18 books like The Audacity of Hope

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A memoir of S. S. Prentiss George Lewis Prentiss · 1855 · 594p · ≈ 19h · Challenging A biographical note on the Life Elizabeth Prentiss, the author's wife. Shares: Legislators, United States, Biography & Memoir

What I saw in America Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1922 · 111p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Like many writers and thinkers of his era, British author G. K. Chesterton toured the United States to get a clearer sense of the country's culture and zeitgeist. The collection What I Saw in America offers Chesterton's impressions of the U. S. in the early twentieth century. Part travelogue, part cultural critique, and part historical analysis, this unique volume is a must-read for Chesterton… Shares: American National characteristics, United States

Presidents for Kids Presidents For Kids · 2025 TIME For Kids presents a complete overview of our nation's chief executives from George Washington to the newly elected 45th president!Did you know that James Monroe was the first president to appear without a wig in public? Or that George W. Bush appointed the first African-American secretary of state? Presidents of the United States invites the reader inside the White House to discover… Shares: United States, Biography & Memoir

Character & opinion in the United States George Santayana · 1920 · 233p · ≈ 7h · Challenging This is an essay book. About the middle of the nineteenth century, in the quiet sunshine of provincial prosperity, New England had an Indian summer of the mind; and an agreeable reflective literature showed how brilliant that russet and yellow season could be. There were poets, historians, orators, preachers, most of whom had studied foreign literatures and had travelled; they demurely kept up… Shares: American National characteristics, United States, Philosophy

Blood and Gold Anne Rice · 1998 · ★ 3.9 · 602p · ≈ 20h · Moderate The latest mesmerising and exotic Vampire Chronicle from the mistress of the genre - a must for all readers of The Vampire Armand.Here is the gorgeous and sinister story of Marius, patrician by birth, scholar by choice, one of the oldest vampires of them all, which sweeps from his genesis in ancient Rome, in the time of the Emperor Augustus, to his meeting in the present day with a creature of… Shares: Political and social views, Politics and government

Official Congressional Directory United States · 1861 · 1234p · ≈ 41h · Demanding Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Shares: Legislators, United States, Biography & Memoir

Öteki renkler Orhan Pamuk · 1999 · ★ 4.0 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate In the three decades that Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has devoted himself to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving, and provocative essays and articles. He engages the work of Nabokov, Kundera, Rushdie, and Vargas Llosa, among others, and he discusses his own books and writing process. We also learn how he lives, as he recounts his successful struggle to quit… Shares: Political and social views, Biography & Memoir

Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge · 1929 · 262p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Today Americans of all backgrounds are on the hunt for a different politi­cal model. In fact, such a model awaits them, if only they turn their eyes to their own past . . . to America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge's masterful autobiography offers urgent lessons for our age of exploding debt, increasingly centralized power, and fierce partisan division. This expanded and… Shares: Politics and government, Biography & Memoir

Out of my later years Albert Einstein · 1950 · ★ 4.0 · 282p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Albert Einstein, among the greatest scientists of all time, was also a man of profound thought and deeply humane feelings. His collected essays offer a fascinating and moving look at one of the twentieth century's leading minds. Covering a fifteen year period from 1934 to 1950, the contents of this book have been drawn from Einstein's articles, addresses, letters and assorted papers. Through his… Shares: Political and social views, Philosophy, Biography & Memoir

Philosophy and living Olaf Stapledon · 1935 · ★ 3.4 This Excellent Collection brings together Stapledon's longer, major books and a fine selection of shorter pieces and Science-Fiction Books. This Books created and collected in Olaf Stapledon's Most important Works illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of the XX century - a man who elevated political writing to an art. William Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) is one of the… Shares: Philosophy

The Bush Agenda Antonia Juhasz · 2006 · ★ 4.0 · 393p · ≈ 13h · Moderate In The Bush Agenda, Antonia Juhasz exposes a radical corporate globalization agenda that has been refined by leading members and allies of the Bush administration over decades and reached its fullest, most aggressive implementation under George W. Bush—and Bush Agenda adherents plan for it to outlast him. Juhasz uncovers the history and key role of U.S. corporations in the creation of this… Shares: American National characteristics, United States

Joyce Studies 2004 National Library Of Ireland · 2005 · 21p · ≈ 42m · Moderate Shares: Political and social views, Philosophy

The Collectors David Baldacci · 2006 · ★ 4.1 · 494p · ≈ 16h · Moderate In Washington, D.C, where power is everything and too few have too much of it, four highly eccentric men with mysterious pasts call themselves the Camel Club. Their mission: find out what's really going on behind the closed doors of America's leaders. The assassination of the U.S. Speaker of the House has shaken the nation. And the outrageous iconoclasts of the Camel Club have found a chilling… Shares: Legislators, United States

De la démocratie en Amérique Alexis de Tocqueville · 1835 · ★ 4.1 · 349p · ≈ 11h · Challenging A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist. In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months and cover 7,000 miles. The result was Democracy in America, a subtle and prescient analysis of… Shares: Politics and government, United States

Autobiography and Black identity politics Kenneth Mostern · 1999 · 287p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "Why has autobiography been central to African-American political speech throughout the twentieth century? What is it about the racialization process that persistently places African-Americans in the position of speaking from personal experience? In Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America Kenneth Mostern illustrates the relationship between narrative… Shares: Politics and government, United States, Biography & Memoir

Eine Jugend in Deutschland Ernst Toller · 1933 · ★ 5.0 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Eine Jugend in Deutschland ist eine Autobiographie von Ernst Toller, die 1933 erschien. Der Autor erinnert sich seines Lebens bis zum Jahr 1924. (Quelle: Wikipedia) Shares: Politics and government, Biography & Memoir

Mémoires d'outre-tombe François-René de Chateaubriand · 1840 · ★ 3.9 · 264p · ≈ 8h · Challenging 253 p. : 17 cm Shares: Political and social views, Biography & Memoir

The autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt · 1913 · 606p · ≈ 20h · Challenging The autobiography of president Theodore Roosevelt. Shares: Politics and government, United States, Biography & Memoir

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