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10 best books like Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (David W. Blight): The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, Leadership: In Turbulent Times, Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment, Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times

The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
AuthorRick Atkinson
ISBN1627790438
In the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental...
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
AuthorDavid Treuer
A sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.

Dee Brown's 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee was the first truly popular book of Indian history ever published. But it promulgated the impression that American Indian...
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
AuthorPatrick Radden Keefe
ISBN0385521316
From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions

In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast...
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
AuthorHenry Louis Gates Jr.
ISBN0525559531
The New York Times bestseller.

A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American...
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
AuthorRobert A. Caro
ISBN0525656340
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books

For the first time in his long career, Robert...
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
AuthorDavid McCullough
ISBN1501168681
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.

As...
Leadership: In Turbulent Times
AuthorDoris Kearns Goodwin
ISBN1476795924
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,...
Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America
AuthorJared Cohen
ISBN1501109820
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The strength and prestige of the American presidency has waxed and waned since George Washington. Accidental Presidents looks at eight men who came to the office without being elected to it. It demonstrates how the character of the man in that powerful seat affects...
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
AuthorShane Bauer
ISBN0735223580
A groundbreaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history.

In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An...
Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times
AuthorMichael R. Beschloss
ISBN0307409600
From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising narrative of America’s wartime chief executives

It sometimes seems, in retrospect, as if America has been almost continuously at war. Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh,...
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
AuthorJoanne B. Freeman
ISBN0374154775
The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War

In The Field of Blood, Joanne Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, Freeman shows that the Capitol was...
These Truths: A History of the United States
AuthorJill Lepore
ISBN0393357422
Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself—a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence—at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on three...
Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
AuthorH.W. Brands
ISBN0525638008
From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy

In the early 1800s, three young men strode...
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