The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays
By: Richard Hofstadter
4.29
Format: None pages,
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1. The Mind of the South
By: W.J. Cash , Bertram Wyatt-Brown
3.96
Format: 444 pages, Paperback
Ever since its publication in 1941, The Mind of the South has been recognized as a path-breaking wo… read more
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2. The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America
By: Louis Menand
4.07
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk … read more
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3. Wilderness and the American Mind
By: Roderick Nash
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Roderick Nash's classic study of America's changing attitudes toward wilderness has received wide a… read more
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4. The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
By: Corey Robin
4.27
Format: 637 pages, Hardcover
Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring," said the… read more
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5. Public Opinion
By: Walter Lippmann
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
In what is widely considered the most influential book ever written by Walter Lippmann, the late jo… read more
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6. The Closing of the American Mind
By: Allan Bloom
3.93
Format: 233 pages,
The Closing of the American Mind,a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary … read more
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7. The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays
By: Richard Hofstadter
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8. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
By: Colin Woodard
4.56
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red stat… read more
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9. On Revolution
By: Hannah Arendt
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Tracing the gradual evolution of revolutions, Arendt predicts the changing relationship between war… read more
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10. A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
By: Alistair Horne
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the colla… read more
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11. The Origins of Totalitarianism
By: Hannah Arendt
3.37
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
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12. Mississippi Writings
By: Mark Twain , Guy Cardwell
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in ha… read more
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13. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
By: Eric Hoffer
3.27
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A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in h… read more
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14. Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin & the Great Depression
By: Alan Brinkley
3.00
Format: 18 pages, Paperback
The study of two demagogues, whose vast popularity explains much about Depression-era America. This… read more
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15. Goodbye to All That
By: Robert Graves
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
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16. The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
By: Philip S. Gorski
4.19
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A bracing examination of a force that imperils American democracy Most Americans were shocked by t… read more
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"White Christian nationalism is a “deep story"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"For white Americans who affirm Christian nationalist ideology, “true Americans"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"Even as it’s become riskier for mainstream politicians to use negative dog whistles like “thug"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
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17. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
By: Malcolm Harris
3.90
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip a… read more
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18. 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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19. 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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20. Heaven in Disorder
By: Slavoj Žižek
3.79
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
As we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises move center stage: o… read more
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21. The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
By: Katherine Stewart
4.28
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Democracy in Chains and Dark Money, a revelatory investigation of the Religious Righ… read more
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"Christian nationalism exploits and intensifies inequality, and dominionism is its logical endpoint and the actual engine of the so-called culture wars."-Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
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