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The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar

9 best books like The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar (H.W. Brands): Lost Children Archive, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, The Intuitionist, The Power and the Glory, The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War, Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American, The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World, The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite, Bury the Lead

Lost Children Archive
AuthorValeria Luiselli
ISBN0525520619
From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity.

A...
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
AuthorRichard Rothstein
ISBN1631492853
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation—that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the...
The Intuitionist
AuthorColson Whitehead
ISBN0385493002
A New York Times Notable Book
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
Two warring factions in the Department of Elevator Inspectors in a bustling metropolis vie for dominance: the Empiricists, who go by the book and rigorously check every structural and mechanical detail, and the Intuitionists,...
The Power and the Glory
AuthorGraham Greene
ISBN0142437301
In a poor, remote section of Southern Mexico, the paramilitary group, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest is on the run. Too human for heroism, too humble for martyrdom, the nameless little worldly...
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...
Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American
AuthorB.H. Liddell Hart
ISBN0306805073
When Liddell Hart's Sherman was first published in 1929, it received encomiums such as these:

"A masterly performance . . . one of the most thorougly dignified, one of the most distinguished biographies of the year."--Henry Steele Commager, New York Herald Tribune

"It is not often...
The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World
AuthorGay Talese
ISBN0812977688
Once upon a time, in the land of New York, there was a powerful and prestigious newspaper called the Times. It printed "all the news that's fit to print." Everyone thought it was the greatest and most perfect newspaper in the history of the world.

It wasn't.

Gay Talese's book, The Kingdom...
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
AuthorDaniel Markovits
ISBN0735221995
A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy

It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal...
Bury the Lead
AuthorDavid Rosenfelt
ISBN0446612863
I watch sixteen football games over nine hours. It's an extraordinary accomplishment...With the remote secure in the palm of my hand, or more often resting on my chest, I am all powerful. I haven't missed an important play since the Carter administration. His streak of murder case acquittals made him...
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