21 Best nonfiction books like Chaotic Neutral: How the Democrats Lost Their Soul in the Center by Ed Burmila

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Chaotic Neutral: How the Democrats Lost Their Soul in the Center

By: Ed Burmila

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A recent history of the Democratic Party that identifies its chronic errors—the “pathologies” of th…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Chaotic Neutral: How the Democrats Lost Their Soul in the Center by Ed Burmila , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Forever...

By: Judy Blume

3.63

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Katherine and Michael meet at a New Year's Eve party. They're attracted to each other, they grow to… read more

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"I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep."

-Judy Blume, Forever...

"...love at thirteen is nothing like love at eighteen."

-Judy Blume, Forever...

"You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest."

-Judy Blume, Forever...

"That's not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't."

-Judy Blume, Forever...

Cover of Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman, Andrew Postman

2. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman

4.15

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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3. The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

By: Bill Watterson

4.35

Format: 26 pages,

Perhaps the most brilliant comic strip ever created, Calvin and Hobbescontinues to entertain with d… read more

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4. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

By: Rick Perlstein

4.33

Format: 308 pages,

Politically insightful, Nixonland recaptures the turbulent 60s & early 70s, revealing how Dick Nixo… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

5. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

By: Barbara Ehrenreich

3.78

Format: 377 pages,

Reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity--a land of Big Box… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction

6. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933

By: Anne Applebaum

3.32

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulagand the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtai… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

7. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do

By: Tom Vanderbilt

3.81

Format: 234 pages,

Would you be surprised that road rage can be good for society? Or that most crashes happen on sunny… read more

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8. Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination

By: None

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band s… read more

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9. The Terraformers

By: Annalee Newitz

3.37

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more

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10. Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud

By: Ben McKenzie

None

Format: None pages, None

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR… read more

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Cover of The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide by Steven W. Thrasher

11. The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

By: Steven W. Thrasher

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful an… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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13. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

By: Michael Harriot

4.59

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer by Rax King

14. Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer

By: Rax King

3.47

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

An irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture a… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta

15. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

Cover of The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind (The Frost Files, #1) by Jackson Ford

17. The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind (The Frost Files, #1)

By: Jackson Ford

3.69

Format: 482 pages, Paperback

For Teagan Frost, sh*t just got real.Teagan Frost is having a hard time keeping it together. Sure, … read more

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"Superheroes in comics and in movies pull off that secret-identity shit all the time. But this isn't a movie, or a comic, and I am definitely not a superhero. Secret Identity? I can barely pull of the…"

-Jackson Ford, The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind (The Frost Files, #1)

Cover of Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal

18. Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution

By: Elie Mystal

4.59

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

According to commentator and lawyer Elie Mystal, Republicans are wrong when they tell you the First… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Cahokia Jazz

By: Francis Spufford

4.03

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more

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Cover of They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent by Sarah Kendzior

20. They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

By: Sarah Kendzior

3.94

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE “Every sentence delivered. The pathos of truth-see… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The word “conspire"

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

"The desire to forget is as overwhelming as the obligation not to."

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

"History was a feedback loop of unlearned lessons and reverberating lies."

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

"There is no such thing as paranoia; your worst fears can come true at any moment,"

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

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21. Fascism: A Warning

By: Madeleine K. Albright

4.25

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes tod… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"...to be defenseless did not mean to be without honor."

-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

"Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)"

-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

"Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was “bully,"

-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

"A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields."

-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

Cover of Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1) by L.M. Sagas

22. Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1)

By: L.M. Sagas

3.92

Format: 407 pages, Paperback

L. M. Sagas' debut, Cascade Failure, is a highly commercial, sci-fi adventure blending J. S. Dewes'… read more

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23. No One Left to Come Looking for You

By: Sam Lipsyte

3.23

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

A darkly comic mystery by the author of Hark and The Ask set in the vibrant music scene of early 19… read more

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Cover of Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria

24. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power by Anna Merlan

25. Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power

By: Anna Merlan

3.90

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories, exploring the caus… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Basically," he said, "it's black people who scare them."

-Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power

"A weird thing about being black is some of it is true and some of it is not," Michael Harriot told me reflectively. "But," he said, "none of it is crazy."

-Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power

"Truth and fact-checking travel along the same paths that conspiracies do. But the truth is often complicated, shaded and demanding, and there's no denying that it often lacks the powerful, emotional,…"

-Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power

Cover of The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor by Hamilton Nolan

26. The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor

By: Hamilton Nolan

4.16

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A timely, in-depth, and vital exploration of the American labor movement and its critical place in … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood by Brian "Box" Brown

27. The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood

By: Brian "Box" Brown

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Brian "Box" Brown brings history and culture to life through his comics. In his new graphic novel, … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor

By: Kim Kelly

4.20

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A 2022 New Yorker Best Book of the Year A 2022 Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A 2022 Buzz… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

29. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics by Elle Reeve

30. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Chaotic Neutral: How the Democrats Lost Their Soul in the Center by Ed Burmila

31. Chaotic Neutral: How the Democrats Lost Their Soul in the Center

By: Ed Burmila

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A recent history of the Democratic Party that identifies its chronic errors—the “pathologies” of th… read more

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19 must-read history books like Chaotic Neutral: How the Democrats Lost Their Soul in the Center by Ed Burmila

Transform Your Habits

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Neil Postman , Andrew Postman

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

Rick Perlstein

4.33

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933

Anne Applebaum

3.32

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The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

Steven W. Thrasher

4.22

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15 Top audiobook books like Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine K. Albright

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Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

4.45

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Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

Liz Cheney

4.60

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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

Jason F. Stanley

4.17

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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

Jon Meacham

4.26

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