28 Top nonfiction books like Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism by Paul Sabin

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Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism

By: Paul Sabin

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The story of the dramatic postwar struggle over the proper role of citizens and government in Ameri…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism by Paul Sabin , here is a list of 28 books like this:

1. The Origins of Totalitarianism

By: Hannah Arendt

3.37

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twent… read more

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2. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

By: Robert A. Caro

3.25

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman pr… read more

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3. The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro

By: Zachary M. Schrag

4.06

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

Drivers in the nation's capital face a host of hazards: high-speed traffic circles, presidential mo… read more

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4. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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5. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

By: Kara Swisher

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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6. 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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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. When McKinsey Comes to Town

By: Walt Bogdanich

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

**A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive exposé of the world's most pre… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"One former McKinsey consultant wrote anonymously, ¨To those convinced that a secretive cabal controls the world, the usual suspect are Illuminati, Lizard People, or ´globalists.' They are wrong, natu…"

-Walt Bogdanich, When McKinsey Comes to Town

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8. These Truths: A History of the United States

By: Jill Lepore

4.40

Format: 960 pages, Paperback

Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Most of what once existed is gone... Nature takes one toll, malice another... most of what historians study survives because it was purposely kept... (it) is called the historical record, & it is mad…"

-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States

"Washington's Farewell Address consists of a series of warnings about the danger of disunion. The North and the South, the East and the West, ought not to consider their interests separate or competin…"

-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States

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9. 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
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. 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

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11. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

By: Beverly Gage

4.37

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. 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
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

By: Ethan Mollick

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better

By: Jennifer Pahlka

4.42

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“The book I wish every policymaker would read.” ― Ezra Klein, The New York Times A bold call to… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

By: Zachary D. Carter

4.43

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

A page-turning biography of world-changing economist John Maynard Keynes and the big ideas that out… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made

By: Ben Rhodes

4.21

Format: 339 pages, Kindle Edition

Why is democracy so threatened in America and around the world? And what can we do about it? A form… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. 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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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age

By: Robert D. Kaplan

3.62

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

"[An] elegantly layered exploration of Europe's past and future . . . a multifaceted masterpiece."-… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler's Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis by Volker Ullrich

19. Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler's Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis

By: Volker Ullrich

3.98

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography: “I have a pretty thorough kno… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century
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20. Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream

By: David Leonhardt

4.28

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American D… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism

By: Nelson Lichtenstein

4.17

Format: 504 pages, Hardcover

How the Clinton administration betrayed its progressive principles and capitulated to the right … read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

By: Kate Masur

4.20

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beg… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth by Mark Koyama

23. How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth

By: Mark Koyama

4.24

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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24. We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care

By: Liran Einav

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From a MacArthur Genius ​MIT economist and pre-eminent Stanford economist comes a lively and provoc… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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25. Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age

By: Amy Klobuchar

3.69

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Antitrust enforcement is one of the most pressing issues facing America today… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. 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
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary by Melissa Murray

27. The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary

By: Melissa Murray

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Timed to the start of the first trial in March 2024, this essential volume collects the four unprec… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law

By: Neil Gorsuch

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

America has always been a nation of laws. But today our laws have grown so vast and reach so deeply… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism

By: Paul Sabin

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The story of the dramatic postwar struggle over the proper role of citizens and government in Ameri… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century
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30. 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
"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

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31. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

26 Top history books like Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism by Paul Sabin

Transform Your Habits

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Romney: A Reckoning

McKay Coppins

4.36

Transform Your Habits

When McKinsey Comes to Town

Walt Bogdanich

3.80

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25 Best history books like A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism by Nelson Lichtenstein

Transform Your Habits

Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

Nancy MacLean

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

Ari Berman

4.39

Transform Your Habits

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein

2.89

Transform Your Habits

The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021

Peter Baker

4.46

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