Corruption, Plutocracy, Oligarchy, Kleptocracy, Corporatocracy β The Problem (nonfiction)
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The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America--and Spawned a Global Crisis 4.15 avg rating β 207 ratings
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The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
by:
Steven Lee Myers
4.07 avg rating β 5,471 ratings 107. 
McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
by:
Misha Glenny
3.91 avg rating β 4,867 ratings 
110. 
Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense 4.04 avg rating β 1,185 ratings
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
by:
Timothy Snyder
4.29 avg rating β 4,240 ratings 112. 
The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It
by:
Eric Bolling
4.03 avg rating β 485 ratings 112. 
The China-America Alliance: East Asian and American Cultural Values Promote Global Harmony
by:
Jack C. Westman
4.53 avg rating β 19 ratings 112. 
Chappaquiddick: Power, Privilege, and the Ted Kennedy Cover-Up
by:
Leo Damore
3.65 avg rating β 776 ratings 
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N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law
by:
Jody Armour
4.33 avg rating β 63 ratings 112. 
Butchered by "Healthcare": What to Do About Doctors, Big Pharma, and Corrupt Government Ruining Your Health and Medical Care
by:
Robert A. Yoho
4.50 avg rating β 107 ratings 118. 
Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide 3.85 avg rating β 488 ratings
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When They Come for You: How Police and Government Are Trampling Our Liberties - and How to Take Them Back
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David Kirby
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 64 ratings 119. 
Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
by:
Gleb Tsipursky
4.14 avg rating β 252 ratings 121. 
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The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
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Andrew G. McCabe
4.17 avg rating β 7,358 ratings 124. 
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right 4.12 avg rating β 17,562 ratings
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The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions
by:
Jason Hickel
4.61 avg rating β 3,649 ratings 126. 
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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 β 417 ratings 128. 
Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB
by:
Alex Goldfarb
3.97 avg rating β 541 ratings 129. 
Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
by:
Jake Johnston
4.14 avg rating β 209 ratings 130. 
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
by:
Timothy Snyder
4.27 avg rating β 89,912 ratings 131. 
ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism
by:
Yves Smith
4.03 avg rating β 435 ratings 131. 
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor
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Paul Farmer
4.27 avg rating β 4,809 ratings 131. 
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)
by:
Art Spiegelman
4.42 avg rating β 156,031 ratings 134. 
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by:
Daron AcemoΔlu
4.09 avg rating β 59,214 ratings 134. 
Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Streetβs Great Foreclosure Fraud
by:
David Dayen
4.22 avg rating β 760 ratings 134. 
Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History that Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons & the Great Pyramids
by:
Jim Marrs
3.94 avg rating β 1,880 ratings 137. 
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
by:
David Graeber
4.19 avg rating β 24,323 ratings 
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$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
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Kathryn J. Edin
3.96 avg rating β 8,643 ratings 
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Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II
by:
William Blum
4.26 avg rating β 2,008 ratings 141. 
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
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Anonymous
4.29 avg rating β 17,074 ratings 144. 
Government of the Shadows: Parapolitics and Criminal Sovereignty 3.87 avg rating β 15 ratings
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Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion
by:
Gary Webb
4.30 avg rating β 1,967 ratings 148. 
The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America
by:
Jim Marrs
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1,086 ratings 
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Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth
by:
David Bollier
4.09 avg rating β 34 ratings 150. 
Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the OligarchsβA True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder
by:
Ben Mezrich
3.85 avg rating β 4,808 ratings 150. 
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
by:
Tom Wright
4.07 avg rating β 37,094 ratings 
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Lesterland: The Corruption of Congress and How to End It
by:
Lawrence Lessig
4.11 avg rating β 194 ratings 155. 
Gods of Money: Wall Street and the Death of the American Century 4.17 avg rating β 421 ratings
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The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens
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Gabriel Zucman
3.96 avg rating β 1,215 ratings 
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Capital Offenses: Business Crime and Punishment in America's Corporate Age
by:
Samuel Buell
3.79 avg rating β 48 ratings 
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A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation 3.92 avg rating β 1,083 ratings
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Survival of the Richest: How the Corruption of the Marketplace and the Disparity of Wealth Created the Greatest Conspiracy of All
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Donald Jeffries
3.65 avg rating β 48 ratings 
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Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
by:
Naomi Oreskes
4.17 avg rating β 7,786 ratings 166. 
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by:
Scott Anderson
4.08 avg rating β 16,525 ratings 
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Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
by:
Bertram M. Gross
3.96 avg rating β 225 ratings 168. 
The Laundrymen: Money Laundering the World's Third Largest Business
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Jeffrey Robinson
3.87 avg rating β 236 ratings 168. 
Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It
by:
Wendell Potter
3.99 avg rating β 124 ratings 168. 
Syndromes of Corruption: Wealth, Power, and Democracy
by:
Michael Johnston
3.59 avg rating β 44 ratings 168. 
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
by:
Anne Applebaum
3.90 avg rating β 16,809 ratings 174. 
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by:
Robert A. Caro
4.52 avg rating β 27,075 ratings 175. 
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The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia
by:
David E. Hoffman
4.16 avg rating β 1,059 ratings 176. 
The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy 3.73 avg rating β 2,164 ratings
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The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death Under Soviet Rule
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Igort
4.29 avg rating β 1,147 ratings 
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The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country
by:
Laton McCartney
3.79 avg rating β 761 ratings 181. 
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
by:
Kevin Phillips
3.89 avg rating β 2,769 ratings 182. 
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Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
by:
Jeff Madrick
3.81 avg rating β 237 ratings 185. 
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think
by:
George Lakoff
4.03 avg rating β 1,680 ratings 185. 
Hubris: Why Economists Failed to Predict the Crisis and How to Avoid the Next One
by:
Meghnad Desai
3.66 avg rating β 77 ratings 187. 
Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
by:
David Rothkopf
3.57 avg rating β 483 ratings 187. 
Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance
by:
Gar Alperovitz
3.59 avg rating β 54 ratings 189. 
Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World
by:
Oliver Bullough
4.19 avg rating β 6,773 ratings 
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
by:
Elizabeth Hinton
4.17 avg rating β 781 ratings 192. 
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Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
by:
H.W. Brands
4.01 avg rating β 11,080 ratings 195. 
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating β 7,035 ratings
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The Despot's Accomplice: How the West is Aiding and Abetting the Decline of Democracy
by:
Brian Klaas
4.08 avg rating β 108 ratings 196. 
The Basic Writings: On Liberty/The Subjection of Women/Utilitarianism
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John Stuart Mill
4.11 avg rating β 351 ratings 198. 
The Hellhound of Wall Street: How Ferdinand Pecora's Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance
by:
Michael Perino
4.22 avg rating β 242 ratings 198. 
How Did We Get into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature
by:
George Monbiot
4.03 avg rating β 1,337 ratings 200. 
Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress - and a Plan to Stop It
by:
Lawrence Lessig
4.18 avg rating β 2,849 ratings