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Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism--From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond

By Senior Fellow E J Dionne, Jr

The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

By Martin Wolf

Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High-Risk TV

By Alan Schroeder (Northeastern School of Journalism)

America: The Farewell Tour

By Chris Hedges

Puzzle Palace

By Bamford, James

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

By Michael Lewis

All Gone to Look for America: Riding the Iron Horse Across a Continent (and Back)

By Peter Millar

The Best Defense: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism

By Douglas Feith

Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right

By Anne Nelson

How to Think Like Obama

By Daniel Smith

Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive

By Joel Meyerowitz

The Reckoning: America's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal

By Mary L Trump

The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can Do About It

By Angelo M. Codevilla, Rush Limbaugh

War Dogs: The True Story of How Three Stoners from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History

By Guy Lawson

Hard Choices: A Memoir

By Hillary Rodham Clinton

The Dark Sahara: America's War on Terror in Africa

By Jeremy Keenan

South Sudan: The Untold Story from Independence to Civil War

By Hilde F. Johnson

Poverty, by America

By Matthew Desmond

The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy

By Christopher Leonard

What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception

By Scott McClellan

Fire on the Horizon: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster

By Tom Shroder, John Konrad

Adnan's Story: The Case That Inspired the Podcast Phenomenon Serial

By Rabia Chaudry

How Barack Obama Won: A State-by-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Presidential Election

By Chuck Todd, Sheldon Gawiser

The American Future: A History

By Schama CBE, Simon

The Storm is Here: America on the Brink

By Luke Mogelson

The Perfect Weapon: war, sabotage, and fear in the cyber age

By David E. Sanger

Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic

By Chalmers Johnson

American Cipher: One Soldier's Nightmare in the Afghanistan War

By Matt Farwell, Michael Ames

Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right

By Benjamin Balint

Ally

By Oren, Michael B.