31 must-read nonfiction books like Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted by Jeremy W. Peters

Cover of Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted by Jeremy W. Peters

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…

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Cover of Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party by Jonathan Karl

1. Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party

By: Jonathan Karl

4.28

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

An extraordinary view into the politics of our times, Tired of Winning explores how Donald Trump re… read more

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Cover of The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Peter Baker

2. The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021

By: Peter Baker

4.46

Format: 725 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "The most comprehensive and detailed account of the Trump presidency ye… read more

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3. 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

Cover of Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America by Will Sommer

4. 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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Cover of Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman

5. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

By: Maggie Haberman

4.09

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidenc… read more

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"Trump is to business what professional wrestling is to sports: part of it, certainly, but also a cartoonish parody of it."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

"[White House Chief of Staff and Four-Star General John] Kelly shared with [Mick} Mulvaney {who was appointed when Kelly resigned] his view that Trump was the most flawed person he had ever met."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

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6. This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy

By: Jonathan Martin

4.00

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency by… read more

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Cover of Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky

7. 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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8. The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future

By: Franklin Foer

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Franklin Foer tells the definitive insider story of the first two years of the Biden presidency, wi… read more

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Cover of I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year by Carol Leonnig

9. I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

By: Carol Leonnig

4.39

Format: 476 pages, Kindle Edition

The instant #1 New York Times bestseller | A Washington Post Notable Book | One of NPR's Best Books… read more

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10. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

By: Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more

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Cover of Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff

11. Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could

By: Adam Schiff

4.52

Format: 537 pages, Kindle Edition

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, … read more

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Cover of Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission by Mark Leibovich

12. 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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Cover of Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right by Matthew Dallek

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. Blowback A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump

By: Miles Taylor

4.44

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

Donald Trump will be president again, whether he is on the ballot or not. That is because Trumpism … read more

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Cover of A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America by Philip Rucker

15. A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America

By: Philip Rucker

4.10

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive insider narrative and the most fully characterised account yet of the chaos, scandal… read more

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Cover of They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency by Malcolm W. Nance

16. They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency

By: Malcolm W. Nance

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, LOS ANGELES TIMES, USA TODAY AND GREAT LAKES INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLER ASSOCIATI… read more

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Cover of Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass by Ramin Setoodeh

17. Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass

By: Ramin Setoodeh

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the editor in chief of Variety and author of the New York Times bestseller Ladies Who Punch, t… read more

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Cover of The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020 by Jonathan   Lemire

18. The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020

By: Jonathan Lemire

4.10

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

From the White House Bureau Chief of Politico and the host of MSNBC's Way Too Early comes a probing… read more

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Cover of Holding the Line: Inside the Nation's Preeminent US Attorney's Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department by Geoffrey Berman

19. Holding the Line: Inside the Nation's Preeminent US Attorney's Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department

By: Geoffrey Berman

4.24

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

"Throughout my tenure as US attorney, Trump's Justice Department kept demanding that I use my offic… read more

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Cover of Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America by Barbara McQuade

20. 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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Cover of Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and THE WASHINGTON POST by Martin Baron

21. Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and THE WASHINGTON POST

By: Martin Baron

4.20

Format: 549 pages, Kindle Edition

“A closely observed, gripping chronicle of politics and journalism during a decade of turmoil.” — T… read more

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Cover of American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy by David Corn

22. 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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"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 Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party by Dana Milbank

23. 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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Cover of Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy by Brian Stelter

24. Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy

By: Brian Stelter

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The  New York Times  bestselling author of  HOAX,  “[a] rare look inside the profoundly influential… read more

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Cover of Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind by Robert Draper

25. Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind

By: Robert Draper

4.12

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2022 The disturbing eyewitness account of how a new … read more

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Cover of Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America by Kurt Andersen

26. Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America

By: Kurt Andersen

4.22

Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells t… read more

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"Such a colossal irony: after socialists and Communists in the 1930s and then the New Left in the 1960s had tried and failed to achieve a radical class-based reordering of the American political econo…"

-Kurt Andersen, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America

"...In all this, financialization has done what people back in the 1950s and '60s and '70s worried and warned that the Communists would do if they took over: centralize control of the economy, turn Am…"

-Kurt Andersen, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America

"...Libertarians fantasize that they're action heroes and entirely self-made. They tend to exempt themselves from the truism that there but for the grace of God goes each one of them, because an impli…"

-Kurt Andersen, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America

"...The economic right was shrewd enough to understand that the issues they didn't care much about--abortion, gay rights, creationism--did matter to liberals, and that those culture wars drew off poli…"

-Kurt Andersen, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America

Cover of The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and The People Who Stopped It by Mark Bowden

27. The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and The People Who Stopped It

By: Mark Bowden

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the sixty-four days between November 3 and January 6, President Donald Trump and his allies foug… read more

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Cover of Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted by Jeremy W. Peters

28. 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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Cover of It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump by Stuart Stevens

29. It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump

By: Stuart Stevens

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

"A brilliant, unflinching look at the descent of the GOP - backed up with data, historic sweep & fi… read more

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Cover of Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America by Dan Pfeiffer

30. Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America

By: Dan Pfeiffer

4.15

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

“BATTLING THE BIG LIE is an important read for anyone who’s wondering how the far right traffics in… read more

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31. 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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"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.

31 must-read audiobook books like Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted by Jeremy W. Peters

Transform Your Habits

Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party

Jonathan Karl

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021

Peter Baker

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

Tim Miller

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America

Will Sommer

4.09

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Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories

Mike Rothschild

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat

Derek Beres

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta

4.45

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