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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
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4.13 avg rating — 12,526 ratings
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
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4.31 avg rating — 27,483 ratings
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Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People
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4.18 avg rating — 5,271 ratings
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Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans
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3.95 avg rating — 2,400 ratings
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
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4.12 avg rating — 18,100 ratings
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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3.83 avg rating — 509,540 ratings
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Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
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3.94 avg rating — 6,078 ratings
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
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3.77 avg rating — 25,425 ratings
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
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4.46 avg rating — 14,937 ratings
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Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again
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3.46 avg rating — 5,133 ratings
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Who Rules the World?
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4.04 avg rating — 12,612 ratings
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Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
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4.09 avg rating — 2,048 ratings
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
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4.11 avg rating — 3,728 ratings
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What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
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4.25 avg rating — 2,509 ratings
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
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4.19 avg rating — 12,179 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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4.01 avg rating — 860,956 ratings
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The Fractured Republic: Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism
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3.81 avg rating — 913 ratings
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The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics
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4.22 avg rating — 365 ratings
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Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power
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3.88 avg rating — 1,970 ratings
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Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
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3.91 avg rating — 1,889 ratings
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How the Right Lost Its Mind
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3.91 avg rating — 901 ratings
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The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News-and Divided a Country
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3.88 avg rating — 1,929 ratings
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Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
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4.05 avg rating — 1,444 ratings
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Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism And Socialism From Rousseau To Foucault
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3.88 avg rating — 1,946 ratings
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No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
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4.10 avg rating — 10,621 ratings
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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4.52 avg rating — 164,697 ratings
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The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics
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3.74 avg rating — 1,590 ratings
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
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4.04 avg rating — 29,337 ratings
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Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
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3.95 avg rating — 6,111 ratings
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The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
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4.01 avg rating — 1,613 ratings
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The Limousine Liberal: How an Incendiary Image United the Right and Fractured America
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3.14 avg rating — 70 ratings
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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
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4.20 avg rating — 15,117 ratings
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Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
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3.82 avg rating — 98,785 ratings
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Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe
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3.73 avg rating — 321 ratings
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It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us
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3.67 avg rating — 3,723 ratings
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The Great Divide: Story of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Race
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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How Should We Talk About the Election?: A Balanced Guide to Understanding Both Sides after the Trump vs Clinton Vote
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
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3.93 avg rating — 237 ratings
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Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies: How to Find Trustworthy Information in the Digital Age
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3.90 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House
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3.66 avg rating — 437 ratings
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Blue Collar Conservatives: Recommitting to an America That Works
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3.88 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Flyover Nation: You Can't Run a Country You've Never Been To
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3.89 avg rating — 294 ratings
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TWAS The Year 2020
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3.86 avg rating — 35 ratings
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LIBERAL FASCISM: the Secret History of American Nazism exposed by Dr. Rex Curry
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church
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4.15 avg rating — 19,140 ratings
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Hope, Fear & Elections: How Cultural Cycles Predict Who Wins The White House
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4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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HATE INC. - Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
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4.09 avg rating — 5,774 ratings
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Prejudice, Racism, and Tribalism: A Primer for White People
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4.75 avg rating — 48 ratings
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This Machine Kills Secrets: How Wikileakers, Hacktivists, and Cipherpunks Are Freeing the World's Information
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,213 ratings
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The Devil's Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West
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3.70 avg rating — 438 ratings
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The Great Divide: Story of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Race
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
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4.31 avg rating — 3,551 ratings
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Fascism: A Warning
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4.25 avg rating — 21,532 ratings
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Trump Troubadour No More: How I Lost Faith in Our President
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2.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Understanding Power : The Indispensable Chomsky
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4.41 avg rating — 9,652 ratings
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American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
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4.18 avg rating — 3,740 ratings
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The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution
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3.69 avg rating — 462 ratings
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Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party
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4.19 avg rating — 1,454 ratings
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Black Book of Communism
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3.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
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4.61 avg rating — 18,729 ratings
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Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections
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4.19 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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3.66 avg rating — 196,164 ratings
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Leftism Revisited: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot
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4.19 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
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4.41 avg rating — 16,404 ratings
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The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
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3.98 avg rating — 12,304 ratings
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Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
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4.17 avg rating — 995 ratings
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The Day Christians Changed America: How Christian Conservatives put Trump in the White House and Redirected America's Future
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3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College
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4.26 avg rating — 1,292 ratings
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One Person, No Vote
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4.38 avg rating — 3,346 ratings
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The Winner Effect: How Power Affects Your Brain
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3.77 avg rating — 877 ratings
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The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class
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4.05 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
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3.96 avg rating — 17,594 ratings
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How to Rig an Election
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3.94 avg rating — 343 ratings
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Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency
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3.88 avg rating — 1,497 ratings
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The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
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4.31 avg rating — 3,580 ratings
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We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump
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4.25 avg rating — 299 ratings
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The People's Republic of Chemicals
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4.03 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Making of Donald Trump
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3.90 avg rating — 3,417 ratings
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How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative
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3.68 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
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3.80 avg rating — 5,982 ratings
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The Bully Society: School Shootings and the Crisis of Bullying in America's Schools
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3.73 avg rating — 163 ratings
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The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
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4.28 avg rating — 3,747 ratings
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I Know Best: How Moral Narcissism Is Destroying Our Republic, If It Hasn't Already
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4.09 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
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4.39 avg rating — 1,983 ratings
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Red State Christians: Understanding the Voters Who Elected Donald Trump
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 343 ratings
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Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
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4.18 avg rating — 5,433 ratings
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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4.12 avg rating — 132,081 ratings
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Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
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4.09 avg rating — 354 ratings
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Standoff: How America Became Ungovernable
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3.85 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
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3.69 avg rating — 7,863 ratings
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Economics In Wonderland: Robert Reich's Cartoon Guide To A Political World
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3.73 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
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3.99 avg rating — 6,105 ratings
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The Closing of the American Mind
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3.76 avg rating — 6,026 ratings
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Game of Thorns: The Inside Story of Hillary Clinton's Failed Campaign and Donald Trump's Winning Strategy
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3.90 avg rating — 597 ratings
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The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics
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4.01 avg rating — 652 ratings
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Aftershock(Inequality for All--Movie Tie-in Edition): The Next Economy and America's Future
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3.95 avg rating — 4,080 ratings
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Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort
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4.10 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism
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4.08 avg rating — 576 ratings
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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4.29 avg rating — 113,371 ratings
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The Forgotten: How the People of One Pennsylvania County Elected Donald Trump and Changed America
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3.69 avg rating — 248 ratings
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You were asking why I added some of the books. To me they seemed relevant - lack of water under California, increased leaking of e-mails, resistance against capitalistic society etc. But I do not live in America, so I can only go by the news coverage. It's entirely possible that some books are not relevant.
If you have a particular book in mind please let me know here and I'll look at it again - which is why we are better to query list contents under lists.
Hope this helps.