The Intercept
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.38 avg rating β 30,602 ratings 3. 
Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country
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Alex Cuadros
4.01 avg rating β 854 ratings 4. 
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
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Mehrsa Baradaran
4.47 avg rating β 2,300 ratings 5. 
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism 4.15 avg rating β 23,622 ratings
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
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Eric Foner
3.62 avg rating β 1,329 ratings 7. 
Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
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Marc Lamont Hill
4.31 avg rating β 2,059 ratings 8. 
With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
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Glenn Greenwald
4.26 avg rating β 1,310 ratings 
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Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
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Jeremy Scahill
3.81 avg rating β 8,291 ratings 
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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Naomi Klein
4.29 avg rating β 51,932 ratings 
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No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trumpβs Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
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Naomi Klein
4.10 avg rating β 10,392 ratings 15. 
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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Naomi Klein
4.16 avg rating β 27,263 ratings 16. 
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 β 26,727 ratings 
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The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
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Jefferson Morley
3.93 avg rating β 1,091 ratings 19. 
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education 4.35 avg rating β 2,399 ratings
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Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
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Judy Melinek
4.26 avg rating β 26,519 ratings 
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No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
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Glenn Greenwald
4.07 avg rating β 14,931 ratings 24. 
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The Empire Trilogy: Troubles / The Siege of Krishnapur / The Singapore Grip
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J.G. Farrell
4.16 avg rating β 106 ratings 26. 
Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics
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Glenn Greenwald
3.70 avg rating β 447 ratings 27. 
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
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Nick Turse
4.24 avg rating β 4,959 ratings 28. 
The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program
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Jeremy Scahill
3.90 avg rating β 899 ratings 29. 
Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan (Dispatch Books)
by:
Nick Turse
4.18 avg rating β 83 ratings 
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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Michel Foucault
4.24 avg rating β 35,774 ratings 
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No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
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Anand Gopal
4.47 avg rating β 4,015 ratings 
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
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Ben Macintyre
4.19 avg rating β 28,142 ratings 
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The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
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Robert Fisk
4.41 avg rating β 5,520 ratings 38. 
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
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Jeanne Theoharis
4.32 avg rating β 757 ratings 39. 
Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. - How the Working Poor Became Big Business
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Gary Rivlin
3.71 avg rating β 1,072 ratings 40. 
Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World
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David Vine
4.17 avg rating β 353 ratings 40. 
Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Year
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Tavis Smiley
4.02 avg rating β 1,383 ratings 42. 
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil
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Timothy Mitchell
4.13 avg rating β 927 ratings 
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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
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Masha Gessen
3.82 avg rating β 11,843 ratings 
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A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency
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Glenn Greenwald
3.76 avg rating β 399 ratings 55. 
How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok
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Glenn Greenwald
4.11 avg rating β 371 ratings 56. 
Astro Noise: A Survival Guide for Living Under Total Surveillance
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Laura Poitras
3.95 avg rating β 64 ratings 57. 
The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives
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Nick Turse
3.38 avg rating β 130 ratings 58. 
The Changing Face of Empire: Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and Cyberwarfare (Dispatch Books)
by:
Nick Turse
3.39 avg rating β 98 ratings 59. 
Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa (Dispatch Books)
by:
Nick Turse
3.69 avg rating β 87 ratings 
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The 99%: How the Occupy Wall Street Movement Is Changing America
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Tara Lohan
4.33 avg rating β 9 ratings 63. 
The Great American Foreclosure Story: The Struggle for Justice and a Place to Call Home
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Paul Kiel
3.62 avg rating β 56 ratings 
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Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld 3.46 avg rating β 92 ratings
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The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World 3.69 avg rating β 556 ratings
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A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry
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Nathan Hodge
3.65 avg rating β 193 ratings 
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The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers
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Gordon Weiss
4.05 avg rating β 450 ratings 
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A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America
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Keith P. Feldman
4.15 avg rating β 26 ratings 74. 
The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation
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Drew Westen
4.05 avg rating β 1,608 ratings 75. 
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So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government
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Robert G. Kaiser
3.85 avg rating β 300 ratings 
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The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
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Steven Lee Myers
4.07 avg rating β 5,471 ratings 81. 
Kolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russiaβs Haunted Hinterland
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Jacek Hugo-Bader
4.25 avg rating β 1,811 ratings 
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The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East (Nation Books)
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David Hirst
4.22 avg rating β 231 ratings 84. 
A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb
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Amitava Kumar
3.83 avg rating β 70 ratings 85. 
Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World
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Tom Engelhardt
3.82 avg rating β 155 ratings 86. 
Does State Spying Make Us Safer?: The Munk Debate on Mass Surveillance 3.09 avg rating β 43 ratings
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Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate
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Naomi Klein
3.66 avg rating β 1,347 ratings 90. 
The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade
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Alfred W. McCoy
4.37 avg rating β 683 ratings 91. 
In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power (Dispatch Books)
by:
Alfred W. McCoy
4.14 avg rating β 815 ratings 92. 
Worth Fighting For: An Army Ranger's Journey Out of the Military and Across America
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Rory Fanning
3.92 avg rating β 105 ratings 
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The Chavez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela
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Eva Golinger
3.85 avg rating β 55 ratings 95. 
In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
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Tom Holland
3.90 avg rating β 5,311 ratings 96. 
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President
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Bandy X. Lee
4.05 avg rating β 3,128 ratings 97. 
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
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Daniel Ellsberg
4.21 avg rating β 3,121 ratings 98. 
Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush
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John W. Dean
3.80 avg rating β 1,161 ratings