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.
All Out War
Tim Shipman
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American foreign policy
Henry A. Kissinger
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Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Tough Love
Susan Rice
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Rudolf-Rocker Anarcho-Syndicalism
Rudolf Rocker
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Antifascism
Paul Gottfried
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Just the facts
Joy Olson
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Here, Right Matters
Alexander Vindman
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Arguing about War
Michael Walzer
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Lost Children Archive
Valeria Luiselli
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The Kennedy tapes
Ernest R. May
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Atrocities
Matthew White
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Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency
Andrew C. McCarthy
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Black Flags
Joby Warrick
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Begin Again
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
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Best evidence
David S. Lifton
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Big World, Small Planet
Johan Rockström
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Black and blue
Anna Quindlen
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Black Spartacus
Sudhir Hazareesingh
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Blowout
Rachel Maddow
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Brave New War
John Robb
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Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
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Business As a System of Power (Essay Index Reprint Series)
Robert A. Brady
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California
Kevin Starr
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