Histories of United States Cities I (nonfiction)
99. 
Strangers in the City: The Atlanta Chinese, Their Community and Stories of Their Lives
by:
Jianli Zhao
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
105. 
Sons of the Profits or There's No Business Like Grow Business: The Seattle Story 1851-1901
by:
William Speidel
3.48 avg rating — 703 ratings 105. 
How Nashville Became Music City U.S.A.: 50 Years of Music Row
by:
Michael Kosser
3.60 avg rating — 42 ratings 108. 
How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America
by:
Carl Abbott
3.43 avg rating — 21 ratings 
108. 
Paternalism in a Southern City: Race, Religion, and Gender in Augusta, Georgia
by:
Edward J. Cashin
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings 111. 
The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
by:
Tim Madigan
4.42 avg rating — 3,069 ratings 
111. 
Imagineering Atlanta: The Politics of Place in the City of Dreams (Haymarket Series) 3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
by:
Stephen Puleo
4.02 avg rating — 5,026 ratings 
117. 
Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America
by:
Donald L. Miller
4.16 avg rating — 411 ratings 119. 
Spectacular Wickedness: Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans 3.80 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Rage in the Gate City: The Story of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot
by:
Rebecca Burns
4.04 avg rating — 54 ratings 122. 
Never Been a Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
by:
Harper Barnes
4.15 avg rating — 62 ratings 122. 
The River That Made Seattle: A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish
by:
B.J. Cummings
4.29 avg rating — 170 ratings 122. 
Unreal City: Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the Fate of the West
by:
Judith Nies
3.51 avg rating — 181 ratings 125. 
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The Inevitable City: The Resurgence of New Orleans and the Future of Urban America
by:
Scott Cowen
3.33 avg rating — 114 ratings 128. 
Chicago's Greatest Year, 1893: The White City and the Birth of a Modern Metropolis
by:
Joseph Gustaitis
4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings 128. 
Selling Seattle: Representing Contemporary Urban America
by:
James Lyons
3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings 
131. 
The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding
by:
Sarah Burns
4.09 avg rating — 1,965 ratings 
131. 
The Immigrant World of Ybor City: Italians and Their Latin Neighbors in Tampa, 1885-1985 (Florida Sand Dollar Books)
by:
Gary R. Mormino
3.96 avg rating — 28 ratings 134. 
That's the Way it Was: Stories of Struggle, Survival and Self-Respect in Twentieth-Century Black St. Louis 4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
137. 
Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution (The American Revolution Series) 4.06 avg rating — 10,149 ratings
137. 
Jet City Rewind: Aviation History of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
139. 
Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident
by:
William McKeown
3.96 avg rating — 915 ratings 139. 
Greenville: The History of the City and County in the South Carolina Piedmont 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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THE GREAT POTATO BUST : Lies, Conspiracies, and Injustice in Twin Falls, Idaho
by:
Grant Humphries
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 142. 
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans (Ala Notable Children's Books. Older Readers)
by:
Don Brown
4.04 avg rating — 9,073 ratings 
145. 
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by:
Matthew Desmond
4.47 avg rating — 109,956 ratings 147. 
Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C.
by:
Harry S. Jaffe
4.11 avg rating — 605 ratings 147. 
Coming of Age: Idaho Falls and the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory 1949-1990
by:
Ben J. Plastino
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 147. 
The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City
by:
Laura Tillman
3.35 avg rating — 1,171 ratings 150. 
Take Up the Black Man's Burden: Kansas City's African American Communities, 1865-1939 (Volume 1) 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
150. 
Music/City: American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport
by:
Jonathan R. Wynn
3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings 153. 
A City Divided: The Racial Landscape of Kansas City, 1900-1960 (Volume 1) 4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings
153. 
Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power: Salt Lake City, 1847-1918
by:
Jeffrey Nichols
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 25 ratings 
156. 
Wicked Portland: The Wild and Lusty Underworld of a Frontier Seaport Town
by:
Finn J.D. John
3.51 avg rating — 136 ratings 156. 
Haunted Utah: The Haunted Locations of Salt Lake City, Layton, Brighton, Logan, Ogden, North Salt Lake and Park City
by:
Jeffrey Fisher
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 156. 
Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit
by:
Tom Stanton
3.75 avg rating — 1,037 ratings 
159. 
An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature
by:
Craig E. Colten
3.63 avg rating — 75 ratings 159. 
Haunted Ogden: A Ghostly Guide to Utah's Spookiest City
by:
Antonio Cavallo
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 27 ratings 159. 
Hirschfeld's Harlem: Manhattan's Legendary Artist Illustrates This Legendary City Within a City (Applause Books)
by:
Al Hirschfeld
4.63 avg rating — 19 ratings 163. 
Revolution on the Hudson: New York City and the Hudson River Valley in the American War of Independence 3.91 avg rating — 303 ratings
166. 
The Zoot Suit Riots: The History of the Racial Attacks in Los Angeles during World War II 3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings
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County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital
by:
David A. Ansell
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 993 ratings 
169. 
Punk Avenue: Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982
by:
Phil Marcade
3.98 avg rating — 474 ratings 172. 
Gangster Squad: Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles
by:
Paul Lieberman
3.25 avg rating — 1,100 ratings 172. 
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The Story Of Dan Bright: Crime, Corruption, and Injustice in the Crescent City
by:
Justin Nobel
4.13 avg rating — 82 ratings 
175. 
Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City
by:
Steve Early
3.65 avg rating — 75 ratings 178. 
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars
by:
Paul Collins
3.58 avg rating — 8,675 ratings 178. 
A Gathering of Saints: A True Story of Money, Murder and Deceit
by:
Robert Lindsey
3.98 avg rating — 289 ratings 178. 
City of Gods: Religious Freedom, Immigration, and Pluralism in Flushing, Queens
by:
R. Scott Hanson
4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings 
181. 
In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863
by:
Leslie M. Harris
4.11 avg rating — 64 ratings 183. 
The Committee of Vigilance: The Law And Order Committee Of The San Francisco Chamber Of Commerce And Its War Against The Left, 1916 - 1919
by:
Steven Levi
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 183. 
Tarnished Rings: The International Olympic Committee and the Salt Lake City Bid Scandal
by:
Stephen Wenn
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings 185. 
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City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future
by:
Mark Pendergrast
3.86 avg rating — 288 ratings 187. 
Al Capone and the 1933 World’s Fair: The End of the Gangster Era in Chicago 3.59 avg rating — 212 ratings
187. 
Rose City Vice: Portland in the 70's Dirty Cops and Dirty Robbers
by:
Phil Stanford
3.66 avg rating — 58 ratings 187. 
What Next, Chicago?: Notes of a Pissed-Off Native Son
by:
Matt Rosenberg
4.50 avg rating — 32 ratings 190. 
San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires
by:
Dennis Smith
3.58 avg rating — 408 ratings 190. 
Changing the Tune: The Kansas City Women's Jazz Festival, 1978-1985 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street
by:
Victor Luckerson
4.36 avg rating — 763 ratings 
195. 
A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz (American Made Music Series)
by:
Samuel Charters
3.76 avg rating — 49 ratings 195. 
Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City
by:
Julia Wertz
4.33 avg rating — 1,437 ratings 197. 
Frontier Cities: Encounters at the Crossroads of Empire
by:
Adam Arenson
3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings 197. 
Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul
by:
Jeremiah Moss
4.19 avg rating — 1,310 ratings 199. 
The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West
by:
Carl Abbott
3.19 avg rating — 16 ratings 199. 
Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape
by:
Jill Jonnes
3.82 avg rating — 302 ratings