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.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
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Parting the waters
Taylor Branch
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Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino
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Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
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Heartland
Sarah Smarsh
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Invisible man
Ralph Ellison
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Ordinary men
Christopher R. Browning
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More Human
Steve Hilton
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The death and life of great American cities
Jane Jacobs
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Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
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Dealing with China
Henry M. Paulson
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The quiet American
Graham Greene
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The Road To Wigan Pier
George Orwell
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Narrow Corridor
Daron Acemoglu
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The Sovereign Individual
James Dale Davidson
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The Demon Haunted World
Carl Sagan
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The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
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Power
Naomi Alderman
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Precipice
Toby Ord
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Political Order and Political Decay
Francis Fukuyama
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo
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Accidental Presidents
Jared Cohen
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Mr. Putin
Fiona Hill
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Guarded Gate
Daniel Okrent
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