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The Cracked Bell: America and the Afflictions of Liberty

By Tristram Riley-Smith

The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives (American Empire Project)

By Turse, Nick

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

By Packer, George

American Way of War, The: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's

By Engelhardt, Tom

The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics

By Judis, John B.

Through The Children's Gate: A Home in New York

By Gopnik, Adam

Russians Are Coming, Again: The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce

By Kuzmarov, Jeremy, Marciano, John

We Were Eight Years in Power: 'One of the foremost essayists on race in the West' Nikesh Shukla, author of The Good Immigrant

By Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy

By Stoller, Matt

The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison

By Worthington, Andy

Inside 9-11 What Really Happened

By Der Spiegel, Der Spiegel Magazine

Access to History: Politics, Presidency and Society in the USA 1968-2001

By Sanders, Vivienne

Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt

By Jaffe, Sarah

America and the Art of the Possible: Restoring National Vitality in an Age of Decay

By Buskirk, Christopher

The Inaugural Address, 2009: Together with Abraham Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Addresses and The Gettysburg Address and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance

By Obama, Barack

The Big Short – Inside the Doomsday Machine

By Lewis, Michael

America's Backyard: The United States and Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the War on Terror

By Grace Livingstone

The War on Islam

By Enver Masud

Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America

By Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose

Barack Obama in his Own Words

By Lisa Rogak

The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11

By David Ray Griffin

Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (National Book Award Finalist)

By Rajiv Chandrasekaran

The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House and the Education of Paul O'Neill

By Ron Suskind

The Betrayal of the American Dream

By Donald Barlett, James Steele

This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future

By Jonathan Martin, Alexander Burns

Barack Obama: The Movement for Change

By Anthony Painter

Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

By Gore Vidal

Why We're Polarized

By Ezra Klein

Nemesis: Last Days of the American Republic

By Chalmers Johnson

Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

By John Heilemann, Mark Halperin (University of California, Davis)