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.
Slave Ship
Marcus Rediker
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Ocean of Life
Callum Roberts
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The Power of the powerless
Vaclav Havel
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The precariat
Guy Standing
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Price of Power
Seymour Hersh
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First Circle
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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King of the world
David Remnick
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Return
Hisham Matar
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Romance American Communism
Vivian Gornick
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Seventh Sense
Joshua Cooper Ramo
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National socialism and the religion of nature
Robert A Pois
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Emergence of a free press
Leonard W. Levy
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Triumph of Injustice
Emmanuel Saez
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Obama
Mark Greenberg
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Where Men Win Glory
Jon Krakauer
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Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
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Arabs
Eugene Rogan
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United States and the Origins of the Cuban Revolution
Jules R. Benjamin
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The weather makers
Tim Flannery
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The wizards of Armageddon
Fred Kaplan
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The Black Jacobins
C.L.R. James
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The limits of state action
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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The Machiavellians, defenders of freedom.
James Burnham
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Monopolies Suck
Sally Hubbard
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