Books I've read recently
2020-12-15
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt
2020-10-24
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
Radley Balko
2020-09-27
One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger
Matthew Yglesias
2020-08-23
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
David von Drehle
2020-02-29
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
Conor Dougherty
urban-studies
2020-02-22
Slavery and American Economic Development
Gavin Wright
us-history
2019-08-06
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
Stephen Kinzer
2019-07-17
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
Gregory Clark
2019-07-07
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still
John McWhorter
2019-06-21
Crónica de una muerte anunciada
Gabriel García Márquez
2019-05-22
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Tony Judt
2019-04-03
Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America
John Charles Chasteen
2019-03-03
The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment
Julian E. Zelizer
2019-02-16
A History of Housing in New York City
Richard Plunz
urban-studies
2019-01-16
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1)
Cixin Liu
2019-01-05
The Search For Modern China
Jonathan D. Spence
2018-12-05
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
David M. Kennedy
us-history
2018-10-20
The Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago
Daniel Kay Hertz
urban-studies
2018-09-22
Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean
Peter Winn
2018-09-10
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
Thomas J. Sugrue
urban-studies
2018-09-04
Building the Skyline: The Birth and Growth of Manhattan's Skyscrapers
Jason M Barr
urban-studies
2018-08-19
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
Taylor Branch
us-history
2018-07-29
Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin, With a New Preface
Gray Brechin
2018-07-21
Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century
Ladale C Winling
urban-studies
2018-07-17
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960
Arnold R. Hirsch
2018-07-08
Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels in the United States
Paul Groth
2018-06-19
The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850 1896
Sven Beckert
us-history
2018-06-07
The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
Alan Brinkley
us-history
2018-05-31
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
us-history
2018-05-11
Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto: Negro New York 1890-1930
Gilbert Osofsky
2018-05-01
A Concise History of the Middle East
Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr.
2018-04-16
The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty First Century
André Sorensen
2018-03-22
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
Richard White
2018-02-19
The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles
William Fulton
2017-12-20
Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974
James T. Patterson
2017-12-03
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
Kenneth T. Jackson
2017-11-27
Africa: A Biography of the Continent
John Reader
2017-11-24
GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History
Diane Coyle
2017-11-11
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
Ramachandra Guha
2017-10-29
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
William Cronon
2017-10-22
The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York
Suleiman Osman
2017-10-15
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848
Daniel Walker Howe
2017-08-18
A History of Future Cities
Daniel Brook
2017-07-03
A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
Lizabeth Cohen
2017-06-29
The Lessons of History
Will Durant
2017-05-17
The Weight of the Yen
R. Taggart Murphy