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Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 19,681 ratings — published 2024
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 171,483 ratings — published 2006
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as public-affairs)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,572 ratings — published 2018
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.62 — 22,485 ratings — published 2021
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 1,132 ratings — published 2004
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 167,794 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 — 1,598 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 — 42,368 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 — 7,916 ratings — published 2020
In Pursuit of Happiness and Good Government (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 108 ratings — published 1988
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 206,550 ratings — published 2004
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 48,918 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 — 1,522 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 — 27,827 ratings — published 2016
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 9,831 ratings — published 2012
The Road to Serfdom (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 26,788 ratings — published 1944
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 20,846 ratings — published 1961
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 39,310 ratings — published 2006
The Irony of American History (Scribner Library of Contemporary Classics)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,157 ratings — published 1952
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 5,222 ratings — published 2006
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as public-affairs)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,655 ratings — published 1987
The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as public-affairs)
avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as public-affairs)
avg rating 4.20 — 19,981 ratings — published 2019
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 1,124 ratings — published 1990
Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.75 — 8 ratings — published
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 3,372 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 — 325 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 3.78 — 93 ratings — published
Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as public-affairs)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,258 ratings — published 2016
The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as public-affairs)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,048 ratings — published 1989
Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as public-affairs)
avg rating 3.95 — 150 ratings — published 2008
Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as public-affairs)
avg rating 3.99 — 827 ratings — published 2019
The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as public-affairs)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,598 ratings — published
Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Politics and Society in Modern America)
by (shelved 1 time as public-affairs)
avg rating 3.94 — 532 ratings — published 2000
Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower's Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as public-affairs)
avg rating 4.55 — 960 ratings — published 2026
This Is The Plan: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as public-affairs)
avg rating 4.28 — 283 ratings — published
The Radicalism of the American Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as public-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,649 ratings — published 1992
Is a River Alive? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as public-affairs)
avg rating 4.15 — 8,878 ratings — published 2025
It's On You (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.10 — 156 ratings — published
The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 1,199 ratings — published
Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicians (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.81 — 21 ratings — published
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 1,414 ratings — published 1997
Common Sense (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 41,150 ratings — published 1776
A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as public-affairs)
avg rating 3.87 — 990 ratings — published 1997
Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review (Harvard Paperbacks)
by (shelved 1 time as public-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 297 ratings — published 1980
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 160 ratings — published 2004
The Agenda: How a Republican Supreme Court is Reshaping America (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 155 ratings — published 2021
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,311 ratings — published 2002
Farvel til Toga logen: 7 færdigheder der har flyttet politisk interessevaretagelse ind på direktionsgangen (og ud af de brune værtshuse) (Danish edition)
by (shelved 1 time as public-affairs)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2026
On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear (Audible Audio)
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avg rating 4.38 — 235 ratings — published
“If people know the vaccines which are available, and understand their benefits and risks, they will come of their own volition and take the vaccines themselves or request them for their children. There should be no compulsion by the state to force vaccinations of any kind. If these vaccines are worthy of merit and consideration, and the people are given enough information concerning their risks and benefits, then the people will seek them out of their own accord and be able to decide whether or not the vaccinations are right for themselves and their families...
...The people of the United States are intelligent people. Provide the information and allow them to decide. Vaccination should always be a choice, and never a mandate.”
― Louis Pasteur Condemns Big Pharma: Vaccines, Drugs, and Healthcare in the United States
...The people of the United States are intelligent people. Provide the information and allow them to decide. Vaccination should always be a choice, and never a mandate.”
― Louis Pasteur Condemns Big Pharma: Vaccines, Drugs, and Healthcare in the United States
“We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.”
― Public Opinion
― Public Opinion