U.S. Domestic Terrorism (nonfiction)
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Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
by:
Bryan Burrough
3.96 avg rating — 2,328 ratings 2. 
Madman in the Woods: Life Next Door to the Unabomber
by:
Jamie Gehring
3.90 avg rating — 564 ratings 3. 
The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking (ALA Notable Books for Adults) 4.04 avg rating — 4,289 ratings
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Lynched: The Power of Memory in a Culture of Terror
by:
Angela D. Sims
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings 5. 
The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
by:
Scott Miller
3.95 avg rating — 4,679 ratings 6. 
America's Secret Jihad: The Hidden History of Religious Terrorism in the United States
by:
Stuart Wexler
3.69 avg rating — 52 ratings 7. 
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While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 4.10 avg rating — 2,427 ratings
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Last Chance for Justice: How Relentless Investigators Uncovered New Evidence Convicting the Birmingham Church Bombers
by:
T.K. Thorne
4.26 avg rating — 47 ratings 10. 
They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency
by:
Malcolm W. Nance
4.16 avg rating — 1,347 ratings 11. 
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
by:
Diane McWhorter
4.21 avg rating — 1,042 ratings 12. 
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
by:
Jerry Mitchell
4.43 avg rating — 2,081 ratings 
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Lone Wolf: Eric Rudolph: Murder, Myth, and the Pursuit of an American Outlaw
by:
Maryanne Vollers
3.96 avg rating — 264 ratings 13. 
Dragons of God: A Journey Through Far-Right America
by:
Vincent Coppola
3.44 avg rating — 18 ratings 
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Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero
by:
Marita Sturken
3.71 avg rating — 161 ratings 17. 
Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign Against the Jews
by:
Jack Nelson
4.21 avg rating — 43 ratings 17. 
Fracturing the Founding: How the Alt-Right Corrupts the Constitution
by:
John E. Finn
4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings 20. 
Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness 4.46 avg rating — 1,728 ratings
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Freedom's Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror
by:
Charles Lane
3.61 avg rating — 580 ratings 
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America’s Most Notorious Domestic Terrorists: The Life and Crimes of the Unabomber and Timothy McVeigh 3.13 avg rating — 15 ratings
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White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction 4.02 avg rating — 53 ratings
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American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
by:
Jeffrey Toobin
3.87 avg rating — 12,108 ratings 29. 
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Sagebrush Collaboration: How Harney County Defeated the Takeover of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge
by:
Peter Walker
3.96 avg rating — 50 ratings 
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Securing the City: Inside America's Best Counterterror Force--The NYPD 3.47 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Encyclopedia of Right-Wing Extremism in Modern American History really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
by:
Andrew G. McCabe
4.17 avg rating — 7,358 ratings 35. 
Allegiance to Liberty: The Changing Face of Patriots, Militias, and Political Violence in America 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Blood Profits: How American Consumers Unwittingly Fund Terrorists
by:
Vanessa Neumann
3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings 37. 
Right-Wing Resurgence: How a Domestic Terrorist Threat is Being Ignored
by:
Daryl Johnson
3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings 40. 
House of Heroin: Inside the Secret Billion-Dollar Narco-Terror Empire That Is Killing America
by:
Haroon K. Ullah
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
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The Silent Brotherhood: The Chilling Inside Story of America's Violent, Anti-Government Militia Movement
by:
Kevin Flynn
3.94 avg rating — 248 ratings 42. 
Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism
by:
Marion Nestle
3.89 avg rating — 272 ratings 42. 
Confronting Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism in the USA
by:
George Michael
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 45. 
Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America
by:
Laura Wexler
3.99 avg rating — 369 ratings 46. 
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 
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The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in an Age of Terror 3.62 avg rating — 117 ratings
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The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era 4.07 avg rating — 328 ratings
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The Ames Strain: The Mystery Behind America's Most Deadly Bioterror Attack
by:
David Willman
4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings 51. 
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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Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
by:
Talia Lavin
3.87 avg rating — 5,879 ratings 53. 
The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia
by:
Mike Dash
3.81 avg rating — 1,382 ratings 54. 
Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill
by:
Jessica Stern
3.90 avg rating — 852 ratings 55. 
The Nuclear Terrorist: His Financial Backers and Political Patrons in the US and Abroad
by:
Robert Gleason
4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings 56. 
Jack Bauer for President: Terrorism and Politics in 24
by:
Richard Miniter
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings 
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At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
by:
Philip Dray
4.46 avg rating — 671 ratings 61. 
A Safeway in Arizona: What the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting Tells Us About the Grand Canyon State and Life in America
by:
Tom Zoellner
3.80 avg rating — 169 ratings 62. 
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Shots Fired: The Misunderstandings, Misconceptions, and Myths about Police Shootings
by:
Joseph Loughlin
4.05 avg rating — 39 ratings 
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Parkland Speaks: Survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas Share Their Stories
by:
Sarah Lerner
4.52 avg rating — 847 ratings 
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Murder at Broad River Bridge: The Slaying of Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan
by:
Bill Shipp
3.90 avg rating — 71 ratings 71. 
The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
by:
Linda Gordon
3.82 avg rating — 1,271 ratings 72. 
Klansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan
by:
David Cunningham
3.62 avg rating — 118 ratings 
74. 
The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan
by:
Laurence Leamer
4.08 avg rating — 1,895 ratings 75. 
White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan
by:
Tom Rice
3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings 
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Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads and the Rise of a New White Culture
by:
James Ridgeway
3.67 avg rating — 120 ratings 79. 
The Klan Unmasked: With a New Introduction by David Pilgrim and a New Author's Note
by:
Stetson Kennedy
4.03 avg rating — 131 ratings 80. 
The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy
by:
Chris Murphy
4.39 avg rating — 550 ratings 81. 
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 19: Violence
by:
Amy Louise Wood
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 82. 
Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence
by:
Chad L. Williams
4.33 avg rating — 76 ratings 
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Shots on the Bridge: Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina
by:
Ronnie Greene
3.95 avg rating — 286 ratings 
86. 
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible 4.24 avg rating — 881 ratings
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The Rosewood Massacre: An Archaeology and History of Intersectional Violence 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas
by:
Lesley Gill
3.84 avg rating — 137 ratings 89. 
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Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940
by:
Amy Louise Wood
3.98 avg rating — 100 ratings 91. 
Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928 4.23 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics
by:
Kay Whitlock
3.88 avg rating — 51 ratings 93. 
Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition
by:
Adam Gussow
4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings 94. 
The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
by:
Charles Lane
4.09 avg rating — 431 ratings 
96. 
Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890
by:
Larry McMurtry
3.49 avg rating — 711 ratings 97. 
Matewan Before the Massacre: Politics, Coal and the Roots of Conflict in a West Virginia Mining Community 3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings
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American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857
by:
Sally Denton
4.05 avg rating — 675 ratings 99. 
The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871
by:
Scott Zesch
4.01 avg rating — 67 ratings 100. 