18 must-read nonfiction books like The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future by Stephen Marche

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The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future

By: Stephen Marche

3.66

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

The United States is coming to an end. The only question is how. “Should be required reading for a…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future by Stephen Marche , here is a list of 18 books like this:

1. North of Boston

By: Elisabeth Elo

4.47

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Year's Best Crime Novels: 2014, Booklist Dennis Lehane meets Smilla's Sense of Snow: a big discover… read more

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2. How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

By: Barbara F. Walter

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and ho… read more

Similar categories in Barbara F. Walter's How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them book and Stephen Marche's The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future

  • social science
  • history
  • politics
  • civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
"For a society to fracture along identity lines, you need mouthpieces - people who are willing to make discriminatory appeals and pursue discriminatory policies in the name of a particular group. They…"

-Barbara F. Walter, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

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3. The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

By: Jim Sciutto

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The essential new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, reporting from the… read more

Similar categories in Jim Sciutto's The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War book and Stephen Marche's The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future

  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • political science
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4. 2054

By: Elliot Ackerman

3.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive wo… read more

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  • politics
  • audiobook
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5. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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6. Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy

By: David Frum

3.96

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Trumpocracy poses the essential question facing America to… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We want things to return to normal, back to a world in which we do not have to waste time rebutting demented conspiracy theories and fact-checking farcical lies every single day. We want a government…"

-David Frum, Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy

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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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

By: Jeff Goodell

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet book and Stephen Marche's The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. 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
  • 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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10. 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

Similar categories in Steven Levitsky's Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point book and Stephen Marche's The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future

  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
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11. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

By: Kathleen Belew

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"Belew's book helps explain how we got to today's alt right."―Terry Gross, Fresh Air The white p… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Belew's Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America book and Stephen Marche's The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The story of white power as a social movement exposes something broader about the enduring impact of state violence in America. It reveals one catastrophic ricochet of the Vietnam War, in the form of…"

-Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

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12. 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

Similar categories in Ruth Ben-Ghiat's Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present book and Stephen Marche's The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
"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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13. 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

Similar categories in Thomas F. Schaller's White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy book and Stephen Marche's The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future

By: Stephen Marche

3.66

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

The United States is coming to an end. The only question is how. “Should be required reading for a… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Marche's The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future book and Stephen Marche's The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future

  • social science
  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
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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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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West by David E. Sanger

16. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

By: David E. Sanger

4.37

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more

Similar categories in David E. Sanger's New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West book and Stephen Marche's The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future

  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Spice Must Flow: The Story of Dune, from Cult Novels to Visionary Sci-Fi Movies by Ryan Britt

17. The Spice Must Flow: The Story of Dune, from Cult Novels to Visionary Sci-Fi Movies

By: Ryan Britt

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Geek-culture expert Ryan Britt takes us behind the pages and scenes of the science-fiction phenomen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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18. The Last Election

By: Andrew Yang

3.43

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A gripping, intricately plotted political thriller set on the campaign trail of the USA's next—and … read more

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  • politics
  • audiobook
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19. The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power

By: Robert D. Kaplan

3.82

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tr… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
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

20. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Anne Applebaum's Autocracy, Inc. book and Stephen Marche's The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • 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.

19 Top audiobook books like The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future by Stephen Marche

Transform Your Habits

How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

Barbara F. Walter

4.25

Transform Your Habits

2054

Elliot Ackerman

3.46

Transform Your Habits

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Transform Your Habits

Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy

David Frum

3.96

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13 must-read audiobook books like The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power by Robert D. Kaplan

Transform Your Habits

The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

Yascha Mounk

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

Jacob Mikanowski

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

Stuart A. Reid

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

David H. Petraeus

4.06

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