Democracy reading list

Election, protest, insurrection, sedition, civil disobedience, rioting...what do these words mean in a democracy? If you're trying to make sense of what's happening in the nation's capitol and around the country, we've got plenty of items that shed light on our democracy's past, present, and future, as we observe another presidential election and inauguration.

Democracy in one book or less : how it works, why it doesn't, and why fixing it is easier than you think 

Author Litt, David. 

Publication Date 2020 

Book & eAudiobook 

Our nation's archive : the history of the United States in documents 

Publication Date 1999 

Book 

Democracy : stories from the long road to freedom 

Author Rice, Condoleezza, 

Publication Date 2017 

Book & eAudiobook 

We're better than this : my fight for the future of our democracy 

Author Cummings, Elijah 

Publication Date 2020 

Book 

The purpose of power : how we come together when we fall apart 

Author Garza, Alicia, 

Publication Date 2020 

Book 

How democracies die 

Author Levitsky, Steven. 

Publication Date 2018 

Book 

Citizenville : how to take the town square digital and reinvent government 

Author Newsom, Gavin Christopher, 

Publication Date 2013 

Breaking hate : confronting the new culture of extremism 

Author Picciolini, Christian 

Publication Date 2020 

Book 

Speech Matters 

Author Seana Valentine Shiffrin 

Publication Date 2014 

eBook 

Shakespeare in a divided America : what his plays tell us about our past and future 

Author Shapiro, James, 

Publication Date 2020 

Book 

Just us : an American conversation 

Author Rankine, Claudia, 

Publication Date 2020 

Book & eBook 

Violent politics : a history of insurgency, terrorism & guerrilla war, from the American Revolution to Iraq 

Author Polk, William Roe, 

Publication Date 2007 

Book & eBook 

A people's history of the United States, 1492-present 

Author Zinn, Howard, 

Publication Date  2005 

Book , eBook & eAudiobook 

Rise up : confronting a country at the crossroads 

Author Sharpton, Al 

Publication Date 2020 

Book & eAudiobook 

Citizens dissent : security, morality, and leadership in an age of terror : essays 

Author Berry, Wendell, 

Publication Date 2003 

Book 

Fascism : a warning 

Author Albright, Madeleine Korbel. 

Publication Date 2018 

Book , eBook & eAudiobook 

A sovereign people : the crises of the 1790s and the birth of American nationalism 

Author Berkin, Carol 

Publication Date 2017 

Book 

These truths : a history of the United States 

Author Lepore, Jill, 

Publication Date 2018 

Responsibility and judgment 

Author Arendt, Hannah, 

Publication Date 2003 

Book 

If you can keep it : the forgotten promise of American liberty 

Author Metaxas, Eric. 

Publication Date 2016 

Book 

The idea of America : reflections on the birth of the United States 

Author Wood, Gordon S. 

Publication Date 2011 

Book 

Zucked : waking up to the Facebook catastrophe 

Author McNamee, Roger 

Publication Date 2019 

Book 

1619 : Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy 

Author Horn, James P. P. 

Publication Date 2018 

Book 

Battlegrounds : the fight to defend the free world 

Author McMaster, H. R., 

Publication Date 2020 

Book & eBook 

The threat : how the FBI protects America in the age of terror and Trump 

Author McCabe, Andrew 

Publication Date 2019 

Book , eBook & eAudiobook 

American poison : how racial hostility destroyed our promise 

Author Porter, Eduardo 

Publication Date 2020 

Book 

The Thomas Paine reader : Common sense; The American crisis; The rights of man; The age of reason; Agrarian justice 

Author Paine, Thomas, 

Publication Date 2007 

Book & eBook 

This is an uprising : how nonviolent revolt is shaping the twenty-first century 

Author Engler, Mark 

Publication Date 2016 

Book & eAudiobook 

What would Jefferson do? : a return to democracy 

Author Hartmann, Thom, 

Publication Date  

2004 

Book 

Origins and ideologies of the American Revolution 

Author Mancall, Peter C. 

Publication Date 2006 

Series Title Great courses Modern history 

CD Audiobook & eAudiobook 

The new class war : saving democracy from the managerial elite 

Author Lind, Michael, 

Publication Date 2020 

Book 

Trumpocalypse : restoring American democracy 

Author Frum, David, 

Publication Date 2020 

Book 

Un-Trumping America : a plan to make America a democracy again 

Author Pfeiffer, Dan 

Publication Date 2020 

Book , eBook, CD Audiobook & eAudiobook 

Our time is now : power, purpose, and the fight for a fair America 

Author Abrams, Stacey. 

Publication Date 2020 

Book , eBook, & eAudiobook 

Evil geniuses : the unmaking of America : a recent history 

Author Andersen, Kurt, 

Publication Date 2020 

Book 

The system : who rigged it, how we fix it 

Author Reich, Robert B. 

Publication Date 2020 

Book 

Live free or die : America (and the world) on the brink 

Author Hannity, Sean, 

Publication Date 2020 

Book , eBook, & CD Audiobook 

The impostors : how Republicans quit governing and seized American politics 

Author Benen, Steve 

Publication Date 2020 

Book & eBook 

The assault on American excellence 

Author Kronman, Anthony T. 

Publication Date 2019 

Book & eAudiobook 

A warning 

Publication Date 2019 

Book 

Beyond the messy truth : how we came apart, how we come together 

Author Jones, Van, 

Publication Date 2017 

Book 

On Liberty 

Author John Stuart Mill 

 eBook & eAudiobook 

Blueprint : the evolutionary origins of a good society 

Author Christakis, Nicholas A. 

Publication Date 2020 

Book 

The field of blood : violence in Congress and the road to civil war 

Author Freeman, Joanne B., 

Publication Date 2018  

Book & eAudiobook 

Unspeakable : Chris Hedges on the most forbidden topics in America 

Author Hedges, Chris 

Publication Date 2016 

Book & eAudiobook 

 
Utopia and terror in the 20th century 

Author Liulevicius, Vejas G. 

Series Title Great courses (Compact disc) 

Publication Date 2003 

Radicalization 

by Farhad Khosrokhavar 

Publication Date: 2017 

 eBook 

Disposable Futures 

by Henry A. Giroux 

Publication Date: 2015 

eBook 

The Violence of Organized Forgetting 

by Henry A. Giroux 

Publication Date: 2014