Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
By: Anna Merlan
3.90
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories, exploring the caus…
Want to Read $ 2.99"Basically," he said, "it's black people who scare them."-Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
"A weird thing about being black is some of it is true and some of it is not," Michael Harriot told me reflectively. "But," he said, "none of it is crazy."-Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
"Truth and fact-checking travel along the same paths that conspiracies do. But the truth is often complicated, shaded and demanding, and there's no denying that it often lacks the powerful, emotional, gut level appeal of a conspiracy."-Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
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1. Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World Order, and many, many more
By: Arthur Goldwag
3.35
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Did you know? • Freemasonry's first American lodge included a young Benjamin Franklin among its me… read more
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2. Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories
By: Mike Rothschild
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
With the current rise of antisemitism, this important book looks at how one Jewish family —the Roth… read more
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3. UFO: The Inside Story of the U.S. Government's Search for Alien Life Here―and Out There
By: Garrett M. Graff
3.73
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times-bestselling author Garrett M. Graff comes the first comprehensive and eye-openi… read more
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4. Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
By: Talia Lavin
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Talia Lavin is every skinhead’s worst nightmare: a loud and unapologetic Jewish woman, acerbic, sma… read more
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"One you start gazing into the abyss of the far right, pretty soon it turns its gaze right back on you. And its gaze is a fearsome thing, a twisted thing, one full of boredom and anger that have calci…"-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
"We tend to like our noble lawbreakers to be comfortably in the past, where time and death have sanitized them into heroes, and to suffer those who struggle against injustice in the present only grudg…"-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
"The worst people are still people; their humanity is impossible to disregard, but it does not absolve them. If anything, it makes their choices more abhorrent, surrounded, as they are, by the banalit…"-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
"Despite the fact that [...] 71% of murders related to extremism in the United States between 2008 and 2017 were committed by members of far-right or white-supremacist movements, federal authorities h…"-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
5. 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
6. Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat
By: Derek Beres
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Conspirituality takes a deep dive into the troubling phenomenon of influencers who have curdled New… read more
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7. The Lost Cause
By: Cory Doctorow
3.65
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
It's thirty years from now and we're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely.… read more
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8. Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational
By: Michael Shermer
3.76
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Best-selling author Michael Shermer presents an overarching review of conspiracy theories―who belie… read more
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9. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
By: Jason F. Stanley
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Fascist politics are running rampant in America today—and spreading around the world. A Yale philos… read more
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"Fascist politics does not necessarily lead to an explicitly fascist state, but it is dangerous nonetheless. Fascist politics includes many distinct strategies: the mythic past, propaganda, anti-intel…"-Jason F. Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
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 Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
By: Mike Rothschild
3.84
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
This is the real story of QAnon—what it is, what it means, and where it goes. And be warned—none of… read more
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12. 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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13. The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace (The Shortest History Series)
By: Michael Scott-Baumann
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An accessible, balanced chronicle of how the Israel-Palestine conflict originated and developed ove… read more
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14. The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters
By: J.W. Ocker
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Meet the monsters in our midst, from bigfoot to Mothman and beyond! Welcome to the United States… read more
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15. Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter
By: Zoë Schiffer
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“the bird is freed” – Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 27, 2022 When Elon Musk took over Twitter, … read more
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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
"Belew's book helps explain how we got to today's alt right."―Terry Gross, Fresh Air The white p… read more
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"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
17. Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
By: Taylor Lorenz
3.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the in… read more
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18. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
By: Kyle Chayka
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more
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19. Rage
By: Bob Woodward
4.17
Format: 475 pages, Hardcover
An unprecedented and intimate tour de force of original reporting on the Trump presidency from Bob … read more
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"Trump is the wrong man for the job."-Bob Woodward, Rage
"Cohn offered one more argument against steel tariffs. "We're not a steel-producing nation. We're a good-producing nation. If we increase the price of steel, out goods become overprices and we can't c…"-Bob Woodward, Rage
"Many foreign policy leaders had said that Trump gave Kim (Kim Jong Un, dictator of North Korea) too much by agreeing to meet without formal, written conditions. "So, have you given Kim too much power…"-Bob Woodward, Rage
"Kushner said that Scott Adam's approach could be applied to Trump's recent February 4 State of the Union speech when he had claimed, "Our economy is the best it has ever been." The economy was indeed…"-Bob Woodward, Rage
20. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
By: Jane Marie
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more
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21. Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
By: Anna Merlan
3.90
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories, exploring the caus… read more
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"Basically," he said, "it's black people who scare them."-Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
"A weird thing about being black is some of it is true and some of it is not," Michael Harriot told me reflectively. "But," he said, "none of it is crazy."-Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
"Truth and fact-checking travel along the same paths that conspiracies do. But the truth is often complicated, shaded and demanding, and there's no denying that it often lacks the powerful, emotional,…"-Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
22. 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
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23. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
By: Mike Hixenbaugh
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more
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24. Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
By: Kelly Weill
3.79
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Since 2015, there has been a spectacular boom in a centuries-old delusion: that the earth is flat. … read more
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25. The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party
By: Dana Milbank
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A scalding history of twenty-five years of Republican attempts to hold… read more
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26. The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses, and Find Your True Well-Being
By: Christy Harrison
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing critique of modern wellness culture and how it stands in the way of true well-being that … read more
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27. Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind
By: Robert Draper
4.12
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2022 The disturbing eyewitness account of how a new … read more
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28. Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
By: Andrew Marantz
4.21
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From a rising star at The New Yorker, a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic entreprene… read more
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29. Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy
By: Colin Dickey
3.90
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From beloved cultural historian and acclaimed author of Ghostland comes a history of America's obse… read more
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30. The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
By: Madiba Dennie
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwi… read more
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31. All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way
By: Fred C. Trump
4.07
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, bre… read more
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