Books from survivors and experts about america, activism, and authoritarianism in every stage. We learn from history and we get through this together.
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The Undocumented Americans
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944
Henry Rousso
The Combahee River Collective Statement: Black Feminist Organizing In The Seventies and Eighties
Combahee River Collective
Outrage: Why the Fight for LGBTQ+ Equality Is Not Yet Won and What We Can Do About It
Ellen Jones
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
"No Offence, But..."
Gina Martin
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation
John Freeman
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Rebecca Solnit
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
Banned Book Club
Kim Hyun Sook
Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World without a Bullhorn
Omkari Williams
How to Spot a Fascist
Umberto Eco
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
Pyotr Kropotkin
From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States
Priscilla Murolo
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder
A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Remarkable Story of an Italian Mother, Her Sons and Their Fight Against Fascism
Caroline Moorehead
A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism (The Resistance Quartet Book 4)
Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America
Talia Lavin
My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German against the Third Reich
Friedrich Kellner
The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews
Peter Duffy
How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship
Ece Temelkuran
Defeating the Dictators: How Democracy Can Prevail in the Age of the Strongman
Charles Dunst
The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World
Gideon Rachman
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
Azar Nafisi
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration
Peter Turchin
Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification
Timur Kuran
How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance
Paul Mason
Pink-pilled: Women and the far right
Lois Shearing
It Can't Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Amanda Montell
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