9 must-read political science books like Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine K. Albright

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Fascism: A Warning

By: Madeleine K. Albright

4.25

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes tod…

"...to be defenseless did not mean to be without honor."

-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

"Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)"

-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

"Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was “bully,"

-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

"A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields."

-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

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1. Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq

By: Bob Woodward , None

3.70

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • government

2. Bush at War

By: Bob Woodward

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Award-winning author and journalist Bob Woodward turns his attention to the presidency of George W.… read more

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3. The Conscience of a Liberal

By: Paul Krugman

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With this major new volume, Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, studies the past eigh… read more

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4. What Happened

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

4.50

Format: 191 pages,

"In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I w… read more

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5. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

By: Timothy Snyder

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more

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6. 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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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • war
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  • 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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7. 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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  • history
  • memoir
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

By: Jason F. Stanley

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Fascist politics are running rampant in America today—and spreading around the world. A Yale philos… read more

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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
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"Fascist politics does not necessarily lead to an explicitly fascist state, but it is dangerous nonetheless. Fascist politics includes many distinct strategies: the mythic past, propaganda, anti-intel…"

-Jason F. Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

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9. The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

By: Jon Meacham

4.26

Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politi… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
"The opposite of fear is hope, defined as the expectation of good fortune not only for ourselves but for a group to which we belong. Fear feeds anxiety and produces anger; hope, particularly in a poli…"

-Jon Meacham, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

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10. The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony

By: Lou Marinoff

4.26

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

The description tells potential customers about your title. A good example of an appropriate book s… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"For the first time in human history, a significant percentage of heterosexual males are unable to become sexually aroused by women and need drugs or vacuum pumps to help them do nature’s work. Why?"

-Lou Marinoff, The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony

"By uniting your mind with nature, you will experience the inner transformation that renders your thoughts radiant and your heart benevolent, surrounding you with an aura of purest golden light. When …"

-Lou Marinoff, The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony

"From nuclear families to communities of nations, others without whom we cannot live get on our nerves at times, becoming sources of everything from mild irritation to deadly conflict. Balancing the t…"

-Lou Marinoff, The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony

"Every civilization rests on these four pillars: marriage, family, society, and polity. If all four remain solid, then most people will know happiness and their civilization will flourish. But if any …"

-Lou Marinoff, The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony

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11. 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
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12. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

By: Steven Levitsky

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is ou… read more

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  • history
  • politics
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  • nonfiction
  • government
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  • audiobook
"Authoritarian politicians cast their rivals as criminal, subversive, unpatriotic, or a threat to national security or the existing way of life."

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes."

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"Institutions become political weapons, wielded forcefully by those who control them against those who do not. This is how elected autocrats subvert democracy—packing and “weaponizing"

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"But when faced with a would-be authoritarian, establishment politicians must unambiguously reject him or her and do everything possible to defend democratic institutions—even if that means temporaril…"

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

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13. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

By: Anne Applebaum

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
"Unity is an anomaly. Polarization is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal."

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will."

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Olga Tokarczuk, 2019: We horen niet langer de harmonie van de wereld, maar de kakofonie van geluiden, een ondraaglijke ruis waarin we wanhoping een een rustiger melodie proberen te ontdekken, al is h…"

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state: at times when people fear death, they go along with measures that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will save them—ev…"

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

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14. Fascism: A Warning

By: Madeleine K. Albright

4.25

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes tod… read more

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  • memoir
  • historical
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  • nonfiction
  • government
  • political science
  • audiobook
"...to be defenseless did not mean to be without honor."

-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

"Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)"

-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

"Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was “bully,"

-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

"A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields."

-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

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15. 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
  • historical
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"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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16. Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump

By: Michael Isikoff

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The incredible, harrowing account of how American democracy was hacked by Moscow as part of a cover… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
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17. 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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  • politics
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18. Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

By: Jamie Raskin

4.51

Format: 428 pages, Hardcover

In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the star… read more

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"If a person can grow through unthinkable trauma and loss, perhaps a nation may, too."

-Jamie Raskin, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

"Memory requires active engagement with the complexities of the past. It is not an unthinking or passive process, like breathing or (for most people) sleeping. I have found that good memory, like good…"

-Jamie Raskin, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

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19. 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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20. Democracy in One Book or Less: How It Works, Why It Doesn’t, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think

By: David Litt

4.23

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bill Bryson meets Thomas Frank in the true story of how power-hungry politicians broke American dem… read more

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"Voting is a fundamental right."

-David Litt, Democracy in One Book or Less: How It Works, Why It Doesn’t, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think

"If the [Supreme] Court's job is to interpret the Constitution, then by definition, it must be open to interpretation."

-David Litt, Democracy in One Book or Less: How It Works, Why It Doesn’t, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think

"Fixing our democracy is the equivalent of repairing a crack in your home's foundation. It's expensive and time consuming. It doesn't boost your curb appeal. But it's the only way to make every other …"

-David Litt, Democracy in One Book or Less: How It Works, Why It Doesn’t, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think

"Allow more people to vote, and more people who support voting rights will get elected. The more successfully we defend our republic, the easier our republic becomes to defend. There are ideas that be…"

-David Litt, Democracy in One Book or Less: How It Works, Why It Doesn’t, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think

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21. 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.

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4.17

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