The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
10 best books like The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (Jeff Sharlet): The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator, Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth, American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump, The Loudest Voice in the Room: How Roger Ailes and Fox News Remade American Politics, Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream, Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America, The Case for God, On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
Author | Timothy C. Winegard |
ISBN | 0735235791 |
A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity's fate
Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice...
Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy—Winner Take All
In 2010, the words “earthquake swarm” entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia—including his iconic crystal-encrusted white glove—was sold at...
American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
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:...
The Loudest Voice in the Room: How Roger Ailes and Fox News Remade American Politics
Author | Gabriel Sherman |
ISBN | 0812992857 |
The Loudest Voice in the Room: Roger Ailes, Fox News and the Remaking of American Politics by Gabriel Sherman is not only a book about Ailes as an adult but about how his father raised him and his childhood to adulthood. His father was a douche bag also and taught Ailes to be the douche bag Ailes is today. Ailes...
SELECTED AS A 2018 SUMMER READ BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, I-PAPER AND THE BIG ISSUE
'Enormously entertaining' SUNDAY TIMES
'Fascinating' NEW STATESMAN
'Excoriating, brilliant' ALI SMITH
'Enthralling' GUARDIAN
'My number one contributor when it comes to US politics'...
Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
Author | Elizabeth Gillespie McRae |
Why does white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women.
Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance examines the grassroots workers who upheld the system of racial...
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
Author | Kevin M. Kruse |
ISBN | 0465049494 |
The provocative and authoritative history of the origins of Christian America in the New Deal era
We’re often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the belief that America is fundamentally...
Author | Karen Armstrong |
ISBN | 0307269183 |
Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam,...
On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
Author | Emily Guendelsberger |
ISBN | 0316509000 |
After the local newspaper where she worked as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger took a pre-Christmas job at an Amazon fulfillment center outside Louisville, Kentucky. There, the vending machines were stocked with painkillers, and the staff turnover was dizzying. In the new year, she traveled...
Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
Author | Dan Barker |
ISBN | 1569756775 |
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR GODLESS
“Valuable in the human story are the reflections of intelligent and ethical people who listen to the voice of reason and who allow it to vanquish bigotry and superstition. This book is a classic example.”
—CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS author of God is Not Great
“The...
Without a Prayer: The Death of Lucas Leonard and How One Church Became a Cult
Author | Susan Ashline |
ISBN | 1643130722 |
The horrifying true story of a killing inside the secluded Word of Life Christian Church, a parish-turned-cult in upstate New York.
Teenager Lucas Leonard made shocking admissions in front of the altar―he'd practiced witchcraft, conspired to murder his parents, and committed unspeakable...
Those Who Wander: America's Lost Street Kids
Author | Vivian Ho |
ISBN | 1503903737 |
Award-winning journalist Vivian Ho exposes a shattering true-crime story, shedding light on America’s new lost generation.
In 2015, the senseless Bay Area murders of twenty-three-year-old Audrey Carey and sixty-seven-year-old Steve Carter were personal tragedies for the victims’...
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths
Author | John Barton |
ISBN | 0241003911 |
A uniquely ambitious study of the Bible's creation: how it came to be written, how its contents were selected - and how it really relates to the religions that endorse it
The Bible is the central book in Western culture, yet extraordinarily there is no proper history of it. This exceptional work,...
Author | Michael Wolff |
ISBN | 1250253829 |
Michael Wolff, author of the bombshell bestseller Fire and Fury, once again takes us inside the Trump presidency to reveal a White House under siege.
With Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; now, in Siege, he has written an equally essential and...