Best Politics Books

What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever. "It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman.” -CNN Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media—from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs—it has taken on even greater significance. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of entertainment. It is also a blueprint for regaining control of our media, so that they can serve our highest goals. “A brilliant, powerful, and important book. This is an indictment that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one.” –Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued. If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that you're a woman.Invisib...

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative d...

Carl von Clausewitz's On War has been called, "not simply the greatest, but the only truly great book on war." It is an extraordinary attempt to construct an allembracing theory of how war works. Its coherence and ambition are unmatched by other military literature. On War is full of sharp observation, biting irony, and memorable phrases, the most...

The intelligence failures surrounding the invasion of Iraq dramatically illustrate the necessity of developing standards for evaluating expert opinion. This book fills that need. Here, Philip E. Tetlock explores what constitutes good judgment in predicting future events, and looks at why experts are often wrong in their forecasts. Tetlock first dis...

In the words of economist and scholar Arnold Kling, Martin Gurri saw it coming.Technology, has categorically reversed the information balance of power between the public and the elites who manage the great hierarchical institutions of the industrial age government, political parties, the media.The Revolt of the Public tells the story of how insurgen...

Winner of the NBCC Award for General NonfictionNamed on Amazon's Best Books of the Year 2015Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the YearAngus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (Bloomberg/WSJ) Best Books of 2015Matt Bevin, Governor of Kentucky (WSJ) Books of the YearSlate.com's 10 Best Books of 2015Entertainment Week...

A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America?s turn towards authoritarianism.On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible: the election of Donald Trump as president. Against all predictions, one of the mostdisliked presidential candidates in history had swept the electoral college, elevating a man w...

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Bill Gates's Five Books for Summer Reading 2019From worldrenowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it.Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thriving cities versus rural counties, the highly skil...

Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial trading post is a thriving Asian metropolis with not only the world's number one airline, best airport, and busiest port of trade, but also the world's fourthhighest per capita real incomeThe story of th...

In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the selfregulating market, but the potentially dire social consequences of untempered market capitalism. New i...

"Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise is The Soul of a New Machine for the 21st century." ?Rachel Maddow, author of Drift Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair?s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger?all by the time he was thirty. He solidified his sta...

The Road to Wigan Pier authored by George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) was an autobiographical novel by the author written in those days of his life that we say struggling days. He was moving around from one city to the other and it were those days when he left his job at the Booklovers' Corner. A photograph taken by the esteemed photographer 'Ceridw...

"This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on the era we are now entering. Following on the success of his bestselling The Future of Freedom, Zakaria describes with equal prescience a world in which the United States will no longer dominate the global...

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making?from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in...

In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the “constrained” vision, which sees human nature as unchanging and selfish, and the “unconstrained” vision, in which human nature is malleable and perfectible. He describes how these two radically ...

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Grand strategist and founder of modern Singapore offers key insights and controversial opinions on globalization, geopolitics, economic growth, and democracy.When Lee Kuan Yew speaks, presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, and CEOs listen. Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990, has honed his wisdom d...

The international bestseller on the extent to which personal freedom has been eroded by government regulations and agencies while personal prosperity has been undermined by government spending and economic controls. New Foreword by the Authors; Index....

NO LOGO was an international bestseller and "a movement bible" (The New York Times). Naomi Klein's second book, The Shock Doctrine, was hailed as a "master narrative of our time," and has over a million copies in print worldwide.In the last decade, No Logo has become an international phenomenon and a cultural manifesto for the critics of unfettered...

A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, and Noam Chomsky, among others, are reveal...

Now a National Bestseller!Evangelicals are losing the culture war. What if it?s their faultIn 2016, writer and filmmaker Ben Howe found himself disillusioned with the religious movement he?d always called home. In the pursuit of electoral victory, many American evangelicals embraced moral relativism and toxic partisanship.Whatever happened to the ...

Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated ...

NATIONAL BEST SELLERFor five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a singleengine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problemsfrom economic dislocation to the opioid scourgebut it is also crafting solutions, with a practicalminded determination at dramatic...

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Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on EarthBig Oil and Gas Versus Democracy—Winner Take All Rachel Maddow’s Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oilandgas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey...

"No matter your politics or home country this will change how you think about the movement of people between poor and rich countries...one of the best books on immigration written in a generation." Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted The definitive chronicle of our new age of global migration, told through the multigenerational saga of a Filipino...

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2019 BestOf Lists: 10 Best Science Books of the Year (Smithsonian Magazine) Best Science Books of the Year (NPR's Science Friday) Best Science and Technology, Books from 2019" (Library Journal) An astute and timely examination of the reemergence of scientific research into racial differences.Superior tells the disturbing story of the persisten...

Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly Who deserves to be called a misogynist How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist or increase even when sexist gender roles are waning This book is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics by the moral philosopher and wr...

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In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entrylevel prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An awardwinning investigative journalist, he used his real name; In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of forprofit prisons in Ameri...

With his trademark blend of political history, social science, economics, and pop culture, twotime NYT bestselling author, syndicated columnist, National Review senior editor, and American Enterprise Institute fellow Jonah Goldberg makes the timely case that America and other democracies are in peril as they lose the will to defend the values and ...

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Health care is the largest employer in America, one of the largest perceived drains on the budget of the Federal government, a system with the capacity to bankrupt entire state economies, and one of the areas of personal expenditure that gives individual American citizens most financial anxiety. It matters like almost no other dimension of the gove...

In the universally acclaimed and awardwinning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed stateshome to the poorest one billion people on Earthpose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. The book shines muchneeded light on this group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized W...

From the bestselling author of Public Enemies & The Big Rich , an account of the battle between the FBI & revolutionary movements of the '70s: Weathermen, The Symbionese Liberation Army, The FALN, The Black Liberation Army. The names seem quaint now, but then bombings by domestic underground groups were daily occurrences. The FBI combated these ...

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by dreams of newly opened markets. But no one could have foreseen that the greatest success story to arise from these events would be the worldwide rise of organi...

From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump—the key to understanding the rise of the altright, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American political history....

Klein, who is known for getting the inside scoop on everyone from the Kennedys to the Clintons, reveals neverbeforepublished details about the Obama administration's political inner workings, as well as Barack and Michelle's personal lives....

A stirring and incisive manifesto on America's slide away from truth and reason. Over the last three decades, Michiko Kakutani has been thinking and writing about the demise of objective truth in popular culture, academia, and contemporary politics. In The Death of Truth, she connects the dots to reveal the slow march of untruth up to our present m...

In this gripping, revelatory, and brilliantly reported book, acclaimed Pulitzer Prize?winning journalist Ron Suskind tells for the first time the full story of America's financial meltdown and an untested new president charged with commanding Washington, taming Wall Street, rescuing an economy on the verge of collapse, and restoring the confidence ...

More than four billion people?some 60 percent of humanity?live in debilitating poverty, on less than $5 per day. The standard narrative tells us this crisis is a natural phenomenon, having to do with things like climate and geography and culture. It tells us that all we have to do is give a bit of aid here and there to help poor countries up the de...

I have learned that the story of a nations success, and the success of each one of us, is a slow awakening to the timeless value of the long game.In October 1984, a hardcharging Kentucky politician waited excitedly for President Ronald Reagan to arrive at a presidential rally in Louisville. In the midst of a tough Senate campaign, the young Republ...

"The "political biography of our time, now available in a fourvolume hardcover set. Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson is one of the richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American president. It is the magnum opus of a writer perfectly suited to his task: the Pulitzer Prizewinning biographerhistorian, ...

A major new history of the British appeasement of the Third Reich in the lead up to World War II On a September day in 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off a plane and prepared to address the teeming crowd assembled on the airfield. Chamberlain had just returned from Munich, where he had averted the greatest crisis of the century. H...

An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country?s leading organizers and a cocreator of Black Lives Matter In 2013, Alicia Garza wrote what she called ?a love letter to Black people? on Facebook, in the aftermath of the acquittal of the man who murdered seventeenyearold Trayv...

Tolerance currently occupies a very high place in Western societies: it is considered gauche, even boorish, to question it. In The Intolerance of Tolerance, however, questioning tolerance or, at least, contemporary understandings of tolerance is exactly what D. A . Carson does.Carson traces the subtle but enormous shift in the way we have com...

Once described by the Washington Post as ?the most interesting mayor you?ve never heard of,? Pete Buttigieg, the thirtysevenyearold mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has now emerged as one of the nation?s most visionary politicians. With soaring prose that celebrates a resurgent American Midwest, Shortest Way Home narrates the heroic transformation ...

What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. Millions of mostly young people defiantly flooded into the nation?s streets, demanding an end to police brutality and to the broader, systemic repression of Black people and other people o...

From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising narrative of America’s wartime chief executives It sometimes seems, in retrospect, as if America has been almost continuously at war. Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders...

An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and ba...

The Age of Reason represents the results of years of study and reflection by Thomas Paine on the place of religion in society.Paine wrote: "Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue u...

A revealing new portrait of Robert F. Kennedy that gets closer to the man than any book before, by bestselling author Chris Matthews, an esteemed Kennedy expert and anchor of MSNBC?s Hardball.With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews shared a new look of one of America?s most beloved Presidents and the patriotic spirit that define...

The congressional agenda, Frances Lee contends, includes many issues about which liberals and conservatives generally agree. Even over these matters, though, Democratic and Republican senators tend to fight with each other. What explains this discord Beyond Ideology argues that many partisan battles are rooted in competition for power rather than ...

This new collection of essays bears the unmistakable stamp of Theodore Dalrymple's bracingly clearsighted view of the human condition. In these twentysix pieces, Dr. Dalrymple ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx, from the breakdown of Islam to the legalization of drugs. The book includes "When Islam Breaks Down," named by D...

An Economist Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Economics Book of the YearA Fast Company "7 Books Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says You Need to Lead Smarter"Between 1820 and 1990, the share of world income going to today's wealthy nations soared from twenty percent to almost seventy. Since then, that share has plummeted to where it was in 1...

The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendshipsand how it influenced modern thoughtDavid Hume is arguably the most important philosopher ever to have written in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his religious skepticism and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith, now hailed as...

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?Fascists,? ?Brownshirts,? ?jackbooted stormtroopers??such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. But who are the real fascists in our midst Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective on th...

Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter of the U.S. war against Islamic extremism in Iraq. He has been both a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous places and a legendary...

The founder ofBlackwater offers thegripping true storyof the world’s mostcontroversial militarycontractor.In 1997, former Navy SEAL Erik Prince started a business that would recruit civiliansfor the riskiest security jobs in the world. As Blackwater’s reputation grew, demandfor its services escalated, and its men eventually completed nearly 100,000...

Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years and has grown increasingly frustrated with the rosetinted view of this part of the world offered up by the Western media. In this timely book, he leaves his adopted home of Denmark and embarks on a journey through all five of the Nordic countries to discover who the...

Previously published as Naked Diplomacy.Who will be in power in the 21st century Governments Big business Internet titans And how do we influence the futureDigital Technology, is changing power at a faster rate than any time in history. Distrust is fuelling political uncertainty; inequality is fuelling economic uncertainty; and massive technolo...

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A smart and revealing political memoir from a rising star of the Democratic Party.Barack Obama has called Jason Kander the future of the Democratic Party. A former Army Captain who served in Afghanistan, Kander was the first millennial ever elected to statewide office. Today, he is the founder and president of Let America Vote and a bold new voice ...

In this inspirational and moving memoirreminiscent of When Breath Becomes Air and The Bright Houractivist Ady Barkan explores his life with ALS and how his diagnosis gave him a profound new understanding of his commitment to social justice for all. Ady Barkan loved taking afternoon runs on the California coast and holding his newborn son, Carl. But...

The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring mainly from the fact that Africa lost power. Power is the ultimate determinant in human society, being basic to the relations within any group and between groups. It implies the ability to defend one's interests and if necessary to impose one?s will ...

Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical selfhelp, societyhelp, and planethelp designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of evermutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against suc...

Since its U.S. debut a quartercentury ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.Rather than chronology, geography, or...

What keeps us going when times get tough How do we keep on working for a more humane world, no matter how hard it sometimes seems In a time when our involvement has never been needed more, this anthology of political hope will help readers with the essential work of healing our communities, our nation, our planetdespite all odds. In THE IMPOSSIBL...

A growing number of Americans want to tear down what it?s taken us 250 years to build?and they?ll start by canceling our shared history, ideals, and culture.Traditional areas of civic agreement are vanishing. We can?t agree on what makes America special. We can?t even agree that America is special. We?re coming to the point that we can?t even agree...

Meticulously scrutinizes the social and political consequences of our increasingly digitized world.' KirkusThe internet was meant to set us free.Tech has radically changed the way we live our lives. But have we unwittingly handed too much away to shadowy powers behind a wall of code, all manipulated by a handful of Silicon Valley utopians, ad me...

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of ema...

Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors.North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which perio...

Providing students of economics, politics, and policy with a concise explanation of public choice, markets, property, and political and economic processes, this record identifies what kinds of actions are beyond the ability of government. Combining public choice with studies of the value of property rights, markets, and institutions, this account p...

Author of the #1 "New York Times" bestseller "Against All Enemies," former presidential advisor and counterterrorism expert Clarke sounds a timely and chilling warning about America's vulnerability in a terrifying new international conflict....

This classic text is a comparative political study, based on extensive survey data that defined and analysed the Greek concept of civic virtuelture: the political and social attitudes that are crucial to the success of modern democracy in Western nations. Cited extensively, the book was origionall published in 1963....

What is the motive to the secret ballot This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other. They can contrive to bring about a sufficient understanding to enable them to act in concert against other pers...

The great historian of classical liberalism strips away the veneer of exalted leaders and beloved wars. Professor Ralph Raico shows them to be wolves in sheep's clothing and their wars as attacks on human liberty and human rights.In the backdrop of this blistering and deeply insightful and scholarly history is the whitewashing of "great leaders" li...

A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today?s world, written by one of America?s most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of stateA Fascist, observes Madeleine Albright, ?is someone who claims to speak for a whole nation or group, is utterly unconcerned with t...

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Democracy is in bad health. The symptoms are familiar: the rise of fearmongering populists, widespread distrust in the establishment, personality contests and pointscoring in place of reasoned debate, slogans instead of expertise. Against Elections offers a new diagnosis ? and an ancient remedy. In this ingenious book, David Van Reybrouck reminds...

The first full lifeprivate, public, legal, philosophicalof the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the most profound and profoundly transformative legal minds of our time; a book fifteen years in work, written with the cooperation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and based on many interviews with the justice, her husband, her children, her friend...

A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States?winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others?that reminds us of fundamental American principles.?Insightful and inspirational, The American Spirit summons a vexed and divided natio...

A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Condition is a in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems Arendt identified thendiminishin...

The Apology of Socrates by Plato, presents the selfdefence speech that Socrates made at his trial for impiety and corruption in 399 BC specifically against the charges of "corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel" (24b)....

Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books including the international bestseller Men Explain Things to Me. Called ?the voice of the resistance? by the New York Times, she has emerged as an essential guide to our times, through incisive commentary on feminism, violence, ecology, hope, and everything in between.In this powerful and wide...

Compellingly written and evenhanded in its judgments, this is by far the clearest account of what has happened through the years in the Northern Ireland conflict, and why. After a chapter of background on the period from 1921 to 1963, it covers the ensuing periodthe descent into violence, the hunger strikes, the AngloIrish accord, the bombers in...

The author of "Across the Wire" offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only 12 men came back out....

A field manual to the technologies that are changing our lives at bewildering speed Everywhere we turn, our everyday experience is being overlaid and interrupted by startling new technologies. Today, we depend on the smartphone as an interface to an urban environment we share with autonomous drones and selfdriving cars, even as we use augmentedre...

By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate changeincluding how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. Losing Earth is their story, and...

From master storyteller and New York Times bestselling Historian H. W. Brands comes the definitive biography of a visionary and transformative president In his magisterial new biography, H. W. Brands brilliantly establishes Ronald Reagan as one of the two great presidents of the twentieth century, a true peer to Franklin Roosevelt. Reagan conve...

"Stitched Up" delves into the alluring world of fashion to reveal what is behind the clothes we wear. Moving between Karl Lagerfeld and Karl Marx, the book explores consumerism, class and advertising to reveal the interests which benefit from exploitation....

Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts to build a rich, nuanced understanding. In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analys...

"Cato, history's most famous foe of authoritarian power, was the pivotal political man of Rome; an inspiration to our Founding Fathers; and a cautionary figure for our times. He loved Roman republicanism, but saw himself as too principled for the mere politics that might have saved it. His life and lessons are urgently relevant in the harshly divid...

The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter. Alexis de Tocqueville was a French historian and political scientist best known for the work Democracy in America on the American political system. Tocqueville is in the row with the greatest political and economic thinkers Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Keynes, John Locke, ...