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…
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1. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
2. 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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3. 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
4. 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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5. 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
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6. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America
By: Will Sommer
4.09
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
The definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, ho… read more
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7. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
By: Jeffrey Toobin
4.16
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more
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8. 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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9. Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next
By: Bradley Onishi
4.33
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Watching the eerie footage of the January 6 insurrection, Bradley Onishi wondered: If I hadn't left… read more
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- sociology
- audiobook
10. 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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11. 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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12. Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
By: Matthew Dallek
3.97
Format: None pages, Audiobook
How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism At… read more
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13. Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
By: Kerry Howley
3.81
Format: 233 pages, Hardcover
A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America--from the acclaimed author of Thro… read more
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"Leaks are the way Washington DC communicates with itself. The fortress allows itself to be breached. The ship of state the same goes is the only ship that leaks from the top"-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
"We tend to think of privacy as the freedom to keep intentional secrets separate from public knowledge but privacy has been the freedom to live as if most of what passes for experience will not endure."-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
"Surveillance capitalism doesn't manage the system of jails. It will not kidnap you from your country of origin strap you down and pour water down your throat until you break your ribs trying to free …"-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
14. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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15. The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy
By: David Neiwert
4.10
Format: 543 pages, Kindle Edition
"An important book, offering the clearest explanation of how dark forces conspired to overthrow our… read more
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"Many observers, including historians, compared it to previous periods of societal strife in the United States, including the Civil War and the Civil Rights era. “What’s different about almost all tho…"-David Neiwert, The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy
"That, in fact, is how the American right had come to deal with reality: just throw so much misinformation out there that the public becomes unable to discern fact from fiction—at which point right-wi…"-David Neiwert, The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy
"One of the peculiar realities of conspiracism is that people who believe in conspiracy theories rarely ever believe just one; most conspiracy theories are interconnected by the nature of their afactu…"-David Neiwert, The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy
"A central feature of the spread of far-right politics is the intimidation directed at mainstream liberals and even Republicans who refuse to participate in their incoherent conspiracism: As with all …"-David Neiwert, The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy
16. Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It
By: Ari Berman
4.37
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democ… read more
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17. 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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18. 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
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"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. 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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20. The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis
By: Jared Yates Sexton
4.04
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the author of American Rule and the host of The Muckrake Podcast , an ambitious account of how… read more
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"Media members and politicians were largely affluent and privileged and out of touch with what was happening on the ground in other parts of the country."-Jared Yates Sexton, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis
21. The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
By: Joe Conason
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A sardonic chronicle of how conservatism turned into a racketeering enterprise – and why Donald Tru… read more
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