A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism
By: Nelson Lichtenstein
4.17
Format: 504 pages, Hardcover
How the Clinton administration betrayed its progressive principles and capitulated to the right …
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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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"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
2. Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
By: Ari Berman
4.39
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking narrative history, Ari Berman charts both the transformation of American dem… read more
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"The unfortunate reality is that, even today, too many citizens have reason to fear that their right to vote, their access to the ballot--and their ability to have their votes counted--is under threat…"-Ari Berman, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
"The Dallas Times Herald ran a cartoon mocking the [Reagan] administration's position. "We don't oppose the extension of the Voting Rights Act ... but we think the test of discrimination should be int…"-Ari Berman, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
3. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By: Richard Rothstein
2.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more
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4. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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5. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
By: James Forman Jr.
3.00
Format: None pages,
In recent years, America's criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent… read more
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6. Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
By: Jefferson R. Cowie
3.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An epic account of how middle-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals o… read more
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7. Battle Cry of Freedom
By: James M. McPherson
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more
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8. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
By: Richard B. Morris , Henry Steele Commager , Eric Foner
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) ma… read more
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9. The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021
By: Peter Baker
4.46
Format: 725 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "The most comprehensive and detailed account of the Trump presidency ye… read more
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10. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
11. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
By: Zeke Faux
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more
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12. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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- american history
- history
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"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
13. 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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- nonfiction
14. The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
By: Les Payne
4.34
Format: 612 pages, Hardcover
Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a near… read more
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- american history
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"In America, the Jews sap the very life-blood of the so-called Negroes to maintain the state of Israel, its armies and its continues aggression against our brothers in the East."-Les Payne, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
15. 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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- american history
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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
16. Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World
By: Matt Alt
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that ca… read more
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17. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
By: Andy Greenberg
4.50
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrenc… read more
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18. Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
By: Maya Schenwar
4.44
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A crucial indictment of widely embraced “alternatives to incarceration” that exposes how many of th… read more
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"The same factors that propelled mass incarceration - racism, "law and order" politics, the war on drugs, the destruction of the social safety net - also propelled mass supervision."-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
"Monitors and house arrest aren't rehabilitative or transformative - they don't support people in making changes that would be helpful to their lives, gaining needed resources, addressing harm or viol…"-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
"Unlike prisons, psychiatric institutions can be entered voluntarily, and people often turn to them in pursuit of treatment. But when used involuntarily as prison replacements, hospitals mimic persons…"-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
"Many types of treatment claim to be about fixing the so-called problems of madness. The real problem is that certain ways of experiencing the world are seen as categorical threats— to normativity, to…"-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
19. 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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20. Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians
By: Noam Chomsky
4.19
Format: 578 pages, Paperback
The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians is a 1983 book by Noam Chomsky… read more
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21. The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
By: Nicholas Mulder
3.87
Format: 434 pages, Hardcover
The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period a… read more
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"The policy debate about sanctions has been repeated almost every decade since the [League of Nations] was created in the wake of World War I. At its core has been the perennial question: do economic …"-Nicholas Mulder, The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
22. Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power
By: Timothy W. Ryback
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler’s Private Library , a dramatic recounting of th… read more
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23. The Book of Ayn
By: Lexi Freiman
3.22
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An original and hilarious satire of both our political culture and those who rage against it, The B… read more
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"I met Ming at an old run-down bistro in Santa Monica. My friend had been writing her great McLuhanesque horror film for the last nine years—"The Medium Is the Monster." Each time she finished a draft…"-Lexi Freiman, The Book of Ayn
24. The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It
By: Dorothy A. Brown
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert o… read more
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"Once again, a single sentence would hold the key. I found it in The Economic Status of Black Women: An Exploratory Investigation, a 1990 staff report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: On averag…"-Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It
25. A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism
By: Nelson Lichtenstein
4.17
Format: 504 pages, Hardcover
How the Clinton administration betrayed its progressive principles and capitulated to the right … read more
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26. Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy
By: Isaac Arnsdorf
3.92
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An explosive, behind-the-scenes look at how a radical group of activists — supported by former Pres… read more
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27. 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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28. To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq
By: Robert Draper
4.30
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Dead Certain comes the definitive, revelatory reck… read more
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29. American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
By: Alan Taylor
4.45
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
A Pulitzer Prize winner’s masterful history of the Civil War and its reverberations across the cont… read more
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30. Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861
By: Robert W. Merry
4.16
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Exploring a critical lesson about our nation that is as timely today as ever, Decade of Disunion sh… read more
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31. 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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