Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream

10 best books like Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream (Sarah Churchwell): The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, America: The Farewell Tour, Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power, The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War, Antisemitism: Here and Now, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland, Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

Author	David Wallace-Wells
ISBN	0525576703

It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms...

American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump

Author

Tim Alberta

Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party—how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents:...

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

Author	Jason Stanley
ISBN	0525511830

"A vital read for a nation under Trump."---The Guardian

"By placing Trump in transnational and transhistorical perspective, Stanley sees patterns that others miss. . . . Twenty months into Trump's presidency, the evidence is mounting that he's right."--The New York Times Book Review...

America: The Farewell Tour

Author

Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is “an exceedingly…provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard” (Booklist), about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a culture of sadism...

Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power

Author	Anna Merlan
ISBN	1250159059

A riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories, exploring the causes and tenacity of this American malady, from Birthers to Pizzagate and beyond.

American society has always been fertile ground for conspiracy theories, but with the election of Donald Trump,...

The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War

Author	Joanne B. Freeman
ISBN	0374154775

The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War

In The Field of Blood, Joanne Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, Freeman shows that the Capitol was...

Antisemitism: Here and Now

Author	Deborah E. Lipstadt
ISBN	0805243372

The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will not die, focusing on its current, virulent incarnations on both the political right and left: from white supremacist demonstrators in Charlottesville,...

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

Author	Jonathan M. Metzl
ISBN	1541644980

A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences -- even for the white voters they promise to help

Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Esquire and the Boston Globe

In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans...

Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain

Author

Fintan O'Toole

'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' The Times. In exploring the answers to the question: 'why did Britain vote leave?', Fintan O'Toole finds himself discovering how trivial journalistic lies became far from trivial national obsessions;...

This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

Author	Peter Pomerantsev
ISBN	1541762118

When information is a weapon, every opinion is an act of war.

We live in a world of influence operations run amok, where dark ads, psyops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, and Trump seek to shape our very reality. In this surreal atmosphere created to disorient us and undermine our...