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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

Ronan Farrow

How Democracies Die

Steven Levitsky

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Edward S. Herman

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World

Tim Marshall

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Barack Obama

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Jonathan Haidt

The Shock Doctrine: Disaster capitalism's rise and what it means for you

Naomi Klein

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Daron Acemoglu

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A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

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A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and Creation of the

David Fromkin

A Promised Land

Barack Obama

A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea

Masaji Ishikawa

A Theory of Justice

John Rawls

A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of

John Preston

A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America

Philip Rucker

A Warning

Miles Taylor

A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order

Richard Haass

AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

Kai-Fu Lee

Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis

Tracy Rosenthal

Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to

Jessica Valenti

Adults in The Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment

Yanis Varoufakis

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari

After the Fall: The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We've Made

Ben Rhodes

A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir

Jacinda Ardern

Age of Anger: A History of the Present

Pankaj Mishra

A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership

James Comey

Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion

Anthony Pratkanis

American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and

Tim Alberta

Power Dynamics

Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas

Edward Klein

Guantánamo Diary

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of

John Preston

The January 6th Report: Findings from the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th

Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol

Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World!

Andrew Breitbart

Why Don’t We Learn from History?

B. H. Liddell Hart

Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville

History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt

The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going

George Friedman

Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party

Jonathan Karl

On the House: A Washington Memoir

John Boehner

The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being

Moisés Naím

The Myth of the Strong Leader: Political Leadership in the Modern Age

Archie Brown

Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

Anne Applebaum

Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again

Dan Pfeiffer

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement

Jodi Kantor

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

Jason Stanley

The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide

Frederik Obermaier

Political Science

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Joseph Schumpeter

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

Nick Srnicek

After the Fall: The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We've Made

Ben Rhodes

The People Vs Tech: How the Internet is Killing Democracy (And How We Save

Jamie Bartlett

The Conscience of a Conservative

Barry Goldwater

For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

Murray N. Rothbard

Leviathan: or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall

Thomas Hobbes

Outsider in the White House

Bernie Sanders

The Road to Serfdom

Friedrich August von Hayek

The Rights of Man

Thomas Paine

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

Francis Fukuyama

The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

Bryan Caplan

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Jonathan Haidt

Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

Barbara McQuade

The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New

Alexander Hamilton

Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim “Other”

Francis Wade

The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust

Tom Segev

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

Benedict Anderson

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Barack Obama

Presidents of War: The epic story, from 1807 to modern times

Michael Beschloss

Geopolitics

Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive

Rachel Maddow

Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists

Bill O’Reilly

A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America

Philip Rucker

The World’s Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong (and What Would Make

David J. Lynch

The Fractured Age: How Geopolitics Will Splinter the Global Economy

Neil Shearing

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a

Jonathan Blitzer

Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and

Lee Kuan Yew

Rare: The High-Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest

Keith Veronese

Ukraine Crisis: What It Means for the West

Andrew Wilson

Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States and the Road Ahead

Shannon K. O’Neil

Reagan: The Life

H. W. Brands

The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West

Alexander C. Karp

Travel as a Political Act: Change the world one trip at a time

Rick Steves

Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana

William M. Leogrande

The New Silk Roads: The New Asia and the Remaking of the World Order

Peter Frankopan

Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love

Mike Pompeo

Undaunted: My Fight Against America's Enemies, At Home and Abroad

John O. Brennan

Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

Daniel Gordis

The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

Daniel Ellsberg

Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World’s Oceans

James Stavridis

Public Policy

Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America

Robert B. Reich

Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel

Tom Wainwright

Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis

Tracy Rosenthal

Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the

Scott Gottlieb

The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

Bryan Caplan

Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

Daniel Chandler

Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

Gaia Vince

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Barack Obama

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence

Kristen Ghodsee

The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System

Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman

The World’s Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong (and What Would Make

David J. Lynch

Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service

Michael Lewis

Chaos Under Heaven: America, China, and the Battle for the 21st Century

Josh Rogin

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken

The Secret Barrister

One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger

Matthew Yglesias

Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism

Mariana Mazzucato

The Future of Work: Robots, AI, and Automation

Darrell M. West

The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival

Ron DeSantis

The Fixer: Saving Startups from Death by Politics

Bradley Tusk

Capitalism and Freedom

Milton Friedman

Current Affairs

Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the

Jennifer Palmieri

Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite

Peter Schweizer

A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order

Richard Haass

Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism

Ian Bremmer

It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump

Stuart Stevens

Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the

Michael Isikoff

The January 6th Report: Findings from the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th

Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta

Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

Maggie Haberman

Wildland: The Making of America's Fury

Evan Osnos

Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

Thomas L. Friedman

Permanent Record

Edward Snowden

Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again

Dan Pfeiffer

The New Silk Roads: The New Asia and the Remaking of the World Order

Peter Frankopan

The Witches Are Coming

Lindy West

China In Ten Words: Essays

Yu Hua

Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party

Jonathan Karl

How to Be Right: In a World Gone Wrong

James O’Brien

The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

Daniel Yergin

Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country

Adam Kinzinger

Misinformation

Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies

The Secret Barrister

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt

After the Fall: The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We've Made

Ben Rhodes

Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary

Timothy Snyder

The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House

Ben Rhodes

Deepfakes and the Infocalypse: What You Urgently Need To Know

Nina Schick

Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City

Fang Fang

The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

Michiko Kakutani

Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump

Peter Strzok

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

Timothy Snyder

Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

Barbara McQuade

Who Rules the World?

Noam Chomsky

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Edward S. Herman

The January 6th Report: Findings from the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th

Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire

Kurt Andersen

Propaganda

Edward Bernays

Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to

Jessica Valenti

Google Leaks: A Whistleblower's Exposé of Big Tech Censorship

Zach Vorhies

Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us

Gary F. Marcus

Inequality

How to Be an Anticapitalist in the 21st Century

Erik Olin Wright

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

Mark Blyth

The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society

Binyamin Appelbaum

Wildland: The Making of America's Fury

Evan Osnos

Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

Daniel Chandler

Utopia

Thomas More

Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History

Kurt Andersen

The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age

Tim Wu

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence

Kristen Ghodsee

Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America

Robert B. Reich

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Barack Obama

Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

Rutger Bregman

Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment

Francis Fukuyama

The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens

Gabriel Zucman

Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis

Tracy Rosenthal

No Logo

Naomi Klein

United: Thoughts on finding common ground and advancing the common good

Cory Booker

It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism

Bernie Sanders

Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism

Ian Bremmer

Media

Follow the Science: How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails

Sharyl Attkisson

Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

Ronan Farrow

Speaking for Myself: Faith, Freedom, and the Fight of Our Lives Inside the

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival

Omid Scobie

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the

John Ganz

Crisis Caravan: What’s Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?

Linda Polman

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement

Jodi Kantor

Conspiracy: A True Story of Power, Sex, and a Billionaire's Secret

Ryan Holiday

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Edward S. Herman

Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump

Dan Pfeiffer

Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media

Jacob Mchangama

The Case for Trump

Victor Davis Hanson

Areopagitica: Philosophy)

John Milton

It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump

Stuart Stevens

Them: Why We Hate Each Other – and How to Heal

Ben Sasse

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

Benedict Anderson

What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism

Dan Rather

Melania

Melania Trump

It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism

Bernie Sanders

The Making of Donald Trump

David Cay Johnston

Globalization

Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How

Oliver Bullough

Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization

John Robb

The World’s Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong (and What Would Make

David J. Lynch

How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization

Franklin Foer

Good Economics for Hard Times

Abhijit V. Banerjee

The Shock Doctrine: Disaster capitalism's rise and what it means for you

Naomi Klein

Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower

Henry M. Paulson

The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea

Victor Davis Hanson

No Logo

Naomi Klein

Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism

Ian Bremmer

Age of Anger: A History of the Present

Pankaj Mishra

Rare: The High-Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest

Keith Veronese

Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order

Noam Chomsky

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

Peter Zeihan

Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

Thomas L. Friedman

Why Taiwan Matters: A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate

Kerry Brown

Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and

Lee Kuan Yew

Every Nation For Itself: What Happens When No One Leads the World

Ian Bremmer

The Fractured Age: How Geopolitics Will Splinter the Global Economy

Neil Shearing

The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World

Johan Norberg

Criminal Justice

Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust

James Comey

Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction

Colin Ward

Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our

Shaun King

Guantánamo Diary

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies

The Secret Barrister

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe

A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of

John Preston

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken

The Secret Barrister

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

Patricia Evangelista

Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation

Andrew Weissmann

The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror

Andrew G. McCabe

One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

Åsne Seierstad

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

Beverly Gage

United: Thoughts on finding common ground and advancing the common good

Cory Booker

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

Kamala Harris

Doing Justice: A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of

Preet Bharara

A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership

James Comey

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

Johann Hari

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#NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

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A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership

A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and Creation of the Modern Middle East

A Promised Land

A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea

A Theory of Justice

A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment

A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America

A Warning

A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order

Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis

Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win

Adults in The Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment

After the Fall: The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We've Made

Age of Anger: A History of the Present

Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion

AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump

American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery

An American Sickness: How Health Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford

An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination

Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction

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At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House

Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

Austerity: When It Works and When It Doesn't

Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana

Becoming

Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President

Becoming Kim Jong Un: A Former CIA Officer's Insights into North Korea's Enigmatic Young Dictator

Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

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