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
How to Change the World
Philosophy
Self Help
Politics
The Authority Gap
Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It
Feminism
Politics
Business
World on the Brink
How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century
China
Politics
History
Narconomics
How to Run a Drug Cartel
Economics
Business
Crime
The Lincoln Conspiracy
The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President—and Why It Failed
History
Politics
Biography
The JFK Conspiracy
The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy―and Why It Failed
History
Politics
Biography
Music
A Subversive History
Music
History
Art
Enrique's Journey
Biography
School
Memoir
The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
War
How Conflict Shaped Us
History
War
Politics
We the Living
Classics
Philosophy
Historical Fiction
The Jungle
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
The Stillborn God
Religion, Politics, and the Modern West
Religion
Philosophy
Politics
Our Declaration
A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
History
Politics
American History
The Assault on Truth
Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism
Politics
History
Dystopia
Military Inc.
Inside Pakistan's Military Economy
Pakistan
Politics
History
The Shadow of the Great Game
The Untold Story of India's Partition
History
India
Politics
Fellow Travelers
Historical Fiction
LGBT
Queer
The Theological Origins of Modernity
Philosophy
History
Theology
Inside Money
Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power
History
Business
Economics
The Alchemists
Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
Economics
Finance
History
Days of Fire
Bush and Cheney in the White House
History
Politics
Biography
The Divider
Trump in the White House, 2017-2021
Politics
History
Biography
Kremlin Rising
Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution
Russia
History
Politics
The Way Out
How to Overcome Toxic Polarization
Politics
Sociology
Leadership
The Myth of Male Power
Psychology
Politics
Feminism
Of Man
Philosophy
Classics
Politics
The Years That Matter Most
How College Makes or Breaks Us
Education
Sociology
College
The Plot Against America
Historical Fiction
Alternate History
Literature
Realpolitik
A History
Politics
History
Philosophy
The Case for Colonialism
History
Politics
Economics
The Decline and Rise of Democracy
A Global History from Antiquity to Today
History
Politics
Economics
The Billion Dollar Spy
A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
History
Espionage
Russia
Best Evidence
History
Politics
Conspiracy Theories
Power, Politics and Culture
Interviews With Edward W. Said
Politics
Philosophy
History
Colossus
The Rise and Fall of the American Empire
History
Politics
American History
Imaginary Homelands
Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
Essays
India
Politics
A Doctor in the House
The Memoirs of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad
Biography
Politics
History
One Nation Under Blackmail
The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Organized Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein, Vol. 2
Politics
History
Conspiracy Theories
Collapse
The Fall of the Soviet Union
History
Russia
Politics
The Inevitability of Tragedy
Henry Kissinger and His World
History
Politics
Biography
Pasteur's Quadrant
Basic Science and Technological Innovation
Science
Technology
Business
This Land Is Our Land
How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back
Travel
Nature
History
A New Foreign Policy
Beyond American Exceptionalism
Politics
International Relations
History
The American Spirit
Who We Are and What We Stand For
History
Politics
American History
The Imagineers of War
The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
History
Science
War
Ruined by Design
How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It
Design
Business
Art Design
Has the West Lost It?
A Provocation
Politics
China
History
Black Folk
The Roots of the Black Working Class
History
Race
Politics
Wildland
The Making of America's Fury
Politics
History
Sociology