They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
By: Sarah Kendzior
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE “Every sentence delivered. The pathos of truth-see…
Want to Read $ 11.99"The word “conspire"-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
"The desire to forget is as overwhelming as the obligation not to."-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
"History was a feedback loop of unlearned lessons and reverberating lies."-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
"There is no such thing as paranoia; your worst fears can come true at any moment,"-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
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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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"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
2. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
By: Yascha Mounk
4.08
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more
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3. Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories
By: Mike Rothschild
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
With the current rise of antisemitism, this important book looks at how one Jewish family —the Roth… read more
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4. The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
By: Steven W. Thrasher
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful an… read more
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5. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
6. Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat
By: Derek Beres
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Conspirituality takes a deep dive into the troubling phenomenon of influencers who have curdled New… read more
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7. 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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8. Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable
By: Joanna Schwartz
4.47
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An urgent and definitive examination of how the legal system prevents accountability for police mis… read more
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9. 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
10. Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away With It
By: Elie Honig
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of America’s two-tier justice system, explaining how the rich, the famous, and the p… read more
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11. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America
By: Will Sommer
4.09
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
The definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, ho… read more
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12. 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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13. They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
By: Sarah Kendzior
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE “Every sentence delivered. The pathos of truth-see… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- crime
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- audiobook
"The word “conspire"-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
"The desire to forget is as overwhelming as the obligation not to."-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
"History was a feedback loop of unlearned lessons and reverberating lies."-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
"There is no such thing as paranoia; your worst fears can come true at any moment,"-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
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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15. The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
By: Jeff Sharlet
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An unmatched guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, Jeff Sharlet journeys into cor… read more
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16. Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
By: Matthew Dallek
3.97
Format: None pages, Audiobook
How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism At… read more
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17. They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency
By: Malcolm W. Nance
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, LOS ANGELES TIMES, USA TODAY AND GREAT LAKES INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLER ASSOCIATI… read more
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18. Limitarianism
By: Ingrid Robeyns
3.99
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
‘The best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth’ Richard Wilkinso… read more
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19. The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
By: Anand Giridharadas
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change mi… read more
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"We were being explicitly taught: Don’t think that you are first to anything, pay attention to what preceded you, trust that you are standing on someone else’s ground until proven otherwise."-Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
"All this is new to white people, because white people generally think they can just do what they want. There’s no consulting, there’s no talking to people of color about what they think. So we were p…"-Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
20. Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
By: Gretchen Sisson
4.38
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mot… read more
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21. American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy
By: David Corn
4.33
Format: 18 pages, Audiobook
#1 New York Times bestselling author and investigative reporter David Corn tells the wild and harro… read more
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"We can have an American president who does not govern with negativism and fear of the future."-David Corn, American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy
22. The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party
By: Dana Milbank
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A scalding history of twenty-five years of Republican attempts to hold… read more
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23. The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care
By: Rina Raphael
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Journalist Rina Raphael looks at the explosion of the wellness how it stems from legitimate compla… read more
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24. Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind
By: Robert Draper
4.12
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2022 The disturbing eyewitness account of how a new … read more
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25. We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered in a New Era of American Extremism
By: Andy Campbell
3.83
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A gripping investigation into the nation’s most notorious far-right group, revealing how they creat… read more
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26. Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity
By: Donald Yacovone
4.09
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s … read more
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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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28. The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism
By: R. Derek Black
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the former heir-apparent to white nationalism, The Klansman’s Son is an astonishing memoir of … read more
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29. On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America
By: Abrahm Lustgarten
4.11
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Humanity is on the precipice of a great climate migration, and Americans will not be spared. Tens o… read more
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30. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
By: Jesselyn Cook
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more
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31. The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis
By: Jared Yates Sexton
4.04
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the author of American Rule and the host of The Muckrake Podcast , an ambitious account of how… read more
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"Media members and politicians were largely affluent and privileged and out of touch with what was happening on the ground in other parts of the country."-Jared Yates Sexton, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis
