United States of Ideas I (nonfiction)
1. 
Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
by:
Gleb Tsipursky
4.14 avg rating — 252 ratings 2. 
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
by:
Nancy Isenberg
3.76 avg rating — 24,555 ratings 3. 
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The Ailing Nation: Lessons From the Bedside for America's Leaders
by:
Nate Link
4.75 avg rating — 12 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 
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
by:
Stephanie Coontz
3.98 avg rating — 2,568 ratings 10. 
Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy
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Ted Nace
4.20 avg rating — 176 ratings 
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How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon 3.91 avg rating — 140 ratings
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The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
by:
Fareed Zakaria
4.02 avg rating — 3,454 ratings 
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A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
by:
Lizabeth Cohen
3.86 avg rating — 937 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 — 37,885 ratings 
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The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
by:
Chalmers Johnson
4.14 avg rating — 1,589 ratings 23. 
The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief 3.89 avg rating — 314 ratings
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Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul
by:
Clara Bingham
4.33 avg rating — 412 ratings 
25. 
The Four Freedoms: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Evolution of an American Idea
by:
Jeffrey A. Engel
3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings 
25. 
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3) 4.37 avg rating — 19,435 ratings
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Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College
by:
Jesse Wegman
4.26 avg rating — 1,254 ratings 
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Questions Answered: An Introduction to QAnon and the Great Awakening
by:
Pat Quincy
4.03 avg rating — 78 ratings 25. 
POLICE STATE USA -the Pledge of Allegiance was the origin of Hitler salutes + Nazi behavior, Swastikas were "S" letters for "SOCIALIST"
by:
Ian Tinny
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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Fateful Destiny: An Epic Struggle to Change the Course of American History
by:
Marshall Anders
3.68 avg rating — 348 ratings 25. 
The Struggle to Stay: Why Single Evangelical Women Are Leaving the Church
by:
Katie Gaddini
4.30 avg rating — 70 ratings 25. 
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
by:
Elie Mystal
4.57 avg rating — 4,577 ratings 25. 
American Gaslighting: How America is Being Systematically Taught to Hate Itself
by:
Daniel Shyti
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 25. 
We Don't Want YOU, Uncle Sam: Examining the Military Recruiting Crisis with Generation Z
by:
Matthew Weiss
4.09 avg rating — 57 ratings 
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A Realistic Path to Peace: From Genocide to Global War... And How We Can Change It
by:
Dee Knight
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 42. 
America, Empire of Liberty: A New History of the United States
by:
David Reynolds
4.19 avg rating — 564 ratings 
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Make Room for Daddy: The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room 3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
by:
Clint Smith
4.70 avg rating — 38,103 ratings 49. 
Believers, Thinkers, and Founders: How We Came to Be One Nation Under God 3.88 avg rating — 41 ratings
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An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964
by:
Todd S. Purdum
4.04 avg rating — 250 ratings 49. 
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
by:
Ibram X. Kendi
4.56 avg rating — 10,763 ratings 52. 
Fighting over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution 3.71 avg rating — 52 ratings
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A Self-Evident Lie: Southern Slavery and the Threat to American Freedom
by:
Jeremy J. Tewell
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 52. 
The Ocean Hill-Brownsville Conflict: Intellectual Struggles Between Blacks and Jews at Mid-Century liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
by:
Robin DiAngelo
4.16 avg rating — 170,222 ratings 52. 
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
by:
Ibram X. Kendi
4.53 avg rating — 37,885 ratings 
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Pocket Guide to Environmental Bad Guys: And a Few Ideas on How to Stop Them
by:
Jane Ridgeway
4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings 57. 
Chosen Capital: The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism
by:
Jonathan Sarna
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings 61. 
Individualism in the United States: A Transformation in American Political Thought 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism
by:
Thomas E. Mann
3.89 avg rating — 3,775 ratings 61. 
The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors
by:
Chris Barton
3.94 avg rating — 1,708 ratings 64. 
Every Man a King: A Short, Colorful History of American Populists
by:
Chris Stirewalt
4.10 avg rating — 220 ratings 64. 
The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today 3.75 avg rating — 315 ratings
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How We Got Here: The 70's: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life
by:
David Frum
3.57 avg rating — 247 ratings 67. 
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
by:
Nina Munk
3.93 avg rating — 1,450 ratings 69. 
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
by:
Rosa Brooks
3.93 avg rating — 1,800 ratings 69. 
Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America
by:
Tom Lutz
3.41 avg rating — 253 ratings 69. 
New Ideas from Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought
by:
Todd G. Buchholz
3.84 avg rating — 2,369 ratings 72. 
American Populism: A Social History 1877-1898 (American Century Series) 3.43 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Inventing the Modern American Family: Family Values and Social Change in 20th Century United States
by:
Isabel Heinemann
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 72. 
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas
by:
Brian Lamb
3.88 avg rating — 120 ratings 75. 
The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global History of American Evangelicals
by:
Melani McAlister
4.34 avg rating — 65 ratings 
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The Modernization of Fatherhood: A Social and Political History
by:
Ralph LaRossa
3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings 79. 
The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
by:
William Rosen
3.93 avg rating — 1,369 ratings 
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Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World
by:
James Miller
3.54 avg rating — 174 ratings 
86. 
Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream
by:
Sarah Churchwell
4.11 avg rating — 611 ratings 86. 
In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea
by:
Danny Goldberg
3.80 avg rating — 288 ratings 89. 
Real Common Sense: Using Our Founding Values to Reclaim Our Nation for the 99%
by:
Brian Kahn
3.75 avg rating — 20 ratings 89. 
Perfectly Average: The Pursuit of Normality in Postwar America
by:
Anna G. Creadick
4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings 89. 
The Crime Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
by:
Shanna Hogan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,239 ratings 
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Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
by:
Mitchell Duneier
3.74 avg rating — 575 ratings 
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Irresistible Empire: America's Advance through Twentieth-Century Europe 3.61 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Exceptional America: What Divides Americans from the World and from Each Other
by:
Mugambi Jouet
3.98 avg rating — 51 ratings 97. 
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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
by:
Bernard Bailyn
4.05 avg rating — 4,353 ratings