Best Books to Become an Informed Voter

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The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart 3.84 avg rating — 2,351 ratings
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Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties 4.37 avg rating — 491 ratings
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Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia
Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia 3.88 avg rating — 519 ratings
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The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
by: T.R. Reid
4.26 avg rating — 7,621 ratings
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The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy 4.40 avg rating — 3,312 ratings
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His Excellency: George Washington
His Excellency: George Washington 3.96 avg rating — 42,824 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,043 ratings
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A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror 4.11 avg rating — 3,841 ratings
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The Nicomachean Ethics
The Nicomachean Ethics
by: Aristotle
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 57,306 ratings
110.
None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture
None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture 4.12 avg rating — 540 ratings
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Selected Speeches and Writings
Selected Speeches and Writings 4.22 avg rating — 320 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 4.33 avg rating — 33,404 ratings
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Manifesto of the Free People's Union
Manifesto of the Free People's Union 4.52 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.12 avg rating — 131,992 ratings
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Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism
Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism 3.42 avg rating — 1,524 ratings
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Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom
Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom
by: Ron Paul
4.22 avg rating — 3,123 ratings
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The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays
The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays 4.16 avg rating — 1,427 ratings
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Thomas Jefferson: Writings
Thomas Jefferson: Writings 4.23 avg rating — 1,491 ratings
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Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, & Religion
Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, & Religion 4.30 avg rating — 761 ratings
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Two Treatises of Government
Two Treatises of Government 3.87 avg rating — 19,408 ratings
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The Good Fight: Declare Your Independence and Close the Democracy Gap
The Good Fight: Declare Your Independence and Close the Democracy Gap 3.96 avg rating — 187 ratings
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The Way Things Ought to Be
The Way Things Ought to Be 3.62 avg rating — 2,598 ratings
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Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class 4.04 avg rating — 1,986 ratings
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The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education 4.05 avg rating — 5,662 ratings
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Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't
Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't 3.55 avg rating — 574 ratings
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The Constitution of Liberty
The Constitution of Liberty 4.16 avg rating — 2,856 ratings
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Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It 4.18 avg rating — 2,849 ratings
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America Back on Track
America Back on Track 3.48 avg rating — 86 ratings
129.
Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?
Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? 4.12 avg rating — 2,719 ratings
130.
City of God
City of God 3.94 avg rating — 13,448 ratings
131.
Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir
Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir 3.91 avg rating — 4,411 ratings
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Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America
Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America 3.61 avg rating — 214 ratings
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Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787
Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787 4.06 avg rating — 1,983 ratings
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Bill of Wrongs: The Executive Branch's Assault on America's Fundamental Rights
Bill of Wrongs: The Executive Branch's Assault on America's Fundamental Rights 4.15 avg rating — 371 ratings
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The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule 3.97 avg rating — 2,284 ratings
136.
A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny
A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny 4.18 avg rating — 299 ratings
137.
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
The Giver (The Giver, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 2,733,081 ratings
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Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism 4.20 avg rating — 5,607 ratings
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Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender
Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender 3.74 avg rating — 464 ratings
140.
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime 4.13 avg rating — 22,714 ratings
141.
Principles of Political Economy: And Chapters on Socialism
Principles of Political Economy: And Chapters on Socialism 3.81 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders & How They Changed America 1789-1989
Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders & How They Changed America 1789-1989 3.80 avg rating — 1,146 ratings
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Men in Black: How Judges are Destroying America
Men in Black: How Judges are Destroying America 4.17 avg rating — 1,881 ratings
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The Housing Boom and Bust
The Housing Boom and Bust 4.20 avg rating — 2,072 ratings
144.
With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful 4.26 avg rating — 1,310 ratings
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Roadmap to Liberty: The Liberty-Approach to Every Economic, Political and Social Topic
Roadmap to Liberty: The Liberty-Approach to Every Economic, Political and Social Topic 4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings
147.
The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century
The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century 3.91 avg rating — 2,010 ratings
148.
Are You... Liberal? Conservative? Or Confused?
Are You... Liberal? Conservative? Or Confused? 4.13 avg rating — 602 ratings
149.
The Roots of Obama's Rage
The Roots of Obama's Rage 4.09 avg rating — 2,245 ratings
150.
Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right
Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right 3.82 avg rating — 29,649 ratings
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 3.86 avg rating — 17,028 ratings
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The Closing of the American Mind
The Closing of the American Mind 3.76 avg rating — 5,868 ratings
153.
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order 4.03 avg rating — 7,199 ratings
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Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right
Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right 3.41 avg rating — 2,450 ratings
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Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil
Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil 4.06 avg rating — 837 ratings
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The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine
The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine 3.84 avg rating — 414 ratings
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Leviathan
Leviathan 3.70 avg rating — 51,347 ratings
158.
March: Book One (March, #1)
March: Book One (March, #1) 4.35 avg rating — 56,871 ratings
159.
Living History
Living History 3.76 avg rating — 34,056 ratings
160.
Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America
Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America 3.57 avg rating — 2,488 ratings
161.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 3.92 avg rating — 26,298 ratings
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything in It
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything in It 3.94 avg rating — 6,616 ratings
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business 4.16 avg rating — 36,102 ratings
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The Making of America: The Substance and Meaning of the Constitution
The Making of America: The Substance and Meaning of the Constitution 4.39 avg rating — 741 ratings
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Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized By People Who Think You're Stupid
Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized By People Who Think You're Stupid
by: Joe Klein
3.58 avg rating — 315 ratings
166.
My Country 'Tis of Thee
My Country 'Tis of Thee 3.61 avg rating — 956 ratings
167.
We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work
We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work 3.62 avg rating — 368 ratings
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century 3.83 avg rating — 3,161 ratings
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The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics
The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics 3.88 avg rating — 352 ratings
170.
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq 4.09 avg rating — 7,790 ratings
171.
Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties
Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties 4.28 avg rating — 2,919 ratings
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The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy 3.98 avg rating — 3,453 ratings
173.
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography (Books That Changed the World) 3.99 avg rating — 2,875 ratings
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The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies 3.91 avg rating — 2,152 ratings
175.
The U.S. Constitution: A Reader
The U.S. Constitution: A Reader 4.65 avg rating — 153 ratings
176.
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics 4.34 avg rating — 4,196 ratings
177.
The Cost of Discipleship
The Cost of Discipleship 4.30 avg rating — 48,817 ratings
178.
Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy
Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy 3.69 avg rating — 3,414 ratings
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The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address 4.52 avg rating — 7,663 ratings
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The Good Fight: Why Liberals - and Only Liberals - Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again
The Good Fight: Why Liberals - and Only Liberals - Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again 3.59 avg rating — 88 ratings
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My Awakening: A Path to Racial Understanding
My Awakening: A Path to Racial Understanding 3.81 avg rating — 291 ratings
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The Anti-Federalist Papers
The Anti-Federalist Papers 4.14 avg rating — 583 ratings
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It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism
It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism 3.89 avg rating — 3,774 ratings
184.
The Bastiat Collection (2 Volume set)
The Bastiat Collection (2 Volume set) 4.58 avg rating — 290 ratings
185.
Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter
Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter 3.48 avg rating — 502 ratings
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Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off of Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison
Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off of Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison 4.01 avg rating — 1,011 ratings
187.
Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics
Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics 3.70 avg rating — 447 ratings
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Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle 3.95 avg rating — 5,937 ratings
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Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America
Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America 4.26 avg rating — 2,687 ratings
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The Concept of the Political
The Concept of the Political 3.96 avg rating — 3,503 ratings
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The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War
The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War 3.62 avg rating — 110 ratings
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A Modern Declaration of Independence: Crimes Against Humanity and a New System
A Modern Declaration of Independence: Crimes Against Humanity and a New System 4.48 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus
Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus 3.59 avg rating — 328 ratings
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Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative
Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative 3.83 avg rating — 1,772 ratings
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Green Illusions
Green Illusions 3.97 avg rating — 759 ratings
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Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 3.80 avg rating — 5,642 ratings
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Napolitano 3in1 - Constitutional Chaos, the Constitution in Exile & a Nation of Sheep
Napolitano 3in1 - Constitutional Chaos, the Constitution in Exile & a Nation of Sheep 4.43 avg rating — 28 ratings
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American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies that the Government Tells Us
American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies that the Government Tells Us 3.59 avg rating — 1,805 ratings
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So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State
So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State 3.93 avg rating — 105 ratings
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The Great Contraction 1929-1933
The Great Contraction 1929-1933 3.73 avg rating — 123 ratings
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