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The best American books
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John Steinbeck
East of Eden
4.4
12 min
Timothy Snyder
The Road to Unfreedom
4.4
11 min
Heather Cox Richardson
Democracy Awakening
4.4
12 min
David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest
4.3
16 min
Jon Meacham
The Soul of America
4.3
14 min
Ben Rhodes
The World as It Is
4.3
26 min
Chris Whipple
The Gatekeepers
4.3
14 min
Peter Zeihan
The Accidental Superpower
4.3
10 min
Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian
4.2
24 min
Ben Rhodes
After the Fall
4.2
18 min
Ben Reiter
Astroball
4.2
14 min
Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five
4.1
20 min
Howard Zinn
A People’s History of the United States
4.1
24 min
Bill Bryson
One Summer
4.1
10 min
William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily
4.1
15 min
Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America
4.1
15 min
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance
4.1
7 min
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Strangers in Their Own Land
4.1
16 min
Philip Rucker
A Very Stable Genius
4.1
19 min
Kurt Andersen
Fantasyland
4.1
11 min
Ben Shapiro
How To Destroy America in Three Easy Steps
4.1
9 min
Kurt Andersen
Evil Geniuses
4.2
12 min
Tim Alberta
American Carnage
4.2
12 min
Greg Grandin
The End of the Myth
4.3
15 min
Stuart Stevens
It Was All a Lie
4.1
16 min
Richard Wright
Native Son
4
6 min
Edgar Allen Poe
The Black Cat
4
12 min
Thomas E. Ricks
First Principles
4.1
11 min
Dan Pfeiffer
Un-Trumping America
4.2
15 min
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
3.9
11 min