The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
By: Adam Serwer
4.25
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
"Trump summoned the most treacherous forces in American history and conducted them with the ease of…
Want to Read $ 13.99"The cruelty is the point"-Adam Serwer, The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
"Multiracial democracy is hard and messy and sometimes rude, but it is preferable to the alternatives"-Adam Serwer, The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
"American religious pluralism, however imperfectly practiced, is centuries older than the European commitment to purging anti-Semitism, which is younger than Israel itself."-Adam Serwer, The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
"Since the Civil War, American Jews have built a place for themselves here much the way other minorities have-by holding the United States accountable to its own principles"-Adam Serwer, The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
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1. Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
By: Tim Miller
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Former Republican political operative Tim Miller admits what no one else on the right ever will: th… read more
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" Why We Did It is a book about the people who submitted to every whim of a comically unfit and detestable man who crapped all over them and took over the party they had given their life to. It’s abou…"-Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
2. 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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3. Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
By: Jefferson R. Cowie
4.50
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A prize-winning historian chronicles a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppres… read more
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"His body "was the corporeal archive of his pugnacious soul. The bullet [from a duel] caused him 'violent pain' on a regular basis, with bouts of blood gurgling into his mouth as well as probable pois…"-Jefferson R. Cowie, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
4. 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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5. 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
6. 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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7. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
4.23
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountabi… read more
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"Designed for instant impact and encouraging feelings of omnipotence, Twitter is the perfect tool for an impulsive, attention-addicted strongman."-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
"Many strongmen, past and present, have used populist rhetoric that defines their nations as bound by faith, race, and ethnicity rather than by legal rights. For authoritarians, only some people are "…"-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
8. 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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9. 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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10. They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency
By: Malcolm W. Nance
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, LOS ANGELES TIMES, USA TODAY AND GREAT LAKES INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLER ASSOCIATI… read more
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11. The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
By: Katherine Stewart
4.28
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Democracy in Chains and Dark Money, a revelatory investigation of the Religious Righ… read more
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"Christian nationalism exploits and intensifies inequality, and dominionism is its logical endpoint and the actual engine of the so-called culture wars."-Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
"Are we a nation in which one brand of religion enjoys a place of privilege? Are we a nation of laws—except in cases where the law offends the feelings of those who subscribe to our preferred religion…"-Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
"This is not a book I could have imagined writing a dozen years ago. When an older couple from another town attempted to set up and lead a Bible club at my daughter's public elementary school in South…"-Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
12. The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy
By: Stuart Stevens
4.43
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“This is the first must-read of the 2024 election cycle if you want to understand the stakes.” –Nic… read more
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13. 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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14. Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
By: Barbara McQuade
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practic… read more
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15. The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
By: Adam Serwer
4.25
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
"Trump summoned the most treacherous forces in American history and conducted them with the ease of… read more
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"The cruelty is the point"-Adam Serwer, The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
"Multiracial democracy is hard and messy and sometimes rude, but it is preferable to the alternatives"-Adam Serwer, The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
"American religious pluralism, however imperfectly practiced, is centuries older than the European commitment to purging anti-Semitism, which is younger than Israel itself."-Adam Serwer, The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
"Since the Civil War, American Jews have built a place for themselves here much the way other minorities have-by holding the United States accountable to its own principles"-Adam Serwer, The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
16. American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy
By: David Corn
4.33
Format: 18 pages, Audiobook
#1 New York Times bestselling author and investigative reporter David Corn tells the wild and harro… read more
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"We can have an American president who does not govern with negativism and fear of the future."-David Corn, American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy
17. Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
By: Kevin M. Kruse
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the… read more
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"Violence meant to seize and shore up power—a claim to sovereignty through the violence of the mob—is fundamentally American."-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
"Although in this case it is an understandable, emotional reaction meant to decry antidemocratic violence, the notion that January 6 is 'not who we are' is one manifestation of what has become a regul…"-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
"People may hear ‘white nationalism’ and assume it to be adjacent with patriotism, or at the very least consider it as pro-American. But after 1983 the nation at the heart of white nationalism was not…"-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
18. The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It
By: Dorothy A. Brown
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert o… read more
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"Once again, a single sentence would hold the key. I found it in The Economic Status of Black Women: An Exploratory Investigation, a 1990 staff report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: On averag…"-Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It
19. Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy
By: Isaac Arnsdorf
3.92
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An explosive, behind-the-scenes look at how a radical group of activists — supported by former Pres… read more
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20. 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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21. Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps
By: Jon Favreau
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From your friends at Pod Save America and Crooked Media comes a useful and illustrated guide to sa… read more
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