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The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33

9 best books like The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33 (Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.): Democracy in America, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, The Making of the President 1960, The Jungle, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974, Ten Days that Shook the World, Homage to Catalonia, The Mountain and the Wall

Democracy in America
AuthorAlexis de Tocqueville
ISBN0140447601
Democracy in America has had the singular honor of being even to this day the work that political commentators of every stripe refer to when they seek to draw large conclusions about the society of the USA. Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat, came to the young nation to investigate the functioning...
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
AuthorSvetlana Alexievich
ISBN0312425848
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal accounts of the tragedy. Journalist Svetlana Alexievich...
The Making of the President 1960
AuthorTheodore H. White
ISBN0760762899
What is a presidential election? "The most awesome transfer of power in the world—, the power to marshal & mobilize, the power to send men to kill or be killed, the power to tax & destroy, the power to create & the responsibility to do so, the power to guide & the responsibility to heal...
The Jungle
AuthorUpton Sinclair
ISBN1884365302
For nearly a century, the original version of Upton Sinclair's classic novel has remained almost entirely unknown.

When it was published in serial form in 1905, it was a full third longer than the censored, commercial edition published in book form the following year. That expurgated commercial...
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
AuthorJia Tolentino
ISBN0525510540
Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly in a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Jia writes...
Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974
AuthorKevin M. Kruse
ISBN0393088669
Two award-winning historians explore the origins of a divided America.

If you were asked when America became polarized, your answer would likely depend on your age: you might say during Barack Obama’s presidency, or with the post-9/11 war on terror, or the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s,...
Ten Days that Shook the World
AuthorJohn Reed
ISBN0486452409
I just finished this one, after meaning to check it out since college.

Sometimes you know a book is great even if you yourself have a hard time reading it. That was the case for me in the very well written and detailed personal account of the October Revolution in Russia, as experienced by American...
Homage to Catalonia
AuthorGeorge Orwell
ISBN0156421178
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
George Orwell is one of my favourite writers. 1984 and Animal Farm were game-changers for me when I first picked them up at 12 years old, and they fostered an interest in politics...
The Mountain and the Wall
AuthorAlisa Ganieva
ISBN1941920152
"Never before has Russian literature produced such an honest and complete picture of today's Caucasus."—Kommersant Weekend (Russia)

"The Mountain and the Wall is a major event in contemporary Russian literature."—Ulrich M. Schmid, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Germany)

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