26 best-selling nonfiction books like The Cult of the Constitution by Mary Anne Franks

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The Cult of the Constitution

By: Mary Anne Franks

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this controversial and provocative book, Mary Anne Franks examines the thin line between constit…

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1. On Palestine

By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

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2. The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters

By: Tom Nichols

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The rise of the internet and other technology has made information more easily-accessible than ever… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction

3. Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot

By: Al Franken

4.07

Format: 384 pages,

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4. Food: A Love Story

By: Jim Gaffigan

3.71

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

“What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here’s why:… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I'm a fan of relaxing, and when i get tired of relaxing I like to do nothing."

-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story

"There are people who eat only organic food, and then there are people who don’t have tons of money to waste."

-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story

"In America we have gone way beyond sustenance. Eating is an activity. 'Why don’t we get lunch, and then we’ll grab some pizza."

-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story

"I love the phrase "I have a sweet tooth." I always want to say, "You're ordering it for your tooth? That's interesting, because it's going straight to your butt. I think your butt owed your tooth an …"

-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story

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5. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

By: Richard Hofstadter

4.12

Format: 434 pages, Paperback

Anti-intellectualism in American Life was awarded the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction. It is a b… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury...."

-Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

"A large segment of the public willingly resigns itself to political passivity in a world in which it cannot expect to make well-founded judgments."

-Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

"The intellectual as ideologist, having had a leading role in purveying to the country each innovation and having frequently hastened the country into the acceptance of change, is naturally felt to ha…"

-Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

"Tocqueville saw that the life of constant action and decision which was entailed by the democratic and businesslike character of American life put a premium upon rough and ready habits of mind, quick…"

-Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

6. Letters to a Young Contrarian

By: Christopher Hitchens

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens ins… read more

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7. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

By: Michelle Alexander

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more

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8. Romney: A Reckoning

By: McKay Coppins

4.36

Format: 416 pages, ebook

A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

By: Stephen Vladeck

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed legal scholar’s “essential” (Linda Greenhouse) exp… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"But in order after order, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration most of what it wanted without endorsing principles that the justices would be bound to apply to future presidents, so that t…"

-Stephen Vladeck, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

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11. Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

By: Tim Miller

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Former Republican political operative Tim Miller admits what no one else on the right ever will: th… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
" Why We Did It is a book about the people who submitted to every whim of a comically unfit and detestable man who crapped all over them and took over the party they had given their life to. It’s abou…"

-Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

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12. 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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13. Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World

By: Peter S. Goodman

3.92

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller The history of the last half century in America, Europe, an… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

By: Sarah Smarsh

3.76

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

During Sarah Smarsh’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When I found your name, in my early adulthood, I don't think I'd ever heard the term "white working class". The experience it describes contains both racial privilege and economic disadvantage, which…"

-Sarah Smarsh, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

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15. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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16. Strega

By: Johanne Lykke Holm

3.20

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Powerfully inventive and atmospheric, a modern gothic story of nine young women sent to work at a r… read more

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  • audiobook
"Hun åbnede munden og smagte på den væske, som dryppede fra månen."

-Johanne Lykke Holm, Strega

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17. Frankenstein in Baghdad

By: Ahmed Saadawi

3.58

Format: 281 pages, Paperback

From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi--a scavenger and an oddball fixture a… read more

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"Death stalked the city like the plague."

-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad

"Each of us has a measure of criminality."

-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad

"None of us should think only of ourselves."

-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad

"Your wonderful stories saved you, my friend."

-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad

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18. 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
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Who's Afraid of Gender?

By: Judith Butler

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

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20. Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences

By: Joan Biskupic

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Editor's Choice "Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the co… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America

By: Michael Waldman

4.30

Format: 400 pages, ebook

An incisive analysis of how the Supreme Court’s new conservative supermajority is overturning decad… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past by Kevin M. Kruse

22. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

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23. Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System

By: Alec Karakatsanis

4.39

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

From an award-winning civil rights lawyer, a profound challenge to our society’s normalization of t… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

By: Derecka Purnell

4.44

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From commu… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The systems responsible for our oppression cannot be the same systems responsible for our liberation."

-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

"Campus police and street police are different strands of the same supremacy that plague our resistance."

-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

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25. Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court

By: Linda Greenhouse

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The gripping story of the Supreme Court’s transformation from a measured institution of law and jus… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It was always about abortion. (185)"

-Linda Greenhouse, Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court

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26. Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice

By: David Enrich

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times’s Business Investigations Editor and #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers c… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"On January 6, months of fearmongering and lies about voter fraud and a stolen election exploded into a deadly insurrection. Jones Day wasn't to blame, but it wasn't not to blame either. The firm had …"

-David Enrich, Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice

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27. We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

By: Adam Winkler

4.16

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

We the Corporations chronicles the astonishing story of one of the most successful yet least well-k… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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28. Because Our Fathers Lied: A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today

By: Craig McNamara

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This unforgettable father and son story confronts the legacy of the Vietnam War across two generati… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart

By: Jamal Greene

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FINALIST | “Essential and fresh and vital . . . It i… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Strong rights protection is far from harmless. The proliferation of strong rights can frustrate the democratic will and erode the solidarity of communities. Judicial dominion over constitutional righ…"

-Jamal Greene, How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart

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30. The Cult of the Constitution

By: Mary Anne Franks

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this controversial and provocative book, Mary Anne Franks examines the thin line between constit… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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31. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

23 must-read audiobook books like The Cult of the Constitution by Mary Anne Franks

Transform Your Habits

On Palestine

Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Food: A Love Story

Jim Gaffigan

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Romney: A Reckoning

McKay Coppins

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

Olivia Laing

4.07

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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

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Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

Cynthia Carr

4.27

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I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

Lucy Sante

3.70

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