20 must-read nonfiction books like The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump by Michiko Kakutani

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The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

By: Michiko Kakutani

3.79

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

アメリカ建国時の理念と制度は、トランプ政権に打ち砕かれた。しかもその出現は予言されていた。フェイクニュースやプロパガンダがはびこり、客観的事実が消えゆく世界で、私たちはどう生きるべきか。不穏な時代に…

"The journalist Anne Applebaum identified an entire group of “neo-Bolsheviks"

-Michiko Kakutani, The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

"The journalist Anne Applebaum identified an entire group of “neo-Bolsheviks"

-Michiko Kakutani, The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

"Trump often seems like a one-man set of Aesop-like fables—with easy-to-decipher morals like “those who lie down with dogs will get up with fleas"

-Michiko Kakutani, The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

"Trump often seems like a one-man set of Aesop-like fables—with easy-to-decipher morals like “those who lie down with dogs will get up with fleas"

-Michiko Kakutani, The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump by Michiko Kakutani , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra

1. Age of Anger: A History of the Present

By: Pankaj Mishra

3.65

Format: 416 pages, ebook

One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global cri… read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • society
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"The emphasis on individual rights has heightened awareness of social discrimination and gender inequality; in many countries today, there is a remarkable greater acceptance of different sexual orient…"

-Pankaj Mishra, Age of Anger: A History of the Present

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2. I Hear She's a Real Bitch

By: Jen Agg

3.57

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A sharp and candid memoir from a star in the restaurant world, and an up-and-coming literary voice.… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. 9-11

By: Noam Chomsky , David Barsamian , Greg Ruggiero , Michael Albert , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

In 9-11, Noam Chomsky comments on the September 11th attacks, the new war on terrorism, Osama bin L… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • sociology
Cover of Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back by Matthew d'Ancona

4. Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back

By: Matthew d'Ancona

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the Post-Truth era-- a time in which the art of the lie is shaking the very foundations … read more

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  • cultural
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
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5. 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

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • political science
  • sociology
  • 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

Cover of The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time by Yascha Mounk

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

By: Yascha Mounk

4.08

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • political science
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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7. The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

By: Greg Lukianoff

3.93

Format: 432 pages, ebook

A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-ne… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Mistakes abound when groupthink goes unchallenged."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

"There is nothing about standing up for an underdog (or simply claiming to be) that means you're right."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

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8. 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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9. The Age of Grievance

By: Frank Bruni

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • political science
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) by Elizabeth Strout

10. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

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"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

Cover of The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump by Michiko Kakutani

11. The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

By: Michiko Kakutani

3.79

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

アメリカ建国時の理念と制度は、トランプ政権に打ち砕かれた。しかもその出現は予言されていた。フェイクニュースやプロパガンダがはびこり、客観的事実が消えゆく世界で、私たちはどう生きるべきか。不穏な時代に… read more

Similar categories in Michiko Kakutani's The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump book and Michiko Kakutani's The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

  • cultural
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • society
  • political science
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"The journalist Anne Applebaum identified an entire group of “neo-Bolsheviks"

-Michiko Kakutani, The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

"Trump often seems like a one-man set of Aesop-like fables—with easy-to-decipher morals like “those who lie down with dogs will get up with fleas"

-Michiko Kakutani, The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

"In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt looked at the essential role that propaganda played in gaslighting the populations of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, writing that “in an ever-changin…"

-Michiko Kakutani, The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

"Trump’s ridiculousness, his narcissistic ability to make everything about himself, the outrageousness of his lies, and the profundity of his ignorance can easily distract attention from the more last…"

-Michiko Kakutani, The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

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12. Blowback A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump

By: Miles Taylor

4.44

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

Donald Trump will be president again, whether he is on the ballot or not. That is because Trumpism … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World by Robert Kagan

13. The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World

By: Robert Kagan

4.08

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

"An incisive, elegantly written, new book about America’s unique role in the world." --Tom Friedman… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • political science
  • audiobook
Cover of Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart--Again by Robert Kagan

14. Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart--Again

By: Robert Kagan

4.48

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

A chilling and clear-eyed warning about the threats to our democracy posed by the increasing radica… read more

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  • politics
  • political science
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard by Bo Seo

15. Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard

By: Bo Seo

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"The rare book that has the potential to make you smarter--and everyone around you wiser." --Adam G… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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16. Full of Myself: A Graphic Memoir About Body Image

By: Siobhan Gallagher

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Author and illustrator Siobhán Gallagher’s humorous and heartfelt graphic memoir details her journe… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins by Stefanos Geroulanos

17. The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

By: Stefanos Geroulanos

3.76

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

An eminent historian demonstrates how claims about the origins of humanity have been used to justif… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
Cover of It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump by Stuart Stevens

18. It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump

By: Stuart Stevens

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

"A brilliant, unflinching look at the descent of the GOP - backed up with data, historic sweep & fi… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
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19. O pacto da branquitude

By: Maria Aparecida Silva Bento

4.50

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Diante de dezenas de recusas em processos seletivos, Cida Bento identificou um padrão: por mais qua… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers by John W. Dean

20. Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers

By: John W. Dean

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

How did America end up with a leader who acts so crudely and despotically, and counter to our democ… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook

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4.25

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Yascha Mounk

4.08

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David Brooks

4.14

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David McRaney

4.14

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Charles Duhigg

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