Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
By: George Packer
4.07
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America’s descent into a faile…
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1. To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.28
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was t… read more
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2. A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order
By: None
3.79
Format: 160 pages,
An examination of a world increasingly defined by disorder and a United States unable to shape the … read more
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3. 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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4. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.42
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more
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5. Frontiera: perché sarà un nuovo secolo americano
By: Francesco Costa
3.79
Format: 290 pages, ebook
C'è una storia che ascoltiamo da un po' di tempo, e descrive la più grande superpotenza del pianeta… read more
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6. 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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"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
7. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
By: John McWhorter
3.94
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
People of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question… read more
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"To tar America as insufficiently aware of slavery is more about smugness and noble victimhood than forging something new and needed."-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
"Antiracism should focus strongly on ending the war on drugs, and there is no need for legions of whites to be instructed in how privileged they are for this to happen."-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
"[P]rofound social change can happen without the entire populace being junior scholars about racist injustice. Such change has been happening world-wide for several centuries."-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
"They are unreachable for the simple reason that they are arguing from religion rather than reason, trying to foist their dogma into the public square out of a misguided sense that they are the world'…"-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
8. Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
By: Evan Osnos
4.24
Format: 465 pages, Hardcover
After a decade abroad, the National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize– winning writer Evan Osnos retur… read more
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"In all, just 158 American families had donated half of all the money to candidates on the ballot [in the 2016 election]."-Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
"You've got your CEOs pulling four hundred or five hundred times what the American man does. Is there any man worth four hundred or five hundred other men? I've never met one. Have you?" -David Efaw i…"-Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
"It's not as simple as "this guy is with us on everything - or he's not!" she said. "I think the left imagines that in order for us to make progress, everyone has to agree about everything. I don't th…"-Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
"After residents had secured the major markers of wealth - the home, the right schools, the serenity of private aviation - they turned their attention to the real game in town: the refining of advanta…"-Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
9. Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016
By: Steve Coll
4.21
Format: 779 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • Nominated for the National Book A… read more
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10. 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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11. The Death of Jesus
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.83
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
After The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, J. M. Coetzee completes his trilogy with … read more
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"You have a false understanding of what it means to read. Reading is not just turning printed signs into sounds. Reading is something deeper. True reading means hearing what the book has to say and po…"-J.M. Coetzee, The Death of Jesus
12. 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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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
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14. Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
By: George Packer
4.07
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America’s descent into a faile… read more
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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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16. American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress
By: Wesley Lowery
4.18
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
“American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” — Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Ant… read more
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17. After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made
By: Ben Rhodes
4.21
Format: 339 pages, Kindle Edition
Why is democracy so threatened in America and around the world? And what can we do about it? A form… read more
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18. The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens
By: Richard N. Haass
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
A New York Times Bestseller A provocative guide to how we must reenvision citizenship if Americ… read more
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19. 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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20. The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
By: Kathryn Paige Harden
3.91
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A Virginia Living Favorite Book (2021) A provocative and timely case for how the science of gene… read more
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"We are living in a golden age of genetic research, with new technologies permitting the easy collection of genetic data from millions upon millions of people and the rapid development of new statisti…"-Kathryn Paige Harden, The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
21. The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future
By: Robert P. Jones
4.55
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Taking the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493, and examining contemporary communities… read more
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