29 best-selling history books like Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky

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Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point

By: Steven Levitsky

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times…

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1. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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2. Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party

By: Jonathan Karl

4.28

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

An extraordinary view into the politics of our times, Tired of Winning explores how Donald Trump re… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
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  • government
  • audiobook
Cover of The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War by Jim Sciutto

3. The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

By: Jim Sciutto

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The essential new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, reporting from the… read more

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  • politics
  • political science
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

By: Liz Cheney

4.60

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers be… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • political science
  • audiobook
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6. 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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  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • government
  • audiobook
"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

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7. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • american history
  • history
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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. The Age of Grievance

By: Frank Bruni

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more

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  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
Cover of Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election by Michael Isikoff

9. Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election

By: Michael Isikoff

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From veteran award-winning investigative journalists Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman, the epic … read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • government
  • audiobook
Cover of Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America by Steve Inskeep

10. Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America

By: Steve Inskeep

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Writing history is a relay, which is also true of history itself. We build, if we can, on the legacies that are left us."

-Steve Inskeep, Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America

Cover of Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky

11. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point

By: Steven Levitsky

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • government
  • political science
  • economics
  • audiobook
Cover of The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle for a New American Politics by Joshua  Green

12. The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle for a New American Politics

By: Joshua Green

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Devil’s Bargain comes the revelatory inside sto… read more

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  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat

13. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat

4.23

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountabi… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
"Designed for instant impact and encouraging feelings of omnipotence, Twitter is the perfect tool for an impulsive, attention-addicted strongman."

-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

"Many strongmen, past and present, have used populist rhetoric that defines their nations as bound by faith, race, and ethnicity rather than by legal rights. For authoritarians, only some people are "…"

-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

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14. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

By: Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • economics
  • audiobook
Cover of One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy by Dominic Erdozain

15. 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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  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria

16. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
Cover of Blowback A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump by Miles Taylor

17. Blowback A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump

By: Miles Taylor

4.44

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

Donald Trump will be president again, whether he is on the ballot or not. That is because Trumpism … read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • government
  • audiobook
Cover of Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country by Adam Kinzinger

18. Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country

By: Adam Kinzinger

4.14

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Adam Kinzinger captures one of the most transformative periods in… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy by Stuart Stevens

19. The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy

By: Stuart Stevens

4.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“This is the first must-read of the 2024 election cycle if you want to understand the stakes.” –Nic… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • government
  • audiobook
Cover of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

20. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By: Jonathan Blitzer

4.49

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more

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  • american
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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America by Barbara McQuade

21. Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

By: Barbara McQuade

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practic… read more

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  • history
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  • political science
  • audiobook
Cover of Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart--Again by Robert Kagan

22. Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart--Again

By: Robert Kagan

4.48

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

A chilling and clear-eyed warning about the threats to our democracy posed by the increasing radica… read more

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  • american history
  • american
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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
Cover of Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream by David Leonhardt

23. Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream

By: David Leonhardt

4.28

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American D… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
Cover of Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy by Brian Stelter

24. Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy

By: Brian Stelter

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The  New York Times  bestselling author of  HOAX,  “[a] rare look inside the profoundly influential… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning by Peter J. Hotez

25. The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning

By: Peter J. Hotez

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr. Peter Hotez discusses how an anti-vaccine movement became a dangerous political campaign promot… read more

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  • politics
  • history
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Cover of Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy by Isaac Arnsdorf

26. Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy

By: Isaac Arnsdorf

3.92

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An explosive, behind-the-scenes look at how a radical group of activists — supported by former Pres… read more

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  • american
  • history
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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

27. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
Cover of Hit 'Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game by Rachel Bitecofer

28. Hit 'Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game

By: Rachel Bitecofer

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A radical, urgent plan for how the Democratic Party and its supporters can maintain power at one of… read more

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29. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

Cover of Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past by Steve Benen

30. Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past

By: Steve Benen

4.50

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

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  • american history
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  • audiobook
Cover of The Primary Solution: Rescuing Our Democracy from the Fringes by Nick Troiano

31. The Primary Solution: Rescuing Our Democracy from the Fringes

By: Nick Troiano

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a divided America, the biggest solvable problem fueling political extremism and dysfunction is h… read more

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  • politics
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27 best-selling audiobook books like Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky

Transform Your Habits

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party

Jonathan Karl

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

Liz Cheney

4.60

Transform Your Habits

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

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18 best-selling audiobook books like The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta

Transform Your Habits

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party

Jonathan Karl

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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