The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
By: Carol Anderson
4.33
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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By: Kiese Laymon
4.03
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
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2. Hands Off My Gun: Defeating the Plot to Disarm America
By: Dana Loesch
4.08
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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3. The Second Amendment
By: Michael Waldman
3.50
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
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4. The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
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3.29
Format: None pages, Hardcover
National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, T… read more
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5. Stand Your Ground: A History of America's Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense
By: None
3.14
Format: 54 pages, Hardcover
A history of America s Stand Your Ground gun laws, from Reconstruction to Trayvon Martin In the aft… read more
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By: Adam Winkler
4.29
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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7. Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories
By: Mike Rothschild
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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8. Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
By: Ruha Benjamin
4.47
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
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9. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.42
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
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10. 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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11. Trigger Points: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America
By: Mark Follman
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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12. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
By: Clint Smith
4.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a… read more
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13. Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
By: Elie Mystal
4.59
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
According to commentator and lawyer Elie Mystal, Republicans are wrong when they tell you the First… read more
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14. Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
By: Linda Villarosa
4.46
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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15. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
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4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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16. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
By: Kathleen Belew
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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17. Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End
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4.25
Format: 8 pages, Audiobook
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18. The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
By: Carol Anderson
4.33
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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19. American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress
By: Wesley Lowery
4.18
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
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20. Abolition. Feminism. Now.
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.31
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading… read more
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21. Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
By: Robin DiAngelo
3.96
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
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"…every moment that I spend in white space reinforces in me a particular (and limited) worldview and experience. But the deeper message being reinforced is that we lose nothing of value by living in s…"-Robin DiAngelo, Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
22. American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15
By: Cameron McWhirter
4.29
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
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23. Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America
By: Ryan Busse
4.38
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A former firearms executive pulls back the curtain on America's multibillion-dollar gun industry, e… read more
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24. An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America
By: Edwin Raymond
4.64
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
A WASHINGTON POST BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2023A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2023“With illuminati… read more
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25. America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
By: Elizabeth Hinton
4.22
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
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26. Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law
By: Richard Rothstein
3.94
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The Color of Law brilliantly recounted how government at all levels created segregation. Just Actio… read more
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27. An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created
By: Santi Elijah Holley
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An enlightening history of the rise and lasting impact of Black liberation groups in America, as se… read more
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28. This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto
By: Suketu Mehta
4.13
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
An impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed author of Maximum City. Drawing … read more
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29. Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America
By: Shefali Luthra
4.40
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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30. If Anything Happens I Love You
By: Will McCormack
4.39
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Unimaginable loss yields to the power of human connection in this simple, moving story from the fil… read more
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31. Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy
By: Jennifer Carlson
3.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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