How to Be a Dissident

Gal Beckerman

We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution

Jill Lepore

Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber

Andy Borowitz

The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times

Robin Reames

This America: The Case for the Nation

Jill Lepore

These Truths: A History of the United States

Jill Lepore

How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future

Maria Ressa

On Freedom

Timothy Snyder

How to Raise a Citizen (And Why It's Up to You to Do It)

Lindsey Cormack

History Matters

David McCullough

Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

Ruth Ben-Ghiat

On Lying and Politics: A Library of America Special Publication

Hannah Arendt

Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy

Randi Weingarten

Autocracy, Inc.

Anne Applebaum

The Greatest Sentence Ever Written

Walter Isaacson

Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy

Joyce Vance

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt

How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

Steven Levitsky

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder