The Promise of American Life

9 best books like The Promise of American Life (Herbert David Croly): Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies, Up from Slavery, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister, Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Dog Named Slugger, Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team, We Never Lost Hope: A Holocaust Memoir and Love Story

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

Author	Eric Metaxas
ISBN	1595551387

As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside. One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer--a pastor and author, known as much for such spiritual...

But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies

Author	Akasha Gloria Hull
ISBN	0912670959

I have a complicated history with feminism that is probably not unique for a post-civil rights/black power movement black woman. But, all issues with the word feminism aside, I recognized myself too much in these essays to deny that whether I like it or not, I am constantly inhabiting multiple worlds....

Up from Slavery

Author	Booker T. Washington
ISBN	0451527542

Booker T. Washington, the most recognized national leader, orator and educator, emerged from slavery in the deep south, to work for the betterment of African Americans in the post Reconstruction period.

"Up From Slavery" is an autobiography of Booker T. Washington's life and work, which...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Author	Benjamin Franklin
ISBN	0743255062

"The first book to belong permanently to literature. It created a man."
-- From the Introduction Few men could compare to Benjamin Franklin. Virtually self-taught, he excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, an editor, and a writer, and he was probably...

The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister

Author	Nonna Bannister
ISBN	1414325460

Nonna Bannister carried a secret almost to her Tennessee grave: the diaries she kept as a young girl experiencing the horrors of the Holocaust while learning compassion and love for her fellow human beings. Nonna's writings tell the remarkable tale of how a Russian girl, born into a family that had known...

Narrative of Sojourner Truth

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Sojourner Truth

One of the most famous and admired African-American women in U.S. history, Sojourner Truth sang, preached, and debated at camp meetings across the country, led by her devotion to the antislavery movement and her ardent pursuit of women's rights. Born into slavery in 1797, Truth fled from bondage some...

A Dog Named Slugger

Author	Leigh Brill
ISBN	0984325654

The true life story of a dog who changed everything for one woman.

For the first time in my life, I didn't need to pretend, I didn't need to be tough: I only needed to be honest. "I have cerebral palsy. I walk funny and my balance is bad. I fall a lot. My hands shake, too. That means I'm not so good at carrying...

Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team

Author	Steve Sheinkin
ISBN	1596439548

Jim Thorpe: super athlete, Olympic gold medalist, Native American.

Pop Warner: indomitable coach, football mastermind, Ivy League grad.

Before these men became legends, they met in 1907 at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, where they forged one of the winningest teams...

We Never Lost Hope: A Holocaust Memoir and Love Story

Author	Naomi Litvin
ISBN	1439204217

We Never Lost Hope by Naomi Litvin is a powerful and haunting memoir and love story about her family's lives before, during, and after the Holocaust. Told in five indelible voices, the book gives a you-are-there punch and a moving immediacy. Litvin recreates her parents' incredible love story of a Holocaust...