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.
Savage Son - Jack Carr
Jack Carr
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No Future Without Forgiveness
Desmond Tutu
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Under A White Sky
Elizabeth Kolbert
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On Bullshit
Harry G. Frankfurt
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Solitary
Albert Woodfox
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Stalin
Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Still Winning
Charles Hurt
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Supremacy and oil
William Stivers
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Web Of Deceit
Mark Curtis
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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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