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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 109,532 ratings — published 2017
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 118,011 ratings — published 2015
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: (A New World Order)
by (shelved 59 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,602 ratings — published 2017
Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.87 — 65,446 ratings — published 2018
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.84 — 506,125 ratings — published 2016
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.30 — 54,131 ratings — published 2007
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,724 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.40 — 368,101 ratings — published 2015
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.44 — 77,347 ratings — published 2018
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (ebook)
by (shelved 48 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.31 — 27,282 ratings — published 2016
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,566 ratings — published 2005
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.47 — 114,538 ratings — published 2016
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.01 — 899,530 ratings — published 2005
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.52 — 162,425 ratings — published 2020
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.30 — 171,605 ratings — published 2010
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.15 — 178,284 ratings — published 2018
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 41 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,698 ratings — published 2001
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.18 — 16,964 ratings — published 2024
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 48,176 ratings — published 2018
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.35 — 202,520 ratings — published 2018
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.24 — 24,700 ratings — published 1988
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.84 — 170,005 ratings — published 2006
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,860 ratings — published 2008
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 63,546 ratings — published 2012
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,563 ratings — published 2001
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.16 — 32,842 ratings — published 2018
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.90 — 17,820 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,654 ratings — published 2019
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.40 — 282,792 ratings — published 2018
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.46 — 100,333 ratings — published 2009
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 37,745 ratings — published 2006
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.31 — 18,975 ratings — published 2004
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.54 — 137,644 ratings — published 2021
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 27,776 ratings — published 2014
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.40 — 41,979 ratings — published 2022
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,598 ratings — published 2018
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.18 — 288,691 ratings — published 2015
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.01 — 857,281 ratings — published 2000
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.16 — 172,475 ratings — published 2018
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.07 — 45,813 ratings — published 2018
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,295 ratings — published 2018
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.44 — 108,759 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.62 — 263,191 ratings — published 2014
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.37 — 10,896 ratings — published 2018
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.98 — 117,076 ratings — published 2012
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (ebook)
by (shelved 25 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,493 ratings — published 2013
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 62,489 ratings — published 2023
Rage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 26,154 ratings — published 2020
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.82 — 97,891 ratings — published 2020
“Afro-Americans accepted Christianity's celebration of the individual soul and turned it into a weapon of personal community survival. But their apparent indifference to sin, not to be confused with an indifference to injustice or wrongdoing, guaranteed retention of the collective, life-affirming quality of the African tradition and thus also became a weapon for personal and community survival. The slaves shaped Christianity they had embraced; they conquered the religion of those who had conquered them. In their formulation, Christianity lacked that terrible inner tension between the sense of guilt and the sense of mission which once provided the ideological dynamism for Western civilization's march to world power. But in return for this loss of revolutionary dynamism, the slaves developed an Afro-American and Christian humanism that affirmed joy in life in the face of every trial.”
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“There's no evidence from decades of Pew Research surveys that public opinion, in the aggregate, is more extreme now than in the past. But what has changed -- and pretty dramatically -- is the growing tendency of people to sort themselves into political parties based on their ideological differences.”
― The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown
― The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown
