Books like And the Band Played on
12 books with a reading profile close to And the Band Played on by Randy Shilts. Outward-looking and clear-cut; a moderate read.
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Siddhartha Mukherjee traces the evolution of oncology from ancient surgical records to contemporary genetic research.
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
history, analytical
Isabel Wilkerson chronicles the movement of six million Black Americans from the Jim Crow South to northern and western cities between 1915 and 1970.
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Isabel Wilkerson argues that the United States is governed by a rigid, unspoken hierarchy that functions like a caste system rather than just a collection of racial prejudices.
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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Kristin Kobes Du Mez traces the seventy-year evolution of American evangelicalism from a religious movement focused on internal piety into a political force defined by militant patriarchy.
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Lawrence Wright investigates the internal mechanics of the Church of Scientology, tracing its evolution from L.
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All the President’s Men
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
In 1972, a botched burglary at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex triggered an investigation by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, analytical
Richard Rothstein identifies the specific local, state, and federal policies that created and enforced residential segregation across the United States.
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
John M.
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The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, analytical
In 1959, the United States selected seven military test pilots to become the first astronauts for Project Mercury.
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She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
by Jodi Kantor
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, analytical
Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey detail their multi-year investigation into Harvey Weinstein’s history of sexual assault and the systemic protection of his behavior within the film industry.
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The Ghost Map
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, analytical
In 1854, a severe cholera outbreak decimated the Soho district of London, challenging the prevailing medical belief that diseases spread through foul air, known as miasma.
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