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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorRizal Without the Overcoat
Ambeth R. Ocampo · 186 pages
"Through writing about history, Ocampo writes on Rizal as if he happened yesterday. In the clean, cool style of a good journalist...Ocampo is one historian who has never known to impose dogmas and definitive treatises. Reading Ocampo's history is like sitting down with a friend who shares what he has learned. But what he does best is to share the certainty of his doubts. Which probably makes him l
The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival
John Bagot Glubb · 52 pages
The Wordy Shipmates
Sarah Vowell · 254 pages
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an examination of the Puritans, their covenant communities, their deep-rooted idealism, their political and cultural relevance in today’s world, and their myriad oddities.In The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell travels once again through America’s past, this time to seventeenth-century New England. Fro
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Victoria Finlay · 448 pages
The Paranoid Style in American Politics
Richard Hofstadter · 322 pages
Acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs. Hofstadter examines the competing forces in American political discourse and how fringe groups can influence--and derail--the larger agendas of a political party. He investigates the politics of the irrational, shed
What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
James D. Bradley, Cecilia Holland, Alistair Horne, David Kahn, John Lukacs, William Hardy McNeill, Lance Morrow, Williamson Murray, Josiah Ober, Robert L. O'Connell, Caleb Carr, Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K. Rabb, Andrew Roberts, Roger Spiller, Geoffrey C. Ward, Tom Wicker, James Chace, Theodore F. C · 427 pages
Brave Companions
David McCullough · 240 pages
Portraits of men and women who have shaped the course of history or changed how we view the world.
The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
Robert Darnton · 298 pages
In this series of essays, Robert Darnton exhumes the strange and wonderful world views of the ordinary and extraordinary people inhabiting the cities, towns and countryside of France in what we like to call the age of enlightenment.
The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States
Gordon S. Wood · 401 pages
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history. In a series of elegant and illuminating essays, Wood explores the ideological origins of the revolution--from ancient Rome to the European Enlightenment--and the founders' attempts to forge an American democracy.
Why We Can't Wait
Martin Luther King Jr. · 159 pages
In 1963, Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. launched the Civil Rights movement and demonstrated to the world the power of nonviolent direct action with this letter from Birmingham Jail. Why We Can't Wait recounts not only the Birmingham campaign, but also examines the history of the civil rights struggle and the tasks that future generations must accomplish to bring about full equali
To America: Personal Reflections Of An Historian
Stephen E. Ambrose · 265 pages
Stephen Ambrose reflects on his long career as a historian and shares stories of some of his most admired, and a few of his least favorite, Americans from throughout history.
The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois · 192 pages
Du Bois' 1903 collection of essays is a thoughtful, articulate exploration of the moral and intellectual issues surrounding the perception of blacks within American society.
Virtual History
Niall Ferguson · 548 pages
Speculates what may have happened if nine major events did not occur, asking such questions as, "What if there had been no American Revoultion?" and "What if John F. Kennedy had lived?"
Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution
James M. McPherson · 173 pages
James McPherson offers a series of thoughtful and engaging essays on aspects of Lincoln and the war that have rarely been discussed in depth. McPherson displays his keen insight and sterling prose as he examines several critical themes in American history. He looks closely at the President's role as Commander-in-Chief of the Union forces, showing how Lincoln forged a national military strategy for
Profiles in Leadership: Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness
Walter Isaacson · 336 pages
The best historians in the land consider examples of great leadership, well known and surprising, from Washington to Willkie and more. What made FDR a more successful leader during the Depression crisis than Hoover? Why was Eisenhower more effective as supreme commander during World War II than he was as president? Why was Grant one of the best presidents of his day, if not in all of American h
The Collected What If? Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
Robert Cowley · 827 pages
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones · 590 pages
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
Colin Dickey · 320 pages
Stranger than we can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
J.M.R. Higgs · 352 pages
The twentieth century should make sense. It's the period of history that we know the most about, an epic geo-political narrative that runs through World War One, the great depression, World War Two, the American century and the fall of the Berlin Wall. But somehow that story doesn't quite lead into the world we find ourselves in now, this bewildering twenty-first century, adrift in a network of co
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
Tony Judt · 464 pages
From one of our greatest historians and public intellectuals, reflections on a twentieth century that is turning into ancient history, when it's not being displaced by myth or forgotten entirely, with unprecedented speed and at great cost The accelerating changes of the past generation have been accompanied by a comparably accelerated amnesia. The twentieth century has become "history" at an unpre
Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers
Nick Offerman · 399 pages
The star of Parks and Recreation and author of the best-selling Paddle Your Own Canoe pays tribute to inspiring mischief makers, from George Washington to Willie Nelson, while expounding on such topics as religion, handcrafting and meat.
Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Rebecca Solnit · 326 pages
"In Wanderlust: A History of Walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories -- of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores -- to create a portrait of the range of possibilities for this most basic act. Arguing that walking as history signifies walking for pleasure and for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit hones in o
Russian Thinkers
Isaiah Berlin, Jason Ferrell · 312 pages
Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture. In addition to Tolstoy's philosophy of history, which he addresses in his most famous essay, 'The Hedgehog and the Fox,' Berlin considers the social and p