Jan's votes on the list Thoughts on American Culture

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1	Leadership: In Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin 4.40 avg rating — 16,259 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Liberation Summer: The Moment That Changed the Women's Movement and the Future of American Politics by Micki McElya 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Duke Ellington's America by Harvey G. Cohen 4.09 avg rating — 56 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street by Victor Luckerson 4.33 avg rating — 857 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Get Out of My Crotch: Twenty-One Writers Respond to America's War on Women's Rights and Reproductive Health by Kim Wyatt (Editor) 4.47 avg rating — 30 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 1,699 ratings Jan added it to currently-reading See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan (Goodreads Author) 4.35 avg rating — 52,312 ratings Jan rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement by Sharon McMahon 4.36 avg rating — 43,168 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Exploring American Girlhood through 50 Historic Treasures by Ashley E. Remer 3.71 avg rating — 31 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 1,613 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Loneliest Americans by Jay Caspian Kang (Goodreads Author) 3.71 avg rating — 2,481 ratings Jan rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation ― Journalist Cokie Roberts' NYT Bestselling American History Book About Female Patriots by Cokie Roberts 3.65 avg rating — 9,317 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Unpopular Ones: Fifteen American Men and Women Who Stood Up for What They Believed In by Jules Archer 2.82 avg rating — 11 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy A. Taylor (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 2,278 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America (For Young People Series) by Ronald Takaki 4.29 avg rating — 753 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America by Jonathan Gould (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 2,064 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 812 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I by Lynn Dumenil 3.79 avg rating — 38 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America by Wil Haygood really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,273 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby 4.33 avg rating — 1,690 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Mid-life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude by Dave Marsh (Editor) 3.58 avg rating — 107 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong 4.18 avg rating — 44,822 ratings Jan rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt by Jill Watts (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 338 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 by Adam Hochschild 4.21 avg rating — 3,825 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck 4.08 avg rating — 111,257 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Suffragists in Washington, DC: The 1913 Parade and the Fight for the Vote by Rebecca Boggs Roberts 4.28 avg rating — 50 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	13 Soldiers: A Personal History of Americans at War by John McCain 3.60 avg rating — 300 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America by Jared Cohen (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 3,448 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost by Frye Gaillard 4.41 avg rating — 124 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King 4.40 avg rating — 16,594 ratings Jan rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Sting Like a Bee: Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971 by Leigh Montville 3.77 avg rating — 192 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism by H.J. de Blij 3.72 avg rating — 403 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited by Jean H. Baker (Editor) 3.77 avg rating — 47 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt 4.23 avg rating — 13,322 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	African American Women and the Vote, 1837–1965 by Cynthia Neverdon-Morton 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention by Judith Wellman 3.91 avg rating — 58 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America by Carol Faulkner 4.05 avg rating — 63 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells by Ida B. Wells-Barnett 4.32 avg rating — 881 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans by Eve LaPlante (Goodreads Author) 3.60 avg rating — 1,788 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom by Helen Thorpe (Goodreads Author) 4.26 avg rating — 3,233 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner 4.18 avg rating — 6,650 ratings Jan rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Miss America By Day: Lessons Learned From Ultimate Betrayals And Unconditional Love by Marilyn Van Derbur 4.37 avg rating — 463 ratings Jan rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War by Thomas G. Andrews 3.93 avg rating — 678 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson 4.10 avg rating — 2,118 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Blues People: The Negro Experience In White America And The Music That Developed From It by LeRoi Jones 4.16 avg rating — 2,473 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History, revised edition by Staughton Lynd (editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham (Author, Narrator) 4.26 avg rating — 16,572 ratings Jan rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird (Goodreads Author) 4.30 avg rating — 61,893 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists by Jean H. Baker 3.80 avg rating — 377 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 31,196 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	The Death of an Heir: Adolph Coors III and the Murder That Rocked an American Brewing Dynasty by Philip Jett (Goodreads Author) 3.73 avg rating — 473 ratings Jan rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	How Lincoln Learned to Read: Twelve Great Americans and the Educations That Made Them by Daniel Wolff (Goodreads Author) 3.54 avg rating — 304 ratings Jan rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul by Clara Bingham 4.34 avg rating — 428 ratings Jan rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	The Chinese in America: A Narrative History by Iris Chang 4.31 avg rating — 1,305 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (Goodreads Author) 4.48 avg rating — 121,161 ratings Jan rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Because They Marched: The People's Campaign for Voting Rights that Changed America by Russell Freedman 4.23 avg rating — 340 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past by Karin Evans 4.01 avg rating — 2,468 ratings Jan rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America by Mamie Till-Mobley 4.44 avg rating — 1,291 ratings Jan rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	American Dreams: Lost and Found by Studs Terkel 4.15 avg rating — 397 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (Vintage Departures) by Tony Horwitz 4.10 avg rating — 25,856 ratings Jan rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon by Bronwen Dickey (Goodreads Author) 4.37 avg rating — 2,104 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry 3.96 avg rating — 8,127 ratings Jan added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	The Promise of a Nation: Commemorating 250 Years of Patriotism, Resilience, and Aspirations from the National Collection by Smithsonian Institution 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi 4.05 avg rating — 9,422 ratings Jan rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	The Greatest of All Time: A History of an American Obsession by Zev Eleff 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	The Study of American Folklore: An Introduction by Jan Harold Brunvand 3.63 avg rating — 129 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of "The Star-Spangled Banner" by Mark Clague 3.90 avg rating — 150 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars