The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
By: Joe Conason
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A sardonic chronicle of how conservatism turned into a racketeering enterprise – and why Donald Tru…
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1. The Age of Grievance
By: Frank Bruni
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more
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2. 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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3. Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass
By: Ramin Setoodeh
3.66
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the editor in chief of Variety and author of the New York Times bestseller Ladies Who Punch, t… read more
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4. 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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5. 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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6. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By: Anthony Fauci
4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more
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7. A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever
By: Kim Mager
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this fascinating & profoundly chilling account, Detective Kim Mager , a real-life version of Cla… read more
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8. All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians
By: Phil Elwood
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A bridge-burning, riotous memoir by a top PR operative in Washington who exposes the secrets of the… read more
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9. 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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10. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
By: Elle Reeve
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more
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11. 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.
12. All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way
By: Fred C. Trump
4.07
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, bre… read more
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13. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
By: Jesselyn Cook
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more
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14. The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
By: Joe Conason
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A sardonic chronicle of how conservatism turned into a racketeering enterprise – and why Donald Tru… read more
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15. Trump in Exile
By: Meridith McGraw
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Filled with deep insights and never-before-seen details, Trump in Exile is an explosive, all-access… read more
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16. Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past
By: Steve Benen
4.50
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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17. Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy
By: Brian Tyler Cohen
4.43
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the first content creator to interview President Biden, leading progressive voice Brian Tyler … read more
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"These are manipulation tactics happening at the hands of the very people whom voters have been groomed to trust. Republicans may claim to hate the Democrats, but frankly there is no one they have mor…"-Brian Tyler Cohen, Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy
18. Lovely One: A Memoir
By: Ketanji Brown Jackson
4.64
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be … read more
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19. Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Democracy
By: David Rohde
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
How Donald Trump subverted the law and Merrick Garland misjudged the need to hold him accountable b… read more
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20. Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
By: Russ Buettner
4.56
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of then-P… read more
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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
