8 must-read business books like The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series) by Thom Hartmann

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The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)

By: Thom Hartmann

4.25

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

"This is the most important, dynamic book on the cancers of monopoly by giant corporations written …

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1. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

By: Nancy Isenberg

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In her groundbreaking history of the class system in America, extending from colonial times to the … read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid

By: Jimmy Carter

4.48

Format: 252 pages,

Following his #1 New York Timesbestseller, Our Endangered Values, the former president and winner o… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. 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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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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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4. 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
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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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5. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

By: Yascha Mounk

4.08

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. When McKinsey Comes to Town

By: Walt Bogdanich

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

**A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive exposé of the world's most pre… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
"One former McKinsey consultant wrote anonymously, ¨To those convinced that a secretive cabal controls the world, the usual suspect are Illuminati, Lizard People, or ´globalists.' They are wrong, natu…"

-Walt Bogdanich, When McKinsey Comes to Town

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7. Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness

By: Steve Magness

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From beloved performance expert, executive coach, and coauthor of Peak Performance Steve Magness co… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
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8. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

By: Tom Holland

4.26

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"

-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

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9. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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10. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

By: Rob Copeland

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
  • business
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11. What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture

By: Ben Horowitz

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
"Without trust, communication breaks. Here’s why: In any human interaction the required amount of community is inversely proportional to the level of trust."

-Ben Horowitz, What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture

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12. The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

By: Max Fisher

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for ou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
"Remember that the number of seconds in your day never changes. The amount of social media content competing for those seconds, however, doubles every year or so, depending on how you measure it. Imag…"

-Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

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13. Change Your Paradigm, Change Your Life

By: Bob Proctor

4.02

Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition

When you're doing something that's out of the ordinary, your mental programing, your paradigm, will… read more

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  • business
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14. World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

By: Jeff Tweedy

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration from Wilco front man and New Yor… read more

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15. The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat

By: Matt Siegel

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An entertaining look at the little-known history surrounding the foods we know and love. Is Italia… read more

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  • history
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16. The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy

By: Stuart Stevens

4.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“This is the first must-read of the 2024 election cycle if you want to understand the stakes.” –Nic… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social issues
"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

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18. 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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19. Advanced Portfolio Management: A Quant's Guide for Fundamental Investors

By: Giuseepe Paleologo

4.29

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

You have great investment ideas. If you turn them into highly profitable portfolios, this book is f… read more

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  • business
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20. The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)

By: Thom Hartmann

4.25

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

"This is the most important, dynamic book on the cancers of monopoly by giant corporations written … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social issues
  • economics
  • business
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21. The House of Lost Secrets

By: Anstey Harris

4.08

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

She thought she knew her best friend…She was wrong. The weatherworn cottage Clachan has always bee… read more

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14 must-read history books like The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series) by Thom Hartmann

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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Nancy Isenberg

5.00

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Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid

Jimmy Carter

4.48

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Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

4.45

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

Siddharth Kara

4.37

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Bob Boilen

3.78

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Geddy Lee

4.58

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Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

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James Kaplan

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