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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

Nemesis: Last Days of the American Republic

By Chalmers Johnson

Barack Obama: The Movement for Change

By Anthony Painter

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

By Michael Lewis

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

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

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

By Malcolm Nance

The War on Islam

By Enver Masud

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

By Jonathan Martin, Alexander Burns

The Betrayal of the American Dream

By Donald Barlett, James Steele

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

By Ron Suskind

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

By Rajiv Chandrasekaran

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

By David Ray Griffin

Barack Obama in his Own Words

By Lisa Rogak

Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America

By Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose

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