American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
By: Shane Bauer
4.23
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private p…
Want to Read $ 11.99"When I get home, I draw a bath. I pour a glass of wine, then another, and another. I try to empty my mind. Inside me there is a prison guard and a former prisoner and they are fighting with each other, and I want them to stop."-Shane Bauer, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
"How many times have such meetings been held throughout American history? How many times have men. be they private prison executives or convict lessees, gotten together to perform this ritual? They sit in company headquarters or legislative offices, far from their prisons or labor camps, and craft stories that soothe their consciences. They convince themselves, with remarkable ease, that they are in the business of punishment because it makes the world better, not because it makes them rich."-Shane Bauer, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
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1. Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
By: Heather Ann Thompson
4.45
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive account of the infamous 1971 Attica prison uprising, the state’s violent respo… read more
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2. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By: Matthew Desmond
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more
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3. Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus
By: Matt Taibbi , Victor Juhasz
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER - Dispatches from the 2016 election that provide an eerily prescient take … read more
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4. Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
By: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In her extraordinary bestseller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the intricacies of the g… read more
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5. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
By: Ted Conover
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Acclaimed journalist Ted Conover sets a new standard for bold, in-depth reporting in this first-han… read more
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6. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more
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7. Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons
By: Ayelet Waldman , Robin Levi
4.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
People in U.S. prisons are routinely subjected to physical, sexual, and mental abuse. While this ha… read more
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8. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
9. 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
10. The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony
By: Lou Marinoff
4.26
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
The description tells potential customers about your title. A good example of an appropriate book s… read more
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"For the first time in human history, a significant percentage of heterosexual males are unable to become sexually aroused by women and need drugs or vacuum pumps to help them do nature’s work. Why?"-Lou Marinoff, The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony
"By uniting your mind with nature, you will experience the inner transformation that renders your thoughts radiant and your heart benevolent, surrounding you with an aura of purest golden light. When …"-Lou Marinoff, The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony
"From nuclear families to communities of nations, others without whom we cannot live get on our nerves at times, becoming sources of everything from mild irritation to deadly conflict. Balancing the t…"-Lou Marinoff, The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony
"Every civilization rests on these four pillars: marriage, family, society, and polity. If all four remain solid, then most people will know happiness and their civilization will flourish. But if any …"-Lou Marinoff, The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony
11. 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
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • "A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and di… read more
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12. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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13. American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
By: Shane Bauer
4.23
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
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"When I get home, I draw a bath. I pour a glass of wine, then another, and another. I try to empty my mind. Inside me there is a prison guard and a former prisoner and they are fighting with each othe…"-Shane Bauer, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
"How many times have such meetings been held throughout American history? How many times have men. be they private prison executives or convict lessees, gotten together to perform this ritual? They si…"-Shane Bauer, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
14. Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
By: Emily Bazelon
4.31
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
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"the "criminal justice system accomplishes nothing we think of as its purpose," Sotomayor told her audience. "We think we're keeping people safe from criminals. We're just making worse criminals."-Emily Bazelon, Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
"Somewhere along the way, the balance of power between the prosecution, the defense, and the judiciary shifted. We have to readjust it. The stakes are so high—the well-being of so many communities and…"-Emily Bazelon, Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
15. Rikers: An Oral History
By: Graham Rayman
4.05
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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16. Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
By: Danielle Sered
4.46
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
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"When we talk about people who commit violence as monsters (or “superpredators,"-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
"Survivors are often extraordinary at metabolizing just about anything into healing."-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
"If we act on the working definition of forgiveness as relinquishing a desire to see the other suffer, then forgiveness is deeply practical."-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
"I believe when we hurt someone, we incur an obligation. Period. Nothing changes that obligation— not our own history of pain, our unhealed trauma, nothing."-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
17. The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers
By: Jim Morris
3.97
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
The story of a group of Goodyear Tire and Rubber workers fatally exposed to toxic chemicals, the la… read more
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18. Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice
By: Tony Messenger
4.27
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Messenger offers the first humane, journalistic expose of an American tr… read more
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19. Mecz to pretekst. Futbol, wojna, polityka
By: Anita Werner
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
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20. The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos
By: Mark Chiusano
3.83
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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21. Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College
By: Jesse Wegman
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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