21 must-read nonfiction books like Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next by Bradley Onishi

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Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next

By: Bradley Onishi

4.33

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

Watching the eerie footage of the January 6 insurrection, Bradley Onishi wondered: If I hadn't left…

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1. White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America

By: Anthea Butler

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelic… read more

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2. The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

By: Philip S. Gorski

4.19

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A bracing examination of a force that imperils American democracy Most Americans were shocked by t… read more

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"White Christian nationalism is a “deep story"

-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

"For white Americans who affirm Christian nationalist ideology, “true Americans"

-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

"Even as it’s become riskier for mainstream politicians to use negative dog whistles like “thug"

-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

"It’s not that Christian nationalists have a different understanding of American history; it’s that they often have an incorrect understanding."

-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

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3. 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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  • spirituality
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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4. 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
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. 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
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7. Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next

By: Bradley Onishi

4.33

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

Watching the eerie footage of the January 6 insurrection, Bradley Onishi wondered: If I hadn't left… read more

Similar categories in Bradley Onishi's Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next book and Bradley Onishi's Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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8. 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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9. American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump

By: Tim Alberta

4.17

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the makin… read more

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  • american history
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  • politics
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  • audiobook
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10. 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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  • sociology
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11. 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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  • american history
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  • audiobook
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12. The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism

By: Katherine Stewart

4.28

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Democracy in Chains and Dark Money, a revelatory investigation of the Religious Righ… read more

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  • christianity
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"Christian nationalism exploits and intensifies inequality, and dominionism is its logical endpoint and the actual engine of the so-called culture wars."

-Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism

"Are we a nation in which one brand of religion enjoys a place of privilege? Are we a nation of laws—except in cases where the law offends the feelings of those who subscribe to our preferred religion…"

-Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism

"This is not a book I could have imagined writing a dozen years ago. When an older couple from another town attempted to set up and lead a Bible club at my daughter's public elementary school in South…"

-Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism

Cover of They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms by Mike Hixenbaugh

13. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

By: Mike Hixenbaugh

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more

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14. American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

By: Andrew L. Whitehead

4.20

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

"Heartfelt, incisive, and worthy of thoughtful consideration."-- Library Journal Power. Fear. Viol… read more

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"Jesus calls us to be a light, not a wildfire."

-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

"When it comes down to democracy or power, white Christian nationalism will choose power every time."

-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

"Christian nationalism is not interested in a government for the people, by the people, but rather for a particular people, by a particular people."

-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

"Our ability to love, serve, and act as salt and light in our communities is not dependent on various symbols of Christianity dominating the civic landscape."

-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

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15. 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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16. 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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17. Kingdom of Rage: The Rise of Christian Extremism and the Path Back to Peace

By: Elizabeth Neumann

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The greatest ideologically motivated violent threat to American democracy is a Church that has lost… read more

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Cover of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It by Ari Berman

18. Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It

By: Ari Berman

4.37

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democ… read more

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Cover of Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics by Elle Reeve

19. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

By: Elle Reeve

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more

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20. 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 The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

21. 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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