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.
Nixonland
Rick Perlstein
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Saving Us
Katharine Hayhoe
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Our Culture, What's Left of It
Theodore Dalrymple
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Our Own Worst Enemy
Thomas M. Nichols
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Bottom Billion
Paul Collier
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The messianic character of American education
Rousas John Rushdoony
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Case Against Socialism
Rand Paul
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Case for Nationalism
Rich Lowry
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Plot Against America
Philip Roth
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Eleventh Day
Anthony Summers
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Unwinding
George Packer
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The God that failed
Richard H. Crossman
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The Orphan Master's Son
Adam Johnson
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End of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama
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The End of Poverty
Jeffrey D. Sachs
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The end of power
Moises Naim
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Future of Capitalism
Paul Collier
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The Man Without a Face
Masha Gessen
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Erdogan's Empire
Soner Cagaptay
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The long game
Mitch McConnell
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The upside of inequality
Edward Conard
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Capitalist Manifesto
Johan Norberg
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Ministry for the Future - Carton of 10 Signed Copies
Kim Stanley Robinson
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Mystery of Capital
Hernando De Soto
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