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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

by J. D. Vance

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Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

by Heather Cox Richardson

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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World (Women's Prize for Non-Fiction Winner)

by Naomi Klein

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Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

by Mark Harmon, Leon Carroll (With)

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Poverty, by America

by Matthew Desmond

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The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

by Michelle Obama

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A Promised Land

by Barack Obama

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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

by Nathan Thrall

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From Beirut to Jerusalem: (With a New Preface)

by Thomas L. Friedman

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Our Yet to Be United States of America: An Exclusive Guest Post from Michael Eric Dyson, Author of Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America

Michael Eric Dyson

How Does a Good Man Challenge a Great Evil?: An Exclusive Guest Post from H.W. Brands, Author of The Zealot and the Emancipator

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Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020)

Kat Sarfas

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Barnes & Noble® offers a wide and ever-growing selection of books on politics and current affairs. Take a deep dive into current events and the world’s most important political issues with thousands of titles on civil & human rights, economics, international relations, U.S. politics, and more. Learn about what makes each nation different from the other in Why Nations Fail, or educate yourself on the powers and abuses of government in books like On Tyranny or The Road to Unfreedom. If you’re looking for something that casts less of a daunting shadow, you can find fascinating books steeped in history with ripples into the modern day like David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon or Rachel Maddow’s Prequel. Explore different perspectives on America in books like Democracy Awakening or Poverty, By America. You can learn more about the history and ongoing battle for equality in The Woman They Could Not Silence and in John Lewis’s graphic memoir series, March. Find the personal side of being antiracist in The Other Wes Moore and Evicted, or hear it right from the inspirational frontrunners of the Civil Rights movement in The Autobiography of Malcolm X and King, A Life.

Looking for something a little different? Stacy Schiff delivers a uniquely riveting portrait of Samuel Adams in The Revolutionary, or learn about the utterly fascinating man that was J. Edgar Hoover in Beverly Gage’s G-Man. And if you want to get even further out there, you’ll want to check out UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here-and Out There.

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