Columbine

Dave Cullen

All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

Stephen Kinzer

Drift

Rachel Maddow

Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up & Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House

Rachel Maddow

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Daron Acemoğlu

An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

Elisabeth Rosenthal

Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

Ari Berman

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X. Kendi

After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made

Ben Rhodes

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America

Sarah Kendzior

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

Jason F. Stanley

The Trial of Henry Kissinger

Christopher Hitchens

Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

Derf Backderf

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

Beth Macy

They Called Us Enemy

George Takei

Separated: Inside An American Tragedy

Jacob Soboroff

Watergate: A New History

Garrett M. Graff

Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point

Steven Levitsky

The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War

Jeff Sharlet

How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

Steven Levitsky

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond