Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
By: Andrew Marantz
4.21
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From a rising star at The New Yorker, a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic entreprene…
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1. The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science
By: Will Storr
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Will Storr was in the tropical north of Australia, excavating fossils with a celebrity creationist,… read more
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"Exposure to a mixed body of evidence made both sides even more convinced of the fundamental soundness of their original beliefs.' Confirmation bias is profoundly human and it is appalling. When new i…"-Will Storr, The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science
"It might weigh little over a kilogram but, taken on its own scale, the brain is unimaginably vast. One cubic millimetre contains between twenty and twenty-five thousand neurons. It has eighty-six bil…"-Will Storr, The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science
2. Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
By: Katy Tur
3.96
Format: 192 pages, Audiobook
7 hours, 46 minutes Called "disgraceful," "third-rate," and "not nice" by Donald Trump, NBC New… read more
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"Putin’s invasion of Ukraine isn’t a staring contest. It’s a land grab, the first of this scale since World War II. But when asked about it, instead of walking up to the plate and swinging at the soft…"-Katy Tur, Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
"Hillary Clinton recently called Trump's supporters a 'basket of deplorables,' and while some might be easy to single out like that, most aren't. A lot are your coworkers and your neighbors. They're y…"-Katy Tur, Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
3. Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
By: Angela Nagle
4.08
Format: 88 pages, ebook
Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle … read more
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4. The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld
By: Jamie Bartlett
3.66
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS AND LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE Beyond the familiar o… read more
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5. Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump
By: David Neiwert
3.85
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
Just as Donald Trump's victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked liberal Americans, the see… read more
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6. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
By: Jamie Loftus
3.92
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique―comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw … read more
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"WE NEED MORE WOMEN PRIESTS! a billboard declares a few miles outside of Buffalo, a new cursed addition to a folder in my Google Drive called 'feminism except not really."-Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
7. Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
By: Talia Lavin
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Talia Lavin is every skinhead’s worst nightmare: a loud and unapologetic Jewish woman, acerbic, sma… read more
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"We tend to like our noble lawbreakers to be comfortably in the past, where time and death have sanitized them into heroes, and to suffer those who struggle against injustice in the present only grudg…"-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
"One you start gazing into the abyss of the far right, pretty soon it turns its gaze right back on you. And its gaze is a fearsome thing, a twisted thing, one full of boredom and anger that have calci…"-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
"The worst people are still people; their humanity is impossible to disregard, but it does not absolve them. If anything, it makes their choices more abhorrent, surrounded, as they are, by the banalit…"-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
"Despite the fact that [...] 71% of murders related to extremism in the United States between 2008 and 2017 were committed by members of far-right or white-supremacist movements, federal authorities h…"-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
8. Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat
By: Derek Beres
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Conspirituality takes a deep dive into the troubling phenomenon of influencers who have curdled New… read more
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9. The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
By: Mike Rothschild
3.84
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
This is the real story of QAnon—what it is, what it means, and where it goes. And be warned—none of… read more
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10. 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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11. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
By: Kathleen Belew
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"Belew's book helps explain how we got to today's alt right."―Terry Gross, Fresh Air The white p… read more
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"The story of white power as a social movement exposes something broader about the enduring impact of state violence in America. It reveals one catastrophic ricochet of the Vietnam War, in the form of…"-Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
12. American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
By: Tim Alberta
4.17
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the makin… read more
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13. 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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14. Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
By: Anna Merlan
3.90
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories, exploring the caus… read more
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"Basically," he said, "it's black people who scare them."-Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
"A weird thing about being black is some of it is true and some of it is not," Michael Harriot told me reflectively. "But," he said, "none of it is crazy."-Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
"Truth and fact-checking travel along the same paths that conspiracies do. But the truth is often complicated, shaded and demanding, and there's no denying that it often lacks the powerful, emotional,…"-Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
15. Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
By: Andrew Marantz
4.21
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From a rising star at The New Yorker, a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic entreprene… read more
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16. It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
By: Dale Beran
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An insider's history of the website at the end of the world, which burst into politics and memed Do… read more
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"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce, Karl Marx wrote, correcting Hegel. But what's next? There's no word for a farce of a farce."-Dale Beran, It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
"For this reason, entering into the cool, safe bubble of Otakon, where adolescents attempted to commune with the comforting kids' fantasy on the other side of the screen felt slightly unsettling to me…"-Dale Beran, It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
"Were the future leaders of the United States who had won coveted tickets to the highest echelons of the neoliberal meritocracy — the ones who were supposed to take over the newspapers, high political…"-Dale Beran, It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
"This was, of course, the function of art, to reveal the nuances of imagination hidden under shame. But it was also art sans art, as 4chan negated everything, even itself. Art born from some insistent…"-Dale Beran, It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
17. 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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18. Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism
By: Seyward Darby
4.19
Format: 11 pages, Audio CD
A revealing, unsettling portrait of white nationalism, told through the lives of three women whose … read more
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"Hate can be understood as a social bond, a complex phenomenon that occurs among people as a means of mattering and belonging."-Seyward Darby, Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism
19. Going Mainstream: How extremists are taking over
By: Julia Ebner
3.77
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
'Piercingly revelatory ... a tour de force' - Carl Miller, author of The Death of the Gods'...a mus… read more
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20. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
By: Jesselyn Cook
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more
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21. Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol: The Explosive Story of M19, America's First Female Terrorist Group
By: William Rosenau
3.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In a shocking, never-before-told story from the vaults of American history, Tonight We Bombed the U… read more
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