7 must-read political science books like The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court by Sheldon Whitehouse

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The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court

By: Sheldon Whitehouse

4.48

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“A damning investigation of dark money by a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee” ( Kirk…

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Cover of Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer

1. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

By: Jane Mayer

4.16

Format: 76 pages, ebook

Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
Cover of Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow

2. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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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

Cover of Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party by Jonathan Karl

3. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • government
  • audiobook
Cover of Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning by Liz Cheney

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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of I Swear: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan by Katie  Porter

5. I Swear: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan

By: Katie Porter

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An honest, inspiring, and laugh-out-loud funny memoir about re-energizing our politics and standing… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
Cover of The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic by Stephen Vladeck

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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  • law
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  • government
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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

Cover of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta

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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America by Will Sommer

8. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers by Frank Figliuzzi

9. Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

By: Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal

10. Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution

By: Elie Mystal

4.59

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

According to commentator and lawyer Elie Mystal, Republicans are wrong when they tell you the First… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
Cover of The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis by George  Stephanopoulos

11. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

By: George Stephanopoulos

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more

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  • politics
  • history
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  • audiobook
Cover of Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky

12. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • government
  • political science
  • economics
  • audiobook
Cover of The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court by Sheldon Whitehouse

13. The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court

By: Sheldon Whitehouse

4.48

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“A damning investigation of dark money by a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee” ( Kirk… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • united states
  • nonfiction
  • government
  • political science
  • economics
  • audiobook
Cover of Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World by Jen Psaki

14. Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

By: Jen Psaki

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons s… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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"There was also a large crew of people who tried to nickname the previously mentioned Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework "BIF". If you would like your audience to start making fun of a big, serious, …"

-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

"I've spent time with a lot of very busy people - business leaders, prominent journalists, and multiple presidents. Despite the unusually high demands on their schedules, something they all have in co…"

-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

Cover of Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences by Joan Biskupic

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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  • history
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  • law
  • nonfiction
  • government
  • political science
  • audiobook
Cover of Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right by Matthew Dallek

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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  • history
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  • nonfiction
  • government
  • economics
  • audiobook
Cover of American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress by Wesley Lowery

17. American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress

By: Wesley Lowery

4.18

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

“American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” — Ibram X. Kendi, author of  How to Be an Ant… read more

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  • politics
  • history
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  • audiobook
Cover of Holding the Line: Inside the Nation's Preeminent US Attorney's Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department by Geoffrey Berman

18. Holding the Line: Inside the Nation's Preeminent US Attorney's Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department

By: Geoffrey Berman

4.24

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

"Throughout my tenure as US attorney, Trump's Justice Department kept demanding that I use my offic… read more

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  • law
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  • audiobook
Cover of Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America by Dahlia Lithwick

19. 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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  • politics
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  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation by Andrew Weissmann

20. Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation

By: Andrew Weissmann

4.39

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In the first and only inside account of the Mueller investigation, one … read more

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  • audiobook
"I wanna be sure you know that, at any juncture, if you think I am a distraction to the work of the office or unnecessary baggage, I do not want to be here. I’d want to go. I’d want to do what is nece…"

-Andrew Weissmann, Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation

"The power to pardon is conferred upon the presidency. It is not a personal power of the man or woman who inhabits the office. ... Where a pardon is being used to protect the president personally, or …"

-Andrew Weissmann, Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation

Cover of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

21. 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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  • history
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  • audiobook
Cover of Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America by Barbara McQuade

22. 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
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
Cover of The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America by Michael Waldman

23. The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America

By: Michael Waldman

4.30

Format: 400 pages, ebook

An incisive analysis of how the Supreme Court’s new conservative supermajority is overturning decad… read more

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  • history
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  • law
  • nonfiction
  • government
  • audiobook
Cover of The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story by Kermit Roosevelt III

24. The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story

By: Kermit Roosevelt III

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Our idea of the Founders' America and its values is not true. We are not the heirs of the Founders,… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • law
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  • audiobook
Cover of Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism by Stephen Breyer

25. Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism

By: Stephen Breyer

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A provocative, brilliant analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that dec… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • government
  • audiobook
Cover of On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci

26. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci

4.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote by Eric  Holder

27. Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote

By: Eric Holder

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A brutal, bloody, and at times hopeful history of the vote; a primer on the opponents fighting to t… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum

28. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • government
  • political science
  • audiobook
"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 All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way by Fred C. Trump

29. All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way

By: Fred C. Trump

4.07

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, bre… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House by Nancy Pelosi

30. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House

By: Nancy Pelosi

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past by Steve Benen

31. 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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31 must-read audiobook books like The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court by Sheldon Whitehouse

Transform Your Habits

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Jane Mayer

4.16

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

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Transform Your Habits

Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories

Mike Rothschild

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat

Derek Beres

4.10

Transform Your Habits

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

Tim Alberta

4.45

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