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Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 20,080 ratings — published 2024
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 171,794 ratings — published 2006
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 5,634 ratings — published 2018
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.61 — 22,639 ratings — published 2021
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,141 ratings — published 2004
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 169,362 ratings — published 2020
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 1,614 ratings — published 2020
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.69 — 42,791 ratings — published 2021
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 7,960 ratings — published 2020
In Pursuit of Happiness and Good Government (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 110 ratings — published 1988
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 208,595 ratings — published 2004
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 49,038 ratings — published 2018
The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,524 ratings — published 2015
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (ebook)
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avg rating 4.31 — 27,921 ratings — published 2016
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 9,905 ratings — published 2012
The Road to Serfdom (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 26,933 ratings — published 1944
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 21,002 ratings — published 1961
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 39,943 ratings — published 2006
The Irony of American History (Scribner Library of Contemporary Classics)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,163 ratings — published 1952
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 5,239 ratings — published 2006
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
by (shelved 1 time as public-affairs)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,297 ratings — published 2022
The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.35 — 1,699 ratings — published 2026
Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.40 — 35 ratings — published
A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 478 ratings — published 2024
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as public-affairs)
avg rating 3.83 — 516,508 ratings — published 2016
The Promise of Wilderness: American Environmental Politics since 1964 (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
by (shelved 1 time as public-affairs)
avg rating 4.17 — 24 ratings — published 2012
Educated (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,989,820 ratings — published 2018
Wilderness and the American Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as public-affairs)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,089 ratings — published 1967
Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law ― A New York Times Bestseller (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 1,535 ratings — published 2024
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 6,703 ratings — published 1987
The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 14 ratings — published
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 20,261 ratings — published 2019
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 1,128 ratings — published 1990
Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.64 — 11 ratings — published
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 3,383 ratings — published 2018
The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 326 ratings — published 2008
Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 167 ratings — published
Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 1,278 ratings — published 2016
The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,059 ratings — published 1989
Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 150 ratings — published 2008
Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 840 ratings — published 2019
The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 4,330 ratings — published
Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Politics and Society in Modern America)
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avg rating 3.94 — 535 ratings — published 2000
Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower's Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.53 — 1,132 ratings — published 2026
This Is The Plan: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.25 — 498 ratings — published
The Radicalism of the American Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 5,693 ratings — published 1992
Is a River Alive? (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 9,578 ratings — published 2025
It's On You (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.09 — 179 ratings — published
The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,283 ratings — published
Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicians (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.82 — 22 ratings — published
“Power creates temptations, and that is true even for the smallest increments of power: the power of the building inspector, of the customs official, of the cop at the traffic stop. It took a lot of work by a lot of people over a long time to build even America's highly imperfect standards of public integrity. Undoing that work would be a far easier task. Corruption is the resting state of pubic affairs; integrity a painstaking, unceasing struggle against cultural inertia and political gravity.”
― Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic
― Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic
“We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.”
― Public Opinion
― Public Opinion