29 Top history books like Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 by Kevin M. Kruse

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Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

By: Kevin M. Kruse

4.06

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

"A gripping and troubling account of the origins of our turbulent times.” ―Jill Lepore, author of T…

If you liked the history plot in Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 by Kevin M. Kruse , here is a list of 29 books like this:

Cover of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean

1. Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

By: Nancy MacLean

4.29

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

Behind today’s headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political establ… read more

Similar categories in Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America book and Kevin M. Kruse's Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
"Both Buchanan and Calhoun[...] were concerned wit the "failure of democracy to preserve liberty"

-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

"Interestingly, these conclusions issued from purely abstract thought experiments, not from any research on political practice."

-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

"...as Einhorn points out: "The anti-government rhetoric that continues to saturate our political life is rooted support for slavery rather than liberty"

-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

"[...] Rothbard explained, was "that it was intervention of the State that in itself created the classes and the conflict", not the labor relations of the economy, as previous thinkers believed"

-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

Cover of All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer

2. All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

By: Stephen Kinzer

4.12

Format: 29 pages, Paperback

An American Coup & the Roots of Middle East Terror Half a century ago, the United States overthrew … read more

Similar categories in Stephen Kinzer's All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror book and Kevin M. Kruse's Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction

3. A Queer History of the United States

By: Michael Bronski

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian… read more

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Cover of Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow

4. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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5. The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

By: Philip S. Gorski

4.19

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A bracing examination of a force that imperils American democracy Most Americans were shocked by t… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
"White Christian nationalism is a “deep story"

-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

"For white Americans who affirm Christian nationalist ideology, “true Americans"

-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

"Even as it’s become riskier for mainstream politicians to use negative dog whistles like “thug"

-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

"It’s not that Christian nationalists have a different understanding of American history; it’s that they often have an incorrect understanding."

-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

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6. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. 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

Similar categories in Peter Baker's The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 book and Kevin M. Kruse's Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson

8. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more

Similar categories in Heather Cox Richardson's Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America book and Kevin M. Kruse's Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
Cover of 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan

9. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

By: James Kaplan

4.35

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta

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

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

By: Steven Levitsky

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is ou… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
"Authoritarian politicians cast their rivals as criminal, subversive, unpatriotic, or a threat to national security or the existing way of life."

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes."

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"Institutions become political weapons, wielded forcefully by those who control them against those who do not. This is how elected autocrats subvert democracy—packing and “weaponizing"

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"But when faced with a would-be authoritarian, establishment politicians must unambiguously reject him or her and do everything possible to defend democratic institutions—even if that means temporaril…"

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

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12. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

Similar categories in Sarah McCammon's The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church book and Kevin M. Kruse's Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future by Jean M. Twenge

13. Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future

By: Jean M. Twenge

4.05

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United Stat… read more

Similar categories in Jean M. Twenge's Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future book and Kevin M. Kruse's Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"John Della Volpe, the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, spoke to hundreds of young people for his 2022 book, Fight: How Gen Z Is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Sa…"

-Jean M. Twenge, Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future

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14. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution

By: Jeremy D. Popkin

4.21

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern wo… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy D. Popkin's A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution book and Kevin M. Kruse's Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky

15. 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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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
Cover of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew

16. 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

Similar categories in Kathleen Belew's Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America book and Kevin M. Kruse's Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat

17. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat

4.23

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountabi… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Ben-Ghiat's Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present book and Kevin M. Kruse's Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
"Designed for instant impact and encouraging feelings of omnipotence, Twitter is the perfect tool for an impulsive, attention-addicted strongman."

-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

"Many strongmen, past and present, have used populist rhetoric that defines their nations as bound by faith, race, and ethnicity rather than by legal rights. For authoritarians, only some people are "…"

-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

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

18. 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

Similar categories in Mark Leibovich's Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission book and Kevin M. Kruse's Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
Cover of American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump by Tim Alberta

19. 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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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
Cover of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion by Sean Carroll

20. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion

By: Sean Carroll

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that h… read more

Similar categories in Sean Carroll's The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion book and Kevin M. Kruse's Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston

21. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

By: Zora Neale Hurston

4.04

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The present was too urgent to let the past intrude."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

"You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

"So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

"Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembran…"

-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

Cover of They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms by Mike Hixenbaugh

22. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

By: Mike Hixenbaugh

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more

Similar categories in Mike Hixenbaugh's They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms book and Kevin M. Kruse's Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

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

23. 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

Similar categories in David Corn's American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy book and Kevin M. Kruse's Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

  • 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 Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum

24. 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

Similar categories in Emily Nussbaum's Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV book and Kevin M. Kruse's Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of A Most Tolerant Little Town: A Forgotten Story of Desegregation in America by Rachel Louise Martin

25. A Most Tolerant Little Town: A Forgotten Story of Desegregation in America

By: Rachel Louise Martin

4.22

Format: 384 pages, ebook

An intimate portrait of a small town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forg… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Louise Martin's A Most Tolerant Little Town: A Forgotten Story of Desegregation in America book and Kevin M. Kruse's Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America by Michael MacCambridge

26. The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

By: Michael MacCambridge

4.25

Format: 487 pages, Hardcover

“Indispensable history.” –Sally Jenkins, bestselling author of  The Right Call A captivating chr… read more

Similar categories in Michael MacCambridge's The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America book and Kevin M. Kruse's Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 by Kevin M. Kruse

27. Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

By: Kevin M. Kruse

4.06

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

"A gripping and troubling account of the origins of our turbulent times.” ―Jill Lepore, author of T… read more

Similar categories in Kevin M. Kruse's Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 book and Kevin M. Kruse's Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history and politics
  • 21st century
  • political science
  • audiobook
Cover of Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America by John Sides

28. Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America

By: John Sides

4.13

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, in-depth account of the 2016 presidential election that explains Donald Trump's histori… read more

Similar categories in John Sides's Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America book and Kevin M. Kruse's Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
Cover of True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between by Gretchen Whitmer

29. True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

By: Gretchen Whitmer

4.34

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventi… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Whitmer's True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between book and Kevin M. Kruse's Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld by Dan Slater

30. The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld

By: Dan Slater

3.91

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The harrowing tale of an immigrant underworld, a secret vice squad, and the rise of organized crime… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild

31. Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right

By: Arlie Russell Hochschild

4.17

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, the National Book Award f… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science

27 Top audiobook books like Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 by Kevin M. Kruse

Transform Your Habits

Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

Nancy MacLean

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

4.45

Transform Your Habits

The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

Philip S. Gorski

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

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21 Top audiobook books like Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future by Jean M. Twenge

Transform Your Habits

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

Transform Your Habits

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

Yascha Mounk

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

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