18 must-read sociology books like Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics by Yochai Benkler

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Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics

By: Yochai Benkler

4.15

Format: 472 pages, Paperback

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. …

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1. The Power Elite

By: C. Wright Mills , Alan Wolfe

4.15

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and soc… read more

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  • history
  • politics
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  • political science
  • sociology
"People with advantages are loathe to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they come to believe…"

-C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite

"Perhaps J. P. Morgan did as a child have very severe feelings of inadequacy, perhaps his father did believe that he would not amount to anything; perhaps this did effect in him an inordinate drive fo…"

-C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite

"El humanista, por ejemplo, puede concebir la élite no como un plano o categoría social, sino como el conjunto de los individuos dispersos que intentan superarse a sí mismos y que, en consecuencia, so…"

-C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite

"The idea that the millionaire finds nothing but a sad, empty place at the top of this society; the idea that the rich do not know what to do with their money; the idea that the successful become fill…"

-C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite

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2. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

By: Richard Rothstein

2.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age

By: Daniel J. Levitin

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From TheNew York Times bestselling author of THE ORGANIZED MIND and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC, a … read more

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  • psychology
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4. Lies My Teacher Told Me

By: James W. Loewen

3.97

Format: 112 pages,

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  • politics
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5. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

By: Noam Chomsky , Edward S. Herman

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book . In this pathb… read more

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  • journalism
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6. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

By: Colin Woodard

4.56

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red stat… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sociology

7. Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

By: Ryan Holiday

0.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

You've seen it all before. A malicious online rumor costs a company millions. A political sideshow … read more

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8. "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity

By: Beverly Daniel Tatum

4.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism-now fully revised and updated Walk into … read more

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9. The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

By: Martin Bunton

3.85

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

The conflict between Palestine and Israel is one of the most highly publicized and bitter struggles… read more

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10. Memes in Digital Culture

By: None

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

In December 2012, the exuberant video "Gangnam Style" became the first YouTube clip to be viewed mo… read more

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11. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

By: Ibram X. Kendi

4.54

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Blac… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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12. Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat

By: Derek Beres

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Conspirituality takes a deep dive into the troubling phenomenon of influencers who have curdled New… read more

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13. How to Be an Antiracist

By: Ibram X. Kendi

4.37

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justi… read more

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"Racist"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"I use “anticapitalist"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"Internalized racism is the real Black on Black crime."

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"But what was the difference between Ebonics and so-called “standard"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

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14. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

By: Anne Applebaum

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding… read more

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  • history
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"Unity is an anomaly. Polarization is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal."

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will."

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Olga Tokarczuk, 2019: We horen niet langer de harmonie van de wereld, maar de kakofonie van geluiden, een ondraaglijke ruis waarin we wanhoping een een rustiger melodie proberen te ontdekken, al is h…"

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state: at times when people fear death, they go along with measures that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will save them—ev…"

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

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15. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

By: Daniel Kahneman

3.66

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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16. How Propaganda Works

By: Jason F. Stanley

3.55

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News com… read more

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"Perhaps most disturbingly for me, when I look upon my own discipline, the discipline of philosophy, I find egregious effects of ideology and propaganda. Philosophy is self-consciously devoted to the …"

-Jason F. Stanley, How Propaganda Works

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17. The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

By: Fei-Fei Li

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • technology
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18. The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?

By: Jim Davis

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

We are currently experiencing the largest and fastest religious shift in US history. It is greater … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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19. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

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20. The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control

By: Steven Hassan

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

One of America’s leading experts in cults and mind-control provides an eye-opening analysis of Trum… read more

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"Nobody will be tougher on ISIS than me. Nobody,"

-Steven Hassan, The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control

"At the time, casting Trump as host was seen as a huge gamble. He had been labeled a “D-lister"

-Steven Hassan, The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control

"In the Moonies, I was taught to suppress negative thoughts by using a technique called thought stopping. I repeated the phrase “Crush Satan"

-Steven Hassan, The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control

"Certitude is not evidence of truth. Nor does repetition make it true. If anything, repetition should make you suspicious. Truth always stands up to scrutiny on its merits."

-Steven Hassan, The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control

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21. Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

By: Robin DiAngelo

3.96

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

In Nice Racism, her follow-up work to White Fragility, the author draws on her background as a soci… read more

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"…every moment that I spend in white space reinforces in me a particular (and limited) worldview and experience. But the deeper message being reinforced is that we lose nothing of value by living in s…"

-Robin DiAngelo, Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

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22. The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread

By: Cailin O'Connor

3.77

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

The social dynamics of “alternative facts”: why what you believe depends on who you know Why sho… read more

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23. Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)

By: Lee McIntyre

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

How we arrived in a post-truth era, when “alternative facts” replace actual facts, and feelings hav… read more

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"Turite teisę į savo nuomonę, tačiau ne į savo faktus."

-Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)

"When the mistakes fall disproportionately on one side, it is no respect for the notion of truth to pretend that everything is even."

-Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)

"Our inherent cognitive biases make us ripe for manipulation and exploitation by those who have an agenda to push, especially if they can discredit all other sources of information."

-Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)

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24. College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight

By: Shawn Cohen

3.69

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A gripping true crime book about a college girl who disappeared in plain sight When Lauren Spierer―… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy by Russell Muirhead

25. A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy

By: Russell Muirhead

3.62

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

How the new conspiracists are undermining democracy--and what can be done about it Conspiracy th… read more

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Cover of Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It by Richard Stengel

26. Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It

By: Richard Stengel

3.77

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Disinformation is as old as humanity. When Satan told Eve nothing would happen if she bit the apple… read more

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27. Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America

By: Lee Drutman

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

American democracy is at an impasse. After years of zero-sum partisan trench warfare, our political… read more

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Cover of Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind by Annalee Newitz

28. Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind

By: Annalee Newitz

3.99

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A sharp and timely book about the dark art of manipulation through weaponized storytelling Best-… read more

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Cover of How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict by Nina Jankowicz

29. How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict

By: Nina Jankowicz

3.98

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake… read more

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30. What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology

By: Judith Butler

3.81

Format: 146 pages, ebook

The pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about our place in the world: the many ways hu… read more

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"Triumphant utilitarianism is just another way of saying “let them die."

-Judith Butler, What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology

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31. Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics

By: Yochai Benkler

4.15

Format: 472 pages, Paperback

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. … read more

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4.14

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

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