussolini—Benito Mussolini’s favorite daughter, one of the most influ… read more
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21. The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865
By: Mark Peterson
3.95
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent … read more
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