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

By Louis Menand ,

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

By Charles Clover ,

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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

By Nick Bryant ,

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

By Joshua Yaffa ,

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

By George F. Will ,

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Ugly Freedoms
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Ugly Freedoms

By Elisabeth R. Anker ,

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

By Daniel F. Stone ,

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

By David French ,

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

By Adam Schiff ,

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

By Luke Mogelson ,

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Stolen Pride
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Stolen Pride

By Arlie Russell Hochschild ,

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The Rural Voter
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The Rural Voter

By Nicholas F. Jacobs , Daniel M. Shea ,

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

By Nicole Hemmer ,

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Four Threats
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Four Threats

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