Politics
Power flows through the halls of government and the pages of these books, where visionary leaders, economic forces, and social movements shape our world. Here you'll find penetrating analyses of political systems and ideologies alongside intimate portraits of the brilliant minds who've changed history through revolution, reform, and the relentless pursuit of justice.
Politics Book Summaries
Free to Choose
A Personal Statement
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
The Real Crash
Economics
Politics
Finance
Blind Ambition
The White House Years
History
Politics
Biography
The Price of Inequality
How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
Politics
Sociology
Business
How Much Is Enough? Money and the Good Life
Economics
Philosophy
Politics
The Problem of Political Authority
An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey
Philosophy
Politics
Economics
The World Until Yesterday
What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
History
Anthropology
Science
Decision Points
Biography
Politics
History
Basic Economics
A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
Economics
Business
Politics
Sacred Economics
Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Economics
History
Philosophy
Bloodlands
Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
History
War
World War II
Rules for Radicals
A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
Politics
Philosophy
Activism
The Tiger That Isn't
Seeing Through a World of Numbers
Science
Economics
Mathematics
Behind the Kitchen Door
Food
Social Justice
Politics
The Bankers' New Clothes
What's Wrong With Banking and What to Do About It
Economics
Finance
Business
This Time Is Different
Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Economics
History
Finance
The New Digital Age
Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business
Business
Technology
Science
The Death and Life of the Great American School System
How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
Education
Politics
Teaching
Who Owns the Future?
Technology
Economics
Science
The Culture of Narcissism
American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
Psychology
Sociology
Philosophy
Why Men Fight
Philosophy
Politics
History
The Fire Next Time
Classics
Essays
Race
How Asia Works
Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
Economics
Business
History
Population 10 Billion
Geography
Science
Politics
What Money Can't Buy
The Moral Limits of Markets
Philosophy
Economics
Politics
The Fish That Ate the Whale
The Life and Times of America's Banana King
Biography
History
Business
The New Geography of Jobs
Economics
Business
Politics
From Dictatorship to Democracy
Politics
History
Philosophy
Trust Me, I'm Lying
Confessions of a Media Manipulator
Business
Psychology
Politics
Fiasco
The American Military Adventure in Iraq
History
Politics
Military Fiction
Keeping the Republic
Saving America by Trusting Americans
Politics
Biography
Government
Bad Samaritans
The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
Economics
Politics
History
The Arab Uprising
The Wave of Protest that Toppled the Status Quo and the Struggle for a New Middle East
Politics
History
Unfinished
Occupy
Politics
Philosophy
History
Twilight of the Elites
America After Meritocracy
Politics
Economics
History
Who Stole the American Dream?
Politics
Economics
History
Liars and Outliers
Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive
Sociology
Psychology
Science
The Price of Everything
A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity
Economics
Business
Finance
The Great Escape
Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
Economics
History
Politics
A Conflict of Visions
Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
Politics
Philosophy
Economics
Moral Tribes
Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
Psychology
Philosophy
Science
Smuggler Nation
How Illicit Trade Made America
History
American History
Economics
المراقبة السائلة
Sociology
Philosophy
Politics
The Map and the Territory
Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting
Economics
Business
Finance
Arrest-Proof Yourself
An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life, and What to Do If the Police Get in Your Face
Self Help
Law
Survival
The Rejected Stone
Al Sharpton and the Path to American Leadership
Politics
Memoir
African American
Average Is Over
Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
Economics
Business
Politics
How to Be Black
Humor
Memoir
Race
The Master Switch
The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
History
Technology
Business
Why Civil Resistance Works
The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
Politics
History
Activism