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Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the congressman who led the first impeachment of Donald J. Trump, the vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, and a warning that the forces of autocracy unleashed by Trump remain as potent as ever... -
![One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad]()
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsFrom award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an Empire which doesn’t consider you fully human...Categorized as:
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![How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France]()
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic from the creator of, and inspired by, the seminal documentary How to Survive a Plague...Categorized as:
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![Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer]()
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“[A] profound reflection on one of the great paradoxes of American life—and a tribute to the astonishing indomitability of the human spirit.” — Patrick Radden Keefe “[A] searing, gut-wrenching, and masterfully reported account...Categorized as:
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![Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt]()
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this incisive and razor-sharp analysis of one of the most important issues facing us today, leading Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt draw on their combined expertise of over 40 years to examine how dictators come to power, and how they help to foster a poisonous culture of polarisation, fear and suspicion that persists even after their time in power is over... -
![Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove]()
Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital... -
![The Children by David Halberstam]()
The Children by David Halberstam
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Children is Halberstam's moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen thru the story of the young people--the Children--who met in the 60s & went on to lead the revolution... -
![Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson]()
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe“A vibrant, and essential history of America's unending, enraging and utterly compelling struggle since its founding to live up to its own best ideals… It's both a cause for hope, and a call to arms...Categorized as:
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![My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route by Sally Hayden]()
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route by Sally Hayden
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Western world has turned its back on migrants, leaving them to cope with one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in history.In 2018, Sally Hayden received a message on Facebook: “Hi sister Sally, we need your help.” It was from an Eritrean refugee who had been held in a Libyan detention center for months, locked in one big hall with scant meals...Categorized as:
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![The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors by Charles Krauthammer]()
The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors by Charles Krauthammer
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCreated and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is a powerful collection of the influential columnist's most important works. Spanning the personal, the political and the philosophical, it includes never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about the effect of today's populist movements on the future of global democracy... -
![An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal]()
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America...Categorized as:
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![You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix]()
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign―ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America.It’s one of the iconic photographs of American A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963... -
![Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn]()
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWith stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon, an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared...Categorized as:
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![The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis by Patrick Kingsley]()
The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis by Patrick Kingsley
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEurope is facing a wave of migration unmatched since the end of World War II - and no one has reported on this crisis in more depth or breadth than the Guardian's migration correspondent, Patrick Kingsley...Categorized as:
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![Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman]()
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this groundbreaking narrative history, Ari Berman charts both the transformation of American democracy under the VRA and the counterrevolution that has sought to limit voting rights, from 1965 to the present day. The act enfranchised millions of Americans and is widely regarded as the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement...Categorized as:
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![Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé]()
Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe myths and reality behind the state of Israel and Israeli-Palestinian conflict—from “the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history” ( New Statesman )In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of... -
![Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives by Darcy Eveleigh, Dana Canedy]()
Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives by Darcy Eveleigh, Dana Canedy
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHundreds of stunning images from black history have long been buried in The New York Times archives. None of them were published by The Times--until now. UNSEEN uncovers these never-before published photographs and tells the stories behind them.It all started with Times photo editor Darcy Eveleigh discovering dozens of these photographs... -
![Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos]()
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformationFrom abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicated students destined to rule the global economy—or an addled Goliath, riddled with corruption and on the edge of stagnation...Categorized as:
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![No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid]()
No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“Rania Abouzeid has produced a work of stunning reportage from the very heart of the conflict, daring to go to the most dangerous places in order to get the story...Categorized as:
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![Republic of Shame: Stories from Ireland's Institutions for 'Fallen Women' by Caelainn Hogan]()
Republic of Shame: Stories from Ireland's Institutions for 'Fallen Women' by Caelainn Hogan
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsUntil alarmingly recently, the Catholic Church, acting in concert with the Irish state, operated a network of institutions for the concealment, punishment and exploitation of 'fallen women'. In the Magdalene laundries, girls and women were incarcerated and condemned to servitude...Categorized as:
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![Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger]()
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSimple Justice is generally regarded as the classic account of the U.S. Supreme Court’s epochal decision outlawing racial segregation and the centerpiece of African-Americans’ ongoing crusade for equal justice under law.The 1954 Supreme Court ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education brought centuries of legal segregation in this country to an end... -
![Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide by Hawon Jung]()
Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide by Hawon Jung
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn eye-opening firsthand account of the ongoing and trailblazing feminist movement in South Korea—one that the world should be watching... -
![A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century by Jason DeParle]()
A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century by Jason DeParle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne of The Washington Post 's 10 Best Books of the Year"A remarkable book...indispensable."-- The Boston Globe"A sweeping, deeply reported tale of international migration...DeParle's understanding of migration is refreshingly clear-eyed and nuanced." --The New York Times"This is epic reporting, nonfiction on a whole other level...One of the best books on immigration written in a generation...Categorized as:
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![I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface by Charles M. Payne]()
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface by Charles M. Payne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material that situates the book in the context of subsequent movement literature... -
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![Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime by Dan Rather]()
Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime by Dan Rather
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTales from the front lines of 60 years of television.Emmy Award winner and former CBS News anchor Dan Rather brings his unforgettable staged performance, Stories of a Lifetime, to the Minetta Lane Theatre, where it will be recorded live for Audible Theater... -
![The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin]()
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom a Pulitzer Prize winner, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump's border wall.Ever since this nation's inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity... -
![High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing by Ben Austen]()
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing by Ben Austen
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJoining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green, America’s most iconic public housing project...Categorized as:
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![Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy by Adam Jentleson]()
Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy by Adam Jentleson
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEvery major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the United States Senate, an institution controlled by people who are almost exclusively white, overwhelmingly male, and disproportionately conservative... -
![Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Małgorzata Rejmer]()
Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Małgorzata Rejmer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA polyphonic account of life in Albania under Enver Hoxha's regime, arguably the most brutal totalitarian state of allAfter breaking ties with Yugoslavia, the USSR and then China, Enver Hoxha believed that Albania could become a self-sufficient bastion of communism... -
![Down with the System: A Memoir by Serj Tankian]()
Down with the System: A Memoir by Serj Tankian
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully written debut memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead singer-lyricist of Grammy award-winning metal band, System of a Down, Serj Tankian Serj Tankian will be the first to admit that his band, System of a Down, was “unlikely a chart-topper as had ever existed in modern music a band of Armenian-Americans playing a practically unclassifiable clash of...
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