11 Top sociology books like The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe by Josh Mitchell

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The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe

By: Josh Mitchell

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An NPR Best Book of 2021 From acclaimed Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell, the “devastati…

If you liked the sociology plot in The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe by Josh Mitchell , here is a list of 11 books like this:

1. Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

By: Theodore Dalrymple

4.06

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Here is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it pers… read more

Similar categories in Theodore Dalrymple's Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass book and Josh Mitchell's The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe

  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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2. Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing

By: Jennifer Weiner

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

She's also a mom, a daughter, and a sister; a former rower and current cyclist; a best friend and a… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Weiner's Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing book and Josh Mitchell's The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few

By: Robert B. Reich

3.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the author of Aftershockand The Work of Nations, his most important book to date--a passionate… read more

Similar categories in Robert B. Reich's Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few book and Josh Mitchell's The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe

  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook

4. Street Smart: A Fifty-Year Mistake Set Right and the Great Urban Revival

By: William Rosen , None

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover for this edition can be found  With wit and sharp insight, former Traffic Commissi… read more

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5. Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

By: Christopher M. Palmer

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This is the book that will forever change the way we understand and treat mental health. If you … read more

Similar categories in Christopher M. Palmer's Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More book and Josh Mitchell's The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Depression in children, adolescents, and young adults is increasing as well. From 2006 to 2917, rates of depression the US increased by 68 percent in children ages twelve to seventeen. In people ages…"

-Christopher M. Palmer, Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

"The specific psychiatric disorders in which mitochrondrial dysfunction has been identified include the following: schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, major depression, autism, …"

-Christopher M. Palmer, Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

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6. 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

Similar categories in Stephen Vladeck's The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic book and Josh Mitchell's The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • 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

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7. 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

Similar categories in Matthew Desmond's Poverty, by America book and Josh Mitchell's The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"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

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8. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness book and Josh Mitchell's The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe

  • nonfiction
  • education
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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9. Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction

By: David Enrich

3.97

Format: 432 pages, ebook

New York Times finance editor David Enrich's explosive exposé of the most scandalous bank in the wo… read more

Similar categories in David Enrich's Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction book and Josh Mitchell's The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe

  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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10. The Age of Grievance

By: Frank Bruni

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more

Similar categories in Frank Bruni's The Age of Grievance book and Josh Mitchell's The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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11. The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation

By: Cory Doctorow

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A detailed disassembly manual for people who want to dismantle Big Tech When the tech platforms … read more

Similar categories in Cory Doctorow's The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation book and Josh Mitchell's The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Steven Levitsky's Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point book and Josh Mitchell's The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
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13. The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice

By: Fredrik deBoer

3.53

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Leftist firebrand Fredrik deBoer exposes the lie at the heart of our educational system and demands… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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14. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

By: Jane Marie

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more

Similar categories in Jane Marie's Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans book and Josh Mitchell's The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
  • audiobook
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15. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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16. The Common Good

By: Robert B. Reich

4.09

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Work of Nations, a passionate, clear-eyed… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
  • audiobook
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17. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By: Jonathan Blitzer

4.49

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream

By: David Leonhardt

4.28

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American D… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
  • audiobook
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19. The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe

By: Josh Mitchell

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An NPR Best Book of 2021 From acclaimed Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell, the “devastati… read more

Similar categories in Josh Mitchell's The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe book and Josh Mitchell's The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe

  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • money
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • sociology
  • business
  • audiobook
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20. Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis

By: Charles L. Marohn Jr.

4.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Explore the past, present, and future of housing in America, as well as solutions to its most press… read more

Similar categories in Charles L. Marohn Jr.'s Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis book and Josh Mitchell's The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe

  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back

By: Madiba Dennie

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwi… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction

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4.06

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3.15

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Matthew Desmond

4.27

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3.54

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Patric Gagne

3.84

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Emily Lynn Paulson

3.62

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Kate Kennedy

3.78

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