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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... -
![Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage by Paulo Freire]()
Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage by Paulo Freire
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis book displays the striking creativity and profound insight that characterized Freire's work to the very end of his life-an uplifting and provocative exploration not only for educators, but also for all that learn and live... -
![Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It by Kelly Gallagher]()
Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It by Kelly Gallagher
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRead-i-cide n: The systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools. Reading is dying in our schools. Educators are familiar with many of the factors that have contributed to the decline—poverty, second-language issues, and the ever-expanding choices of electronic entertainment... -
![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... -
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![The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay by Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman]()
The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay by Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAmerica’s runaway inequality has an engine: our unjust tax system.Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the ultra-rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class Americans have been asked to pay more... -
![One Vote Away: How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History by Ted Cruz]()
One Vote Away: How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History by Ted Cruz
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings** WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER ** USA TODAY BESTSELLER ** PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER ** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **With a simple majority on the Supreme Court, the left would have the power to curtail or even abolish the freedoms that have made America a beacon to the world. We are one vote away from losing our most precious constitutional rights... -
![Truth Be Told by Beverley McLachlin]()
Truth Be Told by Beverley McLachlin
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFormer Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Beverley McLachlin offers an intimate and revealing look at her life, from her childhood in the Alberta foothills to her career on the Supreme Court, where she helped to shape the social and moral fabric of the country... -
![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... -
![The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic by Mark R. Levin]()
The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic by Mark R. Levin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFor a century, the Statists have steadfastly constructed a federal Leviathan, distorting and evading our constitutional system in pursuit of an all-powerful, ubiquitous central government. The result is an ongoing and growing assault on individual liberty, state sovereignty, and the social compact... -
![The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy and Human Nature by Robert Greene]()
The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy and Human Nature by Robert Greene
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOver the last 22 years, Robert Greene has provided insights into every aspect of being human whether that be getting what you want, understanding others' motivations, mastering your impulses, and recognizing strengths and weaknesses. The Daily Laws distills that wisdom into daily entries...Categorized as:
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![The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T.R. Reid]()
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T.R. Reid
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn The Healing of America, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something the United States can’t seem to do: provide health care for everybody at a reasonable cost... -
![Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media: The Companion Book to the Award-Winning Film by Mark Achbar]()
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media: The Companion Book to the Award-Winning Film by Mark Achbar
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWinner of more than a dozen festival awards, the film has played to packed houses in more than two hundred cities worldwide... -
![Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It by Ari Berman]()
Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It by Ari Berman
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench their power ― and the movement to stop them.The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy a blatant disregard for the will of the majority... -
![Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek]()
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDesign for the Real World has, since its first appearance twenty-five years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design... -
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![Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College by Jesse Wegman]()
Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College by Jesse Wegman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"The Electoral College is a disaster for a democracy." —Donald TrumpThe framers of the Constitution battled over it. Lawmakers have tried to amend or abolish it more than 700 times. To this day, millions of voters, and even members of Congress, misunderstand how it works. It deepens our national divide and distorts the core democratic principles of political equality and majority rule... -
![Marx's Grundrisse by Karl Marx, David McLellan]()
Marx's Grundrisse by Karl Marx, David McLellan
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWritten during the winter of 1857-8, the "Grundrisse" was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist theory. A collection of seven notebooks on capital and money, it both develops the arguments outlined in the Communist Manifesto (1848) and explores the themes and theses that were to dominate his great later work "Capital"... -
![America's Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar]()
America's Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn America’s Constitution, one of this era’s most accomplished constitutional law scholars, Akhil Reed Amar, gives the first comprehensive account of one of the world’s great political texts. Incisive, entertaining, and occasionally controversial, this “biography” of America’s framing document explains not only what the Constitution says but also why the Constitution says it... -
![Mr. Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress by Joseph Wheelan]()
Mr. Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress by Joseph Wheelan
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFollowing his single term as President of the United States (1825-1829), John Quincy Adams, embittered by his loss to Andrew Jackson, boycotted his successor's inauguration, just as his father John Adams had done (the only two presidents ever to do so). Rather than retire, the sixty-two-year-old former president, U.S... -
![Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom by Ron Paul, Bob Craig]()
Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom by Ron Paul, Bob Craig
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Liberty Defined, congressman and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ron Paul returns with his most provocative, comprehensive, and compelling arguments for personal freedom to date. The term "Liberty" is so commonly used in our country that it has become a mere cliche... -
![The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty by Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson]()
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty by Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratings'A must-read. Acemoglu and Robinson are intellectual heavyweights of the first rank . . -
![Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart]()
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNATIONAL BESTSELLER“A vivid account of a remarkable life.” — The Washington PostIn this comprehensive, revelatory biography—fifteen years of interviews and research in the making—historian Jane Sherron De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg’s passion for justice, her advocacy for gender equality, and her meticulous jurisprudence... -
![Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert B. Reich]()
Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert B. Reich
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the author of Aftershock and The Work of Nations, his most important book to date--a passionate yet practical, sweeping yet minutely argued, myth-shattering breakdown of what's wrong with our political-economic system, and what it will take to fix it.Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of finance and politics than Robert B... -
![Won by Love by Norma McCorvey]()
Won by Love by Norma McCorvey
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn Roe v. Wade, perhaps the most controversial United States Supreme Court decision, Norma McCorvey fought for and won the right to secure an abortion. Though she never had an abortion, under the pseudonym "Jane Roe," Norma reluctantly became the poster child for the pro-choice movement... -
![Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by United States Constitutional Convention, James Madison]()
Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by United States Constitutional Convention, James Madison
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShares President Madison's account of the debates that shaped the Constitutional Convention as well as the U.S... -
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![Free to Be Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Story of Women and Law by Teri Kanefield]()
Free to Be Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Story of Women and Law by Teri Kanefield
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Readers will emerge with a great deal of respect for a fiercely independent woman who battled sexism to reach the pinnacle of her profession" (Publishers Weekly).Before taking her place as the second woman on the Supreme Court of the United States, Ruth Bader Ginsburg quietly led a revolution and forever changed life in America for both men and women... -
![What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America by Peggy Pascoe]()
What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America by Peggy Pascoe
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA long-awaited history that promises to dramatically change our understanding of race in America, What Comes Naturally traces the origins, spread, and demise of miscegenation laws in the United States--laws that banned interracial marriage and sex, most often between whites and members of other races... -
![The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law by Ward Farnsworth]()
The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law by Ward Farnsworth
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThere are two kinds of knowledge law school teaches: legal rules on the one hand, and tools for thinking about legal problems on the other. Although the tools are far more interesting and useful than the rules, they tend to be neglected in favor of other aspects of the curriculum... -
![The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work by David Frayne]()
The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work by David Frayne
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPaid work is absolutely central to the culture and politics of capitalist societies, yet today's work-centred world is becoming increasingly hostile to the human need for autonomy, spontaneity and community. The grim reality of a society in which some are overworked, whilst others are condemned to intermittent work and unemployment, is progressively more difficult to tolerate... -
![A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship by Ron Paul]()
A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship by Ron Paul
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRon Paul has always believed that foreign and domestic policy should be conducted according to the same principles. Government should be restrained from intervening at home or abroad because its actions fail to achieve their stated aims, create more harm than good, shrink the liberty of the people, and violate rights... -
![Impeachment: An American History by Jeffrey A. Engel, Jon Meacham]()
Impeachment: An American History by Jeffrey A. Engel, Jon Meacham
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFour experts on the American presidency review the only three impeachment cases from history--against Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton--and explore its power and meaning for today.Impeachment is rare, and for good reason...
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