21 must-read nonfiction books like Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference by David Shimer

Cover of Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference by David Shimer

Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference

By: David Shimer

4.18

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The definitive history of the covert struggle between Russia and America to influence elections, wh…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference by David Shimer , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein

1. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

By: Roger Lowenstein

4.20

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

“A riveting account that reaches beyond the market landscape to say something universal about risk … read more

Similar categories in Roger Lowenstein's When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management book and David Shimer's Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer: The True Story of the Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames by Gregory Feifer, Victor Cherkashin

2. Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer: The True Story of the Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames

By: Gregory Feifer , Victor Cherkashin

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

In his four decades as a KGB officer, Victor Cherkashin was a central player in the shadowy world o… read more

Similar categories in Gregory Feifer's Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer: The True Story of the Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames book and David Shimer's Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference

  • espionage
  • nonfiction
  • russia
  • history
Cover of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

3. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

By: Elizabeth Kolbert

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History book and David Shimer's Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty by Daron Acemoğlu

4. The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty

By: Daron Acemoğlu

4.23

Format: 560 pages, Kindle Edition

'A must-read. Acemoglu and Robinson are intellectual heavyweights of the first rank . . . erudite a… read more

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  • politics
  • political science
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The only way of achieving durable liberty is to . . . forge the balance necessary for building a Shackled Leviathan. True liberty can flourish neither without a state nor under the yoke of a Despotic…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty

Cover of The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World by Tim  Marshall

5. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more

Similar categories in Tim Marshall's The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World book and David Shimer's Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference

  • politics
  • international relations
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"

-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

Cover of Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West by Catherine Belton

6. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West

By: Catherine Belton

4.18

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Belton's Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West book and David Shimer's Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference

  • espionage
  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
  • audiobook
Cover of Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre

7. Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

By: Ben Macintyre

4.16

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small … read more

Similar categories in Ben Macintyre's Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy book and David Shimer's Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference

  • espionage
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder

8. The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

By: Timothy Snyder

4.36

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the ris… read more

Similar categories in Timothy Snyder's The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America book and David Shimer's Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference

  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
"For the reporters, the heroes of our time"

-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

"In 1976, Stephen King published a short story, “I Know What You Need,"

-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

"Міф Жовтневої революції обіцяв усе; міф Великої Вітчизняної війни не обіцяв нічого."

-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

"When [Ivan] Ilyin wrote that the art of politics was “identifying and neutralizing the enemy,"

-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

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9. Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

By: Katherine Eban

4.42

Format: 512 pages, ebook

Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health dev… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Eban's Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom book and David Shimer's Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic by Stephen Vladeck

10. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

By: Stephen Vladeck

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed legal scholar’s “essential” (Linda Greenhouse) exp… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Vladeck's The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic book and David Shimer's Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"But in order after order, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration most of what it wanted without endorsing principles that the justices would be bound to apply to future presidents, so that t…"

-Stephen Vladeck, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

Cover of The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell

11. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Ma… read more

Similar categories in Malcolm Gladwell's The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War book and David Shimer's Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference

  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Revolutions are birthed in conversation, argument, validation, proximity, and the look in your listener’s eye that tells you you’re on to something."

-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

"I'm drawn again and again to obsessives. I like them. I like the idea that someone could push away all the concerns and details that make up everyday life and just zero in on one thing - the thing th…"

-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

"The more you invest in a set of beliefs - the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction - the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You do…"

-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

Cover of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr

12. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

By: Daniel Immerwahr

4.46

Format: 513 pages, Hardcover

A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Immerwahr's How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States book and David Shimer's Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."

-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"

-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

13. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

Similar categories in Rashid Khalidi's The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 book and David Shimer's Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum

14. 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

Similar categories in Anne Applebaum's Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism book and David Shimer's Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
"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 Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers by Andy Greenberg

15. Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers

By: Andy Greenberg

4.36

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

A chilling, globe-spanning detective story, tracking an elite group of Russian hackers and the futu… read more

Similar categories in Andy Greenberg's Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers book and David Shimer's Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference

  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. A Ghost in the Throat

By: Doireann Ní Ghríofa

4.04

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

A true original. In this stunningly unusual prose debut, Doireann Ni Ghriofa sculpts essay and auto… read more

Similar categories in Doireann Ní Ghríofa's A Ghost in the Throat book and David Shimer's Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Swift, the twist from ordinary to catastrophe."

-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

"Instead, I'll think of new words, and then I'll follow them."

-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

"We cannot know from whose mouths the echoes of our lives will chime."

-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

"We cannot permit reason to intrude upon this moment. Do not deny us this."

-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

Cover of A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder by Mark    O'Connell

17. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder

By: Mark O'Connell

3.74

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more

Similar categories in Mark O'Connell's A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder book and David Shimer's Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy by Brian Stelter

18. Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy

By: Brian Stelter

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The  New York Times  bestselling author of  HOAX,  “[a] rare look inside the profoundly influential… read more

Similar categories in Brian Stelter's Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy book and David Shimer's Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy by Laurent  Richard

19. Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy

By: Laurent Richard

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Featuring an introduction by Rachel Maddow, Pegasus: How a Spy in Our Pocket Threatens the End of P… read more

Similar categories in Laurent Richard's Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy book and David Shimer's Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference

  • espionage
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia by Craig Unger

20. House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia

By: Craig Unger

4.02

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“The story Unger weaves with those earlier accounts and his original r… read more

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  • espionage
  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference by David Shimer

21. Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference

By: David Shimer

4.18

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The definitive history of the covert struggle between Russia and America to influence elections, wh… read more

Similar categories in David Shimer's Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference book and David Shimer's Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference

  • espionage
  • american history
  • russia
  • history
  • international relations
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
  • political science
  • audiobook

17 Best audiobook books like Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference by David Shimer

Transform Your Habits

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

Roger Lowenstein

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West

Catherine Belton

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

Ben Macintyre

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

Timothy Snyder

4.36

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12 Top audiobook books like Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre

Transform Your Habits

Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)

David McCloskey

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

Ben Macintyre

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

David Grann

4.19

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