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Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 65,762 ratings — published 2018
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 115,336 ratings — published 2017
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 511,253 ratings — published 2016
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 119,444 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 373,241 ratings — published 2015
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 102,737 ratings — published 2005
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 116,906 ratings — published 2016
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 173,566 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.62 — 268,781 ratings — published 2014
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 165,950 ratings — published 2020
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.44 — 77,645 ratings — published 2018
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 103,977 ratings — published 2019
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 120,522 ratings — published 2019
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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avg rating 3.66 — 196,425 ratings — published 2001
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,032,452 ratings — published 2017
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 286,374 ratings — published 2018
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 63 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 173,708 ratings — published 2018
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.53 — 144,975 ratings — published 2021
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (ebook)
by (shelved 62 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 27,654 ratings — published 2016
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 48,678 ratings — published 2018
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 34,204 ratings — published 2018
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 46,773 ratings — published 2018
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 31,218 ratings — published 2017
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.57 — 67,133 ratings — published 2025
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.82 — 99,238 ratings — published 2020
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 38,720 ratings — published 2006
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
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avg rating 4.25 — 21,665 ratings — published 2018
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 54 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.46 — 102,950 ratings — published 2009
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.12 — 129,761 ratings — published 2025
Blowout (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 53 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.34 — 16,090 ratings — published 2019
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 633,701 ratings — published 2012
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 65,609 ratings — published 2023
Rage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 26,385 ratings — published 2020
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 49,851 ratings — published 2018
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 906,512 ratings — published 2005
Columbine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 104,679 ratings — published 2009
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 55,474 ratings — published 2007
What Happened (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.92 — 61,399 ratings — published 2017
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 359,233 ratings — published 2006
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 283,269 ratings — published 2020
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 208,185 ratings — published 2024
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 43,521 ratings — published 2021
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.22 — 58,442 ratings — published 2018
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 32,828 ratings — published 2015
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 20,398 ratings — published 2020
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,566 ratings — published 2016
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 108,463 ratings — published 2018
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 23,051 ratings — published 2010
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (ebook)
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avg rating 4.13 — 12,548 ratings — published 2013
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,851 ratings — published 2001
“There are signs of hope, even if they are small and inconstant. Illiberal populists, as it turns out, are pretty lousy at governing, especially during a crisis that demands a steady and stoic engagement with science. In the United States, in particular, voters saw a mismanaged pandemic become a politicized catastrophe that eventually inflicted a 9/11-level death toll almost every day, and as of this writing has killed more Americans than combat in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam combined.”
― Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy
― Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy
“it seems to me that one of the truths about history that needs to be made clear to a student or to a reader is that nothing ever had to happen the way it happened. History could have gone off in any number of different directions in any number of different ways at almost any point, just as your own life can. You never know. One thing leads to another. Nothing happens in a vacuum, Actions have consequences....
And just as we don't know how things are going to turn out for us, those who went before us didn't either. It's all too easy to stand on the mountaintop as a historian or biographer and find fault with people for why they did this or didn't do that, because we're not involved in it, we're not there inside it, we're not confronting what we don't know--as those who preceded us were.”
― The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
And just as we don't know how things are going to turn out for us, those who went before us didn't either. It's all too easy to stand on the mountaintop as a historian or biographer and find fault with people for why they did this or didn't do that, because we're not involved in it, we're not there inside it, we're not confronting what we don't know--as those who preceded us were.”
― The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
