They Said This Day Would Never Come: Chasing the Dream on Obama's Improbable Campaign
By: Chris Liddell-Westefeld
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The thrilling, unlikely story of Barack Obama's first presidential campaign, as told by the volunte…
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1. Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House
By: Alyssa Mastromonaco , None
4.75
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her beh… read more
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2. Conclave
By: Robert Harris
4.00
Format: None pages,
The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals… read more
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3. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
By: Barack Obama
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
The Audacity of Hopeis Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics--a politics that builds upon … read more
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4. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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5. Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
By: Cody Keenan
4.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “At a time when the meaning of America is up for grabs, Cody Keenan’s n… read more
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6. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
By: Ronan Farrow
4.40
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered abou… read more
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"All the women before feel I am their fault," she said. "And if there were women after me, I feel that is my fault."-Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
"Trying to get ahold of Davis later on, i asked Jonathan, "Who would have Lanny Davis's number?" He replied, I don't know, Pol Pot?"-Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
7. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
8. Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
By: Rutger Bregman
4.22
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of… read more
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"You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you have no boots."-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
"Whether it’s the growth of the economy, audience shares, publications – slowly but surely, quality is being replaced by quantity. ... And driving it all is a force sometimes called “liberalism,"-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
"Frankly, there's almost no country on Earth where the American Dream is less likely to come true than in the U.S. of A. Anybody eager to work their way up from rags to riches is better off trying the…"-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
"True progress begins with something no knowledge economy can produce: wisdom about what it means to live well. We have to do what great thinkers like John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Mayn…"-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
9. Why We're Polarized
By: Ezra Klein
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means f… read more
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"Unfortunately, the term “identity politics"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"The key idea here is “negative partisanship"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"So here, then, is the last fifty years of American politics summarized: we became more consistent in the party we vote for not because we came to like our party more—indeed, we’ve come to like the pa…"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"The political media is biased, but not toward the Left or Right so much as toward loud, outrageous, colorful, inspirational, confrontational. It is biased toward the political stories and figures who…"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
10. A Promised Land
By: Barack Obama
4.33
Format: 768 pages, Kindle Edition
A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making, from the president who inspired us to… read more
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"Glory and tragedy, courage and stupidity - one set of truths didn't negate the other. For war was contradiction, as was the history of America."-Barack Obama, A Promised Land
"I thought the country I'd just described to them - a hopeful, generous, courageous America, an America that was open to everyone. At about the same age as the graduates were now, I'd seized on that i…"-Barack Obama, A Promised Land
"Then again, a president wasn’t a lawyer or an accountant or a pilot, hired to carry out some narrow, specialized task. Mobilizing public opinion, shaping working coalitions - that was the job. Whethe…"-Barack Obama, A Promised Land
"But there comes a point in the speech where I find my cadence. The crowd quiets rather than roars. It's the kind of moment I'd come to recognize in subsequent years, on certain magic nights. There's …"-Barack Obama, A Promised Land
11. Emma of 83rd Street (For the Love of Austen, #1)
By: Audrey Bellezza
3.79
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In this witty and romantic debut novel, Jane Austen’s Emma meets the misadventures of Manhattan’s m… read more
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12. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
By: Kamala Harris
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us,… read more
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"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
". . . Being a good person meant standing for something larger than yourself; that success is measured in part by what you help others achieve and accomplish."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
13. Beautiful Things: A Memoir
By: Hunter Biden
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable, unbreakable love,” Hunter Bide… read more
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"I felt the astonishing luck of a man who'd agreed to meet a woman for coffee when it was all but impossible for him to leave a hotel room without a crack pipe in his hand, and who then fell in love a…"-Hunter Biden, Beautiful Things: A Memoir
"Dad swiftly learned that if he didn't put an opponent's character front and center, he often could find a way to change minds or work out a compromise. No one walks out of a meeting when you say, "I …"-Hunter Biden, Beautiful Things: A Memoir
14. Make Russia Great Again
By: Christopher Buckley
3.68
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
The award-winning and bestselling author of Thank You for Smoking delivers a hilarious and whipsmar… read more
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15. Invisible Storm: A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD
By: Jason Kander
4.53
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From political wunderkind and former army intelligence officer Jason Kan… read more
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"PTSD is an injury. That’s all it is."-Jason Kander, Invisible Storm: A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD
"Reader, let’s talk about ambition. First of all, the word is almost always used against young people—especially women. No one calls Bernie Sanders ambitious, but the man ran for president twice. When…"-Jason Kander, Invisible Storm: A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD
16. Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
By: Barbara McQuade
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practic… read more
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17. The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
By: John Green
4.36
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fict… read more
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"We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here."-John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
"I...took some pride in 'not fulfilling my potential,' in part because I was terrified that if I tried my hardest, the world would learn I didn't actually have that much potential."-John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
"One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be, the ones you grew out of but can't ever quite get rid of."-John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
"I think two of the fundamental facts of being a person are 1. We must go on, and 2. None of us ever walks alone. We may feel alone (in fact, we will feel alone), but even in the crushing grind of iso…"-John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
18. Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump
By: Dan Pfeiffer
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From Obama's former communications director and current co-host of Pod Save America comes a colorfu… read more
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"First and most important, our culture was a reflection of the man we served. Obama is at his core a really chill guy and I mean that in the most presidential way. He is a nice guy who expects his tea…"-Dan Pfeiffer, Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump
"During the campaign, I supported and encouraged the Clinton campaign strategy, but in hindsight, I lost track of one of the core lessons of Obama's success--campaigns are about telling the American p…"-Dan Pfeiffer, Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump
"Covering politics like sports has created a self-reinforcing incentive structure that is not dissimilar to the one the ESPN’S SportsCenter has on the fundamentals of basketball. There is a long-runni…"-Dan Pfeiffer, Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump
19. 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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20. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
By: Nancy Pelosi
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more
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21. They Said This Day Would Never Come: Chasing the Dream on Obama's Improbable Campaign
By: Chris Liddell-Westefeld
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The thrilling, unlikely story of Barack Obama's first presidential campaign, as told by the volunte… read more
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