Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines
By: David Pepper
4.51
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
“It’s the statehouses, stupid.” Laboratories of Autocracy shows that far more than the high-prof…
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1. 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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2. The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation
By: Drew Westen
4.26
Format: None pages,
The Political Brain is a groundbreaking scientific investigation into how the mind works, how the b… read more
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3. 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
4. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
By: Liz Cheney
4.60
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers be… read more
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5. 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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6. Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
By: Andy Borowitz
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Andy Borowitz, “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly examines t… read more
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"Imagine a hypothetical job applicant. He can't spell the simplest words, such as "heal" and "tap". Confused by geography, he thinks there's an African country called "Nambia". As for American history…"-Andy Borowitz, Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
7. 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
8. A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
By: Cal Newport
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller From New York Times bestselling author Cal N… read more
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"Why bother hiring a hotshot if the bulk of their time is spent doing administrative work?"-Cal Newport, A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
"A better strategy for shifting other’s expectations about your work is to consistently deliver what you promise instead of consistently explaining how you’re working."-Cal Newport, A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
"… a better objective for support units would be the following: to effectively fulfill their administrative duties with as small an impact as possible on the specialists’ main work obligations. If tak…"-Cal Newport, A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
9. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
By: Heather McGhee
4.63
Format: 415 pages, Hardcover
Heather McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the Am… read more
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"They have to make Americans afraid of one another. They're exploiting fear in America to sell guns."-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
"Ultimately, an economy, the rules we abide by and set for what's fair and who merits what, is an expression of our moral understanding."-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
"Instead of being blind to race, color blindness makes people blind to racism, unwilling to acknowledge where its effects have shaped opportunity or to use race-conscious solutions to address it."-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
"It's often unconscious, but their perception of The Other as undeserving is so important to their perception of themselves as deserving that they'll tear apart the web that supports everyone, includi…"-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
10. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
By: Steven Levitsky
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is ou… read more
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"Authoritarian politicians cast their rivals as criminal, subversive, unpatriotic, or a threat to national security or the existing way of life."-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes."-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"Institutions become political weapons, wielded forcefully by those who control them against those who do not. This is how elected autocrats subvert democracy—packing and “weaponizing"-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"But when faced with a would-be authoritarian, establishment politicians must unambiguously reject him or her and do everything possible to defend democratic institutions—even if that means temporaril…"-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
11. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
By: Maggie Haberman
4.09
Format: 597 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidenc… read more
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"Trump is to business what professional wrestling is to sports: part of it, certainly, but also a cartoonish parody of it."-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
"[White House Chief of Staff and Four-Star General John] Kelly shared with [Mick} Mulvaney {who was appointed when Kelly resigned] his view that Trump was the most flawed person he had ever met."-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
12. 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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13. The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court
By: Sheldon Whitehouse
4.48
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“A damning investigation of dark money by a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee” ( Kirk… read more
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14. 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
15. The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
By: Rachel L. Swarns
4.13
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New W… read more
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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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
20. Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right
By: Anne Nelson
4.27
Format: 431 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1981, emboldened by Ronald Reagan's election, a group of some fifty Republican operatives, evang… read more
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21. Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
By: Rachel Maddow
4.35
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
In 2010, the words “earthquake swarm” entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of M… read more
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"A trained Soviet KGB operative then heading its successor outfit, the FSB, Putin had done the sitting Russian president the memorable favor of successfully derailing the criminal investigation into t…"-Rachel Maddow, Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
"It's easy to look back on those strange days at the end of September 2003 and identify the warnings signs about Putin and Russia that American policy makers missed. But it would be unfair to them, an…"-Rachel Maddow, Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
22. Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
By: Dahlia Lithwick
4.40
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Senior Editor and one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, tells the… read more
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"Being told you are believed without consequences being levied is neither justice nor power. And that is the real problem when women's pain is substituted for actual justice. Pain seems to have a sell…"-Dahlia Lithwick, Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
23. 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
24. The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party
By: Dana Milbank
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A scalding history of twenty-five years of Republican attempts to hold… read more
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25. 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
26. Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines
By: David Pepper
4.51
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
“It’s the statehouses, stupid.” Laboratories of Autocracy shows that far more than the high-prof… read more
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27. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By: Anthony Fauci
4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more
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28. Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality
By: Jacob S. Hacker
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The Republican Party appears to be divided between a tax-cutting old guard and a white-nationalist … read more
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"As the concentration of wealth and power at the top increased, the Democratic Party faced cross-pressures that muddied its message and moderated its stances on economic matters. The Republic Party, i…"-Jacob S. Hacker, Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality
29. 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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30. A Simple Choice
By: David Pepper
3.88
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
A propulsive political thriller featuring two outsiders caught up in a stunning conspiracy, filled … read more
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31. Saving Democracy: A User's Manual for Every American
By: David Pepper
4.39
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
Laboratories of Autocracy walked through the hidden breadth, depth, and intensity of the countrywid… read more
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