Understanding America
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When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age
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Rob Eschmann
4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings 3. 
The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement
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Hajar Yazdiha
4.11 avg rating — 36 ratings 4. 
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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Howard Zinn
4.08 avg rating — 259,714 ratings 
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Butchered by "Healthcare": What to Do About Doctors, Big Pharma, and Corrupt Government Ruining Your Health and Medical Care
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Robert A. Yoho
4.50 avg rating — 107 ratings 9. 
The Ailing Nation: Lessons From the Bedside for America's Leaders
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Nate Link
4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings 10. 
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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Sherman Alexie
4.06 avg rating — 281,449 ratings 11. 
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
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Amity Shlaes
3.91 avg rating — 6,200 ratings 12. 
Flyover Nation: You Can't Run a Country You've Never Been To
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Dana Loesch
3.90 avg rating — 292 ratings 
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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
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Colin Woodard
4.19 avg rating — 14,289 ratings 12. 
Dispossessed: How Predatory Bureaucracy Foreclosed on the American Middle Class
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Noelle Stout
3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings 
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Questions Answered: An Introduction to QAnon and the Great Awakening
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Pat Quincy
4.03 avg rating — 78 ratings 12. 
POLICE STATE USA -the Pledge of Allegiance was the origin of Hitler salutes + Nazi behavior, Swastikas were "S" letters for "SOCIALIST"
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Ian Tinny
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 12. 
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
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Elie Mystal
4.57 avg rating — 4,577 ratings 12. 
The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
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Norman Solomon
4.17 avg rating — 115 ratings 
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
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Bill Bryson
3.90 avg rating — 68,631 ratings 
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right 4.12 avg rating — 17,563 ratings
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Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black & White
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David Barton
4.33 avg rating — 522 ratings 
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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Matthew Desmond
4.47 avg rating — 109,960 ratings 
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Race-Baiting In America: How the Left Use Race as a Means to Keep Power, Drive the Narrative, & Tear This Country Apart
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D. Lee
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 32. 
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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Isabel Wilkerson
4.48 avg rating — 113,298 ratings 36. 
Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
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Brian Alexander
3.91 avg rating — 1,852 ratings 36. 
How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, from the Pilgrims to the Present 4.10 avg rating — 713 ratings
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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Clint Smith
4.70 avg rating — 38,106 ratings 
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
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Ibram X. Kendi
4.56 avg rating — 10,763 ratings 41. 
Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream
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Sarah Churchwell
4.11 avg rating — 611 ratings 42. 
Backroads Boss Lady: Happiness Ain't a Side Hustle--Straight Talk on Creating the Life You Deserve
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Jessi Roberts
4.08 avg rating — 87 ratings 42. 
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
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The Way It Spozed to Be (Innovators in Education)
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Jack Herndon
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 110 ratings 44. 
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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Ibram X. Kendi
4.53 avg rating — 37,886 ratings 
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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
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Anne Moody
4.13 avg rating — 11,515 ratings 48. 
They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group 3.85 avg rating — 2,908 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by:
Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,687 ratings 50. 
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
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Derecka Purnell
4.44 avg rating — 2,165 ratings 52. 
The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People
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Oscar Handlin
3.55 avg rating — 233 ratings 52. 
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
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Eric Foner
4.21 avg rating — 6,121 ratings 54. 
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
by:
Edward J. Larson
3.89 avg rating — 2,354 ratings 54. 
Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform
by:
John F. Pfaff
4.06 avg rating — 850 ratings 
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 4.44 avg rating — 44,185 ratings
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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves 4.15 avg rating — 41,838 ratings
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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Robert A. Caro
4.52 avg rating — 27,080 ratings 
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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I) 4.37 avg rating — 3,470 ratings
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A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
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Larry Schweikart
4.11 avg rating — 3,841 ratings 
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
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Marc Reisner
4.28 avg rating — 11,660 ratings 71. 
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
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Studs Terkel
4.24 avg rating — 5,742 ratings 
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 4.39 avg rating — 352,808 ratings
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Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder
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Kent Nerburn
4.39 avg rating — 6,519 ratings 78. 
The Tarantula in My Purse and 172 Other Wild Pets: True-Life Stories to Read Aloud 3.88 avg rating — 961 ratings
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Libertarians on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House Books 3.60 avg rating — 712 ratings
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression 3.73 avg rating — 6,485 ratings
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The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose
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Chris Wilson
4.61 avg rating — 1,816 ratings 
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Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
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Liz Murray
4.22 avg rating — 21,745 ratings 
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American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
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Craig Ferguson
3.93 avg rating — 24,860 ratings 
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by:
Bill Bryson
4.07 avg rating — 436,146 ratings 
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Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
by:
Richard White
3.64 avg rating — 865 ratings 94. 
Our Patchwork Nation: The Surprising Truth About the "Real" America
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Dante Chinni
3.52 avg rating — 465 ratings 
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The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today 3.75 avg rating — 315 ratings
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Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
by:
Andrés Duany
4.12 avg rating — 2,640 ratings 99. 
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
by:
Charles Murray
3.80 avg rating — 5,643 ratings 100. 