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1.
The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy
by:
Albert O. Hirschman
4.03 avg rating — 497 ratings
1.
Ideas with Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution
by:
Amanda Hollis-Brusky
3.84 avg rating — 83 ratings
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When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
by:
John Ganz
4.08 avg rating — 3,616 ratings
4.
The Death of Conservatism
by:
Sam Tanenhaus
3.41 avg rating — 281 ratings
4.
The Making of the American Conservative Mind: National Review and Its Times
by:
Jeffrey Hart
3.63 avg rating — 27 ratings
4.
Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s
by:
Nicole Hemmer
4.16 avg rating — 444 ratings
7.
Gunpower
by:
Patrick Blanchfield
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
8.
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
by:
Jane Mayer
4.31 avg rating — 26,724 ratings
9.
Heroes of the Fourth Turning
by:
Will Arbery
4.06 avg rating — 766 ratings
10.
Making It
by:
Norman Podhoretz
3.92 avg rating — 155 ratings
11.
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
by:
Nancy MacLean
4.29 avg rating — 4,898 ratings
12.
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
by:
Marilynne Robinson
3.85 avg rating — 121,009 ratings
13.
Plain Style: A Guide to Written English
by:
Christopher Lasch
3.88 avg rating — 96 ratings
14.
Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
by:
Tara Isabella Burton
3.89 avg rating — 1,447 ratings
15.
How to Be Depressed
by:
George Scialabba
3.78 avg rating — 129 ratings
16.
The Modern Predicament
by:
George Scialabba
4.38 avg rating — 34 ratings
17.
Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
by:
Rick Perlstein
4.33 avg rating — 2,234 ratings
18.
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
by:
Rick Perlstein
4.24 avg rating — 3,322 ratings
19.
Letters to a Young Contrarian
by:
Christopher Hitchens
4.13 avg rating — 12,648 ratings
20.
Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight Back
by:
Kate Aronoff
3.95 avg rating — 245 ratings
21.
Why the New Deal Matters (Why X Matters Series)
by:
Eric Rauchway
3.99 avg rating — 214 ratings
22.
Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy
by:
Adam Jentleson
4.25 avg rating — 2,555 ratings
23.
The Freud Reader
by:
Sigmund Freud
3.99 avg rating — 1,296 ratings
24.
Congress and the American Tradition
by:
James Burnham
4.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
25.
The Conservative Affirmation in America
by:
Willmoore Kendall
3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings
26.
Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus
by:
William F. Buckley Jr.
4.39 avg rating — 97 ratings
27.
The Unmaking of a Mayor
by:
William F. Buckley Jr.
3.94 avg rating — 144 ratings
28.
Ravelstein
by:
Saul Bellow
3.63 avg rating — 4,116 ratings
29.
The Closing of the American Mind
by:
Allan Bloom
3.76 avg rating — 5,867 ratings
30.
Love and Friendship
by:
Allan Bloom
4.18 avg rating — 168 ratings
31.
After Nationalism: Being American in an Age of Division
by:
Samuel Goldman
3.81 avg rating — 78 ratings
32.
Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
by:
Garry Wills
4.21 avg rating — 699 ratings
33.
Reagan's America: Innocents at Home
by:
Garry Wills
3.81 avg rating — 171 ratings
34.
John Wayne's America: The Politics of Celebrity
by:
Garry Wills
3.59 avg rating — 204 ratings
35.
Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World
by:
Daniel Sherrell
4.06 avg rating — 769 ratings
36.
Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
by:
Spencer Ackerman
4.12 avg rating — 2,166 ratings
37.
"In Defense of Freedom" and Related Essays
by:
Frank S. Meyer
4.13 avg rating — 53 ratings
38.
How to Be Normal
by:
Phil Christman
4.06 avg rating — 194 ratings
39.
Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right
by:
Michelle Nickerson
3.85 avg rating — 61 ratings
40.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
by:
Joan Didion
4.19 avg rating — 78,727 ratings
41.
Political Fictions
by:
Joan Didion
3.85 avg rating — 1,622 ratings
42.
Missing Time: Essays
by:
Ari M. Brostoff
4.32 avg rating — 75 ratings
43.
What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party
by:
Michael Kazin
3.80 avg rating — 260 ratings
44.
The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
by:
Gabriel Winant
4.23 avg rating — 442 ratings
45.
The Street Politics of Abortion: Speech, Violence, and America's Culture Wars
by:
Joshua Wilson
3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
46.
The Lie That Binds
by:
Ilyse Hogue
4.40 avg rating — 125 ratings
47.
Mating
by:
Norman Rush
3.84 avg rating — 5,077 ratings
48.
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution
by:
Dan Georgakas
4.24 avg rating — 1,080 ratings
49.
A Previous Life
by:
Edmund White
2.98 avg rating — 412 ratings
50.
City Boy: My Life in New York in the 1960s and 70s
by:
Edmund White
3.73 avg rating — 1,225 ratings
51.
The Berlin Stories
by:
Christopher Isherwood
4.04 avg rating — 12,569 ratings
52.
United States: Essays 1952-1992
by:
Gore Vidal
4.40 avg rating — 925 ratings
53.
Palimpsest
by:
Gore Vidal
4.01 avg rating — 2,024 ratings
54.
Chronicles, Volume One
by:
Bob Dylan
3.98 avg rating — 60,439 ratings
55.
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst
by:
Adam Phillips
3.96 avg rating — 341 ratings
56.
The Journalist and the Murderer
by:
Janet Malcolm
3.80 avg rating — 5,579 ratings
57.
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
by:
Janet Malcolm
4.18 avg rating — 1,395 ratings
58.
The Anatomy of Fascism
by:
Robert O. Paxton
4.22 avg rating — 4,934 ratings
59.
W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction
by:
W.E.B. Du Bois
4.51 avg rating — 3,199 ratings
60.
The Romance of American Communism
by:
Vivian Gornick
4.34 avg rating — 822 ratings
61.
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography
by:
Sam Tanenhaus
4.20 avg rating — 531 ratings
62.
Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free
by:
Sarah Weinman
3.55 avg rating — 1,958 ratings
63.
Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics
by:
Nicole Hemmer
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 139 ratings
64.
Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey
by:
David Horowitz
4.11 avg rating — 1,016 ratings
65.
At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
by:
Susan Sontag
3.97 avg rating — 950 ratings
66.
Witness
by:
Whittaker Chambers
4.38 avg rating — 2,266 ratings