Politics/Culture: Books Relevant to the 2017 World Scenario
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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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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by:
Naomi Klein
4.29 avg rating — 51,932 ratings 5. 
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
by:
Jonathan Haidt
4.20 avg rating — 63,327 ratings 6. 
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
by:
Naomi Klein
4.16 avg rating — 27,262 ratings 
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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
by:
Masha Gessen
3.82 avg rating — 11,842 ratings 9. 
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
by:
Howard Zinn
4.08 avg rating — 259,691 ratings 10. 
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right 4.12 avg rating — 17,562 ratings
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism 4.45 avg rating — 5,507 ratings
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Don't Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times
by:
Irshad Manji
3.68 avg rating — 633 ratings 19. 
When They Come for You: How Police and Government Are Trampling Our Liberties - and How to Take Them Back
by:
David Kirby
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 64 ratings 
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The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations 3.97 avg rating — 4,172 ratings
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Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age
by:
Larry M. Bartels
3.91 avg rating — 445 ratings 25. 
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
by:
Timothy Snyder
4.27 avg rating — 89,903 ratings 26. 
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
by:
Adam Smith
3.88 avg rating — 34,379 ratings 
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Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, How It Works
by:
Jonathan Gruber
3.79 avg rating — 462 ratings 34. 
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
by:
Al Gore
3.78 avg rating — 6,948 ratings 34. 
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
by:
Angela Y. Davis
4.44 avg rating — 33,944 ratings 36. 
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
by:
Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.38 avg rating — 30,602 ratings 
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No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
by:
Ron Powers
3.87 avg rating — 4,179 ratings 39. 
Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis
by:
Tim Flannery
3.84 avg rating — 371 ratings 
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating — 73,872 ratings 
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The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
by:
Tim Flannery
3.92 avg rating — 3,336 ratings 44. 
Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
by:
George Marshall
4.19 avg rating — 1,598 ratings 45. 
Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
by:
Fred Krupp
3.77 avg rating — 311 ratings 46. 
The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About Climate Change
by:
Bill McKibben
3.91 avg rating — 131 ratings 47. 
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
by:
Georgina Howell
3.97 avg rating — 3,475 ratings 47. 
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by:
Scott Anderson
4.08 avg rating — 16,525 ratings 49. 
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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
by:
George Packer
4.13 avg rating — 12,370 ratings 49. 
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back 4.30 avg rating — 7,912 ratings
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The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
by:
Matt Taibbi
4.21 avg rating — 7,582 ratings 54. 
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
by:
Jane Mayer
4.31 avg rating — 26,727 ratings 
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Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone
by:
Scott Shane
4.08 avg rating — 596 ratings 56. 
Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault 3.88 avg rating — 1,911 ratings
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Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
by:
Bertram M. Gross
3.96 avg rating — 225 ratings 56. 
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Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution
by:
Richard Whittle
4.11 avg rating — 349 ratings 60. 
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
by:
Roger Scruton
4.05 avg rating — 1,392 ratings 60. 
Moral Man and Immoral Society: Study in Ethics and Politics
by:
Reinhold Niebuhr
4.11 avg rating — 1,197 ratings 
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The Return of History: Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century (The CBC Massey Lectures, 2016)
by:
Jennifer Welsh
3.86 avg rating — 336 ratings 64. 
The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason 3.60 avg rating — 607 ratings
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Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United
by:
Zephyr Teachout
3.86 avg rating — 549 ratings 68. 
A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order
by:
Richard N. Haass
3.74 avg rating — 2,227 ratings 68. 
Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences
by:
John R. Hibbing
4.01 avg rating — 315 ratings 68. 
Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
by:
Sheldon S. Wolin
4.17 avg rating — 962 ratings 71. 
The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture
by:
Pamela Haag
3.35 avg rating — 319 ratings 71. 
Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us
by:
Avi Tuschman
4.20 avg rating — 280 ratings 71. 
Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
by:
Katy Tur
3.96 avg rating — 17,465 ratings 74. 
Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
by:
Paul Johnson
4.28 avg rating — 2,919 ratings 
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The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics
by:
George Lipsitz
4.22 avg rating — 858 ratings 74. 
Religion's Sudden Decline: What's Causing it, and What Comes Next?
by:
Ronald Inglehart
3.77 avg rating — 75 ratings 79. 
Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala
by:
Daniel Wilkinson
4.18 avg rating — 536 ratings 
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Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East
by:
Deborah Amos
3.47 avg rating — 116 ratings 81. 
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 85. 
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes
by:
Tamim Ansary
4.40 avg rating — 11,838 ratings 86. 
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
by:
Susan Faludi
4.04 avg rating — 9,233 ratings 86. 
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
by:
Tim Wise
4.10 avg rating — 5,369 ratings 88. 
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
by:
Jaclyn Friedman
4.20 avg rating — 5,237 ratings 88. 
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
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The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present
by:
Eric R. Kandel
4.21 avg rating — 1,811 ratings 
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The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School
by:
Neil Postman
3.97 avg rating — 1,901 ratings 
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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
by:
Caroline Weber
4.17 avg rating — 3,562 ratings 
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
by:
James Forman Jr.
4.37 avg rating — 4,459 ratings 