Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America
By: Cass R. Sunstein
3.64
Format: 496 pages, ebook
"What makes Trump immune is that he is not a president within the context of a healthy Republican g…
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1. Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
By: Kathryn Schulz
3.94
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Wisdom of Crowds and Predictably Irrational comes Being Wrong, an illuminat… read more
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"both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold"-Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
"Until we know we are wrong, being wrong feels exactly like being right"-Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
"knowledge is conventionally viewed as belief plus a bunch of credentials"-Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
"conversion stories are one of the classic Western narratives about the self."-Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
2. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding
4.42
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more
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"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
3. 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
4. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
By: Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler
3.84
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a r… read more
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"Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context."-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
"As good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact. Every trip to the bathroom …"-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
5. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder
4.38
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more
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"Now we will live!"-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
6. On Anarchism
By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more
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7. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
By: Atul Gawande
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The New York Timesbestselling author of Betterand Complicationsreveals the surprising power of the … read more
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8. The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War
By: Stephen Kinzer
4.01
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen … read more
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9. The Industries of the Future
By: Alec J. Ross
3.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what's next for the world: the advances and stumbling … read more
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10. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
By: John J. Mearsheimer
3.71
Format: 364 pages,
The update of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the… read more
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11. The Progress Of The Seasons: Forty Years Of Baseball In Our Town
By: George V. Higgins
4.15
Format: None pages,
After the murder of a leading journalist, right-wing talk show host, Jerry Knight and his partner, … read more
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12. How to Lie with Statistics
By: Darrell Huff , Irving Geis
4.36
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sa… read more
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13. The Right Stuff
By: Tom Wolfe
4.08
Format: 432 pages,
Tom Wolfe began The Right Stuffat a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism.… read more
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14. The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
By: Greg Lukianoff
3.93
Format: 432 pages, ebook
A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-ne… read more
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"Mistakes abound when groupthink goes unchallenged."-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
"There is nothing about standing up for an underdog (or simply claiming to be) that means you're right."-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
15. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more
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"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
16. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
By: William Dalrymple
4.20
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more
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17. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
By: Kelly Link
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more
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"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
18. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
19. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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20. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
21. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By: Ilyon Woo
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more
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22. 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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- american
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- government
- political science
- audiobook
23. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
By: Bill Maher
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, m… read more
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24. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
By: Michael Lewis
3.99
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
“Brilliant. . . . Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncerta… read more
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"Regret was the ham in the back of the deli that caused people to switch from turkey to roast beef."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours"-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"The way it feels to me,' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to think. And now I can think them."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
25. Limitarianism
By: Ingrid Robeyns
3.99
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
‘The best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth’ Richard Wilkinso… read more
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26. The Psychology of Totalitarianism
By: Mattias Desmet
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The world is in the grips of mass formation—a dangerous, collective type of hypnosis—as we bear wit… read more
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"The first thing totalitarian leaders do is make sure their voices are the only ones left."-Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism
"Totalitarianism and technocracy like to present themselves as the pinnacle of rationality and science."-Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism
"Dissident speech doesn't have to be primarily tactical or rhetorical in nature, but it should be authentic and honest."-Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism
"When society as a whole is in the grip of anxiety and the accompanying images of illness and death, those images in themselves become a causal factor."-Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism
27. Money for Nothing: The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich
By: Thomas Levenson
3.99
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The sweeping story of how the greatest minds of the Scientific Revolution applied their new ideas t… read more
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28. 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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29. 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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- audiobook
30. The Great Alignment: Race, Party Transformation, and the Rise of Donald Trump
By: Alan I. Abramowitz
3.43
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Alan I. Abramowitz has emerged as a leading spokesman for the view that our current political divid… read more
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31. Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America
By: Cass R. Sunstein
3.64
Format: 496 pages, ebook
"What makes Trump immune is that he is not a president within the context of a healthy Republican g… read more
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