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Fascism, Nationalism and Authoritarianism in U.S. History

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A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy

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By Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum

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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

they were her property
By Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

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2019

Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason

Nervous States
By William Davies

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2018

National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy

national populism
By Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin

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2018

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

dear america
By Jose Antonio Vargas

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2019

Practical Equality: Forging Justice in a Divided Nation

forging justice
By Robert L. Tsai

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2019

If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed and How It Might Be Saved

if we can keep it
By Michael Tomasky

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2019

El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America

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By Carrie Gibson

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2019

How Democracies Die: What History Tells Us About Our Future

How Democracies Die
By Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

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2018

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

Road to Unfreedom
By Timothy Snyder

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2018

Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff

Fraud an American History
By Edward J. Balleisen

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2018

Parkland

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By David Cullen

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2019

How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning

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By George Lakey

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2018

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland

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By Jonathan M. Metzl

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2019

American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America

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By Chris Hedges

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2007

Fear: Trump in the White House

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By Bob Woodward

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2018

Fascism: A Warning

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By Madeleine Albright

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2018

How Propaganda Works

propaganda, epistemology, language, psychology, mass psychology, indoctrination, mass media, politics, fascism, authoritarianism,
By Jason Stanley

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2015

Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press

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By Marvin Kalb

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2018

Imbeciles: The Supreme Court: American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck

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By Adam Cohen

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2016

Behold America: The Entangled History of "America First" and "The American Dream"

Behold America
By Sarah Churchwell

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2018

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

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By Jason Stanley

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2018

One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America

indoctrination, Christian dominion theology, pledge of allegiance, nationalism, propaganda,
By Kevin M. Kruse

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2015

True Gentlemen: The Broken Pledge of America's Fraternities

True Gentlemen
By John Hechinger

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2017

Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy

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By Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts

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2018

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American Textbook Got Wrong

lies my teacher told me
By James W. Loewen

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1995

The Origins of Totalitarianism

fascism, totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt, authoritarianism, history, Nazi Germany, Hitler,
By Hannah Arendt

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1951

How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales From the Pentagon

militarization
By Rosa Brooks

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2016

But It's a Long Way

but it's a long way
By Frédérique Guétat-Liviani

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2018

Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929 -- 1941

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By Stephen Kotkin

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2017

How Does it Feel to Be a Problem: Being Young and Arab in America

American Arabs, Muslims, Islam
By Moustafa Bayoumi

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2008

It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism

extremism
By Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein

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2012

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Jim Crow, The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander, mass incarceration, black incarceration, prison labor
By Michelle Alexander

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2010

The Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces

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By Radley Balko

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2013

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