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Nonfiction / Social Best Sellers

New York Time Best sellers of Nonfiction / Social: The Invisible Coup (2026), Abundance (2025), Democracy Or Else (2024), Medgar & Myrlie (2022), This Is The Fire (2020) and other 24 books.

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The Invisible Coup

released in: 2026
The Invisible Coup
What if the greatest threat to America’s future isn’t a foreign adversary, but an invisible force from within? In The Invisible Coup, best-selling author Peter S. Schweizer reveals the shocking truth behind how political elites and foreign powers have turned immigration into a powerful tool for manipulating U.S. policy, economy, and national identity. Through meticulous research and insider analysis, this eye-opening guide uncovers the hidden agendas driving America’s immigration crisis, exposing how unchecked migration undermines the very fabric of the nation. As millions of migrants flood into the U.S. each year, many with hidden motives and ties to foreign governments, political elites continue to push policies that threaten America’s security, economy, and way of life. Written by Peter S. Schweizer, an expert in political corruption and author of multiple bestsellers, The Invisible Coup is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the real cost of uncontrolled immigration. With his trademark investigative style, Schweizer uncovers the truth that has been hidden from the public for too long. You will learn: How foreign governments and powerful elites use immigration as leverage to push their own agendas. The devastating economic costs of mass migration on American workers and public services. The national security threats posed by lax immigration policies and porous borders. Why the political elite’s push for open borders is more than just a policy—it’s part of a coordinated, subversive strategy to reshape America. The future of America is at stake. As political elites continue to push unchecked immigration, the very sovereignty and identity of the United States are being eroded. Don’t let the invisible coup go unchecked. The Invisible Coup will expose the truth and show you how America can fight back. Order The Invisible Coup today and take the first step in understanding the real forces at play in America’s political future.

Abundance

released in: 2025
Abundance
To trace the history of the twenty-first century so far is to trace a history of unaffordability and shortage. After years of refusing to build sufficient housing, America has a national housing crisis. After years of limiting immigration, we don’t have enough workers. Despite decades of being warned about the consequences of climate change, we haven’t built anything close to the clean-energy infrastructure we need. Ambitious public projects are finished late and over budget—if they are ever finished at all. The crisis that’s clicking into focus now has been building for decades—because we haven’t been building enough. Abundance explains that our problems today are not the results of yesteryear’s villains. Rather, one generation’s solutions have become the next gener­ation’s problems. Rules and regulations designed to solve the problems of the 1970s often prevent urban-density and green-energy projects that would help solve the problems of the 2020s. Laws meant to ensure that government considers the consequences of its actions have made it too difficult for government to act consequentially. In the last few decades, our capacity to see problems has sharpened while our ability to solve them has diminished. Progress requires facing up to the institutions in life that are not working as they need to. It means, for liberals, recognizing when the government is failing. It means, for conservatives, recognizing when the government is needed. In a book exploring how we can move from a liberalism that not only protects and pre­serves but also builds, Klein and Thompson trace the political, economic, and cultural barriers to progress and propose a path toward a politics of abundance. At a time when movements of scarcity are gaining power in country after country, this is an answer that meets the challenges of the moment while grappling honestly with the fury so many rightfully feel.

Democracy Or Else

released in: 2024
Democracy Or Else
An insightful discussion on the state of democracy and the importance of civic engagement.

Medgar & Myrlie

released in: 2022
Medgar & Myrlie
The MSNBC host details how the wife of the civil rights leader Medgar Evers carried forward their legacy after his assassination in 1963.

This Is The Fire

released in: 2020
This Is The Fire
Don Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a Black man to today's most urgent question: How can we end racism in America in our lifetimes? The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular than ever. As America's only Black prime-time anchor, Lemon and his daily monologues on racism and antiracism, on the failures of our political leaders, and on America's systemic flaws speak for his millions of fans. Now, in an urgent, intensely personal, riveting plea, he shows us all how deep our problems lie, and what we can do to begin to fix them. Beginning with a letter to one of his Black nephews, Lemon proceeds with reporting and reflections on his slave ancestors; his upbringing in the shadows of segregation; the racism inherent in our culture's messaging, from movies to monuments; and the power of economics to uphold - or help overthrow - racism. In doing so, he offers a searing and poetic ultimatum to America. He visits the slave port where a direct ancestor was shackled and shipped to America. He recounts a slave uprising in Louisiana, just a few miles from his birthplace. And he talks about what we can do to make America a more perfect union. We are in the fire, and we must use it to reduce injustice to ash. --

How The Word Is Passed

released in: 2020
How The Word Is Passed
A staff writer at The Atlantic explores the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries of American history.

How To Be An Antiracist

released in: 2019
How To Be An Antiracist
A primer for creating a more just and equitable society through identifying and opposing racism.

So You Want To Talk About Race

released in: 2018
So You Want To Talk About Race
A look at the contemporary racial landscape of the United States.

Ship Of Fools

released in: 2018
Ship Of Fools
The Fox News anchor argues that America\'s ruling class is out of touch with everyday citizens.

White Fragility

released in: 2018
White Fragility
Historical and cultural analyses on what causes defensive moves by white people and how this inhibits cross-racial dialogue.

Dear Martin

released in: 2017

Hillbilly Elegy

released in: 2016
Hillbilly Elegy
Hillbilly Elegy recounts J.D. Vance's powerful origin story... From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as a U.S. Senator from Ohio and the Republican Vice Presidential candidate for the 2024 election, an incisive account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.'s grandparents were "dirt poor and in love," and moved north from Kentucky's Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.

One Nation

released in: 2014
One Nation
Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon, now a Fox News contributor, offers solutions to problems in health and education based on capitalism, not government.

Just Mercy

released in: 2014
Just Mercy
A civil rights lawyer and MacArthur grant recipient\'s memoir of his decades of work to free innocent people condemned to death.

Humans Of New York: Stories

released in: 2013
Humans Of New York: Stories
More photographs, this time accompanied by interviews, from the creator of the blog and the book “Humans of New York.”

Humans Of New York

released in: 2010

The Assault on Reason

by: Al Gore
released in: 2007
The Assault on Reason
In The Assault on Reason, Al Gore takes on the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith, and demonstrates how the Bush administration has used these tactics to undermine our Constitution, our free press, and our system of checks and balances. He also shows how the administration's policies have taken us away from the Founders' vision of America.

Our Endangered Values

released in: 2006
Our Endangered Values
President Jimmy Carter offers a passionate defense of separation of church and state, warning that fundamentalists are deliberately blurring the lines between politics and religion. In Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter offers a personal consideration of "moral values" as they relate to the important issues of the day. He puts forward a passionate defense of separation of church and state, and a strong warning about where the country is heading as the lines between politics and rigid religious fundamentalism are blurred. Carter describes his reactions to recent disturbing societal trends that involve both religious and political worlds as they increasingly intertwine and include some of the most crucial and controversial issues of the day. Many of these matters are under fierce debate. They include preemptive war, women's rights, terrorism, civil liberties, homosexuality, abortion, the death penalty, science and religion, environmental degradation, nuclear arsenals, America's global image, fundamentalism, and the melding of religion and politics. Sustained by his lifelong faith, Jimmy Carter assesses these issues in a balanced and courageous way.

All About Love

released in: 2000
All About Love
A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces. “The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks speaks to society stricken with lovelessness—not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. In this landmark book, bell hooks explores the question “What is love?” Disputing that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly love and community can change hearts and minds for the better. Part of the groundbreaking "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy that includes Communion and Salvation On the New York Times bestseller list for over a year. Speaks to the mind and the heart about the transformational power of love to heal society.

The Death of Outrage

released in: 1998
The Death of Outrage
In The Death of Outrage, William J. Bennett, one of America's most respected and influential voices, issues a passionate call to Americans to restore a sense of outrage at the country's moral decline.

Give War a Chance

released in: 1992
Give War a Chance
In this hilarious collection of essays, P. J. O'Rourke takes on the peaceniks, the politicos, and the pundits with his trademark wit and biting insight.

The Closing of the American Mind

released in: 1987
The Closing of the American Mind
A philosophical work critiquing the state of higher education and the impact of relativism and popular culture on intellectual pursuits.

Megatrends

Megatrends
"Megatrends" by John Naisbitt is a non-fiction book that explores significant social, economic, and technological trends shaping the world. Naisbitt identifies key "megatrends" and provides insights into their implications for individuals, businesses, and societies. The book offers a thought-provoking examination of the forces driving global change.

The Female Eunuch

The Female Eunuch
In this groundbreaking work, Germaine Greer argues that the "female eunuch" is not a natural phenomenon but is the result of a cultural conspiracy to keep women in a state of "mental castration." She argues that women must reclaim their sexuality and their sense of self in order to achieve true liberation. The Female Eunuch is a landmark work of feminism that is as relevant today as it was when it was first published.

A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney

A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney
In this collection of essays, Andy Rooney tackles a variety of topics, from politics to religion to everyday life. He offers his unique perspective on the world around him, and his essays are both funny and thought-provoking.

A Fortune to Share

A Fortune to Share
A novel about a woman who inherits a fortune and must choose between love and money.

The Story of My Life

The Story of My Life
The autobiography of Clarence Darrow, one of the most famous lawyers in American history. Darrow chronicles his life, from his humble beginnings in a small town to his high-profile cases, such as the Scopes "Monkey" Trial. Darrow also offers his thoughts on the law, politics, and society.

Only Yesterday

Only Yesterday
"Only Yesterday" by Frederick Lewis Allen is a historical work that provides a detailed and engaging account of the United States during the Roaring Twenties. The book explores the cultural, social, and political changes of the era, offering readers insights into the events and trends that shaped American society during a transformative period.
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