Twilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump

10 best books like Twilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump (Allen Frances): The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future, My Tibetan Childhood: When Ice Shattered Stone, Off-Topic: The Story of an Internet Revolt, The Private Journals of Edvard Munch: We Are Flames Which Pour Out of the Earth, Muscle for the Wing, Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within, Imaginary Friends, Empires of Sand, Autumn Journal, The Lords Of The Golden Horn: From Suleiman The Magnificent To Kamal Ataturk

AuthorAndrew Yang
ISBN0316414247
From 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, a captivating account of how "a skinny Asian kid from upstate" became a successful entrepreneur, only to find a new mission: calling attention to the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy...
My Tibetan Childhood: When Ice Shattered Stone
AuthorNaktsang Nulo
ISBN0822357267
In My Tibetan Chldhood, Naktsang Nulo recalls his life in Tibet's Amdo region during the 1950s. From the perspective of himself at age ten, he describes his upbringing as a nomad on Tibet's eastern plateau. He depicts pilgrimages to monasteries, including a 1500-mile horseback expedition his family...
AuthorG.R. Reader


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The Private Journals of Edvard Munch: We Are Flames Which Pour Out of the Earth
AuthorEdvard Munch
Scandinavia's most famous painter, the Norwegian Edvard Munch (1863–1944), is probably best known for his painting The Scream, a universally recognized icon of terror and despair. (A version of The Scream was stolen from the Edvard Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway, in August 2004, and has not yet been...
AuthorDaniel Woodrell
This is an early novel from Daniel Woodrell, the second in his Louisiana Bayou trilogy featuring St. Bruno detective, Rene Shade.

In the parish of St. Bruno the local citizenry exists in an uneasy alliance with a gaggle of small-time mobsters who are headed by a local boss named Auguste Beaurain....
AuthorAlexander Litvinenko
ISBN1594032017
Blowing Up Russia contains the allegations of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko against his former spymasters in Moscow which led to his being murdered in London in November 2006. In the book he and historian Yuri Felshtinsky detail how since 1999 the Russian secret service has been hatching a plot to return...
AuthorAlison Lurie
ISBN0805051805
In the name of sociological research, two scientists infiltrate the ranks of the Truth Seekers--a rather ridiculous small-town cult whose credo involves sex, spiritualism, and a flying saucer messiah. Exposed to the persuasive energies of a sensuous high priestess, the men of science are forced...
AuthorDavid Ball
ISBN0440236681
An epic novel of adventure in the grandest tradition of historical fiction, Empires of Sand takes us on a thrilling, unforgettable journey.

As civilizations collide around two men, a battle begins: for survival, for love, and for a destiny written in a desert's shifting sands.

The...
AuthorLouis MacNeice
ISBN0571197450


“September has come, it is hers
Whose vitality leaps in the autumn,
Whose nature prefers
Trees without leaves and a fire in the fireplace.
So I give her this month and the next
Though the whole of my year should be hers who has rendered already
So many of its days intolerable...
AuthorNoel Barber
ISBN0333138619


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The Ottoman Empire was a tremendous influence on many of the things
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AuthorJoan Samson
ISBN1933618191
Harrowing tensions explode in a series of events that could happen anywhere, to anyone, just as they do to John Moore—whose days of freedom run out, who is stripped of his possessions, his courage, and his hopes, by the ominous presence of an insidious stranger impossible to resist.

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AuthorRoger Friedland
ISBN0060393882
Frank Lloyd Wright was renowned during his life not only as an architectural genius, but as a subject of controversy -- from his radical design innovations to his turbulent private life, including the notorious mass murder that occurred at his Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, in 1914. Yet, as this landmark...
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
AuthorMartin McDonagh
ISBN0571345301
After months pass without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes pays for three signs challenging the authority of William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command, Officer Dixon, a mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle...
AuthorMark Edmundson
ISBN1582345376
A dramatic revisiting of Freud's escape from Nazi-occupied Vienna, his final days on earth, and his most controversial work—Moses and Monotheism.

When Hitler invaded Vienna in March of 1938, Sigmund Freud, old and desperately ill, was among the city's 175,000 Jews dreading Nazi occupation....
AuthorHeinrich Mann
ISBN1585674877
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AuthorCatherine Cookson
ISBN0552133000
Young Frederick Musgrave was never more agile than when navigating his sculler across the waters of the Tyne between the busy seaports of North and South Shields in 1843. Already his services were in demand as a carrier of messages and certain small packages for those whose activities made them the target...
Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America
AuthorGiles Milton
ISBN0374265011
In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of Native Americans had made her their weroanza—a word that meant "big chief". The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and her favorite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American expedition had brought back a captive,...
AuthorEri Hotta
ISBN0307594017
A groundbreaking history that considers the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective and is certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific.

When Japan launched hostilities against the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood...
AuthorJohn Burnside
ISBN0385522096
Michael Gardiner has lived in Coldhaven all his life yet still feels like an outsider. Married but rather distant from his wife, he reads in the local paper that a school friend, Moira Birnie, has killed herself and her two sons by setting their car on fire; but she has spared her 14-year-old daughter Hazel....
The Cloister and the Hearth
AuthorCharles Reade
A picaresque historical novel by Charles Reade, published in 1861 and set in late medieval Holland and Europe.

The novel focuses on the story of a young scribe and illuminator named Gerard Eliason and his love for Margaret Brandt, daughter of a poor scholar. Interacting with them is a cast of...
AuthorDavid Neiwert
ISBN1786634236
The story of the remarkable resurgence of right-wing extremists in the United States

Just as Donald Trump’s victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked liberal Americans, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists, xenophobes, militia leaders, and mysterious...
AuthorAmanda Marcotte
ISBN1510737456
A Senior Political Reporter examines how Trump, a man with no detectable personal qualities outside of resentment and the will to dominate, could appeal to millions of Americans and win the highest office in the land.



The election of Donald Trump in 2016, like most of his campaign,...
AuthorNorm Stamper
ISBN1568585403
The police in America belong to the people—not the other way around. Yet millions of Americans experience their cops as racist, brutal, and trigger-happy: an overly aggressive, militarized enemy of the people. For their part, today's officers feel they are under siege—misunderstood, unfairly...
War God: Nights of the Witch
AuthorGraham Hancock
ISBN1444734377
A young girl called Tozi stands at the bottom of a pyramid, waiting to be led to the top where her heart will be cut out...

Pepillo, a Spanish orphan who serves a sadistic Dominican friar, is aboard the Spanish fleet as it sails towards Mexico...

This is the epic story of the clash of two...
Happiness: A Very Short Introduction
AuthorDaniel M. Haybron
ISBN0199590605
Happiness is an everyday term in our lives, and most of us strive to be happy. But defining happiness can be difficult.
In this Very Short Introduction, Dan Haybron considers the true nature of happiness. By examining what it is, assessing its subjective values, its importance in our lives, and...
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