For reference I recently read Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe. Currently one of my favorite books of all time. Are there any other books like it that follows a story within a much bigger story within US History specifically? Haven’t read a good U.S. history book in awhile but I’m open to any suggestions
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I really liked *The Devil in the White City*. Not a massive historic moment in US history, but definitely an interesting one.
I am about halfway through the wager by David Grann. It is absolutely blowing my mind.
*The Jakarta method* by Vincent Bevins
American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild
The Indifferent Stars Above, by Daniel James Brown is an incredible retelling of the Donner Party. Paints such a beautiful (yet harrowing) picture of life for American pioneers.
*The Looming Tower* by Lawrence Wright follows both Osama bin Laden as he founds Al-Qaeda and plans 9/11, and John O’Neill, the FBI agent who was trying to catch him.
*The Valachi Papers* by Peter Maas is about the life and times of Joe Valachi, the first ever made man in the American Mafia to turn government witness. Most of it takes place within the Castellammarese War and the forming of the Commission.
Girt by David Hunt – History of early Australia with hilarious footnotes. Audiobook narrated by the author is extra fun
*The Making of the Atomic Bomb*, by Rhodes. Science, drama, human interaction and history. Reads like a novel.
Hellhound On His Trail by Hampton Sides. It’s about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, and the manhunt for James Earl Ray. The whole thing is pretty crazy story.
The Gales of November by John U Bacon.
Story of a shipwreck in the Great Lakes.
One of the big topics is about how the ships of the Great Lakes are responsible for shipping almost all the steel and raw material that built the country. The shipwreck was a scar on many midwesterners across many generations.