American Demagogue: The Great Awakening and the Rise and Fall of Populism
By: Jeff D. Dickey
3.66
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In September 1740, New England experienced a social earthquake. It arrived not in the form of a gre…
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1. Feed
By: M.T. Anderson
3.55
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people co… read more
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"it's like a squid in love with the sky."-M.T. Anderson, Feed
"Whispering makes a narrow place narrower."-M.T. Anderson, Feed
"I could see my face, crying, in her blank eye."-M.T. Anderson, Feed
"I don’t know. D’you think? He’s pretty wide in the chest."-M.T. Anderson, Feed
2. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more
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"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
3. The Theory of the Leisure Class
By: Thorstein Veblen , Alan Wolfe
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Almost a century after its original publication, Thorstein Veblen's work is as fresh and relevant a… read more
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"The earlier and cruder method of advertisement held its ground so long as the public to which the exhibitor had to appeal comprised large portions of the community who were not trained to detect deli…"-Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
"The ceremonial differentiation of the dietary is best seen in the use of intoxicating beverages and narcotics. If these articles of consumption are costly, they are felt to be noble and honorific. Th…"-Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
"The effect of the pecuniary interest and the pecuniary habit of mind upon the growth of institutions is seen in those enactments and conventions that make for security of property, enforcement of con…"-Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
4. Ideas Have Consequences
By: Richard M. Weaver
4.13
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
In what has become a classic work, Richard M. Weaver unsparingly diagnoses the ills of our age and … read more
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"The typical modern has the look of the hunted."-Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences
"No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future."-Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences
"[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives."-Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences
"The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason."-Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences
5. Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism
By: James Burnham
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Suicide of the An essay on the meaning and destiny of liberalism read more
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"Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about liberalism - the beliefs, emotions and values associated with it, the nature o…"-James Burnham, Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism
"...we may assert that liberalism believes man's nature to be not fixed but changing, with an unlimited or at any rate indefinitely large potential for positive (good, favorable, progressive) developm…"-James Burnham, Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism
6. The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force
By: Eliot A. Cohen
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Hardcover
"Speak softly and carry a big stick" Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United Stat… read more
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7. Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party
By: Max Blumenthal
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
Over the last year, award-winning journalist and videographer Max Blumenthal has been behind some o… read more
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8. 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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9. The Democratization of American Christianity
By: Nathan O. Hatch
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In this prize-winning book Nathan O. Hatch offers a provocative reassessment of religion and cultur… read more
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10. The Source
By: James A. Michener
4.26
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
In the grand storytelling style that is his signature, James Michener sweeps us back through time t… read more
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11. On Revolution
By: Hannah Arendt
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Tracing the gradual evolution of revolutions, Arendt predicts the changing relationship between war… read more
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12. Another Man's Moccasins (Walt Longmire, #4)
By: Craig Johnson
4.20
Format: None pages,
Walt Longmire unravels a mystery that connects two murders across forty years When the body of a yo… read more
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13. The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science--and Reality
By: Chris C. Mooney
4.07
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Chris Mooney uses cutting-edge research to explain the psychologybehind why toda… read more
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14. Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
By: Thomas Sowell
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The application of economics to major contemporary real world problems--housing, medical care, disc… read more
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16. A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
By: Steven Nadler
4.27
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's "Theological-Political Treatise" was denounced as the mo… read more
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17. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
By: Tom O'Neill
4.03
Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition
A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more
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18. 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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"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
19. 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
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20. The Federalist Papers
By: Alexander Hamilton
4.10
Format: 592 pages, Kindle Edition
Hailed by Thomas Jefferson as “the best commentary on the principles of government which was ever w… read more
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"Liberty is to faction what air is to fire..."-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers
"If we are to be one Nation in any respect, it clearly ought to be in respect to other Nations."-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers
"An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth. No. 75"-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers
"No man ought certainly to be a judge in his own cause, or in any cause in respect to which he has the least interest or bias."-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers
21. The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
By: Jon Meacham
4.26
Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politi… read more
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"The opposite of fear is hope, defined as the expectation of good fortune not only for ourselves but for a group to which we belong. Fear feeds anxiety and produces anger; hope, particularly in a poli…"-Jon Meacham, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
22. 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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23. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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24. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
By: Jeffrey Toobin
4.16
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more
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25. 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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26. 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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27. 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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28. Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture―and the Magic That Makes It Work
By: Jesse David Fox
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated Book by Vulture , Elle, Chicago Tribune, The Millions , and Lit Hub " C… read more
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29. Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
By: Kevin M. Kruse
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the… read more
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"Violence meant to seize and shore up power—a claim to sovereignty through the violence of the mob—is fundamentally American."-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
"Although in this case it is an understandable, emotional reaction meant to decry antidemocratic violence, the notion that January 6 is 'not who we are' is one manifestation of what has become a regul…"-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
"People may hear ‘white nationalism’ and assume it to be adjacent with patriotism, or at the very least consider it as pro-American. But after 1983 the nation at the heart of white nationalism was not…"-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
30. 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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31. American Demagogue: The Great Awakening and the Rise and Fall of Populism
By: Jeff D. Dickey
3.66
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In September 1740, New England experienced a social earthquake. It arrived not in the form of a gre… read more
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