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.
The nine
Jeffrey Toobin
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The Uses of Haiti
Paul Farmer
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Our towns
James Fallows
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Panic Rules!
Robin Hahnel
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Dear Ijeawele
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Paradise
Toni Morrison
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A peace denied
Gareth Porter
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Danger and survival
McGeorge Bundy
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Chasing Hillary
Amy Chozick
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GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History
Diane Coyle
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Power without responsibility
James Curran
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Politicide
Baruch Kimmerling
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Poor Numbers
Morten Jerven
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Why America Is Not a New Rome
Vaclav Smil
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Why Liberalism Failed
Patrick J. Deneen
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Why Men Rebel
Ted Robert Gurr
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Postcards from Tomorrow Square
James Fallows
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Poverty Safari
Darren McGarvey
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Presidents of War
Michael Beschloss
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American Prison
Shane Bauer
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Prisoners of Geography
Tim Marshall
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The less you know, the better you sleep
David Satter
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Four hours in My Lai
Michael Bilton
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Mighty Be Our Powers
Leymah Gbowee
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