19 must-read politics books like The Truce: Progressives, Centrists, and the Future of the Democratic Party by Hunter Walker

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The Truce: Progressives, Centrists, and the Future of the Democratic Party

By: Hunter Walker

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An inside story of the Democratic Party at a moment of great peril. Even before the cataclysmic 201…

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1. 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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2. Help Wanted

By: Adelle Waldman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more

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3. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

By: Nellie Bowles

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more

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  • politics
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4. Great Expectations

By: Vinson Cunningham

3.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more

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"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."

-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations

"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."

-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations

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5. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

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"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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6. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

By: George Stephanopoulos

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more

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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 Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle for a New American Politics

By: Joshua Green

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Devil’s Bargain comes the revelatory inside sto… read more

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9. The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution

By: Ryan Grim

3.99

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A riveting insider account of the progressive movement in Congress centering A.O.C., Rashida Tlaib,… 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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11. Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country

By: Adam Kinzinger

4.14

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Adam Kinzinger captures one of the most transformative periods in… read more

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12. 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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13. 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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14. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.24

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more

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15. LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority

By: Marie Arana

4.29

Format: 352 pages, ebook

A sweeping yet personal overview of the Latino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interv… read more

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16. Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It

By: Ari Berman

4.37

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democ… read more

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17. The Truce: Progressives, Centrists, and the Future of the Democratic Party

By: Hunter Walker

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An inside story of the Democratic Party at a moment of great peril. Even before the cataclysmic 201… read more

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18. 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.

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19. The Breakdown of Higher Education: How It Happened, the Damage It Does, and What Can Be Done

By: John M. Ellis

3.91

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

A series of near-riots on campuses aimed at silencing guest speakers has exposed the fact that our … read more

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20. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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21. War

By: Bob Woodward

4.43

Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three … read more

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"President Trump had secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use as the virus spread rapidly through Russia."

-Bob Woodward, War

"Overall, Hamas killed more than 1,200 Israelis and dragged more than 240 hostages and back across the border into underground tunnels in Gaza. It was the deadliest attack in Jewish history since the …"

-Bob Woodward, War

"The second high-profile Trump critis was retired General Stanley McChrystal, who had commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan a decade earlier. McChrystal had recently appeared on CNN and called…"

-Bob Woodward, War

"In the 2020 election, Trump received 74 million votes, more than any presidential candidate in history with the exception of Joe Biden, who won 81 million votes. Biden secured the Electoral College w…"

-Bob Woodward, War

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Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

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Nellie Bowles

4.05

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Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

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The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

George Stephanopoulos

4.45

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Rachel Maddow

4.45

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Jonathan Karl

4.28

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Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

Liz Cheney

4.60

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4.42

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