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…
Want to Read $ 14.99"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
"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
"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
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"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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2. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
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Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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3. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By: Rachel Maddow
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more
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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
4. How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
By: Barbara F. Walter
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Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and ho… read more
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"For a society to fracture along identity lines, you need mouthpieces - people who are willing to make discriminatory appeals and pursue discriminatory policies in the name of a particular group. They…"-Barbara F. Walter, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
5. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
By: Liz Cheney
4.60
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
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6. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.42
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more
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7. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
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4.17
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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"Fascist politics does not necessarily lead to an explicitly fascist state, but it is dangerous nonetheless. Fascist politics includes many distinct strategies: the mythic past, propaganda, anti-intel…"-Jason F. Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
8. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
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Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
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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
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"Unfortunately, the term “identity politics"-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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"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
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11. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
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Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding… read more
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"Unity is an anomaly. Polarization is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal."-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will."-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
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13. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
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Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountabi… read more
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16. The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy
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18. The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
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4.06
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"We can no longer assume that liberal democracy is the wave of the future... This splendid book is … read more
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"In this book, a liberal is somebody who is committed to basic values like freedom of speech, the separation of powers, or the protection of individual rights."-Yascha Mounk, The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
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"Populists are highly skilled at weaponizing these forms of resentment: their rhetoric simultaneously aims to turn the growing anger at affluent people against the ruling elite and to turn the growing…"-Yascha Mounk, The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
"Unnoticed by most political scientists, a form of undemocratic liberalism has taken root in North America and Western Europe. In this form of government, procedural niceties are carefully followed (m…"-Yascha Mounk, The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
19. How Democracy Ends
By: David Runciman
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
How will democracy end? And what will replace it? A preeminent political scientist examines the pas… read more
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20. Crises of Democracy
By: Adam Przeworski
3.92
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
Is democracy in crisis? The current threats to democracy are not just political: they are deeply… read more
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21. 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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"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.
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