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Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
Fareed Zakaria - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book
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The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions -- past and present -- that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live.Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk -- the early... |
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Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
Timothy P Carney - Harper
Format: Book
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Respected conservative journalist and commentator Timothy P. Carney continues the conversation begun with Hillbilly Elegy and the classic Bowling Alone in this hard-hitting analysis that identifies the true factor behind the decline of the American dream: it is not purely the result... |
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The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
Bill Bishop - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of why America is so culturally and politically dividedAmerica may be more diverse than ever coast to coast, but the places where we live are becoming increasingly crowded with people who live, think, and vote as we do. This social transformation didnt happed by accident.... |
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The Conservative Sensibility
George F. Will - Hachette Books
Format: Book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, an "astonishing" and "enthralling" (BOOKLIST ) new examination of how the Founders' belief in natural rights created a great American political tradition--"easily one of the best... |
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Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All
Suzanne Nossel - Dey Street Books
Format: Book
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A vital, necessary playbook for navigating and defending free speech today by the CEO of PEN America, Dare To Speak provides a pathway for promoting free expression while also cultivating a more inclusive public culture.Online trolls and fascist chat groups. Controversies over campus... |
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High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out
Amanda Ripley - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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That's what "high conflict" does. It's the invisible hand of our time. And it's different from the useful friction of healthy conflict. That's good conflict, and it's a necessary force that pushes us to be better people. High conflict, by contrast, is what... |
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Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
Francis Fukuyama - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examination of modern identity politics: its origins, its effects, and what it means for domestic and international affairs of stateIn 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions... |
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Let them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality
Jacob S. Hacker - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Editors ChoiceAn "essential" (Jane Mayer) account of the dangerous marriage of plutocratic economic priorities and right-wing populist appeals - and how it threatens the pillars of American democracy.In Let Them Eat Tweets, best-selling political scientists... |
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The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity
Sally Kohn - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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At a moment when we are facing an epidemic of incivility and hate - with divisive political speech, online trolling, and hate crimes escalating - popular CNN commentator Sally Kohn sets out to discover why we hate and how can stop it. As a progressive commentator on Fox News and now CNN,... |
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt - Pantheon; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Why can't our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward... |
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
JON MEACHAM - Random House
Format: Book
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Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the "better angels of our nature" have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln and other presidents, including Ulysses... |
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Them
Benjamin Sasse - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing American Adult, an intimate and urgent assessment of the existential crisis facing our nation.Our culture has always had tribalism. Different political parties, preferred media outlets, and shifts... |
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Why We're Polarized
Ezra Klein - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
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Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means for our future - from journalist, political commentator, and cofounder of Vox, Ezra Klein. After Election Day 2016, both supporters and opponents of the soon-to-be president hailed... |
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