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It Was All a Lie
It Was All a Lie
Stuart Stevens
How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump
21 min
4.0
Promises to Keep
Promises to Keep
Joe Biden
On Life and Politics
31 min
4.0
Across That Bridge
Across That Bridge
John Lewis
A Vision for Change and the Future of America
21 min
4.5
Putin's People
Putin's People
Catherine Belton
How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
37 min
4.3
Private Government
Private Government
Elizabeth Anderson
How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)
29 min
4.1
This Is What America Looks Like
This Is What America Looks Like
Ilhan Omar
My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
23 min
4.3
Moneyland
Moneyland
Oliver Bullough
Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It Back
19 min
4.4
Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers
Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers
Yan Xuetong
How leadership determines the fate of nations
25 min
3.8

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Liars
Liars
Cass R. Sunstein
Falsehoods and Free Speech in an Age of Deception
17 min
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
Jonathan Blitzer
The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
17 min
When the Clock Broke
When the Clock Broke
John Ganz
Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
23 min
Autocracy, Inc.
Autocracy, Inc.
Anne Applebaum
The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
19 min
Principles For Dealing With the Changing World Order
Principles For Dealing With the Changing World Order
Ray Dalio
Why Nations Succeed and Fail
19 min
3.9
Public Opinion
Public Opinion
Walter Lippmann
Uncover the Hidden Forces Shaping Public Perception
19 min
Utopia
Utopia
Thomas More
Dive Into a Classic Vision of the Ideal World and Its Challenges
19 min
The Truth About Immigration
The Truth About Immigration
Zeke Hernandez
Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers
19 min
3.4
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Obama's 2023 Summer Reading List
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Must Reads for Politics Students
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Best Books on the FBI
An inside look into America’s intelligence and security
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The Future We Choose
The Future We Choose
Christiana Figueres
Surviving the Climate Crisis
27 min
4.1
The Lincoln Conspiracy
The Lincoln Conspiracy
Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch
The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President – and Why It Failed
28 min
4.6
For a New Liberty
For a New Liberty
Murray N. Rothbard
The Libertarian Manifesto
27 min
4.2
The Coddling of the American Mind
The Coddling of the American Mind
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
21 min
4.4
The Splendid and the Vile
The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson
A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
35 min
4.7
The End of the Myth
The End of the Myth
Greg Grandin
From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
31 min
3.7
A People Betrayed
A People Betrayed
Linda Melvern
The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide
27 min
4.5
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
Yanis Varoufakis
A Brief History of Capitalism
26 min
4.4
What the Eyes Don't See
What the Eyes Don't See
Mona Hanna-Attisha
A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
33 min
Losing Earth
Losing Earth
Nathaniel Rich
A Recent History
23 min
4.4
The Conscience of a Conservative
The Conscience of a Conservative
Barry Goldwater
A classic statement of the conservative mindset
22 min
4.4
Dark Towers
Dark Towers
David Enrich
Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction
31 min
4.4
Food Fix
Food Fix
Mark Hyman
How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet – One Bite at a Time
26 min
4.5
Un-Trumping America
Un-Trumping America
Dan Pfeiffer
A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again
25 min
3.9
Winners Take All
Winners Take All
Anand Giridharadas
The Elite Charade of Changing the World
22 min
4.1
United
United
Cory Booker
Thoughts on finding common ground and advancing the common good
25 min
4.6
Mindf*ck
Mindf*ck
Christopher Wylie
Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
34 min
4.5
Profiles in Corruption
Profiles in Corruption
Peter Schweizer
Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite
24 min
3.3
The War on Normal People
The War on Normal People
Andrew Yang
The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
24 min
4.5
How to Be Right
How to Be Right
James O’Brien
In a World Gone Wrong
19 min
4.1
A Very Stable Genius
A Very Stable Genius
Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig
Donald J. Trump's Testing of America
23 min
3.6
Imagined Communities
Imagined Communities
Benedict Anderson
Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
23 min
4.6
Triggered
Triggered
Donald Trump Jr.
How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us
19 min
3.8
Crime in Progress
Crime in Progress
Glenn Simpson
Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump
24 min
3.7

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