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Folk Devils and Moral Panics
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3.98 avg rating — 391 ratings
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Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia
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3.87 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance
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3.95 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s
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4.01 avg rating — 480 ratings
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Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America
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3.85 avg rating — 202 ratings
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On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care
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4.36 avg rating — 1,165 ratings
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They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
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4.45 avg rating — 2,408 ratings
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The Crucible
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3.61 avg rating — 469,858 ratings
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A Time of Fear: America in the Era of Red Scares and Cold War
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3.53 avg rating — 115 ratings
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They Called Us Enemy
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4.42 avg rating — 54,799 ratings
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American Panic: A History of Who Scares Us and Why
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3.33 avg rating — 213 ratings
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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
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4.05 avg rating — 9,373 ratings
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Not In Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth
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3.73 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon
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4.37 avg rating — 2,093 ratings
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The War on Christmas
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4.09 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
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4.43 avg rating — 7,276 ratings
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That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
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3.74 avg rating — 4,893 ratings
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The Horror! The Horror!: Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read!
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4.03 avg rating — 616 ratings
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Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy
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3.89 avg rating — 860 ratings
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Unbound Words: A History of Banning Books
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Who’s Afraid of Gender?
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4.02 avg rating — 4,505 ratings
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Rainbow Black
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3.91 avg rating — 5,246 ratings
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Now Is Not the Time to Panic
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3.68 avg rating — 65,923 ratings
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Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America
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4.05 avg rating — 4,393 ratings
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Hour of the Witch
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3.84 avg rating — 51,519 ratings
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How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
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4.44 avg rating — 4,424 ratings
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Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls
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3.92 avg rating — 6,069 ratings
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Banned Book Club
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3.98 avg rating — 6,382 ratings
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The Banned Books Club
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3.72 avg rating — 8,441 ratings
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Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
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3.94 avg rating — 8,770 ratings
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
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4.35 avg rating — 50,398 ratings
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Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
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3.84 avg rating — 675 ratings
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Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld
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4.12 avg rating — 849 ratings
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Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
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3.71 avg rating — 1,805 ratings
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The Witches: Salem, 1692
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3.25 avg rating — 24,725 ratings
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The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government
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4.05 avg rating — 1,026 ratings
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The Lavender Scare: The History of the Federal Government’s Persecution of the Gay Community in the 20th Century
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs
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3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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We Believe the Children: The Story of a Moral Panic
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3.94 avg rating — 765 ratings
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Moral Combat: Why the War on Violent Video Games Is Wrong
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4.18 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America
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3.92 avg rating — 5,671 ratings
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Looking for God in Harry Potter
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4.13 avg rating — 1,549 ratings
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Columbine
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4.29 avg rating — 103,885 ratings
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The Disappearance of Childhood
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3.96 avg rating — 2,038 ratings
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Digital for Good: Raising Kids to Thrive in an Online World
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4.23 avg rating — 331 ratings
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The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
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4.02 avg rating — 1,621 ratings
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Taking Down Backpage: Fighting the World’s Largest Sex Trafficker
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3.81 avg rating — 309 ratings
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The Gay Agenda: A Modern Queer History & Handbook
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3.76 avg rating — 519 ratings
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On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the US
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4.27 avg rating — 605 ratings
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Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics
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4.05 avg rating — 262 ratings
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Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars
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4.36 avg rating — 148 ratings
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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4.03 avg rating — 161,251 ratings
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The Power
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3.75 avg rating — 255,073 ratings
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My Best Friend's Exorcism
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3.92 avg rating — 155,718 ratings
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Trumbo
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3.68 avg rating — 693 ratings
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Red Scare: Memories of the American Inquisition
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4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Hex
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3.71 avg rating — 51,126 ratings
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