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
Khomeinism
Essays on the Islamic Republic
Iran
History
Politics
A Century of War
Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order
Politics
History
Economics
Freedom and Neurobiology
Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power
Philosophy
Science
Neuroscience
Monopoly Capital
An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order
Economics
Politics
History
Red Skin, White Masks
Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
Indigenous
Politics
History
Unsettled
What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters
Science
Climate Change
Politics
The Battle For Syria
International Rivalry In The New Middle East
History
Politics
International Relations
Existentialism
A Very Short Introduction
Philosophy
History
Reference
Philosophy
The Basics
Philosophy
Reference
History
The Great Divergence
China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
History
Economics
China
The Race between Education and Technology
Economics
Education
History
The Eye of the Master
A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
History
Artificial Intelligence
Technology
In the Enemy's House
The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian Spies
History
Espionage
Russia
A Line in the Sand
Britain, France and the Struggle that Shaped the Middle East
History
Politics
War
Kill Chain
Drones and The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins
History
Politics
War
Bull by the Horns
Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself
Economics
Finance
Business
The Man Who Ran Washington
The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
Biography
Politics
History
Collusion
How Central Bankers Rigged the World
Economics
Finance
History
Sons of Wichita
How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty
Biography
Politics
Business
Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War"
How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
History
Politics
World War II
Crash Course
The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster
Business
History
Economics
How to Change Everything
The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other
Environment
Science
Climate Change
The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories
Psychology
Conspiracy Theories
Science
Go Woke, Go Broke
The Inside Story of the Radicalization of Corporate America
Business
Politics
The Sellout
How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System
Finance
Business
Economics
An Empire of Wealth
The Epic History of American Economic Power
History
Economics
Business
Maestro
Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom
Economics
Biography
Politics
The Age of Turbulence
Economics
Biography
Business
Hall of Mirrors
The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses - and Misuses - of History
Economics
History
Finance
The Premonition
A Pandemic Story
Science
History
Politics
Psychopolitics
Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
Philosophy
Politics
Psychology
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Environment
Politics
Science
The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve
Economics
Banking
Finance
The Robber Barons
History
Business
American History
Reckless Endangerment
How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon
Economics
Business
Finance
In Trump Time
A Journal of America's Plague Year
Politics
History
Political Science
Megafire
The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame
Science
Nature
Climate Change
Global Capitalism
Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century
Economics
History
Politics
Geopolitics
A Very Short Introduction
Politics
History
Geography
The Last Shah
America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty
History
Iran
Politics
National Identity
History
Politics
Sociology
Killing Hope
U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II
History
Politics
War
Rogue State
A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
Politics
History
War
The Big Three in Economics
Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes
Economics
History
Politics
Wilmington's Lie
The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
History
Politics
Race
An Era of Darkness
The British Empire in India
History
India
Politics
The Big Change
America Transforms Itself, 1900-50
History
American History
Economics
Tocqueville
A Very Short Introduction
History
Philosophy
Politics
The Old Regime and the French Revolution
History
Politics
France
Lectures of Col. Robert Green Ingersoll
Philosophy
Skepticism
Religion