Books for Post-Election Understanding
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,044 ratings
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right 4.12 avg rating — 17,562 ratings
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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J.D. Vance
3.85 avg rating — 488,814 ratings 5. 
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
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Nancy Isenberg
3.76 avg rating — 24,555 ratings 6. 
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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Jonathan Haidt
4.20 avg rating — 63,327 ratings 7. 
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
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Jane Mayer
4.31 avg rating — 26,727 ratings 8. 
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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Timothy Snyder
4.27 avg rating — 89,908 ratings 9. 
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People
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Thomas Frank
4.18 avg rating — 5,231 ratings 10. 
America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
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Jim Wallis
4.07 avg rating — 1,728 ratings 11. 
Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
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Brian Alexander
3.91 avg rating — 1,852 ratings 
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
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Angela Y. Davis
4.44 avg rating — 33,944 ratings 14. 
The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics
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John B. Judis
3.74 avg rating — 1,565 ratings 15. 
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
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Rebecca Solnit
3.98 avg rating — 11,387 ratings 
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The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart
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Bill Bishop
3.84 avg rating — 2,351 ratings 
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
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Carol Anderson
4.47 avg rating — 14,603 ratings 
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Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class 4.19 avg rating — 1,313 ratings
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N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law
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Jody Armour
4.33 avg rating — 63 ratings 23. 
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
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Sam Quinones
4.23 avg rating — 31,636 ratings 
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
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Kurt Andersen
4.09 avg rating — 8,697 ratings 
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What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
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Thomas Frank
3.85 avg rating — 12,723 ratings 31. 
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters 3.82 avg rating — 9,699 ratings
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Undoing Border Imperialism (Anarchist Interventions, 6)
by:
Harsha Walia
4.51 avg rating — 517 ratings 
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U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) (Books of American Wisdom)
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Founding Fathers
4.52 avg rating — 27,061 ratings 37. 
Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines
by:
Paul Fleischman
3.72 avg rating — 429 ratings 
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Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
by:
Ari Berman
4.39 avg rating — 1,962 ratings 40. 
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
by:
Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.38 avg rating — 30,602 ratings 40. 
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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Steven D. Levitt
4.01 avg rating — 885,826 ratings 
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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex 4.29 avg rating — 2,424 ratings
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Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
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Jonah Goldberg
4.05 avg rating — 2,573 ratings 
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The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America
by:
Arthur C. Brooks
4.11 avg rating — 1,445 ratings 50. 
When Race Breaks Out: Conversations about Race and Racism in College Classrooms
by:
Helen Fox
3.94 avg rating — 34 ratings 
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Justice Is Coming: How Progressives Are Going to Take Over the Country and America Is Going to Love It
by:
Cenk Uygur
4.25 avg rating — 417 ratings 53. 
The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century
by:
Alex Prud’homme
3.94 avg rating — 418 ratings 
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The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted
by:
Mike Lofgren
3.95 avg rating — 1,063 ratings 54. 
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (Politics of Place, #1)
by:
Tim Marshall
4.19 avg rating — 110,345 ratings 57. 
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
by:
Steven Levitsky
4.16 avg rating — 30,320 ratings 57. 
From Cold War To Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia
by:
Michael McFaul
4.04 avg rating — 1,880 ratings 59. 
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States 4.26 avg rating — 3,612 ratings
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
by:
Ibram X. Kendi
4.53 avg rating — 37,882 ratings 59. 
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century 3.69 avg rating — 102,339 ratings
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The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left
by:
Dinesh D'Souza
4.22 avg rating — 2,068 ratings 
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Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party
by:
Dinesh D'Souza
4.19 avg rating — 1,443 ratings 
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Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy (The Chardon Press Series)
by:
Rinku Sen
4.05 avg rating — 153 ratings 
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Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?
by:
Neil Gross
3.58 avg rating — 24 ratings 
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America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction (Teacher's Edition)
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Jon Stewart
4.01 avg rating — 96,836 ratings 77. 
Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption
by:
Walidah Imarisha
4.51 avg rating — 185 ratings 77. 
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
by:
Jessica Bruder
4.03 avg rating — 49,873 ratings 79. 
Those Who Work, Those Who Don't: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America
by:
Jennifer Sherman
4.06 avg rating — 157 ratings 80. 
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
by:
Dorothy Roberts
4.45 avg rating — 5,136 ratings 
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Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
by:
Charles Murray
3.80 avg rating — 5,642 ratings 83. 
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
by:
Paul Krugman
3.83 avg rating — 8,843 ratings 83. 
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
by:
Tim Wise
4.10 avg rating — 5,369 ratings 85. 
The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century
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Paul Krugman
3.91 avg rating — 2,010 ratings 85. 
The Violence of Care: Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention
by:
Sameena Mulla
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 56 ratings 
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The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration
by:
Michèle Lamont
3.81 avg rating — 80 ratings 88. 
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
by:
Susan Faludi
4.04 avg rating — 9,233 ratings 
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Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
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Lawrence Lessig
4.18 avg rating — 2,849 ratings 
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Government Gone Wild: How D.C. Politicians Are Taking You for a Ride -- and What You Can Do About It
by:
Kristin Tate
3.96 avg rating — 46 ratings 94. 
How Should We Talk About the Election?: A Balanced Guide to Understanding Both Sides after the Trump vs Clinton Vote
by:
Sarah Smith
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault 3.88 avg rating — 1,911 ratings
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The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
by:
Helen Thorpe
4.26 avg rating — 3,128 ratings 94. 
Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
by:
Bertram M. Gross
3.96 avg rating — 225 ratings