12 must-read politics books like The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series) by Thom Hartmann

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The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)

By: Thom Hartmann

4.38

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and …

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Cover of Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrman

1. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

By: Bart D. Ehrman

3.93

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand––and mistakes and intenti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer

2. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

By: Jane Mayer

4.16

Format: 76 pages, ebook

Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal

3. An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

By: Elisabeth Rosenthal

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

A New York Times bestseller "The definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.… read more

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  • health care
  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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4. Only the Paranoid Survive

By: Andrew S. Grove

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel has become the world's largest chip maker and one of the most … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Gods of Risk (The Expanse, #2.5) by James S.A. Corey

5. Gods of Risk (The Expanse, #2.5)

By: James S.A. Corey

3.67

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

As tension between Mars and Earth mounts, and terrorism plagues the Martian city of Londres Nova, s… read more

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  • audiobook

6. Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans

By: Wendell Potter

3.33

Format: None pages,

"My name is Wendell Potter, and for twenty years I worked as a senior executive at health insurance… read more

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7. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

By: Siddharth Kara

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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8. 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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  • social science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • 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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9. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

4.55

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

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10. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

By: Jonathan M. Metzl

4.10

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences—even for the white vo… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It's a narrative about how "whiteness" becomes a formation worth living and dying for, and how, in myriad ways and on multiple levels, white Americans bet their lives on particular sets of meanings a…"

-Jonathan M. Metzl, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

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11. The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It

By: Marty Makary

4.47

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"A must-read for every American and business leader." --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBESFrom t… read more

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  • health care
  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Adrift: America in 100 Charts by Scott Galloway

12. Adrift: America in 100 Charts

By: Scott Galloway

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and NYU business school professor Scott Galloway comes an urgent examinatio… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria

13. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Fourth Turning Is Here:

By: Neil Howe

3.96

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Twenty-five years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy by David Corn

15. American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy

By: David Corn

4.33

Format: 18 pages, Audiobook

#1 New York Times bestselling author and investigative reporter David Corn tells the wild and harro… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We can have an American president who does not govern with negativism and fear of the future."

-David Corn, American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy

Cover of The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series) by Thom Hartmann

16. The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)

By: Thom Hartmann

4.38

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and … read more

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  • social science
  • american history
  • history
  • health care
  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Tragedy of Heterosexuality

By: Jane Ward

4.16

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo Heterosexuality is in crisis. Re… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health

By: Leana Wen

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From medical expert Leana Wen, MD., an insider’s account of public health and its crucial role—from… read more

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  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

By: Alice Wong

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more

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13 Best audiobook books like The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series) by Thom Hartmann

Transform Your Habits

Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

Bart D. Ehrman

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Jane Mayer

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Gods of Risk (The Expanse, #2.5)

James S.A. Corey

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

4.37

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11 must-read economics books like The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It by Marty Makary

Transform Your Habits

America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System

Steven Brill

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

T.R. Reid

3.47

Transform Your Habits

Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father—and How We Can Fix It

David Goldhill

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health

Anupam B. Jena

3.68

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