22 best-selling nonfiction books like We Should Have Seen It Coming: From Reagan to Trump--A Front-Row Seat to a Political Revolution by Gerald F. Seib

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We Should Have Seen It Coming: From Reagan to Trump--A Front-Row Seat to a Political Revolution

By: Gerald F. Seib

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The executive Washington editor of  The Wall Street Journal  chronicles the astonishing rise, clima…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in We Should Have Seen It Coming: From Reagan to Trump--A Front-Row Seat to a Political Revolution by Gerald F. Seib , here is a list of 22 books like this:

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1. It Can't Happen Here

By: Sinclair Lewis , Christopher Hurt , Michael R. Meyer

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrow… read more

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"NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

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2. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

By: Jane Mayer

4.16

Format: 76 pages, ebook

Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to… read more

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3. Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream: The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

3.75

Format: 272 pages,

Doris Kearns Goodwin's classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vie… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
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4. Lies My Teacher Told Me

By: James W. Loewen

3.97

Format: 112 pages,

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5. Think of a Number (Dave Gurney, #1)

By: George Newbern , John Verdon

4.71

Format: 595 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary fiction debut, Think of a Numberis an exquisitely plotted novel of suspense that g… read more

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6. Crime Scene

By: Jonathan Kellerman , Jesse Kellerman

4.03

Format: 166 pages,

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A former star athlete turned deputy coroner is drawn into a brutal, com… read more

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7. The Hedge Knight (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1)

By: George R.R. Martin

4.36

Format: 209 pages, ebook

A novella originally published August 25, 1998 in the Legends anthology, edited by Robert Silverber… read more

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8. Boom! Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today

By: Tom Brokaw

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what … read more

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9. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

By: Isabel Wilkerson

3.69

Format: 121 pages, Hardcover

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chroni… read more

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10. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

By: David Brooks

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more

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"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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11. The Last Ranger

By:

None

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone Natio… read more

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12. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

By: Liz Cheney

4.60

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers be… read more

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  • american history
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  • nonfiction
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13. The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021

By: Peter Baker

4.46

Format: 725 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "The most comprehensive and detailed account of the Trump presidency ye… read more

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14. Peril

By: Bob Woodward

4.09

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

The book covers the end of the Trump presidency and the early months of the Biden presidency. Th… read more

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"Graham said, "I can get an affidavit tomorrow saying the world is flat."

-Bob Woodward, Peril

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15. America Fantastica

By: Tim O'Brien

3.45

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in No… read more

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16. Why We're Polarized

By: Ezra Klein

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means f… read more

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"Unfortunately, the term “identity politics"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

"The key idea here is “negative partisanship"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

"So here, then, is the last fifty years of American politics summarized: we became more consistent in the party we vote for not because we came to like our party more—indeed, we’ve come to like the pa…"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

"The political media is biased, but not toward the Left or Right so much as toward loud, outrageous, colorful, inspirational, confrontational. It is biased toward the political stories and figures who…"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

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17. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

By: Steven Levitsky

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is ou… read more

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"Authoritarian politicians cast their rivals as criminal, subversive, unpatriotic, or a threat to national security or the existing way of life."

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes."

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"Institutions become political weapons, wielded forcefully by those who control them against those who do not. This is how elected autocrats subvert democracy—packing and “weaponizing"

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"But when faced with a would-be authoritarian, establishment politicians must unambiguously reject him or her and do everything possible to defend democratic institutions—even if that means temporaril…"

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

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18. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

By: Maggie Haberman

4.09

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidenc… read more

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  • presidents
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"Trump is to business what professional wrestling is to sports: part of it, certainly, but also a cartoonish parody of it."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

"[White House Chief of Staff and Four-Star General John] Kelly shared with [Mick} Mulvaney {who was appointed when Kelly resigned] his view that Trump was the most flawed person he had ever met."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

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19. This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy

By: Jonathan Martin

4.00

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency by… read more

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20. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • government
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21. 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

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22. First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

By: Thomas E. Ricks

4.08

Format: 416 pages, ebook

New York Times BestsellerEditors' Choice —New York Times Book Review "Ricks knocks it out of the p… read more

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"It is a cliché, and a bad one, that generals try to “fight the last war"

-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

"...Populism tends to look good from a distance, but close up it can be frightening."

-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

"As an inhabitant of a Mississippi River town happily shouts out in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , “You pays your money and you makes your choice!"

-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

"More than anything else, I have learned in researching this book that America is a moving target, a goal that must always be pursued but never quite reached."

-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

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23. The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir

By: John Bolton

3.15

Format: 588 pages, Kindle Edition

As President Trump’s National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room … read more

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  • nonfiction
"All this confused press coverage reveals both the inconsistencies within Trump’s own thinking, and reporting based on second- and third-hand sources, exacerbated under a President who spent a disprop…"

-John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir

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24. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By: Jonathan Blitzer

4.49

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir

By: Marie Yovanovitch

4.50

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT  NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER | An inspiring and urgent memoir by the former U.S. ambassador … read more

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"Just as in the Trump-Giuliani Ukraine conspiracy, we saw a ruthless, single-minded obsession with staying in power; a manifest lack of moral values, shame, and civility; and a stunning disregard of a…"

-Marie Yovanovitch, Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir

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26. Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and THE WASHINGTON POST

By: Martin Baron

4.20

Format: 549 pages, Kindle Edition

“A closely observed, gripping chronicle of politics and journalism during a decade of turmoil.” — T… read more

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27. Where the Dead Sleep (Ben Packard #2)

By: Joshua Moehling

3.96

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

A small town's dark secrets turn deadly... When an early morning call brings Deputy Ben Packard … read more

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28. The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America

By: Elizabeth Dias

4.53

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

From two top New York Times journalists, the breathtaking untold story of the plan to overturn Roe … read more

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29. 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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30. We Should Have Seen It Coming: From Reagan to Trump--A Front-Row Seat to a Political Revolution

By: Gerald F. Seib

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The executive Washington editor of  The Wall Street Journal  chronicles the astonishing rise, clima… read more

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  • history
  • americana
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
  • government
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31. The Fall

By: Michael Wolff

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” ―Leo Tolstoy, Anna … read more

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  • american history
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21 must-read history books like We Should Have Seen It Coming: From Reagan to Trump--A Front-Row Seat to a Political Revolution by Gerald F. Seib

Transform Your Habits

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Jane Mayer

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream: The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written

Doris Kearns Goodwin

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Lies My Teacher Told Me

James W. Loewen

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

Liz Cheney

4.60

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20 Top audiobook books like Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir by Marie Yovanovitch

Transform Your Habits

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

4.45

Transform Your Habits

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Transform Your Habits

Romney: A Reckoning

McKay Coppins

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

Liz Cheney

4.60

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