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

By Grace Livingstone

Descent into Chaos: The world's most unstable region and the threat to global security

By Rashid, Ahmed

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

The Plot to Betray America: How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It

By Malcolm Nance

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

The War on Islam

By Enver Masud

Nemesis: Last Days of the American Republic

By Chalmers Johnson

The Cracked Bell: America and the Afflictions of Liberty

By Tristram Riley-Smith

Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

By Gore Vidal

Why We're Polarized

By Ezra Klein

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

By Michael Lewis