15 must-read politics books like The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

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The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam

By: Douglas Valentine

3.99

Format: 460 pages, Kindle Edition

A shocking exposé of the covert CIA program of widespread torture, rape, and murder of civilians du…

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Cover of Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner

1. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

By: Tim Weiner

3.94

Format: 514 pages, Hardcover

For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its t… read more

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  • espionage
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
"To the CIA, everyone's an outsider."

-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

"Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light."

-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

"The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition."

-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

"It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world."

-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Cover of The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government by David Talbot

2. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

By: David Talbot

4.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the mo… read more

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  • espionage
  • conspiracy theories
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse  Betrayal by Nick Bryant

3. The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse Betrayal

By: Nick Bryant

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A chilling expose of corporate corruption and government cover-ups, this account of a nationwide ch… read more

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  • politics
  • conspiracy theories
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. The Shadow Over Innsmouth

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is a short novel about a weird hybrid race of humans and creatures rese… read more

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5. Esoteric Hollywood:: Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film

By: Jay Dyer

3.90

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Like no other book before it, this work delves into the deep, dark and mysterious undertones hidden… read more

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  • politics
  • conspiracy theories
  • history
  • nonfiction

6. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

By: Philip K. Dick

3.73

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Dick at his wildest and strangest - a mystifying but brilliant book- SF: 100 Best Novels In the ove… read more

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7. Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippy Dream

By: Nick Bryant , David McGowan

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

As a native Angeleno who was born in 1960 and came of age in the 1970s, the music produced by the a… read more

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8. Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder

By: David McGowan

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The specter of the marauding serial killer has become a relatively common feature on the American l… read more

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9. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more

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10. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

By: Naomi Klein

4.52

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more

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11. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

By: Rick Perlstein

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

A bold and astute narrative history of conservatism's climb and one of the best-reviewed books of 2… read more

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12. The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

By: John Perkins

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Shocking Bestseller: The original version of this astonishing tell-all book spent 73 weeks on the N… read more

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13. Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia

By: Paul L. Williams

3.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This disturbing expose describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, … read more

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14. The Last Colony (Old Man's War #3)

By: John Scalzi

3.91

Format: 434 pages,

Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant H… read more

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15. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

By: John J. Mearsheimer

3.71

Format: 364 pages,

The update of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the… read more

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16. The Rule of Saint Benedict

By: Benedict of Nursia , None

3.22

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

Composed nearly fifteen hundred years ago by the father of Western monasticism, The Rule of St. Ben… read more

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17. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

By: Ibram X. Kendi

4.54

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Blac… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

By: Tom O'Neill

4.03

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more

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  • politics
  • conspiracy theories
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion by Gary  Webb

19. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

By: Gary Webb

4.29

Format: 601 pages, Kindle Edition

In July 1995, San Jose Mercury-News reporter Gary Webb found the Big One--the blockbuster story eve… read more

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  • conspiracy theories
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests. And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my blis…"

-Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

"If we had met five years ago, you wouldn't have found a more staunch defender of the newspaper industry than me ... I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV sh…"

-Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

"One of the questions I have been asked many times since this story broke is this: Now that the facts are out there, what can we do? My answer, depressing and cynical as it may be, is always the same.…"

-Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

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20. Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World

By: Michael Pollan

3.72

Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio

Listening time = 2h 2m Pollan takes us on a journey through the history of the drug, which was f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer

21. Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

By: Stephen Kinzer

4.09

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the ma… read more

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  • espionage
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh by Wendy S. Painting

22. Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh

By: Wendy S. Painting

4.58

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

Presenting startling new biographical details about Timothy McVeigh and exposing stark contradictio… read more

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  • politics
  • conspiracy theories
  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam

By: Douglas Valentine

3.99

Format: 460 pages, Kindle Edition

A shocking exposé of the covert CIA program of widespread torture, rape, and murder of civilians du… read more

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  • espionage
  • conspiracy theories
  • american
  • history
  • asia
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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24. 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

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  • politics
  • american
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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25. American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology

By: D.W. Pasulka

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories by Ilan Pappé

26. The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories

By: Ilan Pappé

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Following his critically acclaimed investigation of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1940s,… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture by Oswaldo Zavala

27. Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture

By: Oswaldo Zavala

4.08

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Through political and cultural analysis of representations of the so-called war on drugs, Oswaldo Z… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA's Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac, and Other Activists by John L. Potash

28. Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA's Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac, and Other Activists

By: John L. Potash

4.18

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

Drugs as Weapons Against Us meticulously details how a group of opium-trafficking families came to … read more

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  • politics
  • conspiracy theories
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Operation Mind Control: The Cryptocracy's Plan to Psychocivilize You (Expanded Researcher's Edition) by W. Bowart

29. Operation Mind Control: The Cryptocracy's Plan to Psychocivilize You (Expanded Researcher's Edition)

By: W. Bowart

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Walter Bowart (1939 - 2007) was a journalist and a prominent figure in the New York City counter-cu… read more

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Cover of Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler's Rise to Power, 1919-1933 by James Pool

30. Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler's Rise to Power, 1919-1933

By: James Pool

4.14

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

Called "one of the most useful and illuminating studies of Nazism" by The New Yorker , this highly … read more

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  • politics
  • conspiracy theories
  • history
Cover of Meta-Narratives: Essays on Philosophy and Symbolism by Jay Dyer

31. Meta-Narratives: Essays on Philosophy and Symbolism

By: Jay Dyer

4.39

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

Jay Dyer, the popular comedian, TV host, and author shares fifteen essays that have never before be… read more

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"The revolutions of the Enlightenment period repositioned humanity in a vast, mechanistic, determined cosmos of flux and brute “causality"

-Jay Dyer, Meta-Narratives: Essays on Philosophy and Symbolism

"For Plato and Socrates, the philosopher is one who lives according to virtue and reason, cultivating the pleasures of the soul and intellect and not the pleasures and passions of the baser desires of…"

-Jay Dyer, Meta-Narratives: Essays on Philosophy and Symbolism

"For Aristotle, fourth-century BCE Greek philosopher, the starting point of wisdom, or philosophy, was metaphysics. Modernity, in its quest for self-destruction, has more or less rejected metaphysics.…"

-Jay Dyer, Meta-Narratives: Essays on Philosophy and Symbolism

17 Top history books like The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

Transform Your Habits

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Tim Weiner

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

David Talbot

4.43

Transform Your Habits

The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse Betrayal

Nick Bryant

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Esoteric Hollywood:: Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film

Jay Dyer

3.90

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8 Top audiobook books like Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer

Transform Your Habits

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Tim Weiner

3.94

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Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Tom O'Neill

4.03

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Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

Gary Webb

4.29

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Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

4.47

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