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A list of books dealing with, or exemplary of, the time-honored tradition of skewering one's opponents (or merely a group of convenient scapegoats) on the stake, either literally or figuratively.
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Fahrenheit 451
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The Scarlet Letter
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow
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The Crucible
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1984
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Saint Joan
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
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The Lottery and Other Stories
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The Malleus Maleficarum
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The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays
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4.15 avg rating — 1,442 ratings
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The Spanish Inquisition: A History
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3.46 avg rating — 132 ratings
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The Salem Witch Trials Reader
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3.68 avg rating — 227 ratings
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Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil Liberties
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Kenneth D. Ackerman (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 84 ratings
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The Starr Report: The Findings of Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr on President Clinton and the Lewinsky Affair
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3.12 avg rating — 115 ratings
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The Dreyfus Affair: "J'Accuse" and Other Writings
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4.10 avg rating — 305 ratings
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The Case Against Hillary Clinton
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3.43 avg rating — 239 ratings
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Animal Farm
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4.01 avg rating — 4,439,191 ratings
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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American Evita: Hillary Clinton's Path to Power
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3.46 avg rating — 202 ratings
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The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton
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4.02 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Witch Hunts in the Western World: Persecution and Punishment from the Inquisition through the Salem Trials
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Brian A. Pavlac (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Extreme Makeover of Hillary (Rodham) Clinton
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2.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Witness
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4.38 avg rating — 2,281 ratings
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Inquisition: The Reign of Fear
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3.54 avg rating — 280 ratings
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Mein Kampf
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3.17 avg rating — 43,399 ratings
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When Even Angels Wept: The Senator Joseph McCarthy Affair--A Story Without a Hero
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
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3.25 avg rating — 2,227 ratings
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Snow Falling on Cedars
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3.86 avg rating — 193,289 ratings
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No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities
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3.84 avg rating — 37 ratings
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What We Must Know about Communism
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3.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Godless: The Church of Liberalism
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3.32 avg rating — 2,983 ratings
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Doctor Goebbels: His Life and Death
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3.81 avg rating — 366 ratings
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Der SS-Staat - Das System der deutschen Konzentrationslager
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Eugen Kogon (Editor)
4.25 avg rating — 794 ratings
score: 118,
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Masters Of Deceit: The Story Of Communism In America And How To Fight It
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3.41 avg rating — 187 ratings
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The Trial and Death of Socrates
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4.12 avg rating — 45,273 ratings
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Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind
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Bruce Watson (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 431 ratings
score: 113,
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Sacco And Vanzetti Must Die!
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Mark Binelli (Goodreads Author)
3.23 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Apology
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4.19 avg rating — 65,208 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 816,870 ratings
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Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
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Bill O'Reilly (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 15,567 ratings
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Liberalism: A Counter-History
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4.40 avg rating — 1,111 ratings
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Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century
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3.93 avg rating — 24,006 ratings
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Fools for Scandal: How The Media Invented Whitewater
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3.83 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Wyrd Sisters (Discworld, #6; Witches, #2)
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4.16 avg rating — 129,431 ratings
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The Apprentice's Sorcerer: Liberal Tradition and Fascism
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4.55 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Daughters of the Witching Hill
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Mary Sharratt (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 4,970 ratings
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Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
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4.53 avg rating — 826 ratings
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All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
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4.22 avg rating — 1,432 ratings
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Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative
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3.83 avg rating — 1,776 ratings
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Essential X-Men, Vol. 1
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Chris Claremont (Writer)
4.20 avg rating — 2,249 ratings
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Why Hearst Lies About Communism
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity
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4.04 avg rating — 3,012 ratings
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Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton
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4.08 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South
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William Henry Chafe (Editor)
4.25 avg rating — 291 ratings
score: 94,
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Joan of Arc
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4.12 avg rating — 9,912 ratings
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Saint Joan of Arc
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3.87 avg rating — 273 ratings
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The Enemy Within: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Schools, Faith, and Military
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3.78 avg rating — 713 ratings
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Joan of Arc
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3.48 avg rating — 588 ratings
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None Dare Call It Treason
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3.57 avg rating — 166 ratings
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The Name of the Rose
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4.14 avg rating — 391,237 ratings
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Feminist Fantasies
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3.58 avg rating — 154 ratings
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At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election
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3.75 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials
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3.59 avg rating — 947 ratings
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A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials
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3.73 avg rating — 1,652 ratings
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The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege
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Notre-Dame of Paris
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4.02 avg rating — 215,573 ratings
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The Blunderer
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3.70 avg rating — 3,453 ratings
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Hitler
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4.23 avg rating — 2,355 ratings
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Crimson Shore (Pendergast, #15)
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Douglas Preston (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 22,129 ratings
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
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Hitlers Helfer. Täter und Vollstrecker.
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3.85 avg rating — 410 ratings
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Killing the Messenger: The Right-Wing Plot to Derail Hillary and Hijack Your Government
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Holocaust
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American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
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Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies
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To The Bitter End
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Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives
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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
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4.14 avg rating — 12,861 ratings
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Red Scared! The Commie Menace in Propaganda and Popular Culture
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The File: A Personal History
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland
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America's Reign of Terror: World War I, the Red Scare & the Palmer Raids
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The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
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For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Investigator (Castle Lectures Series)
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3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts
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Samuel Totten (Editor)
4.17 avg rating — 142 ratings
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The Farrakhan Phenomenon: Race, Reaction, and the Paranoid Style in American Politics (Not In A Series)
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Quo Vadis
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Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From
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3.17 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Nero
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Burn, Witch, Burn! (Burn Witch Burn #1)
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Christianity: A Global History
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The Dream of Scipio
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Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O'Reilly
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Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr
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Queering Freedom
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Bloody Mary: The Life of Mary Tudor
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Real Anita Hill
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The Republican War on Science
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Chris C. Mooney (Goodreads Author)
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The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
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Lobstergirl
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Sep 24, 2009 08:35PM
Oh yes, the Lottery is a good one.
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True, and I wonder how I could forget it when I created the list. One of the scariest statements on human society ever!
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