30 must-read nonfiction books like Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy by Adam Jentleson

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Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy

By: Adam Jentleson

4.26

Format: 352 pages, ebook

Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears…

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Cover of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean

1. Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

By: Nancy MacLean

4.29

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

Behind today’s headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political establ… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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"Both Buchanan and Calhoun[...] were concerned wit the "failure of democracy to preserve liberty"

-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

"Interestingly, these conclusions issued from purely abstract thought experiments, not from any research on political practice."

-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

"...as Einhorn points out: "The anti-government rhetoric that continues to saturate our political life is rooted support for slavery rather than liberty"

-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

"[...] Rothbard explained, was "that it was intervention of the State that in itself created the classes and the conflict", not the labor relations of the economy, as previous thinkers believed"

-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

Cover of Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer

2. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

By: Jane Mayer

4.16

Format: 76 pages, ebook

Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to… read more

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  • politics
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  • audiobook
Cover of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein

3. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

By: Rick Perlstein

4.33

Format: 308 pages,

Politically insightful, Nixonland recaptures the turbulent 60s & early 70s, revealing how Dick Nixo… read more

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  • american history
  • american
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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Where Do We Go from Here:  Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.

4. Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

By: Martin Luther King Jr.

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

209 PAGES. read more

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Cover of Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power by Noam Chomsky, Peter Hutchinson, Kelly Nyks, None

5. Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power

By: Noam Chomsky , Peter Hutchinson , Kelly Nyks , None

3.50

Format: None pages,

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  • politics
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  • audiobook
Cover of Romney: A Reckoning by McKay Coppins

6. Romney: A Reckoning

By: McKay Coppins

4.36

Format: 416 pages, ebook

A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more

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

7. 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
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"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 Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein

8. Why We're Polarized

By: Ezra Klein

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means f… read more

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"Unfortunately, the term “identity politics"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

"The key idea here is “negative partisanship"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

"So here, then, is the last fifty years of American politics summarized: we became more consistent in the party we vote for not because we came to like our party more—indeed, we’ve come to like the pa…"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

"The political media is biased, but not toward the Left or Right so much as toward loud, outrageous, colorful, inspirational, confrontational. It is biased toward the political stories and figures who…"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

Cover of This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy by Jonathan  Martin

9. This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy

By: Jonathan Martin

4.00

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency by… read more

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  • american history
  • history
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  • political science
  • audiobook
Cover of The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace (The Shortest History Series) by Michael Scott-Baumann

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

11. 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
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  • 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

Cover of Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl

12. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

By: Jonathan M. Metzl

4.10

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences—even for the white vo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It's a narrative about how "whiteness" becomes a formation worth living and dying for, and how, in myriad ways and on multiple levels, white Americans bet their lives on particular sets of meanings a…"

-Jonathan M. Metzl, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

Cover of Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky

13. 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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  • american history
  • american
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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • government
  • political science
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Cover of They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent by Sarah Kendzior

14. They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

By: Sarah Kendzior

3.94

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE “Every sentence delivered. The pathos of truth-see… read more

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  • american history
  • american
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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The word “conspire"

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

"The desire to forget is as overwhelming as the obligation not to."

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

"History was a feedback loop of unlearned lessons and reverberating lies."

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

"There is no such thing as paranoia; your worst fears can come true at any moment,"

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

Cover of The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future by Franklin Foer

15. The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future

By: Franklin Foer

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Franklin Foer tells the definitive insider story of the first two years of the Biden presidency, wi… read more

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

16. 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

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  • government
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Cover of They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency by Malcolm W. Nance

17. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Swagger: Super Bowls, Brass Balls, and Footballs by Jimmy   Johnson

18. Swagger: Super Bowls, Brass Balls, and Footballs

By: Jimmy Johnson

4.21

Format: None pages, Audiobook

From FOX NFL Sunday analyst and legendary Hall of Fame head football coach Jimmy Johnson—the first … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Life's Work: A Memoir by David Milch

19. Life's Work: A Memoir

By: David Milch

4.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The creator of Deadwood and NYPD Blue reflects on his tumultuous life, driven by a nearly insatiabl… read more

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  • audiobook
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20. One-Shot Harry

By: Gary Phillips

3.48

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Race and civil rights in 1963 Los Angeles provide a powerful backdrop in Gary Phillips’s riveting h… read more

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

21. 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
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  • law
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Cover of Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy by Adam Jentleson

22. Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy

By: Adam Jentleson

4.26

Format: 352 pages, ebook

Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears… read more

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  • history
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  • nonfiction
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  • adult
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Cover of Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America by Christopher Leonard

23. Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America

By: Christopher Leonard

4.30

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Christopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private com… read more

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  • politics
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Cover of Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America by Kurt Andersen

24. Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America

By: Kurt Andersen

4.22

Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells t… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
"Such a colossal irony: after socialists and Communists in the 1930s and then the New Left in the 1960s had tried and failed to achieve a radical class-based reordering of the American political econo…"

-Kurt Andersen, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America

"...In all this, financialization has done what people back in the 1950s and '60s and '70s worried and warned that the Communists would do if they took over: centralize control of the economy, turn Am…"

-Kurt Andersen, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America

"...Libertarians fantasize that they're action heroes and entirely self-made. They tend to exempt themselves from the truism that there but for the grace of God goes each one of them, because an impli…"

-Kurt Andersen, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America

"...The economic right was shrewd enough to understand that the issues they didn't care much about--abortion, gay rights, creationism--did matter to liberals, and that those culture wars drew off poli…"

-Kurt Andersen, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America

Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

25. 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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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America by Adam Cohen

26. Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America

By: Adam Cohen

4.32

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen, a revelatory examination of the conservative dir… read more

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  • government
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Cover of Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted by Jeremy W. Peters

27. Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted

By: Jeremy W. Peters

4.12

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

How did the party of Lincoln become the party of Trump? From a Washington reporter for The New York… read more

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Cover of The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House by Nancy Pelosi

28. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House

By: Nancy Pelosi

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more

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  • politics
  • history
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  • audiobook
Cover of The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future by Robert P. Jones

29. The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future

By: Robert P. Jones

4.55

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Taking the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493, and examining contemporary communities… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Dirt Road Revival: How to Rebuild Rural Politics and Why Our Future Depends On It by Chloe Maxmin

30. Dirt Road Revival: How to Rebuild Rural Politics and Why Our Future Depends On It

By: Chloe Maxmin

4.12

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

The Democratic Party left rural America behind. This urgent rallying cry shows how Democrats ca… read more

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  • politics
  • american
  • nonfiction
Cover of Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR's War of Words With Charles Lindbergh―and the Battle to Save Democracy by Paul M. Sparrow

31. Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR's War of Words With Charles Lindbergh―and the Battle to Save Democracy

By: Paul M. Sparrow

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A dramatic narrative that brings President Roosevelt, his allies, and his adversaries to life durin… read more

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  • nonfiction

25 must-read audiobook books like Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy by Adam Jentleson

Transform Your Habits

Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

Nancy MacLean

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Jane Mayer

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power

Noam Chomsky , Peter Hutchinson , Kelly Nyks , None

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Romney: A Reckoning

McKay Coppins

4.36

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Daniel Gordis

4.31

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Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

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Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

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4.34

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