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Losing Big by Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big demonstrates how legalized sports betting became a gigantic business, a ceaselessly annoying marketing presence, and a genuine danger to hundreds of thousands of people.” —Daniel Okrent, author and inventor of Rotisserie League Baseball

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In Defense of Partisanship by Julian E. Zelizer
“Contravening conventional wisdom, Zelizer offers a spirited defense of parties and partisanship.”
—Frances Lee, Princeton University

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Left Adrift by Timothy Shenk
“An alternative history of how left parties came to embrace the set of market-friendly, triangulating policies that quickened the loss of working-class voters.... [Shenk] is altogether convincing.” New Republic

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Speech Police by David Kaye
“David Kaye's book is crucial to understanding the tactics, rhetoric and stakes in one of the most consequential free speech debates in human history.” —Cory Doctorow

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The Curse of Bigness by Tim Wu
“While the very term ‘antitrust’ may strike many as dreadfully dry, Wu manages to make this brisk and impressively readable overview of the subject vivid and compelling.” Washington Post

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