Guide No Longer Updated
As of July 2023 this guide—started during the early days of the COVID 19 pandemic—is no longer being actively updated or maintained. For an up-to-date listing of popular political science eBooks (and audio books) please see the Politics section in OverDrive/Libby.
Political Science
Books are listed by author's surname.
Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic That Changed History by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780063066076Publication Date: 2021
The 99 Percent Economy: How Democratic Socialism Can Overcome the Crises of Capitalism by ISBN: 9780190931889Publication Date: 2019
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780871408136Publication Date: 2014
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by ISBN: 9781635571370Publication Date: 2018
The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781635574265Publication Date: 2021
Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts by Call Number: Oxford Scholarship OnlineISBN: 9780190090463Publication Date: 2021
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir by Call Number: EBSCOISBN: 9781982148058Publication Date: 2020
The Politics of Care: From COVID-19 to Black Lives Matter by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781839763113Publication Date: 2020
Resetting Our Future: Empowering Climate Action in the United States by ISBN: 9781789048728Publication Date: 2021
Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right by ISBN: 9781789042306Publication Date: 2020
The Trouble with Taiwan: History, the United States and a Rising China by ISBN: 9781786995223Publication Date: 2019
Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy by ISBN: 9781595349125Publication Date: 2020
No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border by ISBN: 9781608468492Publication Date: 2018
The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781250270948Publication Date: 2021
The Unelected: How an Unaccountable Elite Is Governing America by ISBN: 9781641771214Publication Date: 2020
The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can by ISBN: 9780872868069Publication Date: 2020
Grassroots Rising: A Call to Action on Climate, Farming, Food, and a Green New Deal by ISBN: 9781603589758Publication Date: 2020
Uprising: Who the Hell Said You Can't Ditch and Switch? — The Awakening of Diamond and Silk by ISBN: 9781684510924Publication Date: 2020
Healing Politics: A Doctor's Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic by ISBN: 9781419743023Publication Date: 2020
The Nation City: Why Mayors Are Now Running the World by Call Number: EBSCO eBooksISBN: 9780525656388Publication Date: 2020
Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780062978431Publication Date: 2020
American Manifesto: Saving Democracy from Villains, Vandals, and Ourselves by ISBN: 9781640092808Publication Date: 2020
How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart by ISBN: 9781328518118Publication Date: 2021
The Silicon States: The Power and Politics of Big Tech and What It Means for Our Future by ISBN: 9781640090712Publication Date: 2018
Why America Needs Socialism: The Argument from Martin Luther King, Helen Keller, Albert Einstein, and Other Great Thinkers by ISBN: 9781632461025Publication Date: 2019
Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780062986733Publication Date: 2020
Welcome to the Rebellion: A New Hope In Radical Politics by ISBN: 9781789043679Publication Date: 2020
The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781523001040Publication Date: 2022
Asian Waters: The Struggle Over the South China Sea and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion by ISBN: 9781468314786Publication Date: 2018
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781642598537Publication Date: 2023
Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor's Code and Corrupted the Justice Department by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780063092372Publication Date: 2021
Dispatches from the Vanguard: The Global International African Arts Movement versus Donald J. Trump by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781912248940Publication Date: 2020
Use the Power You Have: A Brown Woman’s Guide to Politics and Political Change by ISBN: 9781620971451Publication Date: 2020
FDR's Gambit: The Court Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism by Call Number: EBSCOISBN: 9780197539293Publication Date: 2022
The Inheritance: America's Military After Two Decades of War by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780815738466Publication Date: 2021
Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World by Call Number: Oxford OnlineISBN: 9780190056117Publication Date: 2019
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780807000687Publication Date: 2009
The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across The Political Divides by ISBN: 9781948647427Publication Date: 2019
The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity by ISBN: 9781616207281Publication Date: 2018
American Madness: The Story of the Phantom Patriot and How Conspiracy Theories Hijacked American Consciousness by ISBN: 9781627310963Publication Date: 2020
The Art of the Political Putdown: The Greatest Comebacks, Ripostes, and Retorts in History by ISBN: 9781452183855Publication Date: 2020
Producing Politics: Inside the Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for All of Us by ISBN: 9780807025062Publication Date: 2022
American Democracy: 21 Historic Answers to 5 Urgent Questions by ISBN: 9781598536621Publication Date: 2020
How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles by ISBN: 9780691212333Publication Date: 2020
Democracy in One Book or Less: How It Works, Why It Doesn't, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780062879387Publication Date: 2020
Pills, Powder, and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs by ISBN: 9781912854240Publication Date: 2019
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by ISBN: 9780307947901Publication Date: 2017
Protest!: A History of Social and Political Protest Graphics by ISBN: 9780691197319Publication Date: 2019
China's Asian Dream: Empire Building along the New Silk Road by ISBN: 9781786997418Publication Date: 2019
Memes to Movements: How the World's Most Viral Media Is Changing Social Protest and Power by ISBN: 9780807056585Publication Date: 2019
Folding the Red into the Black: Developing a Viable Untopia for Human Survival in the 21st Century by ISBN: 9781944869069Publication Date: 2016
Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781633886278Publication Date: 2020
Solving Public Problems: A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World by Call Number: De Gruyter Online BooksISBN: 9780300230154Publication Date: 2021
Do Morals Matter? : Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump by ISBN: 9780190935986Publication Date: 2020
Perchance to DREAM: A Legal and Political History of the DREAM Act and DACA by ISBN: 9781479878284Publication Date: 2020
A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780802157751Publication Date: 2020
Democracy Unchained: How to Rebuild Government for the People by ISBN: 9781620975138Publication Date: 2020
Tax the Rich! How Lies, Loopholes, and Lobbyists Make the Rich Even Richer by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781620976647Publication Date: 2021
The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump by ISBN: 9781948836999Publication Date: 2020
How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781620976760Publication Date: 2022
The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781635422818Publication Date: 2022
The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780815738862Publication Date: 2021
Girls Resist!: A Guide to Activism, Leadership, and Starting a Revolution by ISBN: 9781683690597Publication Date: 2018
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by ISBN: 9780190900908Publication Date: 2020
Empire of Resentment: Populism's Toxic Embrace of Nationalism by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781620975114Publication Date: 2020
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781631492860Publication Date: 2017
Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781642593808Publication Date: 2020
No, You Shut Up: Speaking Truth to Power and Reclaiming America by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780062942692Publication Date: 2020
From the Ground Up: Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities by ISBN: 9781610918961Publication Date: 2022
How Trump Happened: A System Shock Decades in the Making by ISBN: 9781538122044Publication Date: 2020
Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780593231548Publication Date: 2021
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781324006503Publication Date: 2023
Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781335966629Publication Date: 2020
Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America by ISBN: 9780691196435Publication Date: 2019
Signs of Resistance: A Visual History of Protest in America by ISBN: 9781579658663Publication Date: 2018
Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781541788602Publication Date: 2020
There's a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters From a Crisis by Call Number: EBSCOISBN: 9780593314692Publication Date: 2021
Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781642599305Publication Date: 2023
Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780063114500Publication Date: 2023
The Bias That Divides Us: The Science and Politics of Myside Thinking by Call Number: MIT Press DirectISBN: 9780262045759Publication Date: 2021
The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress by ISBN: 9781616209995Publication Date: 2020
Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy by ISBN: 9781642831313Publication Date: 2020
The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism by ISBN: 9781635573435Publication Date: 2020
Which Side of History? How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781797205175Publication Date: 2020
Citizen Capitalism: How a Universal Fund Can Provide Influence and Income to All by ISBN: 9781523095650Publication Date: 2019
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781642592696Publication Date: 2021
The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781635769500Publication Date: 2023
What You Need to Know About Voting—And Why by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780062974792Publication Date: 2020
The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781620976753Publication Date: 2021
Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781324002611Publication Date: 2021
