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…
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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16. The Reactionary Spirit: How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World
By: Zack Beauchamp
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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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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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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19. Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past
By: Steve Benen
4.50
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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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
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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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