The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story
By: Kermit Roosevelt III
4.49
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Our idea of the Founders' America and its values is not true. We are not the heirs of the Founders,…
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1. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
By: Brittney Cooper
4.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Black women are often considered angry and divisive in their interactions with others in both publi… read more
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2. A Short History of Reconstruction
By: Eric Foner
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An abridged version of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution,the definitive study of the … 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. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more
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5. The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
By: Andrew L. Seidel
4.45
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Do “In God We Trust,” the Declaration of Independence, and other historical “evidence” prove that A… read more
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"Evangelical Christianity invaded and polarized the political debate in the decades leading up to the Civil War, limiting the potential political solutions. It turned the democratic process, which rel…"-Andrew L. Seidel, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
"In God we Trust", "one nation under God," "God bless America." These tidbits are not historical so much as they are rhetorical. Their tardiness precludes arguments that they somehow prove the foundin…"-Andrew L. Seidel, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
"Trump's dictatorial tendencies and mendacity, negative attributes for many voters, poised him perfectly to manipulate the evangelical mind. Like the biblical god evangelicals worship, Trump is a thin…"-Andrew L. Seidel, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
"For the average American during the 1950s, afraid of facing societal backlash, the question may simply have been: Which god or which religion? Today, the question is not which god or religion, but: S…"-Andrew L. Seidel, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
6. 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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7. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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8. Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt, and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History
By: Liam Vaughan
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of a trading prodigy who amassed $70 million from his childhood bedroom--until t… read more
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9. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
4.14
Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Natha… read more
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10. 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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11. 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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12. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
By: Eric Foner
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes tha… read more
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13. 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
14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System
By: M. Chris Fabricant
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An insider's journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role junk science… read more
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18. 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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19. 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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20. Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart--Again
By: Robert Kagan
4.48
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
A chilling and clear-eyed warning about the threats to our democracy posed by the increasing radica… read more
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21. In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power (Dispatch Books)
By: Alfred W. McCoy
4.16
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
In a completely original analysis, prize-winning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America’s rise … read more
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22. 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
23. The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story
By: Kermit Roosevelt III
4.49
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Our idea of the Founders' America and its values is not true. We are not the heirs of the Founders,… read more
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24. The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
By: Manisha Sinha
4.23
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction that fundamentally alters our view of thi… read more
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25. This America: The Case for the Nation
By: Jill Lepore
4.05
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Jill Lepore makes a stirring case f… read more
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"There have always been those who argued that the end justifies the means, that the means aren’t really important,"-Jill Lepore, This America: The Case for the Nation
26. Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It
By: Ari Berman
4.37
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democ… read more
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27. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
By: Elle Reeve
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more
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28. 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.
29. A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights (New Histories of American Law)
By: Laura F. Edwards
4.16
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Although hundreds of thousands of people died fighting in the Civil War, perhaps the war's biggest … read more
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30. Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
By: Austin Frerick
4.20
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyo… read more
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31. Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past
By: Steve Benen
4.50
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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