Politics
- Joan Didion, Political Fictions (paperback, 2002, Vintage Books)
- EJ Dionne, Jr, Why Americans Hate Politics (1992; paperback, 1993, Touchstone)
- Jack W Germond, Fat Man Fed Up: How American Politics Went Bad (2004, Random House)
- William Greider, Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country (2009, Rodale)
- Christopher Hayes, Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy (2012, Crown)
- Robert G Kaiser, So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government (2009, Knopf)
- Parag Khanna, The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008, Random House)
- Michael Kinsley, Please Don't Remain Calm: Provocations and Commentaries (2008, WW Norton)
- George Lakoff, Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate (paperback, 2004, Chelsea Green)
- George Lakoff, Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think (paperback, 2002, University of Chicago Press)
- Chris Lehman, Rich People Things: Real Life Secrets of the Predator Class (paperback, 2011, Haymarket Books)
- Walter Mosley, What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace (2003, Black Classic Press)
- Jedediah Purdy, Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World (2003, Alfred A Knopf)
- Rick Shenkman, Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter (2008, Basic Books)
- Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities (paperback, 2004, Nation Books)
- Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics (2007; paperback, 2008, University of California Press)
- Paul Starr, Freedom's Power: The History and Promise of Liberalism (paperback, 2008, Basic Books)
- Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America (2010, Spiegel & Grau)
- Matt Taibbi, Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches From a Rotting Empire (paperback, 2007, Grove Press)
- Matt Taibbi, The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire (2008; paperback, 2009, Spiegel & Grau)
- Slavoj Zizek, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (paperback, 2009, Verso)
- Frank Barnaby, How to Build a Nuclear Bomb: And Other Weapons of Mass Destruction (paperback, 2004, Nation Books)
- Stephen Holmes, The Matador's Cape: America's Reckless Response to Terror (2007, Cambridge University Press)
- Louise Richardson, What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat (2006, Random House)
- Michael Scheuer, Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror ()
- Ron Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 (2006, Simon & Schuster)
- Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (paperback, 2007, Vintage Books)
- Bill Bradley, The New American Story (2007, Random House)
- Al Gore, The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Fear, Secrecy, and Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision Making, Degrade Our Democracy, and Put Our Country and Our World in Peril (2007, Penguin Press)
- Brian Kahn, Real Common Sense: Using Our Founding Values to Reclaim Our Nation and Stop the Radical Right From Hijacking America (2011, Seven Stories Press)
- John Nichols, The "S" Word: A Short History of an American Tradition . . . Socialism (paperback, 2011, Verso)
- John Amato/David Neiwert, Over the Cliff: How Obama's Election Drove the American Right Insane (paperback, 2010, Polipoint Press)
- Greg Anrig, The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing (2007, Wiley)
- Max Blumenthal, Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party (2009, Nation Books)
- Will Bunch, Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama (2010, Free Press)
- Will Bunch, Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future (2009, Free Press)
- Jonathan Chait, The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics (2007, Houghton Mifflin)
- Gail Collins, As Texas Goes . . . : How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda (2012, Liveright)
- Donald T Critchlow, The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History (2007, Harvard University Press)
- John W Dean, Conservatives Without Conscience (2006; paperback, 2007, Penguin Books)
- Rod Dreher, Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots (2006; paperback, 2006, Three Rivers Press)
- Dinesh D'Souza, The Roots of Obama's Rage (2010, Regnery)
- Thomas B Edsall, Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive for Permanent Power (2006, Basic Books)
- Thomas Frank, Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right (2012, Picador)
- Thomas Frank, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule (2008, Metropolitan Books)
- Thomas Frank, What's the Matter With Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (2004, Metropolitan Books)
- Jim Geraghty, Voting to Kill: How 9/11 Launched the Era of Republican Leadership (paperback, 2006, Touchstone)
- Bernard Goldberg, 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken is #37) (2005, Harper Collins)
- Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning (2008, Doubleday; paperback, 2009, Broadway Books)
- Philip Gold, Take Back the Right: How the Neocons and the Religious Right Have Betrayed the Conservative Movement (paperback, 2004, Carroll & Graf)
- Jacob Hacker/Paul Pierson, Off Center: The Republican Revolution & the Erosion of American Democracy (2005, Yale University Press)
- Jack Huberman, 101 People Who Are Really Screwing America (And Bernard Goldberg Is Only #73) (paperback, 2006, Nation Books)
- William Kleinknecht, The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America (2009, Nation Books)
- Jill Lepore, The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle Over American History (2010, Princeton University Press)
- John Micklethwait/Adrian Woodridge, The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America (paperback, 2005, Penguin)
- Alicia Morgan, The Price of Right: How the Conservative Agenda Has Failed America (and Always Will) (paperback, 2008, Sterling & Ross)
- David Neiwert, The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right (paperback, 2009, Polipoint Press)
- Geoffrey Nunberg, Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism Into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Holywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show (2006; paperback, 2007, Public Affairs)
- Timothy L O'Brien, TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald (2005, Warner Books)
- Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008, Scribner)
- Kim Phillips-Fein, Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal (paperback, 2010, WW Norton)
- Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism From Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin (2011, Oxford University Press)
- Robert Brent Toplin, Radical Conservatism: The Right's Political Religion (2006, University Press of Kansas)
- Sean Wilentz, The Age of Reagan: A History 1974-2008 (2008, Harper)
- Kate Zernike, Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America (2010, Times Books)
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