18 must-read audiobook books like Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka

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Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better

By: Jennifer Pahlka

4.42

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“The book I wish every policymaker would read.” ― Ezra Klein, The New York Times A bold call to…

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1. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

By: Kara Swisher

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more

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  • history
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
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2. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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3. 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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  • 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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4. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
"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

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5. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

By: Henry Grabar

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
Cover of Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael   Lewis

6. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

By: Michael Lewis

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
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7. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

By: Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more

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  • technology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
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8. Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter

By: Zoë Schiffer

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“the bird is freed” – Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 27, 2022 When Elon Musk took over Twitter, … read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg

9. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

By: Bent Flyvbjerg

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more

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  • leadership
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Fei-Fei Li

10. The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

By: Fei-Fei Li

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at … read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • technology
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11. Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better

By: Jennifer Pahlka

4.42

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“The book I wish every policymaker would read.” ― Ezra Klein, The New York Times A bold call to… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Pahlka's Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better book and Jennifer Pahlka's Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better

  • audiobook
  • history
  • technology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • government
  • economics
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato

12. The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies

By: Mariana Mazzucato

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vital and timely investigation into the opaque and powerful consulting industry and what to do ab… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • government
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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13. How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

By: Deb Chachra

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdo… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • economics
  • technology
"We’re accustomed to thinking about making the transition away from fossil fuels to renewable sources as one that we are doing under duress, making a sacrifice to stave off disaster. But that’s not wh…"

-Deb Chachra, How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

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14. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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15. Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy

By: Craig Whitlock

4.39

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest publi… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"After a decade of U.S. wars and surging defense budgets, an expectation of special treatment had taken root in the Navy. Many officers felt they were owed something extra for enduring long deployment…"

-Craig Whitlock, Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy

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16. Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones)

By: Marianne Bellotti

4.16

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Kill It with Fire chronicles the challenges of dealing with aging computer systems, along with soun… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind by Melissa S. Kearney

17. The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind

By: Melissa S. Kearney

3.88

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

The surprising story of how declining marriage rates are driving many of the country’s biggest econ… read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team by Marina Nitze

18. Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team

By: Marina Nitze

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“A deeply empowering and practical book: for anyone, anywhere, who just wants to GET STUFF DONE.”--… read more

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  • leadership
  • nonfiction
  • government
  • business
  • audiobook
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19. A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide

By: Cyd Harrell

4.39

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

This friendly guide is for technology people who work, or want to work, in the public sector. In it… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • government
  • business
  • technology
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20. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

By: Nate Silver

3.84

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more

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  • audiobook
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
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21. Techlash: Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age?

By: Tom A. Wheeler

3.60

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Hailed by Publishers Weekly as "a potent primer on the need to rein in big tech" and Kirkus Reviews… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • technology

11 Top history books like Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka

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Kara Swisher

3.99

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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

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Stephen Vladeck

4.21

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Matthew Desmond

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Morgan Housel

4.19

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Zeke Faux

4.26

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Michael Lewis

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Gary Stevenson

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