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.
Bloodlands
Timothy Snyder
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Nuclear Terrorism
Graham Allison
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Witness
Whittaker Chambers
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Corner
David Simon
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The crisis of democracy
Michel Crozier
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Good News Club
Katherine Stewart
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Ministry of Illusion
Eric Rentschler
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Liberal Reform in an Illiberal Regime
Stephen F. Williams
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Russia Hoax
Gregg Jarrett
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Spanish cockpit : an eye-witness account of the political and social conflicts of the Spanish Civil War
Franz Borkenau
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Tightrope
Nicholas D. Kristof
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East Timor
John G. Taylor
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Taking the risk out of democracy
Alex Carey
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All the king's men
Robert Penn Warren
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Toussaint Louverture
Philippe Girard
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Political tribes
Amy Chua
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Conflict of Visions
Thomas Sowell
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A rap on race
Margaret Mead
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Spy among Friends
Ben Macintyre
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Practical Guide for Policy Analysis
Eugene S. Bardach
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Higher Loyalty
James Comey
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A preponderance of power
Melvyn P. Leffler
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An Inconvenient Truth
Al Gore
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Unlocking the Gates
Taylor Walsh
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