21 Best nonfiction books like The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America by Michael Waldman

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The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America

By: Michael Waldman

4.30

Format: 400 pages, ebook

An incisive analysis of how the Supreme Court’s new conservative supermajority is overturning decad…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America by Michael Waldman , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow

1. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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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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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic by Stephen Vladeck

3. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

By: Stephen Vladeck

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed legal scholar’s “essential” (Linda Greenhouse) exp… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • government
  • audiobook
"But in order after order, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration most of what it wanted without endorsing principles that the justices would be bound to apply to future presidents, so that t…"

-Stephen Vladeck, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

Cover of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta

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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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. 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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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America by Steve Inskeep

6. Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America

By: Steve Inskeep

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Writing history is a relay, which is also true of history itself. We build, if we can, on the legacies that are left us."

-Steve Inskeep, Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America

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7. 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

Similar categories in Steven Levitsky's Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point book and Michael Waldman's The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America

  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • government
  • audiobook
Cover of Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next by Bradley Onishi

8. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

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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

Similar categories in Thomas F. Schaller's White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy book and Michael Waldman's The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences by Joan Biskupic

11. Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences

By: Joan Biskupic

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Editor's Choice "Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the co… read more

Similar categories in Joan Biskupic's Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences book and Michael Waldman's The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • government
  • audiobook
Cover of Blowback A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump by Miles Taylor

12. Blowback A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump

By: Miles Taylor

4.44

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

Donald Trump will be president again, whether he is on the ballot or not. That is because Trumpism … read more

Similar categories in Miles Taylor's Blowback A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump book and Michael Waldman's The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America

  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • government
  • audiobook
Cover of American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress by Wesley Lowery

13. 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

Similar categories in Wesley Lowery's American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress book and Michael Waldman's The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy by Stuart Stevens

14. 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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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • government
  • audiobook
Cover of Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America by Barbara McQuade

15. 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

Similar categories in Barbara McQuade's Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America book and Michael Waldman's The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy by David Corn

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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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America by Michael Waldman

17. The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America

By: Michael Waldman

4.30

Format: 400 pages, ebook

An incisive analysis of how the Supreme Court’s new conservative supermajority is overturning decad… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • government
  • audiobook
Cover of Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past by Kevin M. Kruse

18. 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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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump by Clay Cane

19. The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump

By: Clay Cane

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Part history and part cultural analysis, The Grift chronicles the nuanced history of Black Republic… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum

20. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • government
  • audiobook
"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.

Cover of Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past by Steve Benen

21. Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past

By: Steve Benen

4.50

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

21 Top audiobook books like The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America by Michael Waldman

Transform Your Habits

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

Stephen Vladeck

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta

4.45

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Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

4.45

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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party

Jonathan Karl

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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