Books That Changed the World

  • A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
  • Gideon's Trumpet by Anthony Lewis
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (can't resist!) by JK Rowling
  • LAZARUS AND THE HURRICANE: THE FREEING OF RUBIN "HURRICANE" CARTER by Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton
  • Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the Uss Indianapolis by Peter Nelson
  • Pictures at a Prosecution: Drawings and text from the Chicago Conspiracy Trial by Jules Feiffer
  • Roots by Alex Haley
  • The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey.  It's fiction, but it's about a man trying to clear the name of a historical figure, and all the research is for real.
  • The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, et al.
  • The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
  • The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair. It sparked the formation of the Food and Drug Administration
  • The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
  • The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro
  • Two Treatises of Government by John Locke
  • Unsafe At Any Speed by Ralph Nader
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