8 must-read sociology books like Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein

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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…

"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 parties we vote for less—but because we came to dislike the opposing party more. Even as hope and change sputter, fear and loathing proceed."

-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 activate our identities, because it is biased toward and dependent on the fraction of the country with the most intense political identities."

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

If you liked the sociology plot in Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein , here is a list of 8 books like this:

1. Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough

By: Doug Saunders

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

To face the future, Canada needs more Canadians. But why and how many? Canada's population has alwa… read more

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2. Romney: A Reckoning

By: McKay Coppins

4.36

Format: 416 pages, ebook

A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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4. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

By: Hannah Ritchie

4.29

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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  • social science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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6. 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
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America (STUDIES IN POSTWAR AMERICAN POLITCAL)

By: Verlan Lewis

4.26

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking argument that the political spectrum today is inadequate to twenty-first century A… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • society
  • audiobook
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8. How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

By: Vaclav Smil

3.97

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Найліпше нашу пасивність і надзвичайну складність проблеми глобального потепління можна проілюструвати таким фактом: тридцять років масштабних міжнародних кліматичних конференцій ніяк не вплинули на …"

-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

"У 2010-х роках саме джипи стали другою найбільшою причиною зростання викидів CO2, лишивши позаду важку промисловість, вантажоперевезення й авіацію. Обігнала їх тільки електроенергетика. Якщо народна …"

-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

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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

Similar categories in Ezra Klein's Why We're Polarized book and Ezra Klein's Why We're Polarized

  • cultural
  • social science
  • history
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • political science
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"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

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10. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

By: Steven Levitsky

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is ou… read more

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  • social science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • political science
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Authoritarian politicians cast their rivals as criminal, subversive, unpatriotic, or a threat to national security or the existing way of life."

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes."

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"Institutions become political weapons, wielded forcefully by those who control them against those who do not. This is how elected autocrats subvert democracy—packing and “weaponizing"

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"But when faced with a would-be authoritarian, establishment politicians must unambiguously reject him or her and do everything possible to defend democratic institutions—even if that means temporaril…"

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

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11. The Age of Grievance

By: Frank Bruni

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • political science
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky

12. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
Cover of Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It by Richard V. Reeves

13. Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

By: Richard V. Reeves

4.07

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

"A landmark, one of the most important books of the year" - David Brooks, New York Times“Real, prac… read more

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  • audiobook
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
"True equality between groups that are different in any way can be attained only by providing for the differences". That´s Margaret Mead again, in 1974. Mead´s idea of true equality might now be label…"

-Richard V. Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

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14. One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger

By: Matthew Yglesias

3.88

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

What would actually make America great: more people. If the most challenging crisis in living memor… read more

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  • audiobook
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • society
  • sociology
Cover of Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria

15. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
Cover of Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity by Lilliana Mason

16. Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity

By: Lilliana Mason

3.89

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Political polarization in America is at an all-time high, and the conflict has moved beyond disagre… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • political science
  • sociology
Cover of The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure by Yascha Mounk

17. The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure

By: Yascha Mounk

3.73

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

One of Barack Obama's Recommended Reads for Summer  “ [A] brave and necessary book . . . Anyone in… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • political science
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps by Jon  Favreau

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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. When the World Breaks: The Surprising Hope and Subversive Promises in the Teachings of Jesus

By: Jason Adam Miller

4.48

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking book, Pastor Jason Adam Miller re-examines the Beatitudes—eight paradoxes fo… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum

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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  • 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.

Cover of The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House by Nancy Pelosi

21. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

18 Best audiobook books like Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein

Transform Your Habits

Romney: A Reckoning

McKay Coppins

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

Hannah Ritchie

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

4.27

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12 Best history books like Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity by Lilliana Mason

Transform Your Habits

Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government

Christopher H. Achen , Larry M. Bartels

4.11

Transform Your Habits

American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us

Robert D. Putnam , David E. Campbell

3.98

Transform Your Habits

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

Tim Alberta

4.45

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Why We're Polarized

Ezra Klein

4.22

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