BEST HISTORY BOOKS | 5 Best-seller history books of 2020 | kindle edition
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Kindle Edition):-
>“A brilliant and stirring epic, the first book to cover the full half-century of the Great Migration . . . Wilkerson combines impressive research . . . with great narrative and literary power. Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath; she humanizes history, giving it emotional and psychological depth.”—John Stauffer,
>“[A] massive and masterly account of the Great Migration . . . a narrative epic rigorous enough to impress all but the crankiest of scholars, yet so immensely readable as to land the author a future place on Oprah’s couch.”—David Oshinsky,
>“[A] deeply affecting, finely crafted and heroic book . . . This is narrative nonfiction, lyrical and tragic, and fatalist. The story exposes; the story moves; the story ends. What Wilkerson urges, finally, isn’t an argument at all; it’s compassion. Hush, and listen.”—Jill Lepore,
>“Told in a voice that echoes the magic cadences of Toni Morrison or the folk wisdom of Zora Neale Hurston’s collected oral histories, Wilkerson’s book pulls not just the expanse of the migration into focus but its overall impact on politics, literature, music, sports—in the nation and the world.”—Lynell George,
>“[An] extraordinary and evocative work.”—
>“Mesmerizing.”—
>“Scholarly but very readable, this book, for all its rigor, is so absorbing, it should come with a caveat: Pick it up only when you can lose yourself entirely.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
>"[An] indelible and compulsively readable portrait of race, class, and politics in twentieth-century America. History is rarely distilled so finely.”—
>“Astonishing . . . Isabel Wilkerson delivers! . . . With the precision of a surgeon, Wilkerson illuminates the stories of bold, faceless African-Americans who transformed cities and industries with their hard work and determination to provide their children with better lives.”—
>“Profound, necessary, and an absolute delight to read.”—Toni Morrison
>“A sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America’s hidden twentieth-century history. This is an epic for all Americans who want to understand the making of our modern nation.”—Tom Brokaw
>“A seminal work of narrative nonfiction . . . You will never forget these people.”—Gay Talese
>“This book will be long remembered, and savored.”—Jon Meacham
>“A masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of great people. Don’t miss it!”—Cornel West
About the Author:
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- Print Length: 678 pages
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- Language: English
- ASIN: B003EY7JGM
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- #2 in African American History (Kindle Store)
- #2 in History of U.S. Immigration
- #2 in History of Race & Ethnicity
The Order (Gabriel Allon Series) Kindle Edition:-
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About the Author:-
Daniel Silva is the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Unlikely Spy, The Mark of the Assassin, The Marching Season, The Kill Artist, The English Assassin, The Confessor, A Death in Vienna, Prince of Fire, The Messenger, The Secret Servant, Moscow Rules, The Defector, The Rembrandt Affair, Portrait of a Spy, The Fallen Angel, The English Girl, The Heist, The English Spy, The Black Widow, House of Spies and The Other Woman. He is best known for his long-running thriller series starring spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon. Silva’s books are critically acclaimed bestsellers around the world and have been translated into more than 30 languages.
George Guidall is one of the foremost narrators in the audiobook industry, having recorded over 500 unabridged books ranging from classics to contemporary bestsellers. He is the recipient of the 1999 Audie Award presented by the Audio Publishers Association for the best narration of unabridged fiction.
- File Size: 4366 KB
- Print Length: 455 pages
- Publisher: Harper (July 14, 2020)
- Publication Date: July 14, 2020
- Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLC
- Language: English
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Word Wise: Enabled
- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #31 Paid in Kindle Store (Kindle Store)
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Kindle Edition:-
Official U.S. edition with full-color illustrations throughout.
New York Times
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores how biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.”
One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us?
Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book that begins about 70,000 years ago with the appearance of modern cognition. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires,
Dr. Harari also compels us to look ahead, because over the last few decades humans have begun to bend laws of natural selection that have governed life for the past four billion years. We are acquiring the ability to design not only the world around us but also ourselves. Where is this leading us, and what do we want to become?
Featuring 27 photographs, 6 maps, and 25 illustrations/diagrams, this provocative and insightful work is sure to spark debate and is essential reading for aficionados of Jared Diamond, James Gleick, Matt Ridley, Robert Wright, and Sharon Moalem.
BOOK REVIEW:-
“Sapiens is learned, thought-provoking and crisply written…. Fascinating.” (Wall Street Journal)
“In Sapiens, Harari delves deep into our history as a species to help us understand who we are and what made us this way. An engrossing read.” (Dan Ariely, New York Times Bestselling author of Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality, and The Honest Truth About Dishonesty)
“Yuval Noah Harari’s celebrated Sapiens does for human evolution what Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time did for physics.… He does a superb job of outlining our slow emergence and eventual domination of the planet.” (Forbes)
“[I]nteresting and provocative…It gives you a sense of perspective on how briefly we’ve been on this earth, how short things like agriculture and science have been around, and why it makes sense for us to not take them for granted.” (President Barack Obama)
“I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a fun, engaging look at early human history…you’ll have a hard time putting it down.” (Bill Gates)
“Thank God someone finally wrote [this] exact book.” (Sebastian Junger)
“Sapiens takes readers on a sweeping tour of the history of our species…. Harari’s formidable intellect sheds light on the biggest breakthroughs in the human story…important reading for serious-minded, self-reflective sapiens.” (Washington Post)
“It is one of the best accounts by Homo sapiens of the unlikely story of our violent, accomplished species.… It is one hell of a story. And it has seldom been told better…. Compulsively readable and impossibly learned.” (Michael Gerson, Washington Post)
About the Author:
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- Print Length: 399 pages
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- Language: English
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #65,974 Paid in Kindle Store (Kindle Store)
Alexander Hamilton Kindle Edition:-
BOOK REVIEW:-
"...[A] biography commensurate with Hamilton's character, as well as the full, complex context of his unflaggingly active life... This is a fine work that captures Hamilton's life with judiciousness and verve." —
"A splendid life of an enlightened reactionary and forgotten Founding Father. Literate and full of engaging historical asides. By far the best of the many lives of Hamilton now in print, and a model of the biographer’s art."—
"A robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all." —
"A brilliant historian has done it again! The thoroughness and integrity of Ron Chernow’s research shine forth on every page of his
"Alexander Hamilton was one of the most brilliant men of his brilliant time, and one of the most fascinating figures in all of American history. His rocketing life-story is utterly amazing. His importance to the founding of the new nation, and thus to the whole course of American history, can hardly be overstated. And so Ron Chernow's new Hamilton could not be more welcome. This is grand-scale biography at its best—thorough, insightful, consistently fair, and superbly written. It clears away more than a few shop-worn misconceptions about Hamilton, gives credit where credit is due and is both clear-eyed and understanding about its very human subject. Its numerous portraits of the complex, often conflicting cast of characters are deft and telling. The whole life and times are here in a genuinely great book." —
About the Author:
- File Size: 4834 KB
- Print Length: 860 pages
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- Language: English
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Word Wise: Enabled
- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #67,498 Paid in Kindle Store (Kindle Store)
- #431 in Historical Biographies (Kindle Store)
- #1044 in Biographies & Memoirs (Kindle Store)
- #1535 in Historical Biographies (Books)
A People's History of the United States Kindle Edition:-
A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools—with its emphasis on great men in high places—to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace.
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from—and in the words of—America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles—the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality—were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance.
BOOK REVIEW:-
“Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history, and his text is studded with telling quotations from labor leaders, war resisters and fugitive slaves. . . . [It] should be required reading.” (Eric Foner, New York Times Book Review)
"Howard Zinn's work literally changed the conscience of a generation. And the series of 'people's histories' derived from this great work has provided a new understanding of who we are and what we should aspire to be." (Noam Chomsky)
"A brilliant and moving history of the American people." (Library Journal)
"A brilliantly written story about the U.S. through the lives of those too often overlooked." (Time magazine)
About the Author:
- File Size: 1247 KB
- Print Length: 764 pages
- Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLC
- Language: English
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Word Wise: Enabled
- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #537,636 Paid in Kindle Store (Kindle Store)
- #366 in Colonial Period History of the U.S.
- #85 in LGBT Political Issues
- #262 in Abolition History of the U.S.
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