Best Popular Nonfiction Politics Books on Goodreads
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Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control
by:
Dali L. Yang
4.33 avg rating — 30 ratings 106. 
The Government of Self and Others: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1982–1983 4.37 avg rating — 300 ratings
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A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
by:
David Fromkin
4.22 avg rating — 9,546 ratings 114. 
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
by:
Friedrich Engels
4.13 avg rating — 7,494 ratings 
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Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
by:
Helen Pluckrose
4.11 avg rating — 5,797 ratings 
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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
by:
Steven Levitsky
4.16 avg rating — 30,335 ratings 
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The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
by:
Ben Shapiro
3.87 avg rating — 8,842 ratings 127. 
Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology
by:
Howard Zinn
4.23 avg rating — 813 ratings 127. 
It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump
by:
Stuart Stevens
4.12 avg rating — 3,964 ratings 127. 
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
by:
Michael Parenti
4.40 avg rating — 8,495 ratings 130. 
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by:
J.D. Vance
3.85 avg rating — 488,905 ratings 
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Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
by:
Matt Taibbi
4.10 avg rating — 5,604 ratings 133. 
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by:
Edward S. Herman
4.24 avg rating — 23,242 ratings 
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Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
by:
Jonah Goldberg
4.05 avg rating — 2,573 ratings 
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
by:
Daniel Immerwahr
4.46 avg rating — 19,130 ratings 139. 
Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
by:
Andrew Marantz
4.20 avg rating — 3,049 ratings 
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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
by:
Masha Gessen
3.82 avg rating — 11,845 ratings 142. 
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by:
Shoshana Zuboff
4.06 avg rating — 12,766 ratings 142. 
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
by:
Kevin M. Kruse
3.96 avg rating — 2,552 ratings 146. 
The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
by:
Chris Whipple
4.29 avg rating — 7,954 ratings 146. 
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by:
Barack Obama
3.94 avg rating — 229,616 ratings 
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The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart
by:
Bill Bishop
3.84 avg rating — 2,351 ratings 155. 
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 — 7,789 ratings 155. 
Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative
by:
David Brock
3.83 avg rating — 1,772 ratings 
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Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
by:
Chris Hedges
3.95 avg rating — 5,937 ratings 
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What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
by:
Thomas Frank
3.85 avg rating — 12,724 ratings 160. 
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
by:
Ibram X. Kendi
4.53 avg rating — 37,886 ratings 
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God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State
by:
Lawrence Wright
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,876 ratings 165. 
The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election
by:
Malcolm W. Nance
4.08 avg rating — 1,862 ratings 169. 
The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
by:
Fred Kaplan
4.08 avg rating — 730 ratings 169. 
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
by:
Erik Larson
3.89 avg rating — 215,206 ratings 169. 
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
by:
Paul Kennedy
4.14 avg rating — 6,199 ratings 
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The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
by:
Naomi Wolf
3.96 avg rating — 3,099 ratings 
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Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
by:
Charles Murray
3.80 avg rating — 5,642 ratings 
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The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
by:
Bryan Caplan
3.91 avg rating — 2,152 ratings 
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Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government
by:
Glenn Beck
3.86 avg rating — 4,754 ratings 
191. 
A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship
by:
Ron Paul
4.19 avg rating — 992 ratings 
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The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News-and Divided a Country
by:
Gabriel Sherman
3.88 avg rating — 1,878 ratings 194. 
Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
by:
Angela Nagle
3.45 avg rating — 6,560 ratings 194. 
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
by:
Ari Berman
4.39 avg rating — 1,962 ratings 196. 
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Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis
by:
Kenneth N. Waltz
3.97 avg rating — 2,056 ratings 199. 
Man, Economy, and State / Power and Market: Government and Economy 4.48 avg rating — 1,162 ratings
