27 Best history books like The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy by Federico Finchelstein

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The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy

By: Federico Finchelstein

4.10

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Meet today's almost fascists and learn the warning signs to intercept them on the road from populis…

If you liked the history plot in The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy by Federico Finchelstein , here is a list of 27 books like this:

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1. 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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2. The Age of Grievance

By: Frank Bruni

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more

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3. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

By: Anne Applebaum

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding… read more

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"Unity is an anomaly. Polarization is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal."

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will."

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Olga Tokarczuk, 2019: We horen niet langer de harmonie van de wereld, maar de kakofonie van geluiden, een ondraaglijke ruis waarin we wanhoping een een rustiger melodie proberen te ontdekken, al is h…"

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state: at times when people fear death, they go along with measures that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will save them—ev…"

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

Cover of Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky

4. 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
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  • history
  • political science
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5. 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
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Cover of The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy by Stuart Stevens

6. The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy

By: Stuart Stevens

4.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“This is the first must-read of the 2024 election cycle if you want to understand the stakes.” –Nic… read more

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

7. 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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8. 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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9. America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators

By: Jacob Heilbrunn

3.83

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

A leading observer of the right explains the long, disturbing history behind Donald Trump’s admirat… read more

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  • politics
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10. Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps

By: Jon Favreau

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From your friends at Pod Save America  and Crooked Media comes a useful and illustrated guide to sa… read more

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11. 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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  • politics
  • history
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Cover of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It by Ari Berman

12. Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It

By: Ari Berman

4.37

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democ… read more

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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

13. 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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  • history
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14. 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.

Cover of All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way by Fred C. Trump

15. 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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Cover of The Reactionary Spirit: How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World by Zack Beauchamp

16. The Reactionary Spirit: How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World

By: Zack Beauchamp

3.79

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

None read more

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Cover of Liberalism as a Way of Life by Alexandre Lefebvre

17. Liberalism as a Way of Life

By: Alexandre Lefebvre

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life―and how you can beco… read more

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Cover of White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy by William J. Barber II

18. White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy

By: William J. Barber II

4.39

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An explosive work with far-ranging historical implications, White Poverty promises to be one of the… read more

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Cover of Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past by Steve Benen

19. Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past

By: Steve Benen

4.50

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

None read more

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Cover of Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy by Brian Tyler Cohen

20. Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy

By: Brian Tyler Cohen

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the first content creator to interview President Biden, leading progressive voice Brian Tyler … read more

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"These are manipulation tactics happening at the hands of the very people whom voters have been groomed to trust. Republicans may claim to hate the Democrats, but frankly there is no one they have mor…"

-Brian Tyler Cohen, Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy

Cover of Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat by Hannah Proctor

21. Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat

By: Hannah Proctor

4.32

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

In the struggle for a better world, setbacks are inevitable. Defeat can feel overwhelming at times,… read more

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Cover of Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Democracy by David Rohde

22. Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Democracy

By: David Rohde

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

How Donald Trump subverted the law and Merrick Garland misjudged the need to hold him accountable b… read more

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23. The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy

By: Federico Finchelstein

4.10

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Meet today's almost fascists and learn the warning signs to intercept them on the road from populis… read more

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  • history
  • political science
Cover of Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success by Russ Buettner

24. Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

By: Russ Buettner

4.56

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of then-P… read more

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Cover of The Coming Storm: A Journey into the Heart of the Conspiracy Machine by Gabriel Gatehouse

25. The Coming Storm: A Journey into the Heart of the Conspiracy Machine

By: Gabriel Gatehouse

4.18

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

Is this how democracy dies?Based on his smash hit podcast, The Coming Storm is Gabriel Gatehouse's … read more

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Cover of Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future by Jason F. Stanley

26. Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future

By: Jason F. Stanley

4.19

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From Yale professor and bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a searing confrontation with the a… read more

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27. 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

Cover of Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America by Paola Ramos

28. Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America

By: Paola Ramos

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning journalist's deeply reported exploration of how race, identity and political traum… read more

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Cover of Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America by Talia Lavin

29. Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America

By: Talia Lavin

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An investigation into the rise of the Christian right over the last half-century that lays out the … read more

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Cover of Money: A Story of Humanity by David McWilliams

30. Money: A Story of Humanity

By: David McWilliams

4.26

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

MONEY.The object of our desires.The engine of our genius.Humanity’s greatest invention. Whether we … read more

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Cover of Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World by Casey Michel

31. Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World

By: Casey Michel

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A stunning investigation and indictment of the United States' foreign lobbying industry and the thr… read more

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29 best-selling politics books like The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy by Federico Finchelstein

Transform Your Habits

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta

4.45

Transform Your Habits

The Age of Grievance

Frank Bruni

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

Anne Applebaum

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point

Steven Levitsky

4.43

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Transform Your Habits

Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

Jen Psaki

3.96

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Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

Barbara McQuade

4.15

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On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

Anthony Fauci

4.59

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Jon Favreau

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