19 Top nonfiction books like The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America by Robert Wuthnow

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The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America

By: Robert Wuthnow

3.57

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

How a fraying social fabric is fueling the outrage of rural Americans What is fueling rural Amer…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America by Robert Wuthnow , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Felicity: An American Girl

By: Valerie Tripp

3.41

Format: 549 pages,

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2. Praying the Bible

By: Donald S. Whitney

4.49

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

All Christians know they should pray, but sometimes it’s hard to know how—especially if the minutes… read more

Similar categories in Donald S. Whitney's Praying the Bible book and Robert Wuthnow's The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America

  • nonfiction
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3. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more

Similar categories in Robert M. Sapolsky's Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will book and Robert Wuthnow's The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America

  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

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4. Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber

By: Andy Borowitz

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Andy Borowitz, “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly examines t… read more

Similar categories in Andy Borowitz's Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber book and Robert Wuthnow's The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
"Imagine a hypothetical job applicant. He can't spell the simplest words, such as "heal" and "tap". Confused by geography, he thinks there's an African country called "Nambia". As for American history…"

-Andy Borowitz, Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber

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5. Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

By: Jeff Guinn

4.06

Format: None pages, Audiobook

“Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve” (The Wall Street Journal), this is th… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Guinn's Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage book and Robert Wuthnow's The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. 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

Similar categories in Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet book and Robert Wuthnow's The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. 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

Similar categories in Sarah Smarsh's Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth book and Robert Wuthnow's The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • 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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8. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

Similar categories in Sarah McCammon's The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church book and Robert Wuthnow's The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

By: Donovan X. Ramsey

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more

Similar categories in Donovan X. Ramsey's When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era book and Robert Wuthnow's The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Thomas F. Schaller's White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy book and Robert Wuthnow's The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America

  • cultural
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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11. Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge

By: Ted Conover

3.90

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Ted Conover, a … read more

Similar categories in Ted Conover's Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge book and Robert Wuthnow's The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America

  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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12. 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

Similar categories in Steven Hassan's The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control book and Robert Wuthnow's The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"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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13. 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

Similar categories in David Corn's American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy book and Robert Wuthnow's The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"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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14. Consent: A Memoir

By: Jill Ciment

3.96

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more

Similar categories in Jill Ciment's Consent: A Memoir book and Robert Wuthnow's The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It by Will Bunch

15. After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It

By: Will Bunch

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of college—the great polit… read more

Similar categories in Will Bunch's After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It book and Robert Wuthnow's The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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16. American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears

By: Farah Stockman

4.30

Format: 418 pages, Hardcover

What happens when Americans lose their jobs? In this illuminating story of ruin and reinvention, P… read more

Similar categories in Farah Stockman's American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears book and Robert Wuthnow's The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America’s Heartland by Dick Lehr

17. White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America’s Heartland

By: Dick Lehr

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

For fans of I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, the thrilling true story of a would-be terrorist attack again… read more

Similar categories in Dick Lehr's White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America’s Heartland book and Robert Wuthnow's The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. 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

Similar categories in John Ganz's When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s book and Robert Wuthnow's The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America

  • cultural
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
Cover of The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation by Carl Benedikt Frey

19. The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation

By: Carl Benedikt Frey

4.11

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political p… read more

Similar categories in Carl Benedikt Frey's The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation book and Robert Wuthnow's The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
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20. The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America

By: Robert Wuthnow

3.57

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

How a fraying social fabric is fueling the outrage of rural Americans What is fueling rural Amer… read more

Similar categories in Robert Wuthnow's The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America book and Robert Wuthnow's The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America

  • cultural
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • united states
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • economics
  • sociology
  • audiobook

17 Best audiobook books like The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America by Robert Wuthnow

Transform Your Habits

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber

Andy Borowitz

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

Jeff Guinn

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

Jeff Goodell

4.32

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5 best-selling adult books like American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears by Farah Stockman

Transform Your Habits

Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America

Alissa Quart

3.37

Transform Your Habits

Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City

Kim Foster

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

Pamela Prickett

4.08

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