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United States of Ideas I (nonfiction)
100.
American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good
by:
Colin Woodard
4.08 avg rating β 839 ratings
100.
Follow the Moon Home: A Tale of One Idea, Twenty Kids, and a Hundred Sea Turtles
by:
Philippe Cousteau
4.23 avg rating β 947 ratings
103.
Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left
by:
Sara M. Evans
3.70 avg rating β 281 ratings
103.
The People's Government: An Introduction to Democracy
by:
Del Dickson
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
105.
Prophetic Encounters: Religion and the American Radical Tradition
by:
Daniel Mckanan
3.82 avg rating β 22 ratings
105.
The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues
by:
Angela Y. Davis
4.47 avg rating β 824 ratings
105.
First Thought: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg
by:
Michael Schumacher
4.50 avg rating β 16 ratings
108.
Sacred Scripture, Sacred War: The Bible and the American Revolution
by:
James P. Byrd
3.90 avg rating β 100 ratings
108.
A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom
by:
Jedediah Purdy
3.69 avg rating β 85 ratings
108.
Time and Reality in the Thought of the Maya (Volume 190) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
by:
Miguel LeΓ³n-Portilla
3.92 avg rating β 24 ratings
111.
The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
by:
Kwame Anthony Appiah
3.86 avg rating β 2,060 ratings
111.
Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz
by:
Richard H. Immerman
3.47 avg rating β 59 ratings
111.
Social Darwinism in American Thought
by:
Richard Hofstadter
3.79 avg rating β 279 ratings
114.
Owning Ideas: The Intellectual Origins of American Intellectual Property, 1790-1909
by:
Oren Bracha
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
114.
Raised Right: Fatherhood in Modern American Conservatism
by:
Jeffrey R. Dudas
3.22 avg rating β 9 ratings
114.
Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom
by:
Lawrence W. Levine
4.21 avg rating β 463 ratings
117.
Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America's Romantic Self-Image
by:
Andrew Burstein
3.33 avg rating β 9 ratings
117.
A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow
by:
David L. Chappell
3.65 avg rating β 133 ratings
117.
A History of Archaeological Thought
by:
Bruce G. Trigger
3.82 avg rating β 405 ratings
120.
The Faiths of the Founding Fathers
by:
David L. Holmes
3.89 avg rating β 620 ratings
120.
Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment
by:
Anthony Lewis
3.86 avg rating β 703 ratings
122.
The Color of Mind: Why the Origins of the Achievement Gap Matter for Justice (History and Philosophy of Education Series)
by:
Derrick Darby
4.11 avg rating β 37 ratings
122.
Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
by:
William Cronon
4.17 avg rating β 813 ratings
124.
America the Philosophical
by:
Carlin Romano
3.28 avg rating β 93 ratings
124.
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by:
Hans Rosling
4.36 avg rating β 197,295 ratings
126.
Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
by:
Bhu Srinivasan
4.39 avg rating β 1,939 ratings
126.
Who Knew?: Questions That Will Make You Think Again
by:
Sarah Herman
3.85 avg rating β 92 ratings
128.
How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art
by:
David Salle
3.56 avg rating β 461 ratings
129.
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
by:
Daniel Markovits
3.83 avg rating β 2,197 ratings
129.
King Sequoia: The Tree That Inspired a Nation, Created Our National Park System, and Changed the Way We Think about Nature
by:
William C. Tweed
4.08 avg rating β 157 ratings
131.
Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics
by:
Avidit Acharya
3.94 avg rating β 126 ratings
131.
You're More Powerful than You Think: A Citizenβs Guide to Making Change Happen
by:
Eric Liu
3.85 avg rating β 416 ratings
133.
Thomas Jefferson's Ethics and the Politics of Human Progress: The Morality of a Slaveholder
by:
Ari Helo
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
133.
Jazz and Cocktails: Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir
by:
Jans B Wager
3.85 avg rating β 13 ratings
135.
The Fractured Republic: Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism
by:
Yuval Levin
3.81 avg rating β 900 ratings
135.
Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812
by:
Marianne Mills
4.33 avg rating β 15 ratings
137.
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
by:
Carol Anderson
4.47 avg rating β 14,603 ratings
137.
Thinking Back: The Perils of Writing History
by:
C. Vann Woodward
3.71 avg rating β 31 ratings
139.
Postcapitalism
by:
Raphael Sassower
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
139.
Think of the Self Speaking: Selected Interviews
by:
Harry Smith
4.53 avg rating β 45 ratings
141.
The Myth of Equality: Uncovering the Roots of Injustice and Privilege
by:
Ken Wytsma
4.31 avg rating β 883 ratings
141.
Outlaws, Rebels, Freethinkers, and Pirates
by:
Bob Levin
3.96 avg rating β 25 ratings
143.
From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America
by:
Leah N. Gordon
3.50 avg rating β 10 ratings
143.
Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature
by:
Richard Mabey
3.83 avg rating β 951 ratings
145.
Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity
by:
Tim Wise
4.07 avg rating β 577 ratings
145.
Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama
by:
Jennifer Jensen Wallach
4.33 avg rating β 9 ratings
147.
Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age
by:
Susan Jacoby
3.70 avg rating β 343 ratings
147.
Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized By People Who Think You're Stupid
by:
Joe Klein
3.58 avg rating β 315 ratings
149.
Rethinking Andrew Wyeth
by:
David Cateforis
3.88 avg rating β 17 ratings
150.
The Last Men on Top
by:
Susan Jacoby
3.39 avg rating β 41 ratings
150.
Introducing Postmodernism: A Graphic Guide to Cutting-Edge Thinking
by:
Chris Garratt
3.50 avg rating β 1,362 ratings
152.
Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy: How Hamilton's Merchant Class Lost Out to the Agrarian South
by:
Charles A. Beard
3.67 avg rating β 15 ratings
152.
Thinking in Pictures: The Making of the Movie Matewan
by:
John Sayles
4.16 avg rating β 188 ratings
154.
Come to Think of It: Notes on the Turn of the Millennium
by:
Daniel Schorr
3.84 avg rating β 58 ratings
155.
American Dialogue: The Founders and Us
by:
Joseph J. Ellis
4.22 avg rating β 1,678 ratings
155.
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
by:
Barbara Ehrenreich
3.73 avg rating β 10,294 ratings
157.
Known for My Work: African American Ethics from Slavery to Freedom
by:
Lynda J. Morgan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
157.
Maya Potters' Indigenous Knowledge: Cognition, Engagement, and Practice
by:
Dean E. Arnold
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 1 rating
159.
American Labyrinth: Intellectual History for Complicated Times
by:
Raymond Haberski Jr.
4.25 avg rating β 16 ratings
159.
Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
by:
Vandana Shiva
4.05 avg rating β 376 ratings
161.
The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics
by:
Sean Wilentz
3.47 avg rating β 135 ratings
161.
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
by:
Abraham Flexner
4.23 avg rating β 707 ratings
163.
The Faiths of Our Fathers: What America's Founders Really Believed
by:
Alf J. Mapp Jr.
3.43 avg rating β 258 ratings
163.
Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination
by:
Joyce Appleby
3.50 avg rating β 121 ratings
165.
Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy
by:
Elaine Tyler May
3.67 avg rating β 183 ratings
165.
Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere
by:
Christopher Hitchens
4.02 avg rating β 279 ratings
167.
Father of Liberty: Jonathan Mayhew and the Principles of the American Revolution
by:
J. Patrick Mullins
4.50 avg rating β 6 ratings
167.
Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture
by:
Ken Jennings
3.74 avg rating β 1,321 ratings
169.
New Worlds of Violence: Cultures and Conquests in the Early American Southeast
by:
Matthew Jennings
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
170.
Crisis of Responsibility: Our Cultural Addiction to Blame and How You Can Cure It
by:
David L. Bahnsen
4.11 avg rating β 194 ratings
170.
The Frontier in American Culture
by:
Richard White
3.68 avg rating β 59 ratings
172.
The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America
by:
Franklin T. Lambert
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 74 ratings
172.
Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture
by:
Bart Beaty
3.53 avg rating β 17 ratings
174.
The History of White People
by:
Nell Irvin Painter
4.07 avg rating β 3,174 ratings
174.
All That Is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
by:
David E. Whisnant
4.05 avg rating β 73 ratings
176.
Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right
by:
Seth Dowland
4.18 avg rating β 40 ratings
176.
Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity
by:
Aurora Levins Morales
4.58 avg rating β 192 ratings
178.
"Ye Will Say I Am No Christian": The Thomas Jefferson/John Adams Correspondence on Religion, Morals, and Values
by:
Bruce Braden
4.18 avg rating β 38 ratings
178.
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
by:
Simon Reynolds
3.84 avg rating β 2,965 ratings
180.
White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
by:
Winthrop D. Jordan
4.21 avg rating β 381 ratings
180.
The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America
by:
Jeff Biggers
3.75 avg rating β 189 ratings
182.
Democracy and Truth: A Short History
by:
Sophia Rosenfeld
3.77 avg rating β 111 ratings
182.
Spirit World: Pattern in the Expressive Folk Culture of New Orleans
by:
Michael P. Smith
4.24 avg rating β 17 ratings
184.
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
by:
Steve Luxenberg
4.18 avg rating β 550 ratings
184.
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
by:
Colin Woodard
4.19 avg rating β 14,289 ratings
186.
Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974
by:
Kevin M. Kruse
4.06 avg rating β 1,237 ratings
186.
Shared Traditions: Southern History and Folk Culture
by:
Charles Joyner
3.86 avg rating β 14 ratings
188.
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
by:
Adam Winkler
4.17 avg rating β 1,388 ratings
188.
Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South
by:
Roger D. Abrahams
3.86 avg rating β 22 ratings
190.
The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy
by:
Nicholas Lemann
3.89 avg rating β 341 ratings
190.
Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture
by:
Michael Kammen
3.83 avg rating β 129 ratings
192.
Revolutionary Spirits: The Enlightened Faith of America's Founding Fathers
by:
Gary Kowalski
3.78 avg rating β 46 ratings
192.
Roadside America: The Automobile in Design and Culture
by:
Jan Jennings
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
194.
Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers
by:
Daniel L. Dreisbach
4.08 avg rating β 39 ratings
194.
The Political Culture of the American Whigs
by:
Daniel Walker Howe
4.14 avg rating β 83 ratings
196.
The Making of America: The Substance and Meaning of the Constitution
by:
W. Cleon Skousen
4.39 avg rating β 741 ratings
196.
Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times
by:
Marvin Harris
3.65 avg rating β 88 ratings
198.
Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America
by:
Tim Wise
4.09 avg rating β 298 ratings
198.
The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture
by:
Marvin Harris
3.77 avg rating β 140 ratings
200.
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
by:
Richard Hofstadter
4.11 avg rating β 3,514 ratings
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