

Civics 101
NHPR
How do landmark Supreme Court decisions affect our lives? What does the 2nd Amendment really say? Why does the Senate have so much power? Civics 101 is the podcast about how our democracy works…or is supposed to work, anyway.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Civics 101 podcast:

#1 Mentioned in 16 episodes
A User's Guide to Democracy

#2 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Autocracy, Inc.
The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Mr. Smith goes to Washington

#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
American by Birth, Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship

#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A midwife's tale
the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812

#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Summer of 1787
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Memories of a Hotel Man
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Bill of Rights, A User's Guide

#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies
Inalienable Rights
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
By Executive Order: Bureaucratic Management and the Limits of Presidential Power
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Mr. Lancaster's System
How One Man Created America's Common Schools
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Who Elected Big Tech?

#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Not-Quite States of America

#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
I'm Terrified of Bath Time

#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Actual Malice
Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times v. Sullivan

#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Investigating the President
Congressional Checks on Presidential Power
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Unruly Americans
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
little darlings
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Demagogue for President

#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
How to Save a Constitutional Democracy
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