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"Democracy may not exist, but we'll miss it when it's gone", from Multcolib

With a nod to Astra Taylor, this list of titles explores the ideals and flaws of democracy and the many forces aligned against it.

Multnomah County Library

24 items

  • Book, 2022New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022] — 320.959 R435h 2022
  • The Black Antifascist Tradition

    Fighting Back From Anti-lynching to Abolition

    Hope, Jeanelle K.,
    Book, 2023Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, 2023. — 973.0496 H7915b 2023
  • Wake Up America

    Black Women on the Future of Democracy

    Book, 2024New York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2024] — 321.8 W146 2024
  • Dictatorship

    It's Easier Than You Think!

    Kendzior, Sarah,
    Graphic Novel, 2023New York : First Second, 2023. — GN KENDZIOR 2023
  • A Village in the Third Reich

    How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism

    Boyd, Julia, 1948-
    Book, 2023New York : Pegasus Books, 2023. — 943.0864 B7896v 2023
  • A Mysterious Country

    the Grace and Fragility of American Democracy

    Mailer, Norman,
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Arcade Publishing, [2023] — 320.973 M219m 2023
  • The Conspiracy to End America

    Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy

    Stevens, Stuart,
    Book, 2023New York : 12 Twelve, 2023. — 324.2734 S846c 2023
  • We Have Been Harmonized

    Life in China's Surveillance State

    Strittmatter, Kai,
    Book, 2020New York : Custom House, [2020] — 951.06 S9188w 2020
  • How Fascism Works

    the Politics of Us and Them

    Stanley, Jason,
    Book, 2018New York : Random House, [2018] — 321.94 S788h 2018
  • Open Democracy

    Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-first Century

    Landemore, Hélène
    eBook, Libby ebook
  • Represent

    the Unfinished Fight for the Vote

    Dyson, Michael Eric,
    Book, 2024New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024. — y 323.042 D998r 2024
  • Erasing History

    How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future

    Stanley, Jason,
    Book, 2024New York : One Signal Publishers / Atria, 2024. — 320.533 S788e 2024
  • Why the People

    the Case for Democracy

    Feathers, Beka,
    Graphic Novel, 2022New York : First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, 2022. — GN 321.8 FEATHERS 2022
  • On Tyranny

    Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century

    Snyder, Timothy,
    Graphic Novel, 2021California : Ten Speed Press, [2021] — GN 321.9 SNYDER 2021
  • The Shock Doctrine

    the Rise of Disaster Capitalism

    Klein, Naomi, 1970-
    Book, 2008New York : Picador, 2008. — 330.122 K64s 2008
  • Did It Happen Here?

    Perspectives on Fascism and America

    Book, 2024New York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, [2024] — 320.533 D555 2024
  • Autocracy, Inc.

    the Dictators Who Want to Run the World

    Applebaum, Anne, 1964-
    Book, 2024New York : Doubleday, [2024] — 321.9 A6483a 2024