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How Democracies Die
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How Democracies Die

By Steven Levitsky , Daniel Ziblatt ,

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Swimming in the Dark
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Swimming in the Dark

By Tomasz Jedrowski ,

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The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It
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The Upswing

By Robert D. Putnam ,

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Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love
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Season of the Witch

By David Talbot ,

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On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
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On Fire

By Naomi Klein ,

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The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
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The Free World

By Louis Menand ,

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Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies
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Written in Stone

By Sanford Levinson ,

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Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences
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Predisposed

By John R. Hibbing , Kevin B. Smith , John R. Alford

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One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
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One Nation Under God

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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
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Dark Money

By Jane Mayer ,

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Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House
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Grace and Power

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Black Wind, White Snow: Russia's New Nationalism
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Black Wind, White Snow

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Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune
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Communal Luxury

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Why We're Polarized
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Why We're Polarized

By Ezra Klein ,

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A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream
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A Time to Build

By Yuval Levin ,

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On Freedom
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On Freedom

By Timothy Snyder ,

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The Forever War
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The Forever War

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Putin Mystique Inside Russia's Power Cult
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Putin Mystique Inside Russia's Power Cult

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Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia
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Between Two Fires

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Journey to the United States Of North America
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Journey to the United States Of North America

By Lorenzo de Zavala , Wallace Woolsey ,

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The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington
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The Georgetown Set

By Gregg Herken ,

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The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory
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The United States of Paranoia

By Jesse Walker ,

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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
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How the South Won the Civil War

By Heather Cox Richardson ,

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A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics
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A Republic of Men

By Mark E. Kann ,

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Democracy and Truth: A Short History
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Democracy and Truth

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The Last Liberal Republican: An Insider's Perspective on Nixon's Surprising Social Policy
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The Last Liberal Republican

By John Roy Price ,

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The Past as Future
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The Past as Future

By Jurgen Habermas , Max Pensky (translator) ,

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In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West
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In the Ruins of Neoliberalism

By Wendy Brown ,

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Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941
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Those Angry Days

By Lynne Olson ,

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Prague Panoramas: National Memory and Sacred Space in the Twentieth Century
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Prague Panoramas

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Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic
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Beyond the Founders

By Jeffrey L. Pasley (editor) , Andrew W. Robertson (editor) , David Waldstreicher (editor)

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Harnessing Harmony: Music, Power, and Politics in the United States, 1788–1865
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Harnessing Harmony

By Billy Coleman ,

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Vindicating Andrew Jackson: The 1828 Election and the Rise of the Two-Party System
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Vindicating Andrew Jackson

By Donald B. Cole ,

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And the Land Lay Still
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And the Land Lay Still

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Days of Revolution: Political Unrest in an Iranian Village
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Days of Revolution

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Khrushchev's Cold Summer: Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform after Stalin
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Khrushchev's Cold Summer

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Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos
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Cuba in the American Imagination

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American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020
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American Happiness and Discontents

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Libya: The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi
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Libya

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Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America
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Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America

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Ugly Freedoms
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Ugly Freedoms

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The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s
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The Liberal Hour

By G. Calvin Mackenzie , Robert Weisbrot ,

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Undue Hate: A Behavioral Economic Analysis of Hostile Polarization in US Politics and Beyond
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Undue Hate

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Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation
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Divided We Fall

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Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China
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Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China

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The Third Reich in History and Memory
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The Third Reich in History and Memory

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Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions
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Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions

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The Trial of Madame Caillaux
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The Trial of Madame Caillaux

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Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
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Midnight in Washington

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Know-It-All Society: Truth and Arrogance in Political Culture
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Know-It-All Society

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Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century
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Dreyfus

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In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era
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In Search of the Black Fantastic

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#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media
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#Republic

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Tomorrow-Land: The 1964-65 World's Fair and the Transformation of America
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Tomorrow-Land

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The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible
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The Storm Is Here

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Warlords, Strongman Governors, and the State in Afghanistan
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Warlords, Strongman Governors, and the State in Afghanistan

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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
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The Soul of America

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Stolen Pride
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Stolen Pride

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The Rural Voter
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The Rural Voter

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Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s
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Partisans

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Four Threats
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Four Threats

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