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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism by Michael Parenti

Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Michael Parenti

5 hours, 29 minutes • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

ReVisioning American History

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

10 hours, 18 minutes • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Guerra Contra Todos los Puertorriqueños: Revolución y Terror en la Colonia Americana by Nelson A. Denis

Guerra Contra Todos los Puertorriqueños: Revolución y Terror en la Colonia Americana

Nelson A. Denis

448 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race dark sad slow-paced
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

Nikole Hannah-Jones

590 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction essays history poetry politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Y. Davis

158 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism politics race challenging informative reflective fast-paced
Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution by Ernesto Che Guevara, David Deutschmann

Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution

Ernesto Che Guevara, David Deutschmann

420 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction biography history philosophy politics challenging informative slow-paced
German Essays on Socialism in the Nineteenth Century: Marx, Engels, Bebel, and Others by Karl Marx

German Essays on Socialism in the Nineteenth Century: Marx, Engels, Bebel, and Others

German Library

Karl Marx

320 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative medium-paced
Burning The Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack by Richard Ovenden

Burning The Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack

Richard Ovenden

320 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

320 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki

A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America

Ronald Takaki

529 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective medium-paced