Books like A hundred little Hitlers by Elinor Langer

Hannah Arendt’s seminal study charts the rise of totalitarianism from 19th‑century anti‑Semitism and European colonialism to the emergence of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, examining propaganda, terror, and mass mobilization.

An unflinching look at the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, the case that ignited the modern civil‑rights movement, drawing on newly recovered court transcripts, FBI reports, and the only interview given by Carolyn Bryant.

A gripping true-crime account of the 1986 Howard Beach hate-murder in Queens, detailing the investigation, trial, and the relentless pursuit of justice by Special Prosecutor Charles J. Hynes.

The brutal and systematic "ethnic cleansing" of Chinese-Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest in the second half of the 19th century is a shocking and virtually unexplored chapter of American history. Driven Out unearths this forgotten episode in our nation's past. Drawing on years of groundbreaking research, Jean Pfaelzer reveals how, beginning in 1849, lawless citizens and duplicitous politicians purged dozens of communities of thousands of Chinese residents -- and how the victims bravely fought back. In town after town, as races and classes were pitted against one another in the raw and anarchic West, Chinese miners and merchants, lumberjacks and field workers, prostitutes and merchants' wives, were gathered up at gunpoint and marched out of their homes, sometimes thrown into railroad cars along the very tracks they had built. Here, in vivid detail, are unforgettable incidents such as the torching of the Chinatown in Antioch, California, after Chinese prostitutes were accused of giving seven white boys syphilis, and a series of lynchings in Los Angeles bizarrely provoked by a Chinese wedding. From the Port of Seattle to the mining towns in California's Siskiyou Mountains to "Nigger Alley" in Los Angeles, the first Chinese-Americans were hanged, purged, and banished. Chinatowns across the West were burned to the ground. - Jacket flap.

xx, 636 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm1640L Lexile

In Hate Crime, journalist Joyce King examines the 1998 James Byrd, Jr. murder in Jasper, Texas, exploring the killers’ motives, prison influence, and the impact on a black Texan woman.