The Family Roe: An American Story
By: Joshua Prager
4.13
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
Despite her famous pseudonym, “Jane Roe,” no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947–2017), …
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1. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
2. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
By: Robert Samuels
4.52
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism… read more
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3. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
By: Stephen Vladeck
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed legal scholar’s “essential” (Linda Greenhouse) exp… read more
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"But in order after order, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration most of what it wanted without endorsing principles that the justices would be bound to apply to future presidents, so that t…"-Stephen Vladeck, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
4. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
By: Jonathan Rosen
4.07
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more
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"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
5. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
6. Sandy Hook
By: Elizabeth Williamson
4.29
Format: 482 pages, Hardcover
Based on hundreds of hours of research, interviews, and access to exclusive sources and materials, … read more
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7. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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8. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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9. American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
By: Gabrielle Glaser
4.34
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, th… read more
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10. Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
By: Andrea Elliott
4.72
Format: 602 pages, Hardcover
The riveting, unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, pov… read more
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".. they assume that intelligence is a pre-ordained trait, [...], their perceived destiny, which flows from another belief, that the poor are to blame for their condition. Poverty is the proof of defi…"-Andrea Elliott, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
11. The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having―or Being Denied―an Abortion
By: Diana Greene Foster
4.58
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“If you read only one book about democracy, The Turnaway Study should be it. Why? Because without t… read more
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12. Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
By: Jefferson R. Cowie
4.50
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A prize-winning historian chronicles a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppres… read more
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"His body "was the corporeal archive of his pugnacious soul. The bullet [from a duel] caused him 'violent pain' on a regular basis, with bouts of blood gurgling into his mouth as well as probable pois…"-Jefferson R. Cowie, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
13. The Family Roe: An American Story
By: Joshua Prager
4.13
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
Despite her famous pseudonym, “Jane Roe,” no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947–2017), … read more
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14. Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
By: Linda Villarosa
4.46
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • "A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and di… read more
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15. Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
By: Joan Biskupic
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Editor's Choice "Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the co… read more
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16. One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy
By: Dominic Erdozain
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did not intend the Second A… read more
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17. Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
By: Dahlia Lithwick
4.40
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Senior Editor and one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, tells the… read more
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"Being told you are believed without consequences being levied is neither justice nor power. And that is the real problem when women's pain is substituted for actual justice. Pain seems to have a sell…"-Dahlia Lithwick, Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
18. Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights
By: Samuel G. Freedman
4.29
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From one of the country's most distinguished journalists, a revisionist and riveting look at the Am… read more
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19. Rocky Mountain High: A Tale of Boom and Bust in the New Wild West
By: Finn Murphy
3.65
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The best-selling author of The Long Haul returns with the story of ditching his truck to seek his f… read more
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20. Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back From Extremism
By: Carla Power
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking look inside the controversial field of deradicalization, told through the stories … read more
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21. Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
By: Kate Masur
4.20
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beg… read more
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