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.
Tribe
Sebastian Junger
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A uterus is a feature, not a bug
Sarah Lacy
recommended by 2 people
A very expensive poison
Luke Harding
recommended by 2 people
Machete season
Jean Hatzfeld
recommended by 2 people
Living within limits
Garrett Hardin
recommended by 2 people
What's Our Problem?
Tim Urban
recommended by 2 people
Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials
Telford Taylor
recommended by 1 person
The bet
Paul Sabin
recommended by 1 person
Aristocracy of Talent
Adrian Wooldridge
recommended by 1 person
Perfect Weapon
David E. Sanger
recommended by 1 person
The accidental president of Brazil
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
recommended by 1 person
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X
recommended by 1 person
Knock at the Door
Ryan Manion
recommended by 1 person
Kennedy's quest for victory
Thomas G. Paterson
recommended by 1 person
The Russia house
John le Carré
recommended by 1 person
Has China Won?
Kishore Mahbubani
recommended by 1 person
The CIA, a forgotten history
William Blum
recommended by 1 person
The city in history
Lewis Mumford
recommended by 1 person
The city that became safe
Franklin E. Zimring
recommended by 1 person
The crisis of Islam
Bernard Lewis
recommended by 1 person
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville
recommended by 1 person
Education of an Idealist
Samantha Power
recommended by 1 person
The age of reason.
Thomas Paine
recommended by 1 person
Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
recommended by 1 person