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An explosive insider account of Meta that exposes both the personal and the political fallout when unfettered power takes hold. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Shop Now

Michael Wolff returns for a breathtaking insider account of the 2024 Trump campaign. Shop Now

The United States government employs nearly three million people, but what do they all do? Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service by Michael Lewis. Shop Now

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Tariffs, Trade Wars and Economic Turmoil: Guides to Understanding the Economy

Isabelle McConville

Humanity Is Everywhere on the Migrant Trail: A Guest Post by Jason De León

Jason De León

Our Yet to Be United States of America: An Exclusive Guest Post from Michael Eric Dyson, Author of Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America

Michael Eric Dyson

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Barnes & Noble® offers a wide and ever-growing selection of books on politics and current affairs. Take a deep dive into current events and the world’s most important political issues with thousands of titles on civil & human rights, economics, international relations, U.S. politics, and more. Learn about what makes each nation different from the other in Why Nations Fail, or educate yourself on the powers and abuses of government in books like On Tyranny or The Road to Unfreedom. And once you’re done with On Tyranny, pick up Timothy Snyder’s follow-up, On Freedom.

If you’re looking for something that casts less of a daunting shadow, you can find fascinating books steeped in history with ripples into the modern day like David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon or Rachel Maddow’s Prequel. Explore different perspectives on America in books like Democracy Awakening or Poverty, By America. You can learn more about the history and ongoing battle for equality in The Woman They Could Not Silence and in John Lewis’s graphic memoir series, March. Find the personal side of being antiracist in The Other Wes Moore and Evicted, or hear it right from the inspirational frontrunners of the Civil Rights movement in The Autobiography of Malcolm X and King, A Life.

Looking for something a little different? Stacy Schiff delivers a uniquely riveting portrait of Samuel Adams in The Revolutionary, or learn about the utterly fascinating man that was J. Edgar Hoover in Beverly Gage’s G-Man. And if you want to get even further out there, you’ll want to check out UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here-and Out There.

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