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…
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1. All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
By: Becca Rothfeld
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed debut author's glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in culture in favor of… read more
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- cultural
- nonfiction
- audiobook
2. Great Expectations
By: Vinson Cunningham
3.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more
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- politics
- audiobook
"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
3. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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- american history
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
4. There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland
By: Steven Hyden
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album, Born in the U.S.A. —a record … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
By: Steven Johnson
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York—and the detective duo w… read more
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- american history
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
6. 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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- american history
- american
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
7. Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power
By: Timothy W. Ryback
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler’s Private Library , a dramatic recounting of th… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
9. Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
By: Craig Whitlock
4.39
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest publi… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
"After a decade of U.S. wars and surging defense budgets, an expectation of special treatment had taken root in the Navy. Many officers felt they were owed something extra for enduring long deployment…"-Craig Whitlock, Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
10. 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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- cultural
- american history
- american
- history
- the united states of america
- politics
- nonfiction
- crime
- economics
- audiobook
11. Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
By: Tom McGrath
3.91
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In Triumph of the Yuppies, Tom McGrath presents the first-ever book-length history of the Yuppie ph… read more
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- cultural
- american history
- american
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- economics
- audiobook
12. 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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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
13. 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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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
"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.
14. 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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- american history
- american
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982
By: Chris Nashawaty
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From legendary entertainment journalist and author of Caddyshack comes a rollicking history of 1980… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
16. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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- audiobook
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
17. 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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- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. White Robes and Broken Badges: Infiltrating the KKK and Exposing the Evil Among Us
By: Joe Moore
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this shocking memoir, a former FBI informant reveals what he learned from successfully infiltrat… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
19. Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich
By: Richard J. Evans
4.27
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
Through a connected set of biographical portraits of key Nazi figures that follows power as it radi… read more
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- audiobook
20. Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
By: Kate Conger
4.32
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time … read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
