18 Top politics books like Saving Democracy: A User's Manual for Every American by David Pepper

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Saving Democracy: A User's Manual for Every American

By: David Pepper

4.39

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

Laboratories of Autocracy walked through the hidden breadth, depth, and intensity of the countrywid…

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1. Forever...

By: Judy Blume

3.63

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Katherine and Michael meet at a New Year's Eve party. They're attracted to each other, they grow to… read more

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"I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep."

-Judy Blume, Forever...

"...love at thirteen is nothing like love at eighteen."

-Judy Blume, Forever...

"You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest."

-Judy Blume, Forever...

"That's not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't."

-Judy Blume, Forever...

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2. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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3. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

By: Liz Cheney

4.60

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers be… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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4. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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6. Enough

By: Cassidy Hutchinson

4.31

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

Cassidy Hutchinson’s desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American h… read more

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7. They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

By: Prachi Gupta

4.36

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An Indian American daughter reveals how the dangerous model minority myth fractured her family in t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"We abide by their story because we think that is how we gain acceptance in America. But we cannibalize our bodies, our spirits and our minds to feed a hunger that never abates. We struggle under a we…"

-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

"The world we live in, which demands perfection and achievement, teaches us we cannot love ourselves as we are. The myth teaches us to think greatness always resides outside us instead of within us. W…"

-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

"We had each been raised to believe that every unknown could be resolved through willpower and intellect, a message reinforced by America's rigid conception of who we are supposed to be. The truth is,…"

-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

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8. Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation

By: Linda Villarosa

4.46

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • "A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and di… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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9. 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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  • nonfiction
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10. White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better

By: Regina Jackson

4.48

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling … read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change

By: Stacey Abrams

4.25

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

A previously published edition of this ISBN can be found here. Leadership is hard. Convincing ot… read more

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"I confronted the expected stereotypes by knowing what they were and building an alternate narrative about myself."

-Stacey Abrams, Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change

"I have to speak up because silence is not only dangerous, it is corrosive. When we refuse to name our obstacles, we can never find a way around them. Worse, we accept their inevitability, believing w…"

-Stacey Abrams, Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change

"We are, by our natures, often required to manufacture our own breaks, identify new openings even before others know they exist. The best hack is to know this is the case, accept it, and move on, prep…"

-Stacey Abrams, Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change

"Defeating fear of otherness means knowing who you are and what you’re trying to accomplish and leveraging that otherness to our benefit. Knowing I’d never be invited into smoke-filled rooms or to the…"

-Stacey Abrams, Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change

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12. How to Raise an Antiracist

By: Ibram X. Kendi

4.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The book that every parent, caregiver, and teacher needs to raise the next generation of antiracist… read more

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"To raise an antiracist is to raise a critical thinker. And to raise a critical thinker is to raise an antiracist."

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist

"Caregivers must model a critical home, a critical classroom, a critical community, for kids to defy and question everything that’s questionable."

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist

"Literacy is not an end. Literacy should be taught as a means to critical thinking. Knowledge isn't an end. Knowledge is a means to critical thinking. The smartest student is not the student who is th…"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist

"Instead of calling these IB and AP courses "gifted" classes, I call them privileged classes. The students in the classes are privileged. Colleges give preferential treatment to students who take thes…"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist

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13. The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy

By: Anand Giridharadas

4.09

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change mi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"We were being explicitly taught: Don’t think that you are first to anything, pay attention to what preceded you, trust that you are standing on someone else’s ground until proven otherwise."

-Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy

"All this is new to white people, because white people generally think they can just do what they want. There’s no consulting, there’s no talking to people of color about what they think. So we were p…"

-Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy

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14. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

By: Mike Hixenbaugh

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America by Dahlia Lithwick

15. Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

By: Dahlia Lithwick

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Senior Editor and one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, tells the… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Being told you are believed without consequences being levied is neither justice nor power. And that is the real problem when women's pain is substituted for actual justice. Pain seems to have a sell…"

-Dahlia Lithwick, Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

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16. Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines

By: David Pepper

4.51

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

“It’s the statehouses, stupid.” Laboratories of Autocracy shows that far more than the high-prof… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

By: Stacey Abrams

4.42

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"This is a narrative that describes the urgency that compels me and millions more to push for a dif… read more

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"…any voter denied a say in democracy has been harmed, and a remedy is in order regardless of the effect on an electoral outcome."

-Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

"I embrace identity politics because for the marginalized, the disadvantaged, and the minority groups still grappling for purchase in our politics, identity is the strongest defense against invisibili…"

-Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

"Difference is real, and to acknowledge such does no harm to the American identity as a whole. The vibrance of our identity politics reaffirms the complexity of our nation and the underpinning of our …"

-Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

"My non-concession speech on November 16, 2018, served as a declaration of intent. We have been taught to expect concessions not only to the outcome of an electoral contest but to the system that unde…"

-Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

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18. 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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Cover of Hit 'Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game by Rachel Bitecofer

19. Hit 'Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game

By: Rachel Bitecofer

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A radical, urgent plan for how the Democratic Party and its supporters can maintain power at one of… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. 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.

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21. Saving Democracy: A User's Manual for Every American

By: David Pepper

4.39

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

Laboratories of Autocracy walked through the hidden breadth, depth, and intensity of the countrywid… read more

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Rachel Maddow

4.45

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Liz Cheney

4.60

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Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Transform Your Habits

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

Tim Alberta

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4.45

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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

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Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party

Jonathan Karl

4.28

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Erik Larson

4.24

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