Books like America by Edward Packard

A compelling overview of American history through the eyes and experiences of its women, workers, African Americans, Native Americans, immigrants, and the working poor.

A sprawling examination of ambition, love, and crime in early 20th‑century New York, revealing how a young man's rise is tainted by social class, ambition, and tragedy.

Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, she surveys an anti-rationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought." Disdain for logic and evidence defines a pervasive malaise fostered by the mass media, triumphalist religious fundamentalism, mediocre public education, a dearth of fair-minded public intellectuals on the right and the left, and, above all, a lazy and credulous public.Jacoby offers an unsparing indictment of the American addiction to infotainment--from television to the Web--and cites this toxic dependency as the major element distinguishing our current age of unreason from earlier outbreaks of American anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism. With reading on the decline and scientific and historical illiteracy on the rise, an increasingly ignorant public square is dominated by debased media-driven language and received opinion.At this critical political juncture, nothing could be more important than recognizing the "overarching crisis of memory and knowledge" described in this impassioned, tough-minded book, which challenges Americans to face the painful truth about what the flights from reason has cost us as individuals and as a nation.From the Hardcover edition.

A tense clash between family ties and alien control unfolds as a powerful Yeerk battles to prevent a young boy’s brother from leaving home.

A brave alien on a mission to Earth, facing challenges in a society vastly different from its own.

A young boy discovers a space ship in the middle of a deserted planet and embarks on a thrilling adventure to fix it.

A choose‑your‑own adventure where the kids’ choices guide them to a mysterious, glowing mountaintop dome that could be an alien structure from outer space.

Join an adventure on the moon where you and your friends face uncharted terrain, sudden quakes, and low oxygen as you explore moon colonies and plan daring expeditions.

Jerrold M. Packard’s *American Nightmare* traces the rise, life, and defeat of Jim Crow segregation, revealing how a nation built on equality enforced a decades‑long system of racial injustice.

Choose Your Own Adventure – Vampire Invaders invites readers to make choices that determine how authorities combat an extraterrestrial vampire invasion.

Embark on a choose‑your‑own adventure through the jungles of Teth, the deserts of Tatooine, and the enigmatic B'omarr Monastery, where a daring young Jedi‑or‑dark‑side traveler must face blasters and the infamous Asajj Ventress.