Books like Nixonland by Rick Perlstein

Jane Mayer investigates how a network of wealthy right‑wing ideologues, led by figures like the Kochs and the Scaifes, pours billions into the U.S. political system to shape policy and expand economic inequality.

A comprehensive history of the conservative movement in the 1960s through the lens of Barry Goldwater, a presidential candidate who challenged the status quo.

A concise examination of the United States’ political, economic, and social turbulence during the early 1970s, from the Arab oil embargo and the Patty Hearst case to the collapse of South Vietnam and the rise of Ronald Reagan.

An investigative account of the secret war in Cambodia during the Vietnam War, and of the use of power by Nixon and Kissinger in Indo-Chinese foreign policy.

A curated collection of 47 essays by Martin Gardner spanning philosophy, science, religion, and mathematics, showcasing his career‑long intellectual curiosity and skeptical insight.

John Oller’s biography delves into the political intrigue and social ambition of Kate Chase Sprague, the rival of Mary Lincoln, exploring her pivotal role in 19th‑century American politics.

The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out--with military precision--an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but are highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview of white supremacy, anticommunism, and apocalypse. In Bring the War Home, Kathleen Belew gives us the first full history of the movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War and made tragic headlines in the 1995 bombing of Oklahoma City. Returning to an America ripped apart by a war which, in their view, they were not allowed to win, a small but driven group of veterans, active-duty personnel, and civilian supporters concluded that waging war on their own country was justified. They unified people from a variety of militant groups, including Klansmen, neo-Nazis, skinheads, radical tax protestors, and white separatists. The white power movement operated with discipline and clarity, undertaking assassinations, mercenary soldiering, armed robbery, counterfeiting, and weapons trafficking. Its command structure gave women a prominent place in brokering intergroup alliances and bearing future recruits. Belew's disturbing history reveals how war cannot be contained in time and space. In its wake, grievances intensify and violence becomes a logical course of action for some. Bring the War Home argues for awareness of the heightened potential for paramilitarism in a present defined by ongoing war.--