The Heartland: An American History

Similar books (20)

• 

  Abundance

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Cinema Speculation

  The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a deliriously entertaining, wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

  An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war
  
  In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

  Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War.
  
  Jam…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning

  A bold, urgent appeal from the acclaimed columnist and political commentator, addressing one of the most important issues of our time
  
  In Peter Beinart’s view, one story has long dominated Jewish commun…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Weather Detective: Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs

  BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES, PETER WOHLLEBEN, INVITES US TO RECONNECT WITH NATURE
  
  As soon as we step out of the door, nature surrounds. Thousands of small and large processes are tak…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea

  When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented itself as America’s sea—bound by geography, culture, and …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Gene: An Intimate History

  Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function.
  
  The story of the gene begins …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

  John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty--is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, the …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Poverty, by America

  Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.
  
  The United States, the richest country on earth, has more …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  A Living Remedy: A Memoir

  A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led, the life she forged as an adult, and the lives she’s lost.
  
  In this country, unless you …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

  Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer o…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

  In Evicted, Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exp…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  2034: A Novel of the Next World War

  On March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship, the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones, conducting a routine freedom of navigation patrol in the South China…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Shakespeare: The World as Stage

  At first glance, Bill Bryson seems an odd choice to write this addition to the Eminent Lives series.
  
  The author of 'The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid' isn't, after all, a Shakespeare scholar, …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

  Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability.
  The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Dumb Ideas: A Behind-the-Scenes Exposé on Making Pranks and Other Stupid Creative Endeavors

  Buy this book on Amazon