Histories of United States Cities II (nonfiction list)
2. 
Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven
by:
Jon Wiener
4.09 avg rating — 276 ratings 3. 
Empire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington, DC
by:
Jeff D. Dickey
3.57 avg rating — 598 ratings 4. 
Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, & Criminal in 19th-Century New York
by:
Stacy Horn
3.64 avg rating — 2,834 ratings 5. 
Beacon Hill, Back Bay and the Building of Boston's Golden Age
by:
Ted Clarke
3.74 avg rating — 43 ratings 6. 
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
by:
Deborah Blum
4.01 avg rating — 36,514 ratings 7. 
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
by:
Russell Shorto
4.17 avg rating — 11,144 ratings 
9. 
American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods
by:
Bonnie Tsui
3.61 avg rating — 227 ratings 10. 
The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
by:
Marilyn Chase
3.83 avg rating — 1,102 ratings 11. 
Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
by:
Les Standiford
3.86 avg rating — 861 ratings 
13. 
For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago
by:
Simon Baatz
3.71 avg rating — 3,695 ratings 14. 
16. 
Rage in the Gate City: The Story of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot
by:
Rebecca Burns
4.04 avg rating — 54 ratings 17. 
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
by:
Diane McWhorter
4.21 avg rating — 1,042 ratings 17. 
Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 1820s-1870s 4.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
20. 
Athens, Georgia: Celebrating 200 Years at the Millennium
by:
Conoly Hester
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 22. 
The Infamous Harry Hayward: A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in Gilded Age Minneapolis 3.74 avg rating — 108 ratings
24. 
A story untold: Black men and women in Athens history
by:
Michael Thurmond
4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings 26. 
A City in Terror: Calvin Coolidge and the 1919 Boston Police Strike
by:
Francis Russell
3.57 avg rating — 76 ratings 
29. 
Boston's Back Bay: The Story of America's Greatest Nineteenth-Century Landfill Project 3.64 avg rating — 25 ratings
29. 
Party Out Of Bounds: The B-52's, R.e.m., And The Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia 3.96 avg rating — 204 ratings
31. 
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
by:
David McCullough
4.25 avg rating — 18,113 ratings 
33. 
Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
by:
Tom Clavin
3.81 avg rating — 4,238 ratings 
36. 
Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation 4.23 avg rating — 834 ratings
36. 
Only in Savannah: Stories and Insights on Georgia's Mother City
by:
Tom Coffey
3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings 38. 
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by:
Robert A. Caro
4.52 avg rating — 27,077 ratings 38. 
Structuring Intergovernmental Coordination: MARTA and the City of Atlanta
by:
Timothy Almy
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 40. 
The Other Brahmins: Boston's Black Upper Class, 1750-1950 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
40. 
City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future
by:
Mark Pendergrast
3.86 avg rating — 288 ratings 42. 
The Finest Building in America: The New York Crystal Palace, 1853-1858
by:
Edwin G. Burrows
3.58 avg rating — 38 ratings 
45. 
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
by:
Karen Abbott
3.63 avg rating — 13,092 ratings 46. 
48. 
Imagineering Atlanta: The Politics of Place in the City of Dreams (Haymarket Series) 3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings
49. 
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History 3.91 avg rating — 6,648 ratings
49. 
Paternalism in a Southern City: Race, Religion, and Gender in Augusta, Georgia
by:
Edward J. Cashin
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings 51. 
The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
by:
Daniel Stashower
3.46 avg rating — 2,100 ratings 51. 
Strangers in the City: The Atlanta Chinese, Their Community and Stories of Their Lives
by:
Jianli Zhao
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 53. 
The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century
by:
Harold Schechter
3.69 avg rating — 2,022 ratings 53. 
Atlanta Rising: The Invention of an International City 1946-1996
by:
Frederick Allen
4.10 avg rating — 86 ratings 55. 
Satan's Circus: Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century
by:
Mike Dash
3.53 avg rating — 909 ratings 57. 
Atlanta: Unforgettable Vintage Images of an All-American City liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
59. 
Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
by:
Mark Whitaker
4.29 avg rating — 551 ratings 59. 
Henry Grady's New South: Atlanta, a Brave and Beautiful City
by:
Harold E. Davis
3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings 61. 
Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound
by:
Andrea Swensson
4.33 avg rating — 176 ratings 61. 
63. 
The Audacity of Inez Burns: Dreams, Desire, Treachery & Ruin in the City of Gold
by:
Stephen G. Bloom
4.02 avg rating — 454 ratings 63. 
Securing the City: Inside America's Best Counterterror Force--The NYPD 3.47 avg rating — 129 ratings
65. 
City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
by:
Donald L. Miller
4.07 avg rating — 1,696 ratings 65. 
Cigar City Mafia: A Complete History of the Tampa Underworld
by:
Scott M. Deitche
3.41 avg rating — 330 ratings 67. 
Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties
by:
Michael Lesy
3.47 avg rating — 247 ratings 67. 
Creole City: A Chronicle of Early American New Orleans
by:
Nathalie Dessens
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings 
70. 
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape 4.05 avg rating — 4,482 ratings
70. 
The Book of Luke: My Fight for Truth, Justice, and Liberty City
by:
Luther Campbell
4.26 avg rating — 129 ratings 72. 
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 73. 
Lion of the Valley: St. Louis, Missouri, 1764-1980 (Volume 1)
by:
James Neal Primm
3.82 avg rating — 67 ratings 
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77. 
Educating Milwaukee: How One City’s History of Segregation and Struggle Shaped Its Schools
by:
James K. Nelsen
3.96 avg rating — 49 ratings 77. 
White Sand Black Beach: Civil Rights, Public Space, and Miami s Virginia Key
by:
Gregory W. Bush
3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings 79. 
Tales from the 5th Street Gym: Ali, the Dundees, and Miami's Golden Age of Boxing
by:
Ferdie Pacheco
3.58 avg rating — 24 ratings 80. 
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
by:
James R. Green
4.06 avg rating — 1,189 ratings 80. 
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat
by:
Edna Buchanan
4.04 avg rating — 792 ratings 82. 
The Bootleggers: The Story of Chicago's Prohibition Era
by:
Kenneth Allsop
3.46 avg rating — 41 ratings 82. 
The Sizzling History of Miami Cuisine: Cortaditos, Stone Crabs and Empanadas
by:
Mandy Baca
3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings 84. 
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
by:
Dean Jobb
3.87 avg rating — 2,201 ratings 
86. 
89. 
Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown 3.55 avg rating — 258 ratings
89. 
Jacksonville Food Trucks: Stories & Recipes from the Road
by:
Nancy White
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 91. 
Chicago by Gaslight: A History of Chicago's Netherworld: 1880-1920
by:
Richard Lindberg
3.56 avg rating — 36 ratings 91. 
St. Augustine and the Civil War (Civil War Series)
by:
Robert Redd
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings 93. 
Heartland Serial Killers: Belle Gunness, Johann Hoch, and Murder for Profit in Gaslight Era Chicago 3.55 avg rating — 29 ratings
95. 
Ugly Prey: An Innocent Woman and the Death Sentence That Scandalized Jazz Age Chicago 4.02 avg rating — 272 ratings
95. 
The Ghostly Ghost Tour of St. Augustine: and Other Tales from Florida's Coast
by:
Doug Alderson
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 95. 
Building the Land of Dreams : New Orleans and the Transformation of Early America 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
98. 
From Santa Elena to St. Augustine: Indigenous Ceramic Variability (A.D. 1400-1700) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
