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On Tyranny:
Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder


#1 New York Times Bestseller - A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.



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True Crimes and Misdemeanors:
The Investigation of Donald Trump
By Jeffrey Toobin


From CNN chief legal analyst and bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin, a real-life legal thriller about the prosecutors and congressional investigators pursuing the truth about Donald Trump's complicity in several crimes - and why they failed.



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The Madman Theory:
Trump Takes On the World
By Jim Sciutto


From praising dictators to alienating allies, Trump has made chaos his calling card.



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Too Much and Never Enough:
How My Family Created
The World's Most Dangerous Man
By Mary L. Trump


In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world's health, economic security, and social fabric.



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Disloyal - A Memoir:
The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney
To President Donald J. Trump
By Michael Cohen


This book almost didn't see the light of day as government officials tried to bar its publication. Once Donald Trump's fiercest surrogate, closest confidant, and staunchest defender, Michael Cohen knows where the skeletons are buried.



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It Was All a Lie:
How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump
By Stuart Stevens


A brilliant, unflinching look at the descent of the GOP - backed up with data, historic sweep, and first person insights. This one is a must read. John Avlon

I devoured an early copy in one sitting the day it arrived - I highly recommend, "It Was All a Lie" if you want to try to understand how the GOP got to this very dark place. Elise Jordan



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The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump:
37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts
Assess a President


As this bestseller predicted, Trump has only grown more erratic and dangerous as the pressures on him mount. This new edition includes new essays bringing the book up to date - because this is still not normal.



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HOAX by Brian Stelter
(Excerpts read by Rachel Maddow 08-21-20)



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HOAX:
Donald Trump, Fox News
And the Dangerous Distortion of Truth
By Brian Stelter


The urgent and untold story of the collusion between Fox News and Donald Trump from New York Times bestselling author of Top of the Morning.



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Separated:
Inside an American Tragedy
By Jacob Soboroff


Award-winning NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff lays bare the full truth behind the Trump administration's systematic separation of families at the US-Mexico border, a humanitarian tragedy that is now deemed to have been "torture" by physicians.



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Caste:
The Origins of Our Discontents
By Isabel Wilkerson


The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of "The Warmth of Other Suns" examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.



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