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
Lincoln on Leadership for Today
Abraham Lincoln’s Approach to Twenty-First-Century Issues
Leadership
History
Politics
Tell Your Children
The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
Science
Health
Politics
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends
The Cyberweapons Arms Race
Technology
Politics
Science
Smoke Signals
A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational and Scientific
History
Science
Politics
The Art of Power
My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
Politics
Memoir
Biography
Chaos Kings
How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis
Finance
Business
Economics
Start-up Nation
The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
Business
Economics
Israel
Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy
And Other Rules to Live By
Comedy
Humor
Politics
The Road to Serfdom
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
The Federalist Papers
History
Politics
Classics
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
Politics
International Relations
History
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Politics
History
International Relations
The End of History and the Last Man
History
Politics
Philosophy
Leviathan
Philosophy
Classics
History
Democracy in America
History
Politics
Philosophy
The Origins of Totalitarianism
History
Philosophy
Politics
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Economics
Philosophy
Classics
The Wealth of Nations
Economics
Business
Philosophy
Why We Can't Wait
History
Politics
Race
Confronting Collapse
The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World
Politics
Economics
Peak Oil
The Indoctrinated Brain
How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom
Psychology
Politics
Self Help
Black Wave
Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
History
Politics
Iran
Personal History
A Memoir
Biography
Memoir
History
A Template for Understanding Big Debt Crises
Economics
Finance
Business
Discipline and Punish
The Birth of the Prison
Philosophy
History
Sociology
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning
Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
Politics
History
Economics
Our Choice
A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
Science
Environment
Climate Change
Edible Economics
A Hungry Economist Explains the World
Economics
Food
Politics
A People’s History of the United States
1492 - Present
History
Politics
American History
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
A History of Nazi Germany
History
War
World War II
The Global Minotaur
America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy
Economics
Politics
History
Technofeudalism
What Killed Capitalism
Economics
Politics
History
Postwar
A History of Europe Since 1945
History
Politics
European History
The Cold War
A New History
History
Politics
War
Economics in One Lesson
Economics
Business
Politics
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
Economics
History
Politics
False Alarm
How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
Science
Politics
Climate Change
The Nazi Conspiracy
The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
History
World War II
Politics
The Case Against Education
Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
Education
Economics
Politics
A Fever in the Heartland
The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
History
True Crime
Politics
Against Intellectual Monopoly
Economics
Politics
Law
The People's Platform
Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
Technology
Politics
Sociology
Weapons of Mass Instruction
A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
Education
Parenting
Politics
The Trial and Death of Socrates
Philosophy
Classics
History
Misbelief
What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
Psychology
Science
Sociology
The Conscience of a Liberal
Politics
Economics
History
Making It in America
The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A.
Economics
Business
Politics
Broken Code
Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets
Technology
Business
Politics
In This Economy?
How Money & Markets Really Work
Economics
Finance
Business
The Green New Deal
Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth
Politics
Environment
Economics