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…
Want to Read $ 15.99"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 regularly deployed Republican Party and right-wing media strategy: to deny the workings of overt and violent racist activism even when those actions threaten American citizens and democracy itself."-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 the United States but rather the Aryan nation, imagined as a transnational polity of white people who would need to be saved from extermination through race war and violence. This is a fundamentally more violent and radical position than that implied by ‘nationalism."-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
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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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"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
2. The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
By: Philip S. Gorski
4.19
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A bracing examination of a force that imperils American democracy Most Americans were shocked by t… read more
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"White Christian nationalism is a “deep story"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"For white Americans who affirm Christian nationalist ideology, “true Americans"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"Even as it’s become riskier for mainstream politicians to use negative dog whistles like “thug"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"It’s not that Christian nationalists have a different understanding of American history; it’s that they often have an incorrect understanding."-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
3. 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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4. 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
5. 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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6. 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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7. 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
8. 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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9. 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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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
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11. The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
By: Naomi Oreskes
4.42
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt offer a profound, startling history of one of America… read more
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12. 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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13. One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy
By: Dominic Erdozain
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did not intend the Second A… read more
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14. 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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15. Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
By: Matthew Dallek
3.97
Format: None pages, Audiobook
How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism At… read more
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16. 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
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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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
20. Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy
By: Brian Stelter
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of HOAX, “[a] rare look inside the profoundly influential… read more
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21. 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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"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.
