19 must-read nonfiction books like The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy by Katherine M. Gehl

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The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy

By: Katherine M. Gehl

4.30

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Leading political innovation activist Katherine Gehl and world-renowned business strategist Michael…

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

By: Nancy MacLean

4.29

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

Behind today’s headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political establ… read more

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  • american
  • history
  • the united states of america
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • economics
  • audiobook
"Both Buchanan and Calhoun[...] were concerned wit the "failure of democracy to preserve liberty"

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

"Interestingly, these conclusions issued from purely abstract thought experiments, not from any research on political practice."

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

"...as Einhorn points out: "The anti-government rhetoric that continues to saturate our political life is rooted support for slavery rather than liberty"

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

"[...] Rothbard explained, was "that it was intervention of the State that in itself created the classes and the conflict", not the labor relations of the economy, as previous thinkers believed"

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

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2. The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future

By: Gretchen Bakke

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A revelatory look at our national power grid--how it developed, its current flaws, and how it must … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
Cover of Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin

3. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves

By: Andrew Ross Sorkin

4.54

Format: None pages,

Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the g… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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4. The Spymaster's Lady (Spymasters, #1)

By: Joanna Bourne

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

She's braved battlefields, stolen dispatches, played roles from worldly to naive, lady to boy. But … read more

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5. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

By: James C. Scott

4.20

Format: 461 pages, Paperback

Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
  • political science
"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."

-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."

-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."

-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"

-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

6. Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

By: Gino Wickman

3.00

Format: None pages,

Do you have a grip on your business, or does your business have a grip on you? Don't let common pro… read more

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7. Quantum Supremacy

By: Michio Kaku

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • business
  • audiobook
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8. The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't

By: Julia Galef

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Ju… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
"At the end of the day, we're a bunch of apes whose brains were optimized for defending ourselves and our tribes, not for doing unbiased evaluations of scientific evidence. So why get angry at humanit…"

-Julia Galef, The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't

"The scout isn’t indifferent. A scout might hope to learn that the path is safe, that the other side is weak, or that there’s a bridge conveniently located where his forces need to cross the river. Bu…"

-Julia Galef, The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't

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9. The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy)

By: William H. McRaven

4.42

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of  Make Your Bed —a short, inspirational book of advice and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky

10. 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
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • economics
  • audiobook
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11. Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

By: Cade Metz

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective. Through the lives… read more

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  • history
  • business
  • audiobook
"It was a combination of genetics, stupidity, and bad luck, like everything else that goes wrong in life"

-Cade Metz, Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

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12. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

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  • audiobook
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

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13. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
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14. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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15. The Daily Dad

By: Ryan Holiday

4.55

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

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Cover of Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart--Again by Robert Kagan

16. Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart--Again

By: Robert Kagan

4.48

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

A chilling and clear-eyed warning about the threats to our democracy posed by the increasing radica… read more

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  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
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17. Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World

By: Ryan Holiday

4.21

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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18. 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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  • politics
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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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19. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

By: Nate Silver

3.84

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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20. The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy

By: Katherine M. Gehl

4.30

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Leading political innovation activist Katherine Gehl and world-renowned business strategist Michael… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • economics
  • business
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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

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