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Kedits Reads

Book recommendations from Keds Economist, aka labor economist Kathryn Edwards. 

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Polio: An American Story
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
Crazy Horse: A Life
Grant
The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
The Detroit School Busing Case: Milliken V. Bradley and the Controversy Over Desegregation
Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America
Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding... Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becomin
The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (Revised)
Myth and the Greatest Generation: A Social History of Americans in World War II
There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided (Updated with New Material)
The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having--Or Being Denied--An Abortion
1776
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer
A Life in Ragtime: A Biography of James Reese Europe
Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
From Here to Equality, Second Edition: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
Case for Black Reparations
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
All the President's Men
I Am Not a Tractor!: How Florida Farmworkers Took on the Fast Food Giants and Won
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot
Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us (Revised)
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, Authorized Edition: Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the
Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself
Janesville: An American Story
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy (Revised)
The Great Hangover
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
And the Band Played on: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (Anniversary)
The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Columbine
The Johnstown Flood
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins--Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, and the Minimum Wage
Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life
Yes Please
One Life
Forward: A Memoir
Girl in a Band: A Memoir
Just Kids: An Autobiography
My Beloved World
Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family
Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space
Madam Secretary: A Memoir
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA (Perennial)
Dust Tracks on a Road: A Memoir
Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work
Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women
Monopsony in Motion: Imperfect Competition in Labor Markets (Revised)
The Kerner Report: The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
The Great Crash 1929
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City
Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage
It's Not Like I'm Poor: How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare World
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty
America's Struggle Against Poverty in the Twentieth Century (Enlarged)
The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy
Poverty in America: A Handbook
Working and Poor: How Economic and Policy Changes Are Affecting Low-Wage Workers
Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History
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