Books like A Promised Land
A Promised Land by Barack Obama reads as immersive, analytical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2015
Shares the justice thread
83% genome match
Eisenhower
Stephen E. Ambrose · 1987
Shares the power thread
74% genome match
Woodrow Wilson
August Heckscher · 1991
Shares the power thread
74% genome match
FDR
Jean Edward Smith · 2007
Shares the power thread
71% genome match
Grant
Ron Chernow · 2017
Shares the power thread
70% genome match
The triumph & tragedy of Lyndon Johnson
Joseph A. Califano · 1991
Shares the power thread
74% genome match
The price of the ticket
James Baldwin · 1985
Shares the justice thread
69% genome match
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson · 2014
Shares the justice thread
83% genome match
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander · 2010
Shares the justice thread
69% genome match
March: Book Two
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin
Shares the justice thread
69% genome match
John Adams
David McCullough · 2001
Shares the power thread
69% genome match
The Color of Law
Richard Rothstein · 2017
Shares the justice thread
69% genome match
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