Best books in Politics & Society
From Machiavelli to Hannah Arendt, from Tocqueville to contemporary debates on democracy. Barack Obama, Noam Chomsky and Fareed Zakaria lead this category — and rarely agree with each other, which makes their selections all the more revealing.
Qaddafi and the United States since 1969
P. Edward Haley
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Last reflections on a war
Bernard B. Fall
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Leni Riefenstahl
Glenn B Infield
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Freedom from speech
Greg Lukianoff
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The limits to growth; a report for the Club of Rome's project on the predicament of mankind
Donella H. Meadows
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Ling
Stanley H. Brown
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Little Brother
Cory Doctorow
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London Labour and the London Poor
Henry Mayhew
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Losing the Long Game
Philip H. Gordon
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Maid
Stephanie Land
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Makes Me Wanna Holler
Nathan McCall
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Merchants of Doubt
Naomi Oreskes
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My Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglass
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My American Journey
Colin Powell
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My Life and Battles
Jack Johnson
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Difficult Women
Helen Lewis
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World on the edge
Lester R. Brown
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American nations
Colin Woodard
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Nothing to Envy
Barbara Demick
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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
Michela Wrong
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No gods, no masters
Daniel Guerin
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Never met a man I didn't like
Will Rogers
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Nicaragua, the price of intervention
Peter Kornbluh
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Nixon agonistes
Garry Wills
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