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.
Defender in Chief
John Yoo
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Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe
Sheri Berman
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Democracy for Realists
Christopher H. Achen
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Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China
Ezra F. Vogel
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After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness?
Jonathan C. Randal
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God Is Not Great
Christopher Hitchens
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God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
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Devil's Bargain
Joshua Green
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Days of rage
Bryan Burrough
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Reception of Uwem Akpan's Say You're One of Them in Oprah Winfrey's Book Club
Uwem Akpan
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Dignity in a Digital Age
Ro Khanna
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Human Rights and United States Policy Toward Latin America
Lars Schoultz
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman
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Whatever You Say, Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe
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In Defense of Elitism
Joel Stein
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Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward
Valerie Jarrett
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Encounters with the Archdruid
John McPhee
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Essays
George Orwell
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Essays In Persuasion
John Maynard Keynes
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Between Serb and Albanian
Miranda Vickers
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Biased; Uncovering the hidden prejudices that shape our lives
Jennifer L. Eberhardt PhD
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Age of Ambition
Evan Osnos
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Waiting for the vote of the wild animals
Ahmadou Kourouma
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These Truths
Jill Lepore
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