6 Top political science books like On Freedom by Timothy Snyder

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On Freedom

By: Timothy Snyder

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only c…

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1. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By: Jonathan Blitzer

4.49

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Blitzer's Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis book and Timothy Snyder's On Freedom

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. 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

Similar categories in Robert Kagan's Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart--Again book and Timothy Snyder's On Freedom

  • politics
  • political science
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Surviving Autocracy

By: Masha Gessen

4.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A bestselling, National Book Award-winning journalist's essential guide to understanding, resisting… read more

Similar categories in Masha Gessen's Surviving Autocracy book and Timothy Snyder's On Freedom

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • political science
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"As Trump marches on to the rhythm of near-daily twitter rants, daily outrages, and weekly embarrassments, it remains unimaginable—even if it is observable. To think that a madman could be running the…"

-Masha Gessen, Surviving Autocracy

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4. 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

Similar categories in John Ganz's When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s book and Timothy Snyder's On Freedom

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. 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

Similar categories in Ari Berman's Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It book and Timothy Snyder's On Freedom

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality

By: Renee DiResta

4.17

Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition

 A brilliant, original investigation into the radical shift of power as invisible rulers create bes… read more

Similar categories in Renee DiResta's Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality book and Timothy Snyder's On Freedom

  • history
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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7. 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

Similar categories in Anne Applebaum's Autocracy, Inc. book and Timothy Snyder's On Freedom

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
"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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8. 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

Similar categories in Steve Benen's Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past book and Timothy Snyder's On Freedom

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

Similar categories in Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI book and Timothy Snyder's On Freedom

  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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10. At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House

By: H.R. McMaster

4.08

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

A revealing account of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster’s turbulent and consequential thirte… read more

Similar categories in H.R. McMaster's At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House book and Timothy Snyder's On Freedom

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. 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

Similar categories in Brian Tyler Cohen's Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy book and Timothy Snyder's On Freedom

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

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12. Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich

By: Richard J. Evans

4.27

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

Through a connected set of biographical portraits of key Nazi figures that follows power as it radi… read more

Similar categories in Richard J. Evans's Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich book and Timothy Snyder's On Freedom

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinto… read more

Similar categories in Hillary Rodham Clinton's Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty book and Timothy Snyder's On Freedom

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. On Freedom

By: Timothy Snyder

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only c… read more

Similar categories in Timothy Snyder's On Freedom book and Timothy Snyder's On Freedom

  • social science
  • history
  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • political science
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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15. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

Similar categories in Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Message book and Timothy Snyder's On Freedom

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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16. 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

Similar categories in Russ Buettner's Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success book and Timothy Snyder's On Freedom

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns … read more

Similar categories in Malcolm Gladwell's Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering book and Timothy Snyder's On Freedom

  • history
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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18. 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

Similar categories in Jason F. Stanley's Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future book and Timothy Snyder's On Freedom

  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. 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

Similar categories in Bob Woodward's War book and Timothy Snyder's On Freedom

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
"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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20. Patriot: A Memoir

By: Alexei Navalny

4.50

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate pric… read more

Similar categories in Alexei Navalny's Patriot: A Memoir book and Timothy Snyder's On Freedom

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If you have a criminal conviction, you are barred from running for office."

-Alexei Navalny, Patriot: A Memoir

"When corruption is the very foundation of a regime, those who battle it are extremists."

-Alexei Navalny, Patriot: A Memoir

"All schooboys had been to the stores and had noticed the long queues, and knew that the most used word in the Soviet lexicon was "shortage."

-Alexei Navalny, Patriot: A Memoir

"A serious political leader cannot simply decide to turn his back on a huge number of his fellow citizens because he personally dislikes their views."

-Alexei Navalny, Patriot: A Memoir

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21. The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World

By: Noam Chomsky

4.50

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of the world’s most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that US power… read more

Similar categories in Noam Chomsky's The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World book and Timothy Snyder's On Freedom

  • social science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

20 Top audiobook books like On Freedom by Timothy Snyder

Transform Your Habits

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

Jonathan Blitzer

4.49

Transform Your Habits

Surviving Autocracy

Masha Gessen

4.16

Transform Your Habits

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

John Ganz

4.23

Transform Your Habits

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

Ari Berman

4.37

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21 best-selling audiobook books like Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy by Brian Tyler Cohen

Transform Your Habits

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

Jen Psaki

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

Barbara McQuade

4.15

Transform Your Habits

On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

Anthony Fauci

4.59

Transform Your Habits

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

Jon Favreau

4.17

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