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4 - The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Les Payne - Liveright
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An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. Beginning in 1990 on a quest that would consume him for the rest of his life, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Les Payne... |
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5 - The Yellow House
Sarah M. Broom - Grove Press
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In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant -- the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed,... |
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6 - The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Jeffrey C Stewart - Oxford University Press, USA
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A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro -- the creative African Americans whose art, literature,... |
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7 - The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
MASHA GESSEN - Riverhead Books
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WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONThe essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most... |
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9 - Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates - Spiegel & Grau
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER | NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER | PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST | NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST | NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review * O: The Oprah Magazine * The Washington... |
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10 - Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Evan Osnos - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; F First Edition edition
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Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalistWinner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction.An Economist Best Book of 2014.A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformationFrom abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation... |
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11 - The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
George Packer - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKAN NPR BEST BOOKSelected by New York Times critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite BookA Washington Post Best Political BookA New Republic Best BookA riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest... |
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12 - Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo - Random House; 1st edition
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In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai... |
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13 - The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Stephen Greenblatt - W. W. Norton & Company
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction * Winner of the National Book Award * New York Times Bestseller Renowned scholar Stephen Greenblatt brings the past to vivid life in what is at once a supreme work of scholarship, a literary page-turner, and a thrilling testament to the power... |
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14 - Just Kids
Patti Smith - Ecco; Illustrated edition
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would... |
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15 - The First Tycoon
T J Stiles - Vintage
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDIn this groundbreaking biography, T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt, the combative man and American icon who, through his genius and force of will, did more than perhaps any other individual... |
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16 - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Annette Gordon-Reed - W. W. Norton & Company
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the National Book AwardNew York Times Bestseller #1 on Esquires List of the 50 Best Biographies of All Time. "[A] commanding and important book." -- Jill Lepore, The New YorkerThis epic work -- named a best book of the year by the Washington... |
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17 - Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Tim Weiner - Doubleday; First Edition edition
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For the last sixty years the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record burying its blunders in top-secret archives Its mission was to know the world When it did not succeed it set out to change the world Its failures have handed us in the words... |
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19 - The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * From one of Americas iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage - and a life, in good times and bad - that will speak to anyone... |
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20 - Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
Kevin Boyle - Holt Paperbacks
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An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggleIn 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing... |
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21 - Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
Carlos M N Eire - Free Press
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"Have mercy on me, Lord, I am Cuban." In 1962, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Havana - exiled from his family, his country, and his own childhood by Fidel Castros revolution. Winner of the National Book Award, this stunning memoir is a vibrant and evocative... |
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22 - Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Robert A Caro - Vintage
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Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnsons story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America,... |
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23 - The Noonday Demon
Andrew Solomon - Scribner
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The Noonday Demon is Andrew Solomons National Book Award-winning, bestselling, and transformative masterpiece on depression - "the book for a generation, elegantly written, meticulously researched, empathetic, and enlightening" (Time) - now with a major new chapter covering recently... |
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24 - In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Nathaniel Philbrick - Viking
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricanes Eye, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller and a major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, directed by Ron Howard "With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail... |
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