United States of Ideas II (nonfiction)
1. 
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
by:
Nicholas Carr
3.89 avg rating — 32,235 ratings 2. 
Shopping for God: How Christianity Went from In Your Heart to In Your Face 3.61 avg rating — 57 ratings
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A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968
by:
Paul Berman
3.75 avg rating — 111 ratings 5. 
When Sex Goes to School: Warring Views on Sex--and Sex Education--Since the Sixties
by:
Kristin Luker
3.68 avg rating — 152 ratings 5. 
Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
by:
Nicholas Guyatt
3.80 avg rating — 105 ratings 5. 
History Lessons: The Creation of American Jewish Heritage
by:
Beth S. Wenger
4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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Tempted to Believe: The Seduction of Reason by the Promise of Certainty
by:
Thom Krystofiak
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 11. 
Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of Democracy (Native American Politics Series ; No. 3)
by:
Donald A. Grinde
4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings 11. 
The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas 4.54 avg rating — 3,815 ratings
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
by:
Carol Anderson
4.47 avg rating — 14,603 ratings 15. 
We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity
by:
Tommie Shelby
3.82 avg rating — 78 ratings 15. 
Slavery and Sin: The Fight against Slavery and the Rise of Liberal Protestantism
by:
Molly Oshatz
3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings 18. 
A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America 3.77 avg rating — 35 ratings
18. 
If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left
by:
Maurice Isserman
4.08 avg rating — 49 ratings 20. 
The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families 1600-1900
by:
Stephanie Coontz
3.42 avg rating — 36 ratings 20. 
Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution
by:
Ronald Dworkin
3.91 avg rating — 77 ratings 
23. 
Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life
by:
Stanley Elkins
3.14 avg rating — 95 ratings 23. 
Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the '60s
by:
Peter Collier
4.09 avg rating — 193 ratings 26. 
Exceptional America: Newness and National Identity
by:
Philip Abbott
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating 26. 
Reconstructing America: The Symbol of America in Modern Thought
by:
James W. Ceaser
3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings 
29. 
Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex
by:
Carol Tavris
4.07 avg rating — 428 ratings 
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Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
by:
Robert N. Bellah
3.90 avg rating — 1,012 ratings 32. 
The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery
by:
Rochelle Riley
3.97 avg rating — 116 ratings 35. 
We the People: The Modern-Day Figures Who Have Reshaped and Affirmed the Founding Fathers' Vision of America
by:
Juan Williams
3.81 avg rating — 161 ratings 35. 
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (The Problem of Slavery, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 165 ratings
35. 
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
by:
Karen E. Fields
4.16 avg rating — 1,693 ratings 38. 
The Right To Vote The Contested History Of Democracy In The United States 4.02 avg rating — 296 ratings
38. 
How Newark Became Newark: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of an American City
by:
Brad R. Tuttle
3.76 avg rating — 62 ratings 41. 
Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream
by:
Leonard Zeskind
3.89 avg rating — 222 ratings 41. 
Mastering America: Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood
by:
Robert E. Bonner
3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings 41. 
Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America (American History and Culture, 10)
by:
Kevin Mumford
3.68 avg rating — 50 ratings 
44. 
How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization: The Time and Heroic Story of How Gay Men Shaped the Modern World
by:
Cathy Crimmins
3.16 avg rating — 160 ratings 46. 
Same Difference: How Gender Myths Are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our Jobs 3.83 avg rating — 125 ratings
46. 
Self-Rule: A Cultural History of American Democracy
by:
Robert H. Wiebe
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings 48. 
The Frailty Myth: Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls
by:
Colette Dowling
4.12 avg rating — 262 ratings 48. 
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When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War 3.76 avg rating — 21 ratings
52. 
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
by:
Jane Mayer
4.18 avg rating — 4,569 ratings 52. 
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
by:
Sherry Turkle
3.62 avg rating — 6,380 ratings 
56. 
A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War
by:
Thomas Fleming
3.90 avg rating — 556 ratings 58. 
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
by:
Kate Harding
4.37 avg rating — 4,206 ratings 
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American Dream: A Short History of an Idea That Shaped a Nation
by:
James P. Cullen
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 65. 
Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire
by:
Eric Berkowitz
4.02 avg rating — 1,440 ratings 65. 
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America
by:
Richard Rorty
4.13 avg rating — 1,354 ratings 67. 
America the Anxious: How Our Pursuit of Happiness Is Creating a Nation of Nervous Wrecks
by:
Ruth Whippman
3.78 avg rating — 1,097 ratings 67. 
A City Upon a Hill: How the Sermon Changed the Course of American History
by:
Larry Witham
3.77 avg rating — 64 ratings 69. 
The Antigay Agenda: Orthodox Vision and the Christian Right
by:
Didi Herman
3.16 avg rating — 19 ratings 70. 
Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence
by:
Sara Moslener
4.10 avg rating — 61 ratings 
72. 
American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King Jr.
by:
Absalom Jones
3.90 avg rating — 40 ratings 
76. 
Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy
by:
Sheryll Cashin
4.14 avg rating — 230 ratings 76. 
Black Self-Determination: A Cultural History of African-American Resistance
by:
V.P. Franklin
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings 78. 
Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul
by:
Clara Bingham
4.33 avg rating — 412 ratings 78. 
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership (New York Review Books Classics)
by:
Harold Cruse
4.16 avg rating — 228 ratings 80. 
The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
by:
Steve Fraser
3.82 avg rating — 444 ratings 80. 
Black Consciousness in South Africa: The Dialectics of Ideological Resistance to White Supremacy (African Politics Society really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
83. 
Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
by:
Mitchell Duneier
3.74 avg rating — 575 ratings 
85. 
That Religion in Which All Men Agree: Freemasonry in American Culture
by:
David G. Hackett
4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings 
87. 
An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
by:
Charles A. Beard
3.68 avg rating — 470 ratings 89. 
Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding
by:
Steven K. Green
4.03 avg rating — 140 ratings 89. 
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An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
by:
Joseph Bottum
3.82 avg rating — 162 ratings 
97. 
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
by:
Jon Meacham
3.86 avg rating — 3,137 ratings 
