This Summary Pack is a Feature Series of Real History and includes these New York Times non-fiction bestsellers: Alexander Hamilton, The New Jim Crow, Dead Wake, The Big Short, Sapiens

RON CHERNOW’S ALEXANDER HAMILTON is a voluminous book which chronicles the life and legacy of one of America’s Founding Fathers.

MICHELLE ALEXANDER’S THE NEW JIM CROW: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness aims to reach three main audiences with this book. The first consists of those who really care about racial injustice, although not yet realizing the magnitude of the mass incarceration crisis among minority races. The second one is comprised of people who notice a resemblance between the modern criminal justice system and the racism from decades ago, yet are not familiar with the information to back it up. And ultimately, the author hopes to communicate with the hundreds of thousands of people currently inside American prisons. She explains that her focus point is how discriminatory the U.S. penal system always was..

ERIK LARSON'S DEAD WAKE: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania is a 2015 New York Times bestseller. The book looks at the sinking of Lusitania during World War I and the events surrounding the sinking

MICHEAL LEWIS’ THE BIG SHORT: INSIDE THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE - The #1 New York Times bestseller - Now a Major Motion Picture from Paramount Pictures
From the author of The Blind Side and Moneyball, The Big Short tells the story of four outsiders in the world of high-finance who predict the credit and housing bubble collapse before anyone else.

YUVAL NOAH HARARI’S SAPIENS: A Brief History of Mankind. A New York Times Bestseller - From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.”

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