Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party
By: Julian E. Zelizer
3.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The story of how Newt Gingrich and his allies tainted American politics, launching an enduring era …
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1. Strangers on a Bridge: The Case of Colonel Abel and Francis Gary Powers
By: Jason Matthews , James B. Donovan
4.54
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1964, this is the "enthralling...truly remarkable" (The New York Times Book… read more
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2. Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
By: Jonathan Allen , Amie Parnes
4.23
Format: 400 pages,
It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton … read more
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3. Presumed Innocent
By: Scott Turow
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rusty Sabich is chief deputy prosecuting attorney in a large mid-western city. His boss is in the m… read more
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4. The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
By: Michael Lewis
4.09
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy waite… read more
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"The problems that had been Obama's problems for the past eight years were about to become Trump's problems. But his people didn't seem to want to know about them."-Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
5. Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
By: Tim Miller
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Former Republican political operative Tim Miller admits what no one else on the right ever will: th… read more
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" Why We Did It is a book about the people who submitted to every whim of a comically unfit and detestable man who crapped all over them and took over the party they had given their life to. It’s abou…"-Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
6. Peril
By: Bob Woodward
4.09
Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition
The book covers the end of the Trump presidency and the early months of the Biden presidency. Th… read more
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"Graham said, "I can get an affidavit tomorrow saying the world is flat."-Bob Woodward, Peril
7. Fear: Trump in the White House
By: Bob Woodward
3.87
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodw… read more
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"He’s a fucking moron,"-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House
"When Trump called Mexicans “rapists"-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House
"Mr. President, you've got to buy some democrats," Graham said. The good news is they come cheap."-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House
"For Mr. Trump, though, bringing in Mr. Bannon was the political equivalent of ordering comfort food."-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House
8. 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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9. 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
10. Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission
By: Mark Leibovich
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times Bestseller "He's one of the best chroniclers of politics today." -Jake Tapp… read more
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11. The Catch (Slough House, #6.5)
By: Mick Herron
3.99
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Set in the same world as the Slough House series, this explosive novella by bestselling spy-master … read more
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12. The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
By: Peter Baker
4.45
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
Co-authored by the Chief White House correspondent at The New York Times and the Washington columni… read more
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13. Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation
By: Andrew Weissmann
4.39
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In the first and only inside account of the Mueller investigation, one … read more
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"I wanna be sure you know that, at any juncture, if you think I am a distraction to the work of the office or unnecessary baggage, I do not want to be here. I’d want to go. I’d want to do what is nece…"-Andrew Weissmann, Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation
"The power to pardon is conferred upon the presidency. It is not a personal power of the man or woman who inhabits the office. ... Where a pardon is being used to protect the president personally, or …"-Andrew Weissmann, Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation
14. The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism
By: Steve Kornacki
4.19
Format: None pages, Audiobook
17 Hours and 27 Minutes From MSNBC correspondent Steve Kornacki, a lively and sweeping history o… read more
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15. The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party
By: Dana Milbank
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A scalding history of twenty-five years of Republican attempts to hold… read more
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16. 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
17. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
By: David Treuer
4.23
Format: 526 pages, Kindle Edition
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE A sweeping history—and counter-narr… read more
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18. Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party
By: Julian E. Zelizer
3.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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19. Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted
By: Jeremy W. Peters
4.12
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
How did the party of Lincoln become the party of Trump? From a Washington reporter for The New York… read more
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20. Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth
By: Brian Stelter
4.08
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
The urgent and untold story of the collusion between Fox News and Donald Trump from the New York Ti… read more
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"I'm writing this book as a citizen; as an advocate for factual journalism; and as a new dad who thinks about what kind of world my children are going to inherit. This story is about a rot at the core…"-Brian Stelter, Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth
21. 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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