Dear mastodon leftists. Do you know of a one or two book recommendation which my kid could read to provide an overview of american government and its discontents which might conceivably qualify as an american government class for high school?

in other words he has to learn the usual govt class contents... how the branches work, what the process is to make a law, what the govt Depts are etc... while maybe not accepting the high school propaganda version of the story? and not a masters thesis