Books like A People's History of the United States
If you liked A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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A Promised Land
Because shares tags: politics, history, nonfiction.
First-volume memoir from Iowa 2008 through the 2011 bin Laden raid, crisis management and doubt.
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The Prince
Because shares tags: politics, history, nonfiction.
Machiavelli advises Lorenzo on rule through fear and love, fortune, cruelty and mercy.
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John Adams
Because shares tags: history, nonfiction, america.
McCullough follows Adams from Braintree lawyer to second president.
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Between the World and Me
Because shares tags: nonfiction, history, politics.
Coates writes to his son about the Black body in America, from Howard to the loss of Prince Jones.
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1776
Because shares tags: history, nonfiction.
Washington's amateur army from Boston siege to Trenton through mud and doubt.
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Homo Deus
Because shares tags: nonfiction, history.
After ruling the world, humans chase upgrades and delegate feeling to systems that know patterns.
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We Should All Be Feminists
Because shares tags: politics, nonfiction.
Adichie turns her 2012 TEDx talk into a short sharp essay on gender, using stories from Lagos and America to argue equality helps everyone.
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Because shares tags: nonfiction, history.
Washington rowers led by Joe Rantz chase gold in Hitler's Berlin in 1936.
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Because shares tags: history, nonfiction.
In 1920s Oklahoma, Osage oil wealth makes tribal members targets for murder, forcing the young FBI under Tom White to expose the conspiracy…
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Because shares tags: history, nonfiction.
Diamond argues geography and crops explain why some societies expanded faster than others.
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The Devil in the White City
Because shares tags: nonfiction, history.
Architect Burnham builds the 1893 Chicago Fair while H.H. Holmes builds his murder hotel nearby.
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Unbroken
Because shares tags: nonfiction, history.
Louis Zamperini survives a Pacific crash, sharks and POW camps after running in the Berlin Olympics.
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