The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
10 best books like The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World (Greg Grandin): The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, The Best and the Brightest, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?, Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora, Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump, The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations, Joe Gould's Teeth
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
| Author | David Wallace-Wells |
| ISBN | 0525576703 |
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms...
The Best and the Brightest
| Author | David Halberstam |
| ISBN | 0449908704 |
The Best and the Brightest is David Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy. Using portraits of America's flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding...
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
| Author | Jia Tolentino |
| ISBN | 0525510540 |
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...
| Author | Gordon S. Wood |
| ISBN | 0679736883 |
In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed...
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
| Author | Bill McKibben |
| ISBN | 1250178266 |
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.
Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded...
Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times
| Author | Michael R. Beschloss |
| ISBN | 0307409600 |
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,...
| Author | Stephanie E. Smallwood |
| ISBN | 0674023498 |
This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle Passage and into the American slave market.
Smallwood's...
| Author | David Neiwert |
| ISBN | 1786634236 |
The story of the remarkable resurgence of right-wing extremists in the United States
Just as Donald Trump’s victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked liberal Americans, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists, xenophobes, militia leaders, and mysterious...
The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations
| Author | Ira Berlin |
| ISBN | 0670021377 |
A leading historian offers a sweeping new account of the African American experience over four centuries
Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation of...
| Author | Jill Lepore |
| ISBN | 1101947586 |
From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called “The Oral History of Our Time.”
Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian...
