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Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush
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4.09 avg rating — 2,254 ratings
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Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think
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4.03 avg rating — 1,687 ratings
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Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right
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3.82 avg rating — 29,659 ratings
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Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
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The Catcher in the Rye
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Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
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3.99 avg rating — 2,279 ratings
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Animal Farm / 1984
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4.30 avg rating — 212,546 ratings
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The Assault on Reason
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3.78 avg rating — 7,361 ratings
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110 |
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
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4.51 avg rating — 18,674 ratings
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111 |
The Republican War on Science
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Chris C. Mooney (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 1,252 ratings
score: 595,
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112 |
Buck: A Memoir
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M.K. Asante (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 3,066 ratings
score: 593,
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113 |
Long Walk to Freedom
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4.36 avg rating — 92,870 ratings
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114 |
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
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3.93 avg rating — 7,628 ratings
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115 |
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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3.85 avg rating — 8,775 ratings
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116 |
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
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4.08 avg rating — 10,615 ratings
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117 |
Men Explain Things to Me
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3.83 avg rating — 85,789 ratings
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118 |
The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science—and Reality
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Chris C. Mooney (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 1,502 ratings
score: 557,
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119 |
Bad Feminist
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Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 118,069 ratings
score: 542,
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The Poisonwood Bible
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4.11 avg rating — 783,800 ratings
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The Feminine Mystique
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3.87 avg rating — 30,415 ratings
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A Room of One’s Own
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4.22 avg rating — 250,239 ratings
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American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
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3.89 avg rating — 2,771 ratings
score: 520,
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The Joy Luck Club
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Amy Tan (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 705,146 ratings
score: 520,
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125 |
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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Timothy Snyder (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 93,071 ratings
score: 519,
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126 |
Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics
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3.70 avg rating — 447 ratings
score: 509,
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127 |
The Age of Reform
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3.91 avg rating — 1,954 ratings
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128 |
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
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4.07 avg rating — 343,147 ratings
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129 |
Fault Lines: Views across Haiti's Divide
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Beverly Bell (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 48 ratings
score: 500,
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129 |
She Who Rose From Ashes
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Sita Bennett (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Palestinian Dissident
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4.23 avg rating — 35 ratings
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132 |
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
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4.34 avg rating — 3,649 ratings
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133 |
The United States of Elfin: Imagining a More Elven Style of Government
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The Silver Elves (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 497,
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134 |
Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies
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Colin Kaepernick (Editor)
4.33 avg rating — 177 ratings
score: 492,
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135 |
The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them
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4.11 avg rating — 858 ratings
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Kindred
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4.31 avg rating — 261,936 ratings
score: 490,
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137 |
The Federalist Papers
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4.10 avg rating — 41,673 ratings
score: 484,
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138 |
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
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3.96 avg rating — 16,750 ratings
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139 |
The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
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Kristin Henning (Goodreads Author)
4.56 avg rating — 441 ratings
score: 470,
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140 |
The Age of American Unreason
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3.84 avg rating — 3,260 ratings
score: 463,
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141 |
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
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4.50 avg rating — 922 ratings
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142 |
Conservatives Without Conscience
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3.98 avg rating — 1,745 ratings
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143 |
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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Ibram X. Kendi (Goodreads Author)
4.53 avg rating — 38,014 ratings
score: 451,
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144 |
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
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Timothy Egan (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 17,998 ratings
score: 450,
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145 |
Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues
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4.24 avg rating — 234 ratings
score: 449,
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146 |
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
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4.07 avg rating — 5,332 ratings
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Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights
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4.20 avg rating — 623 ratings
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The Bell Jar
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4.05 avg rating — 1,172,744 ratings
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149 |
Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House
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3.58 avg rating — 2,810 ratings
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150 |
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
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3.81 avg rating — 8,322 ratings
score: 419,
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150 |
The Mismeasure of Man
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4.06 avg rating — 9,246 ratings
score: 419,
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152 |
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
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4.02 avg rating — 8,567 ratings
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153 |
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
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4.06 avg rating — 4,576 ratings
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154 |
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.93 avg rating — 74,091 ratings
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155 |
The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century
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Paul Krugman (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 2,012 ratings
score: 401,
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156 |
Wild Land
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3.65 avg rating — 34 ratings
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156 |
Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -
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Rivera Sun (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 40 ratings
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156 |
Root of the Spark
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Michele Fogal (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 44 ratings
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159 |
Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia
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4.50 avg rating — 198 ratings
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160 |
The Right To Vote The Contested History Of Democracy In The United States
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4.02 avg rating — 297 ratings
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160 |
Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,341,407 ratings
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162 |
The Shame of the Nation
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4.14 avg rating — 5,070 ratings
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163 |
Against Empire
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4.37 avg rating — 1,128 ratings
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164 |
Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
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4.41 avg rating — 9,476 ratings
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165 |
The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
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4.01 avg rating — 1,029 ratings
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165 |
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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Isabel Wilkerson (Goodreads Author)
4.48 avg rating — 114,233 ratings
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167 |
The Souls of Black Folk
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4.31 avg rating — 44,447 ratings
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Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power
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4.21 avg rating — 3,826 ratings
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169 |
With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
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4.25 avg rating — 1,311 ratings
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The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation
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4.05 avg rating — 1,614 ratings
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171 |
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
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4.29 avg rating — 4,920 ratings
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172 |
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
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4.34 avg rating — 26,912 ratings
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173 |
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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4.30 avg rating — 168,777 ratings
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My Country 'Tis of Thee
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3.61 avg rating — 956 ratings
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175 |
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
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Jamie Ford (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 312,694 ratings
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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
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3.78 avg rating — 6,378 ratings
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Lakota Woman
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3.97 avg rating — 8,755 ratings
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The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too
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3.96 avg rating — 487 ratings
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179 |
Black Like Me
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4.11 avg rating — 69,341 ratings
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Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision
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3.86 avg rating — 216 ratings
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A Raisin in the Sun
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3.85 avg rating — 108,274 ratings
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Howard Zinn on War
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4.26 avg rating — 392 ratings
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The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
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3.97 avg rating — 2,284 ratings
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Stupid White Men
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3.33 avg rating — 16,739 ratings
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Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
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3.90 avg rating — 4,079 ratings
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Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
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3.91 avg rating — 220 ratings
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186 |
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
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Malala Yousafzai (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 614,764 ratings
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Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
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3.99 avg rating — 1,934 ratings
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189 |
The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer
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Dean Baker (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 241 ratings
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190 |
Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology
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4.23 avg rating — 813 ratings
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190 |
MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country: How to Find Your Political Voice and Become a Catalyst for Change
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3.65 avg rating — 111 ratings
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American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation
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3.59 avg rating — 241 ratings
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193 |
Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans--Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild
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4.05 avg rating — 1,063 ratings
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194 |
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
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4.14 avg rating — 11,837 ratings
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194 |
The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service
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4.33 avg rating — 3,428 ratings
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196 |
Politixworks
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Chuck U. Farlie (Goodreads Author)
4.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
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196 |
The STREAM TONE: The Future of Personal Computing?
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T. Gilling (Goodreads Author)
3.17 avg rating — 23 ratings
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196 |
A Modern Declaration of Independence: Crimes Against Humanity and a New System
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Jakub Lasak (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 26 ratings
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