The Good Society: The Humane Agenda
10 best books like The Good Society: The Humane Agenda (John Kenneth Galbraith): When the Bough Breaks, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, The Water Dancer, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Traitor to the Throne, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank the Irishman Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa, The Ghosts of Belfast, Cold Storage, Executed on a Technicality: Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row
| Author | Jonathan Kellerman |
| ISBN | 0345466608 |
In the first Alex Delaware novel, Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have no leads, but...
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax...
| Author | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| ISBN | 0399590595 |
Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme:...
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...
| Author | Alwyn Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0451477855 |
Rebel by chance. Traitor by choice.
Gunslinger Amani al'Hiza fled her dead-end hometown on the back of a mythical horse with the mysterious foreigner Jin, seeking only her own freedom. Now she’s fighting to liberate the entire desert nation of Miraji from a bloodthirsty sultan who slew...
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
| Author | Andrew Solomon |
| ISBN | 0684854678 |
Sometimes, the legacy of depression includes a wisdom beyond one's years, a depth of passion unexperienced by those who haven't traveled to hell and back. Off the charts in its enlightening, comprehensive analysis of this pervasive yet misunderstood condition, The Noonday Demon forges a long, brambly...
I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank the Irishman Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa
| Author | Charles Brandt |
| ISBN | 1586420895 |
The first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran were, "I heard you paint houses." To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that...
| Author | Stuart Neville |
| ISBN | 1569476004 |
Sooner or later, everybody pays.
Gerry Fegan, a former paramilitary contract killer, is haunted by the ghosts of the 12 people he has slaughtered. Every night, on the point of losing his mind, he drowns their screams in drink. His solution is to kill those who engineered their deaths.
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| Author | David Koepp |
| ISBN | 0062916432 |
For readers of Andy Weir and Noah Hawley comes an astonishing debut by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park: a wild and terrifying adventure about three strangers who must work together to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism
When Pentagon bioterror operative Roberto Diaz was sent...
| Author | David R. Dow |
| ISBN | 0807044199 |
When David Dow took his first capital case, he supported the death penalty. He changed his position as the men on death row became real people to him, and as he came to witness the profound injustices they endured: from coerced confessions to disconcertingly incompetent lawyers; from racist juries...
“Entertaining and shrewd....Hulse is an expert guide through the machinations on Capitol Hill.” --New York Times Book Review
The Chief Washington Correspondent for the New York Times presents a richly detailed, news-breaking, and conversation-changing look at the unprecedented...
