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The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
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Andrew Yang (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 9,741 ratings
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Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
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Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
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The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
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This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class
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Outsider in the White House
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4.13 avg rating — 1,621 ratings
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A Fighting Chance
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4.15 avg rating — 14,908 ratings
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Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution
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3.98 avg rating — 2,148 ratings
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United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good
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4.07 avg rating — 2,521 ratings
score: 762,
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Is Today the Day?
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score: 489,
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An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American Dream
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3.92 avg rating — 695 ratings
score: 469,
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Off the Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change the World
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3.89 avg rating — 1,733 ratings
score: 469,
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The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class
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4.20 avg rating — 902 ratings
score: 462,
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Where We Go from Here
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3.88 avg rating — 1,865 ratings
score: 461,
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Smart People Should Build Things: How to Restore Our Culture of Achievement, Build a Path for Entrepreneurs, and Create New Jobs in America
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Andrew Yang (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 1,404 ratings
score: 387,
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Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
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4.14 avg rating — 23,983 ratings
score: 363,
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Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics
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3.96 avg rating — 2,037 ratings
score: 357,
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Just F*cking Vote: Humorous Picture Book With Poems and Quotations to Encourage Voting for Reluctant Voters and Graduates
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 300,
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Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer
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3.74 avg rating — 327 ratings
score: 290,
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The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke
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3.87 avg rating — 2,357 ratings
score: 287,
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Trump: The Art of the Deal
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3.71 avg rating — 25,093 ratings
score: 269,
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The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics
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3.77 avg rating — 448 ratings
score: 266,
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Citizen Power: A Mandate for Change
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4.21 avg rating — 39 ratings
score: 250,
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For Love of Country: What Our Veterans Can Teach Us About Citizenship, Heroism, and Sacrifice
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4.30 avg rating — 484 ratings
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Bold & Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote
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4.11 avg rating — 410 ratings
score: 187,
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The Senator Next Door: A Memoir from the Heartland
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3.84 avg rating — 1,026 ratings
score: 173,
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Trump: The Art of the Comeback
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3.62 avg rating — 520 ratings
score: 170,
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The Kingmakers: How the Media Threatens Our Security and Our Democracy
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3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 166,
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The Land of Flickering Lights: Restoring America in an Age of Broken Politics
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4.01 avg rating — 151 ratings
score: 163,
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Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy
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3.55 avg rating — 87 ratings
score: 161,
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Called to Serve: Learning to Lead in War and Peace
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3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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How Bernie Won: Inside the Revolution That's Taking Back Our Country--and Where We Go from Here
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3.89 avg rating — 114 ratings
score: 100,
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From the Ground Up: A Journey to Reimagine the Promise of America
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3.73 avg rating — 1,054 ratings
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Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
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Gleb Tsipursky (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 255 ratings
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Bernie Sanders, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Fidel Castro & Other Socialists
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Tulsi Gabbard: Why I Fight: A Soldier in Politics
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4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again
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3.47 avg rating — 5,050 ratings
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The Joy of Politics: Surviving Cancer, a Campaign, a Pandemic, an Insurrection, and Life's Other Unexpected Curveballs
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3.96 avg rating — 319 ratings
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So Many Babies: My Life Balancing a Busy Medical Career & Motherhood
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4.42 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement
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Heather Gautney (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 65 ratings
score: 99,
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Trust: America's Best Chance
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4.15 avg rating — 5,352 ratings
score: 99,
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The Joy of Politics: Surviving Cancer, a Campaign, a Pandemic, an Insurrection, and Life's Other Unexpected Curveballs
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3.96 avg rating — 319 ratings
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So Many Babies: My Life Balancing a Busy Medical Career and Motherhood
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4.42 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Case for an Independent Left Party: From the Bottom Up
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3.94 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Independent Politics: The Green Party Strategy Debate
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Howie Hawkins (Editor)
3.52 avg rating — 25 ratings
score: 97,
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All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan
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4.15 avg rating — 2,266 ratings
score: 94,
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A Warning
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3.93 avg rating — 11,867 ratings
score: 92,
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Fake President: Decoding Trump's Gaslighting, Corruption, and General Bullsh*t
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Mark Green (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 91,
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A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America
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4.10 avg rating — 12,627 ratings
score: 90,
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Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction
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David Enrich (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 5,508 ratings
score: 89,
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Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office
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4.27 avg rating — 451 ratings
score: 86,
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Dealing Death and Drugs: The Big Business of Dope in the U.S. and Mexico (Cinco Puntos Checkpoint Series)
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3.96 avg rating — 105 ratings
score: 82,
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Rage
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4.17 avg rating — 25,908 ratings
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American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
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3.79 avg rating — 881 ratings
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Uncovering the Dome
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101 Indisputable Facts Proving Donald Trump Is An Idiot: A brief background of the most spectacularly unqualified person to ever occupy the White House.
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3.95 avg rating — 720 ratings
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A Woman's Worth
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score: 79,
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The Healing of America
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A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit
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3.86 avg rating — 319 ratings
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The Real Food Revolution: Healthy Eating, Green Groceries, and the Return of the American Family Farm
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3.74 avg rating — 92 ratings
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A Political Odyssey
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My Name Is Steve Delano Bullock: How I Changed My World and The World Around Me Through Leadership, Caring, and Perseverance
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The trust committed to me
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#8 and #9 are both Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In by Bernie Sanders.
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I'm fairly certain that https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... is not the same Tim Ryan who is running for President.
Melissa wrote: "I'm fairly certain that https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... is not the same Tim Ryan who is running for President."Sweet, thank you. Accident
Thanks for this! For my summer project, I decided to read whatever books are out by the candidates and decide that way. So far, I started on Kamala's The Truths We Hold. I wanna hit Warren's and Bernie's books next.
Teeny wrote: "Thanks for this! For my summer project, I decided to read whatever books are out by the candidates and decide that way. So far, I started on Kamala's The Truths We Hold. I wanna hit Warren's and ..."
You're welcomed! Yea, there are so many books to choose from now. Hope the primaries turn out how you wish!
I wrote a book on getting your feet wet in political matters: Politics for the Disinterested
I think someone didn't read the directions carefully. Cuomo, Schultz & these various journalists were obviously never candidates.
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