Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
By: Stacey Abrams
4.42
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"This is a narrative that describes the urgency that compels me and millions more to push for a dif…
Want to Read $ 11.99"…any voter denied a say in democracy has been harmed, and a remedy is in order regardless of the effect on an electoral outcome."-Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
"…any voter denied a say in democracy has been harmed, and a remedy is in order regardless of the effect on an electoral outcome."-Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
"I embrace identity politics because for the marginalized, the disadvantaged, and the minority groups still grappling for purchase in our politics, identity is the strongest defense against invisibility."-Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
"I embrace identity politics because for the marginalized, the disadvantaged, and the minority groups still grappling for purchase in our politics, identity is the strongest defense against invisibility."-Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
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1. Wizards at War (Young Wizards, #8)
By: Diane Duane
4.04
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
Nita and Kit return from their wizardly holiday, looking forward to getting back to their everyday … read more
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2. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By: Isabel Wilkerson
4.53
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more
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"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
By: Nikole Hannah-Jones
4.62
Format: 590 pages, Hardcover
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a revealing vision of the American past and present. … read more
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5. 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
6. 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
7. One Way Back: A Memoir
By: Christine Blasey Ford
4.30
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more
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8. The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
By: Michelle Obama
4.27
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER - ONE OF TIME'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2022 - In an insp… read more
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"Going high is about learning to keep the poison out and the power in."-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
"Being different conditions you toward cautiousness, even as it demands being bold."-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
"Life has shown me that strong friendships are most often the result of strong intentions. Your table needs to be deliberately built, deliberately populated, and deliberately tended to."-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
"Real-world connections most often tend to cut against stereotypes. They can be remarkably calming, in fact—a small but potent way to reset a bad mood or challenge broader feelings of mistrust. The on…"-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
9. Persist
By: Elizabeth Warren
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The inspiring, influential senator and bestselling author mixes vivid personal stories with a passi… read more
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"Plans are the essential means by which we chart a course for our collective future."-Elizabeth Warren, Persist
"And early on I learned that no one gives you anything for free. If you really care about something, if you really want something, you have to fight for it."-Elizabeth Warren, Persist
"Whether the future looks scary or bright, plans are hopes made practical. They reassure people that there's a roadmap that will take them to a better place and they give people a reason to join in th…"-Elizabeth Warren, Persist
"Despite the overwhelming evidence of the impact of racism, today the fundamental idea of race neutrality continues to claim an elevated status in law. The consequence, Professor Ibram Kendi observes,…"-Elizabeth Warren, Persist
10. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
By: Kamala Harris
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us,… read more
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"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
". . . Being a good person meant standing for something larger than yourself; that success is measured in part by what you help others achieve and accomplish."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
11. Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
By: Pete Buttigieg
4.20
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Once described by the Washington Post as “the most interesting mayor you’ve never heard of,” Pete B… read more
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"As I raised the glass and said, "South Bend is back," the roar of the crowd at once reflected, certified, and caused it to be so."-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
"Yet even now he looked on his days as mayor -- not governor or lieutenant governor or baseball team owner or naval aviator -- as the best job he'd ever had."-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
"At one point I learned that when I'd told them my college coursework in Arabic might make me a good intelligence officer, they had recorded that my minor at Harvard had been in aerobics."-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
"I had a professional background in economic development and was fluent in the language of business - even while having fought and bled politically for organized labor in the auto industry."-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
12. 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
13. 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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14. Trust: America's Best Chance
By: Pete Buttigieg
4.14
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Pete Buttigieg demonstrates how a breakdown of trust is central to our nation’s current predicament… read more
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"The truth is our election system is flawed. But it will only be improved if we trust it enough to use it to elect people committed to fixing it."-Pete Buttigieg, Trust: America's Best Chance
"To love a country, as to love a person, is to love a flawed and exquisite creation, to see what is best in it, to be angry when it is not what it could be, precisely because you have seen glimmers of…"-Pete Buttigieg, Trust: America's Best Chance
"When no one’s word is authoritative, any crank is as credible as the next person. It is the irony at the heart of conspiracy thinking: You can’t trust anyone these days, so you may as well place some…"-Pete Buttigieg, Trust: America's Best Chance
15. Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
By: Stacey Abrams
4.42
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"This is a narrative that describes the urgency that compels me and millions more to push for a dif… read more
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"…any voter denied a say in democracy has been harmed, and a remedy is in order regardless of the effect on an electoral outcome."-Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
"I embrace identity politics because for the marginalized, the disadvantaged, and the minority groups still grappling for purchase in our politics, identity is the strongest defense against invisibili…"-Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
"Difference is real, and to acknowledge such does no harm to the American identity as a whole. The vibrance of our identity politics reaffirms the complexity of our nation and the underpinning of our …"-Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
"My non-concession speech on November 16, 2018, served as a declaration of intent. We have been taught to expect concessions not only to the outcome of an electoral contest but to the system that unde…"-Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
16. One Person, One Vote: A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America
By: Nick Seabrook
3.67
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A redistricting crisis is now upon us. This surprising, compelling book tells the history of how we… read more
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17. The (Other) F Word: A Celebration of the Fat and Fierce
By: Angie Manfredi
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
"This outstanding anthology of essays, illustrations, poems, and letters . . . is a celebration of … read more
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18. Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump
By: Dan Pfeiffer
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From Obama's former communications director and current co-host of Pod Save America comes a colorfu… read more
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"First and most important, our culture was a reflection of the man we served. Obama is at his core a really chill guy and I mean that in the most presidential way. He is a nice guy who expects his tea…"-Dan Pfeiffer, Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump
"During the campaign, I supported and encouraged the Clinton campaign strategy, but in hindsight, I lost track of one of the core lessons of Obama's success--campaigns are about telling the American p…"-Dan Pfeiffer, Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump
"Covering politics like sports has created a self-reinforcing incentive structure that is not dissimilar to the one the ESPN’S SportsCenter has on the fundamentals of basketball. There is a long-runni…"-Dan Pfeiffer, Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump
19. HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience
By: Ayesha Rascoe
4.36
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this joyous collection of essays about historically Black colleges and universities, alumni both… read more
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20. Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again
By: Dan Pfeiffer
4.21
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Yes We (Still) Can and cohost of Pod Save America,… read more
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"Fighting and losing is sometimes politically preferable to surrendering in silence."-Dan Pfeiffer, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again
"Politics is not that complicated, and it's in the economic interest of the pundits and consultants to make you believe you need a guru on an expensive retainer to understand it."-Dan Pfeiffer, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again
"The goal of gerrymandering to this degree is not just to make your vote count less; it’s to make you know your vote doesn’t count in the hope that you won’t vote again. Because why put in the effort …"-Dan Pfeiffer, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again
"Getting more people to vote more often is the most simple cure for the complex set of problems that plague America. A significant majority of Americans agree more with Democrats than Republicans, but…"-Dan Pfeiffer, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again
21. Kingdom of Rage: The Rise of Christian Extremism and the Path Back to Peace
By: Elizabeth Neumann
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The greatest ideologically motivated violent threat to American democracy is a Church that has lost… read more
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