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Books like The Essential Dick Gregory

If you loved The Essential Dick Gregory by Dick Gregory, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Speeches, Vietnam War, Fatherhood, and Social Activists.

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Top related books to The Essential Dick Gregory

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of The Essential Dick Gregory.

For the Sender Love Letters from Vietnam

Alex Woodard

Themes: Vietnam War • Fatherhood • Letters

Think Black A Memoir

Clyde W. Ford

Themes: Fatherhood • Social History • Parenting

When Daddy Came Home How War Changed Family Life Forever

Barry Turner

Themes: Fatherhood • Social History • Parenting

The Hardest Part A Centenary Critical Edition — G a Studdert Kennedy

G. A. Studdert-Kennedy

Themes: Letters • Literary Figures • Social History

The Best American Travel Writing 2021

Padma Lakshmi

Themes: Speeches • Letters • Social History

Scratched A Memoir of Perfectionism

Elizabeth Tallent

Themes: Literary Figures • Parenting • Essays

Between Father and Son Family Letters

V. S. Naipaul

Themes: Fatherhood • Letters • Literary Figures

Collected Nonfiction

Mark Twain

Themes: Speeches • Letters • Literary Figures

Lit A Memoir

Mary Karr

Themes: Literary Figures • Parenting • Essays

#10

The Movement Made Us A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride

David J. Dennis Jr.

Themes: Social Activists • Social History • African American & Black

#11

Coming Clean A Memoir

Kimberly Rae Miller

Themes: Fatherhood • Literary Figures • Parenting

#12

The Matter of Black Lives Writing from the New Yorker

Jelani Cobb

Themes: Social Activists • Social History • African American & Black

#13

White Girls

Hilton Als

Themes: Literary Figures • Social History • African American & Black

#14

Lord Chesterfield’s Letters to His Son and Godson Selected (1897)

Philip Dormer Stanhope

Themes: Fatherhood • Letters • Parenting

#15

Dear Senator A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond

Essie Mae Washington-Williams

Themes: Fatherhood • Parenting • African American & Black

#16

Dear America Letters Home From Vietnam

Bernard Edelman

Themes: Vietnam War • Letters • Social History

#17

Belonging A Daughter’s Search for Identity Through Loss and Love

Michelle Miller

Themes: Social History • Parenting • African American & Black

#18

Letters to Lawrence Durrell 1937-1977 — Anais Nin

Anaïs Nin

Themes: Fatherhood • Letters • Parenting

#19

Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow The Tragic Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore : a History of Love and Violence Among the African American Elite

Eleanor Alexander

Themes: Literary Figures • African American & Black • Essays

#20

Faith of My Fathers

John McCain

Themes: Vietnam War • Fatherhood • Parenting

#21

Where the Children Take Us How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable

Zain Ejiofor Asher

Themes: Social History • Parenting • African American & Black

#22

Falling Through the Earth A Memoir

Danielle Trussoni

Themes: Vietnam War • Fatherhood • Parenting

#23

Both Flesh and Not Essays

David Foster Wallace

Themes: Letters • Literary Figures • Social History

#24

Father and Son: a Memoir about Family, the Past and Mortality

Jonathan Raban

Themes: Fatherhood • Literary Figures • Parenting

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for The Essential Dick Gregory by Dick Gregory — spanning Speeches, Vietnam War, Fatherhood and featuring authors such as Alex Woodard, Clyde W. Ford, Barry Turner, G. A. Studdert-Kennedy, and others.