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Threepenny Novel by Bertolt Brecht
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBrecht's only novel is, of course, based on his own Threepenny Opera, which was itself based on John Gay's The Beggar's Opera. Set in Victorian London, the novel feels similar to Dickens in many ways, but written with a very dry humour and none of the sentimentality... -
![Ručně vyřezávané rakvičky by Truman Capote]()
Ručně vyřezávané rakvičky by Truman Capote
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsfrom Selected Writings (1963) and Music for Chameleons... -
![Ned Kelly by Robert Drewe]()
Ned Kelly by Robert Drewe
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn action-packed historical novel about the legendary Australian gunfighter Ned Kelly follows the notorious outlaw and his gang of "bushrangers" on their violent rampage through the wilderness of Australia. Original...Categorized as:
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![Detective Story by Imre Kertész]()
Detective Story by Imre Kertész
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs readers, we are accustomed to reading stories of war and injustice from the victims’ point of view, sympathizing with their plight. In Detective Story, the tables have been turned, leaving us in the mind of a monster, as Nobel Laureate Imre Kertész plunges us into a story of the worst kind, told by a man living outside morality... -
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![Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson]()
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe first definitive account of the infamous 1971 Attica prison uprising, the state’s violent response, and the victims' decades-long quest for justice including information never released to the public published to coincide with the forty-fifth anniversary of this historic event... -
![At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle L. McGuire]()
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle L. McGuire
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsGroundbreaking, controversial, and courageous, here is the story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor—a story that reinterprets the history of America's civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against black women by white men... -
![The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson]()
The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth was erased for so long... -
![Hellhound on His Trail by Hampton Sides]()
Hellhound on His Trail by Hampton Sides
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNATIONAL BESTSELLEREdgar Award NomineeOne of the Best Books of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine, Time, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, San Francisco Chronicle With a New Afterword On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King at the Lorraine Motel. The nation was shocked, enraged, and saddened... -
![Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era by Jerry Mitchell]()
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era by Jerry Mitchell
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOn June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings would become known as the “Mississippi Burning” case and even though the killers’ identities, including the sheriff’s deputy, were an open secret, no one was charged with murder in the months and years that followed... -
![Auschwitz by Laurence Rees]()
Auschwitz by Laurence Rees
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAuschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fully known. In Auschwitz, Laurence Rees reveals new insights from more than 100 original interviews with Auschwitz survivors and Nazi perpetrators who speak on the record for the first time... -
![There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll]()
There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsKilling Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher and to wiping out the British Cabinet – an extraordinary assassination attempt linked to the Northern Ireland Troubles and the most daring conspiracy against the Crown since the Gunpowder Plot... -
![Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy, Сергій Плохій]()
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy, Сергій Плохій
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsOn the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of radiation poisoning, fallout contaminated half the continent, and thousands fell ill... -
![G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage]()
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"A nuanced portrait in a league with the best of Ron Chernow and David McCullough"--The Wall Street Journal "Masterful...This book is an enduring, formidable accomplishment, a monument to the power of biography [that] now becomes the definitive work"--The Washington Post"Revelatory.. -
![I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface by Charles M. Payne]()
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface by Charles M. Payne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material that situates the book in the context of subsequent movement literature... -
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![Shake Hands with the Devil by Roméo Dallaire]()
Shake Hands with the Devil by Roméo Dallaire
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTHE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD'Indisputably the best account of the whole terrible Rwandan genocide.' R. W. Johnson, Sunday Times'Angry, accusatory and extremely moving... -
![Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny]()
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAlbert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge of the Holocaust. Now this enigma of a man is unveiled in a monumental biography by a writer who came to know Speer intimately in his final years... -
![Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips]()
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America.Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children... -
![Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George L. Jackson, Jonathan Jackson Jr.]()
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George L. Jackson, Jonathan Jackson Jr.
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life. Jackson's letters make palpable the intense feelings of anger and rebellion that filled black men in America's prisons in the 1960s... -
![Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David M. Oshinsky]()
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David M. Oshinsky
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDavid Oshinsky chronicles the history of America's oldest hospital and in so doing also charts the rise of New York to the nation's preeminent city, the path of American medicine from butchery and quackery to a professional and scientific endeavor, and the growth of a civic institution... -
![Operation Massacre by Rodolfo Walsh, Ricardo Piglia]()
Operation Massacre by Rodolfo Walsh, Ricardo Piglia
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratings1956. Argentina has just lost its charismatic president Juán Perón in a military coup, and terror reigns across the land. June 1956: eighteen people are reported dead in a failed Peronist uprising... -
![The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson]()
The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till—“and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren’t often enough asked to do with history: learn from it” (The Atlantic).In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till... -
![The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin]()
The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA behind-the-scenes look at the crime of the century and the legal proceedings that followed sheds new light in the arrest and trial of O.J. Simpson, the evidence in the case, and the role of the prosecution and defense... -
![Eve Was Framed: Women and British Justice by Helena Kennedy]()
Eve Was Framed: Women and British Justice by Helena Kennedy
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEve Was... -
![The Roots of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin]()
The Roots of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in 1965 and heard since by a much wider audience on BBC radio. For Berli, the Romantics set in train a vast, unparalleled revolution in humanity's view of itself... -
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![Plague of Corruption: Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science by Judy Mikovits, Kent Heckenlively]()
Plague of Corruption: Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science by Judy Mikovits, Kent Heckenlively
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“Kent Heckenlively and Judy Mikovits are the new dynamic duo fighting corruption in science.” —Ben Garrison, America’s #1 political satirist Dr. Judy Mikovits is a modern-day Rosalind Franklin, a brilliant researcher shaking up the old boys’ club of science with her groundbreaking discoveries... -
![King Richard: Nixon and Watergate — An American Tragedy by Michael Dobbs]()
King Richard: Nixon and Watergate — An American Tragedy by Michael Dobbs
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn January 1973, Richard Nixon had just been inaugurated after winning re-election in a historic landslide. But by April 1973, his presidency had fallen apart as the Watergate scandal metastasized into what White House counsel John Dean called ‘a full-blown cancer’... -
![Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism by James W. Loewen]()
Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism by James W. Loewen
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen, exposes the secret communities and hotbeds of racial injustice that sprung up throughout the twentieth century unnoticed, forcing us to reexamine race relations in the United States.In this groundbreaking work, bestselling sociologist James W... -
![History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier by Deborah E. Lipstadt]()
History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier by Deborah E. Lipstadt
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNow a major motion picture starring Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall and Tom Wilkinson. “A compelling book: memoir and courtroom drama, a work of historical and legal import... -
![Mr. Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress by Joseph Wheelan]()
Mr. Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress by Joseph Wheelan
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFollowing his single term as President of the United States (1825-1829), John Quincy Adams, embittered by his loss to Andrew Jackson, boycotted his successor's inauguration, just as his father John Adams had done (the only two presidents ever to do so). Rather than retire, the sixty-two-year-old former president, U.S... -
![Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan by Del Quentin Wilber]()
Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan by Del Quentin Wilber
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011A Richmond Times Dispatch Top Book for 2011A minute-by-minute account of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, to coincide with the thirtieth anniversaryOn March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was just seventy days into his first term of office when John Hinckley Jr...
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