American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation

7 best books like American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation (Michael Kazin): Desert Flower, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Second Treatise of Government, Leadership: In Turbulent Times, The Future Is Asian, Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and Its Transmission Through Myth, The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet

Desert Flower

Author	Waris Dirie
ISBN	0688172377

Waris Dirie ran away from her oppressive life in the African desert when she was barely in her teens, illiterate and impoverished, with nothing to her name but a tattered shawl. She traveled alone across the dangerous Somali desert to Mogadishu—the first leg of a remarkable journey that would take...

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Author	Ibram X. Kendi
ISBN	1568584636

Americans like to insist that they are living in a post-racial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, racist ideas in America have...

Second Treatise of Government

Author	John Locke
ISBN	0915144867

The Second Treatise is one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the most far-reaching in its influence.
In his provocative 15-page introduction to this edition, the late eminent political theorist C. B. Macpherson examines Locke's arguments for limited, conditional...

Leadership: In Turbulent Times

Author	Doris Kearns Goodwin
ISBN	1476795924

Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader make the times or do the times make the leader?

In Leadership, Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely—Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt,...

The Future Is Asian

Author

Parag Khanna

In the 19th century, the world was Europeanized. In the 20th century, it was Americanized. Now, in the 21st century, the world is being Asianized.

The “Asian Century” is even bigger than you think. Far greater than just China, the new Asian system taking shape is a multi-civilizational...

Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and Its Transmission Through Myth

Author	Giorgio De Santillana
ISBN	0879232153

Ever since the Greeks coined the language we commonly use for scientific description, mythology & science have developed separately. But what came before the Greeks? What if we could prove that all myths have one common origin in a celestial cosmology? What if the gods, the places they lived &...

The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet

Author	Henry Fountain
ISBN	1101904062

In the tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, a riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in recorded history in North America--the 1964 Alaskan earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and obliterated the coastal village of Chenega--and the scientist sent to look for geological...