U.S. Peacebuilding books

Racial Justice

How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

The End of White Christian America by Robert P. Jones

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The Wrong Complexion for Protection: How the Government Response to Disaster Endangers African American Communities by Michelle Alexander

More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Imani Perry

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Race Divide by Carol Anderson

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

U.S. Democracy

Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? by Robert Kuttner

Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America by Cass R. Sunstein

How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet-Deported by Thomas Mann, Norman Ornstein, and EJ Dionne

Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie Glaude

Our Damaged Democracy: We the People Must Act by Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media by Cass R. Sunstein

The People vs. Democracy by Yascha Mounk

Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum

Polarization

Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua

Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together by Van Jones

Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy by Jonah Goldberg

Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein

The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham

Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation by David French

Urban & Rural

Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam

My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers

What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte

Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Hochschild

The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker by Katherine Cramer

Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide by Jonathan Rodden

Inequality

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGee

Our Kids by Robert Putnam

New Power by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms

The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic by Ganesh Sitaraman

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran

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