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A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies by Martin J. Sherwin

A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies

Martin J. Sherwin

375 pages • first pub 1975 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy by Matthew Karp

This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy

Matthew Karp

368 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary D. Carter

The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

Zachary D. Carter

656 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
nonfiction biography economics history informative slow-paced
James Baldwin: A Biography by David A. Leeming

James Baldwin: A Biography

David A. Leeming

464 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
nonfiction biography history politics race informative reflective slow-paced
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation

Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff

518 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
Dispatches by Michael Herr

Dispatches

Michael Herr

272 pages • first pub 1977 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
The Korean War: A History by Bruce Cumings

The Korean War: A History

Modern Library Chronicles #33

Bruce Cumings

288 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
nonfiction history reflective slow-paced
The Long Walk by Stephen King, Richard Bachman

The Long Walk

Stephen King, Richard Bachman

320 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
fiction dystopian horror dark tense medium-paced
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew

Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

Kathleen Belew

352 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
nonfiction history politics race challenging informative slow-paced
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

106 pages • first pub 1963 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
nonfiction classics essays memoir race challenging informative reflective medium-paced