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
Benjamin Franklin
A Life From Beginning to End
Biography
History
Historical
May Contain Lies
How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It
Psychology
Science
Economics
A Great Place To Have A War
America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA
History
War
Politics
The Way of the Knife
The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
History
Politics
Military Fiction
The Collapse of Complex Societies
History
Politics
Anthropology
The Lincoln Conspiracy
The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President—and Why It Failed
History
Politics
Biography
Contesting Democracy
Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe
Politics
History
Philosophy
The Accidental Admiral
A Sailor Takes Command at NATO
Military Fiction
Biography
Leadership
No One Man Should Have All That Power
How Rasputins Manipulate the World
History
Politics
Philosophy
The Dialectical Imagination
A History of the Frankfurt School & the Institute of Social Research, 1923-50
Philosophy
History
Sociology
The World of Fatwas or the Shariah in Action
India
Islam
Religion
Allow Me to Retort
A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
Politics
History
Law
Equal Is Unfair
America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
Humanly Possible
Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
Philosophy
History
Biography
Tory Nation
How one party took over
Politics
History
Thou Shalt Not Be a Jerk
A Christian's Guide to Engaging Politics
Politics
Christian
Christianity
I Shall Not Hate
A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
Memoir
Biography
History
Enshittification
Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Technology
Politics
Economics
Revolusi
Indonesië en het ontstaan van de moderne wereld
History
Asia
Politics
The Green Collar Economy
How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
Economics
Environment
Sustainability
The Economics of Innocent Fraud
Truth for Our Time
Economics
Politics
Business
Power, Terror, Peace, and War
America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk
History
Politics
International Relations
The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy
How the New World Order, Man-Made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America
Conspiracy Theories
History
Politics
Smuggler Nation
How Illicit Trade Made America
History
American History
Economics
Truth in Our Times
Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts
Politics
Journalism
Memoir
Politics
Between the Extremes
Politics
Biography
Biography Memoir
Scotland
A Very Short Introduction
History
Scotland
British Literature
This View of Life
Completing the Darwinian Revolution
Science
Biology
Evolution
The People's Platform
Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
Technology
Politics
Sociology
Defeating Big Government Socialism
Saving America's Future
Politics
The Miracle of the Kurds
A Remarkable Story of Hope Reborn in Northern Iraq
History
Politics
Biography
Gaffs
Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About it
Politics
Irish Literature
Ireland
How Britain Ends
English Nationalism and the Rebirth of Four Nations
Politics
History
Scotland
Rise of the New World Order
The Culling of Man
Conspiracy Theories
Politics
In an Uncertain World
Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington
Economics
Politics
Business
Economic Policy
Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
Reckless Endangerment
How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon
Economics
Business
Finance
A Simple Government
Twelve Things We Really Need from Washington
Politics
History
Government
Voodoo Histories
The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
History
Politics
Conspiracy Theories
The Plague Year
America in the Time of Covid
History
Politics
Science
Midnight in Mexico
A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness
True Crime
Crime
History
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory
American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
Politics
Religion
History
The Truce
Progressives, Centrists, and the Future of the Democratic Party
Politics
Touched Out
Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control
Feminism
Parenting
Memoir
The Drone Eats with Me
A Gaza Diary
Memoir
War
Biography
Jesus Politics
How to Win Back the Soul of America
Christian
Politics
Religion
California Burning
The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid
History
Business
Politics
One Nation Under Therapy
How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance
Psychology
Politics
Philosophy
Bobby Kennedy
The Making of a Liberal Icon
Biography
History
Politics
Bad City
Peril and Power in the City of Angels
True Crime
Crime
Journalism
