Democracy

THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER ""A wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future."" –Howard Fast Historian Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United...

An urgent call to rekindle our shared American ideals. This program is read by the author. We are living through a time of crisis. The problems we face grow more serious, while our divisions continue to widen. But our history overflows with people who used the power of our foundational virtues...

The #1 USA Today Bestseller and Instant New York Times Bestseller From California Governor Gavin Newsom comes an intimate and poignant account of identity, belonging, and the defining moments that inspired a life in politics “Go slow,” his political elders advised him, but Gavin Newsom has...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK PALESTINE BOOK AWARD WINNER FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it...

America’s bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americans—and explains how it should shape our politics today. “Isaacson uses a jeweler’s loupe to scan what gives his snappy...

The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times. This edition includes the bestselling original essay collection On Tyranny, read by the author...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, law professor, legal analyst, and bestselling author of The Indispensable Right Jonathan Turley explores how the unique origins of American democracy set it apart from other revolutions, whether it can...

The Last American President rips open America's wounded democracy to expose a terrifying truth: Donald Trump isn't an anomaly—he's the inevitable product of a system engineered to fail. This searing investigation reveals how a man forged by childhood trauma, pathological narcissism, and...

Originally published anonymously, The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States....

In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy....

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The urgent and influential guide to the forces that have undermined democracies across the globe—forces running rampant in the United States today—hailed as “a touchstone” (The New Yorker) that “comes at exactly the right moment” (The Washington Post)...

In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through the eastern United States....

THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER Read by Matt Damon and Howard Zinn ""A wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future."" –Howard Fast Historian Howard Zinn’s A...

Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin. In Strongmen, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule in the...

Former political advisor Giuliano da Empoli takes us on an insider's journey through this new geopolitical reality, from the Glass Palace of the UN to the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton, from top secret meetings to violent power struggles.

*One of Bloomberg's Best Books of the Year* The master geopolitical forecaster and New York Times bestselling author of The Next 100 Years focuses on the United States, predicting how the 2020s will bring dramatic upheaval and reshaping of American government, foreign policy, economics, and...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER A vital exploration as we head into the 2026 midterm elections of how right-wing extremism, media manipulation, and ideological echo chambers have eroded critical thinking and deepened political divisions—and how we can fight back to save our...

A provocative exploration of the forces that keep us from getting things done, and how we can restore confidence in government. “Dunkelman summarizes the history perfectly.” —David Brooks, The New York Times Named a Best Book of the Year by Financial Times The Economist America was...

The New York Times bestselling, groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. An essential read for understanding some of the egregious abuses of power that...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the first content creator to interview President Biden, leading progressive voice Brian Tyler Cohen takes a step back from the day-to-day news cycle to explain how American politics has turned into such a dumpster fire—and what Democrats need to do to get us...

The definitive translation of Plato's Republic, the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy “No one else has even come close to balancing Bloom’s fidelity to Greek with intelligible English prose.”—National Review Long regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato's...

In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the authors of How Democracies Die “[Levitsky and Ziblatt] write with terrifying clarity about how the forces of the right have co-opted the enshrined rules to exert their tyranny...

***NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*** An Explosive, Revelatory Assessment of the Greatest Betrayal in American History, Newly Revised and Updated William Barr · Paul Manafort · Michael Cohen · Steve Bannon · Rudy Giuliani · Mitch McConnell · Roger Stone · George Papadopoulos · Jeff Sessions ·...

War Is a Racket is Marine General Smedley Butler's classic treatise on why wars are conducted, who profits from them, and who pays the price. Few people are as qualified as General Butler to advance the argument encapsulated in his book's sensational title....

The #1 USA Today Bestseller and Instant New York Times Bestseller From California Governor Gavin Newsom comes an intimate and poignant account of identity, belonging, and the defining moments that inspired a life in politics “Go slow,” his political elders advised him, but Gavin Newsom has...

An urgent call to rekindle our shared American ideals. This program is read by the author. We are living through a time of crisis. The problems we face grow more serious, while our divisions continue to widen. But our history overflows with people who used the power of our foundational virtues...

In February 2024, a man nobody had heard of posted a statement on Facebook. Sixteen months later, he was leading the most serious challenge to Viktor Orbán’s rule in sixteen years. Péter Magyar was a Fidesz insider — a bureaucrat married to the Justice Minister, embedded in the system he now vows to destroy. When a presidential pardon for a man who covered up child sexual abuse blew the regime’s moral authority apart, Magyar broke ranks, released secret recordings, and built a political party from nothing. The Flood is the definitive account of the Tisza Party’s extraordinary rise...

You cannot hold leaders accountable for a document you have never read. Most Americans have never read the Constitution. Not because they don't care, but because nobody ever handed them a version they could actually understand. This guide fixes that. The Citizen's Constitution: A Plain-English Reference for Every American takes every article, every amendment, and every foundational clause of the U.S. Constitution and translates it into clear, direct language, without dumbing it down. Every section shows you the original constitutional text, the plain-English translation of what it actually ...

When did being awake become a problem? In recent years, the word “woke” has transformed from a term describing awareness into one of the most controversial words in modern American politics. Some see it as a call for social awareness. Others see it as a threat to tradition and national identity. But beneath the political arguments lies a deeper question: Why would awareness itself become something we fear? In Letter to America: Woke, a U.S. Navy veteran explores the historical, cultural, and philosophical questions surrounding awareness, education, and the role of citizens in a ...

Drawing on decades spanning a diversity of roles in business, ecumenical service and elected political office, Patrick Payton delivers a bold vision for reclaiming trust, resisting outrage, and building a future rooted in humility, courage, and common ground. In today's America, the loudest voices often come from the political extremes—yet most citizens find themselves somewhere else entirely: in the Middle.

You cannot take America back if you're too sick, too tired, and too brain-fogged to show up. This is not a diet book. It is not a fitness program. It is a blueprint for becoming someone the republic can count on, and it starts with the most radical act available to any American today: taking your body back. Steven Kuhn is 59 years old. He has three spinal surgeries behind him, titanium hardware in his spine, thirty years of chronic pain, nerve agent exposure from the Gulf War, and a Bronze Star for combat action. He trains four days a week and runs a national civic movement. Written with co...

They don't want you free. They want you manageable. In 2004, Steven Eugene Kuhn sat across a table in Berlin with a man whose grandfather had plotted to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Over lunch, that man said four words that changed everything: "You become leveragable." He wasn't talking about a loan. He was talking about what happens to any person who owes money they cannot walk away from. When the mortgage is due, when wages can be garnished, when a credit rating controls whether you can rent an apartment or keep a job, you stop making free choices. You make managed ones. Debt is not just a ...

In seiner Autobiographie zeichnet Gavin Newsom seinen Weg auf die große politische Bühne nach. Er berichtet von den Erlebnissen, die ihn dazu inspirierten, Politiker zu werden – und von den Werten und Idealen, die ihn als Mensch prägen. Gavin Newsom wurde in San Francisco geboren, und seine Eltern ließen sich scheiden, als er noch klein war. Seine Kindheit verbrachte er zwischen zwei Welten: Seine Mutter hatte drei Jobs, um für ihre Kinder sorgen zu können, unterdessen führte sein Vater Newsom ihn in eine Gesellschaft ein, in der Reichtum und Beziehungen bestimmend waren.

All animals are equal But some animals Are more equal than others George Orwell Orowello: The Other Farm Orowello was a farm in England where humans and animals lived their lives together harmoniously. How was that possible? The answer was their cooperative system of management: Animalocracy. Animalocracy yielded satisfactory results for everyone. Its essence was summarised in the Charter of Principles, a document personally written by Mr. Brown, the farm owner. One day, amazing news reached Orowello. On the other side of the county, the animals on Mr. Jones’s farm had rebelled. They had ...

You were born into a system you never designed, yet you defend it as if you built it yourself. Carl Jung argued that what we refuse to face in ourselves eventually controls us from the shadows. Nations are no different. Unexamined fear becomes a lever for those who know how to pull it; shame is weaponized into silence; and groupthink eventually replaces conscience. In this environment, populations mistake the performance of democracy for the reality of freedom. This book is not a partisan critique. It doesn't look left or right; it looks underneath. Shadow Work for a Nation dismantles the ...

Autoritäre Kräfte sind überall dort erfolgreich, wo Demokraten und Demokratinnen nicht rechtzeitig mit überzeugenden Zukunftsvisionen gegensteuern. Doch internationale Erfahrungen zeigen: Wir können voneinander lernen, uns gegenseitig stärken und gemeinsam neue Wege finden.

Despite the not-so-distant invocations of the "end of history," representative democracy is, today, under siege even from corners where one once might have expected strong sympathy and support. Indeed, confidence in representative democracy has, in recent years, been shaken by the economic and political performance of many such regimes.

American democracy depends on united support by the largest economic class in the nation—the middle class. But this class faces a crisis of internal division, threatening America’s future. If conflict continues to worsen, it could lead to violence, threatening democracy itself. Since the 1980s, the upper middle class—the affluent group just below the top one percent—has reaped far more benefit from economic growth than the rest of the class. This division has provoked anger among those without the opportunity to move up.

We the People: A Term Limits Manifesto asks the most important question in America today: Does our government still work for us—or has power slipped into the hands of a permanent political class? This book takes listeners on a clear and compelling journey through American history—from the Revolution and the Constitution to the modern era of career politicians, special interests, and a broken system. It exposes how Congress has drifted away from true representation and shows why term limits are the most practical and achievable solution to restore accountability.