Books that tell you what REALLY is going on!
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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Naomi Klein
4.29 avg rating — 51,932 ratings 
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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Edward S. Herman
4.24 avg rating — 23,236 ratings 
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Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
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Noam Chomsky
3.97 avg rating — 13,937 ratings 10. 
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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Eric Schlosser
3.75 avg rating — 206,251 ratings 11. 
Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free 3.71 avg rating — 4,193 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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Naomi Klein
4.16 avg rating — 27,263 ratings 
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American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
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Chris Hedges
4.03 avg rating — 4,666 ratings 15. 
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
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Daniel Yergin
4.43 avg rating — 12,040 ratings 16. 
No Logo: 10th Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction by the Author
by:
Naomi Klein
3.89 avg rating — 32,435 ratings 
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The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
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Kristin Henning
4.56 avg rating — 435 ratings 20. 
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life 3.60 avg rating — 3,433 ratings
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The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
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Bethany McLean
4.22 avg rating — 27,091 ratings 24. 
More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech 4.15 avg rating — 440 ratings
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When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age
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Rob Eschmann
4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings 26. 
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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Michael Pollan
4.19 avg rating — 208,899 ratings 
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The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture 3.96 avg rating — 1,812 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by:
Isabel Wilkerson
4.48 avg rating — 113,286 ratings 31. 
Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
by:
Robert B. Reich
3.94 avg rating — 3,890 ratings 32. 
Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
by:
Matt Taibbi
4.16 avg rating — 9,538 ratings 33. 
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 34. 
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All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
by:
Bethany McLean
4.04 avg rating — 7,655 ratings 38. 
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves 4.15 avg rating — 41,834 ratings
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
by:
Steve Coll
4.31 avg rating — 18,331 ratings 
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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
by:
Jane Mayer
4.18 avg rating — 4,569 ratings 42. 
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
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Diane Ravitch
4.05 avg rating — 5,662 ratings 43. 
Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership
by:
Decoteau J. Irby
4.32 avg rating — 31 ratings 44. 
The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s
by:
Ellen Schrecker
4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings 45. 
The Obama Hate Machine: The Lies, Distortions, and Personal Attacks on the President---and Who Is Behind Them
by:
Bill Press
3.90 avg rating — 230 ratings 
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Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
by:
Charles Bowden
3.71 avg rating — 1,497 ratings 
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
by:
Neil Postman
4.16 avg rating — 36,102 ratings 
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The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science—and Reality
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Chris C. Mooney
3.85 avg rating — 1,500 ratings 
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The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry--and What We Must Do to Stop It
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Antonia Juhasz
3.89 avg rating — 132 ratings 53. 
Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
by:
Michael Lewis
4.15 avg rating — 109,198 ratings 
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Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate
by:
Bob Woodward
3.73 avg rating — 1,405 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 Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals & the Truth about Global Corruption
by:
John Perkins
3.87 avg rating — 2,614 ratings 
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The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
by:
Paul Krugman
3.83 avg rating — 8,843 ratings 
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The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
by:
Scott Patterson
3.89 avg rating — 9,275 ratings 
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Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny
by:
Theresa Amato
4.06 avg rating — 47 ratings 
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How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America 4.18 avg rating — 1,988 ratings
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American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
by:
Kevin Phillips
3.89 avg rating — 2,769 ratings 
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
4.01 avg rating — 844,247 ratings 
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating — 73,872 ratings 79. 
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
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Naomi Oreskes
4.17 avg rating — 7,786 ratings 81. 
Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media
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Susan J. Douglas
3.92 avg rating — 2,610 ratings 
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America's Deadliest Export: Democracy – The Truth About US Foreign Policy and Everything Else
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William Blum
4.02 avg rating — 453 ratings 84. 
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Too Good to Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff
by:
Erin Arvedlund
3.46 avg rating — 664 ratings 
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Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right
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Thomas Frank
3.80 avg rating — 1,962 ratings 89. 
The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath
by:
Kevin Phillips
3.95 avg rating — 177 ratings 89. 
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion
by:
Gary Webb
4.30 avg rating — 1,967 ratings 91. 
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
by:
Karen Piper
3.83 avg rating — 156 ratings 92. 
Capital Offense: How Washington's Wise Men Turned America's Future Over to Wall Street
by:
Michael Hirsh
4.08 avg rating — 40 ratings 93. 
13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi
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Mitchell Zuckoff
4.30 avg rating — 24,826 ratings 94. 
Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
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H.R. McMaster
3.99 avg rating — 4,792 ratings 95. 
Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq
by:
Bob Woodward
3.70 avg rating — 5,765 ratings 
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One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy
by:
Allison Stanger
3.45 avg rating — 92 ratings 
