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by Ron Chernow · about this book

Loved Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow? If its nonfiction, biography and history hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams, Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success and King Hancock. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Alexander Hamilton: Nonfiction · Biography · History · Presidential History · Political Biography

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   My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams

   Abigail Adams, John Adams

   History · Political Biography · Presidential History · Biography · Politics

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   Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

   Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig

   Biography · Political Biography · Presidential History · Politics · Nonfiction

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   King Hancock

   Brooke Barbier

   Biography · History · Political Biography · Politics · Nonfiction

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   1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--And How It Shattered a Nation

   Andrew Ross Sorkin

   History · Presidential History · Politics · Biography · Nonfiction

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   Becoming

   Michelle Obama

   Political Biography · Presidential History · Politics · Working-Class Protagonist · Nonfiction

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   A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

   S. Nassir Ghaemi

   Political Biography · History · Presidential History · Biography · Nonfiction

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   One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein

   Whitney Alyse Webb

   History · Presidential History · Politics · Nonfiction · Dense Prose

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   Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

   Mary L Trump

   Political Biography · Biography · Presidential History · Politics · Nonfiction

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   A Promised Land

   Barack Obama

   Political Biography · Presidential History · Nonfiction · Politics · Dense Prose

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    The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865

    Mark Peterson

    History · Politics · Nonfiction · Dense Prose · Revolution

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    The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

    Hallie Rubenhold

    Biography · History · Working-Class Protagonist · Nonfiction

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    Marsha

    Tourmaline

    Biography · Political Biography · History · Nonfiction

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    Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times

    Donald T. Phillips

    Presidential History · Political Biography · History · Nonfiction

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    The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

    Ned Blackhawk

    History · Politics · Nonfiction · Dense Prose · Revolution

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    The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

    Erik Larson

    History · Biography · Nonfiction · Dense Prose · Economic History

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    The Warmth of Other Suns

    Isabel Wilkerson

    History · Biography · Nonfiction · Economic History · Sprawling Epic

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    Intent to Destroy: Russia’s Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine

    Eugene Finkel

    History · Politics · Nonfiction · Dense Prose · Revolution

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    107 Days

    Kamala Harris

    Presidential History · Political Biography · Nonfiction · Politics

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    An African American and Latinx History of the United States

    Paul Ortiz

    History · Politics · Nonfiction · Dense Prose · Revolution

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    Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

    Silvia Federici

    History · Politics · Nonfiction · Dense Prose · Economic History

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