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
Partisans
The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s
Politics
History
American History
Unstable Majorities
Polarization, Party Sorting, and Political Stalemate
Politics
Political Science
The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism
Politics
History
Political Science
How to Lie with Maps
Geography
Maps
Cartography
The Death of Truth
Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
Politics
History
Philosophy
The Destructionists
The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party
Politics
History
Current Affairs
Democracy
A Life
History
Politics
Philosophy
Why the New Deal Matters
History
Politics
American History
Le suicide français
France
Politics
History
The Acquisitive Society
Economics
Sociology
Politics
White Borders
The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall
History
Politics
Race
The War on the West
Politics
History
Philosophy
The Politics of Rage
George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics
Politics
History
American History
The Great Exception
The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics
History
Politics
Economics
The Age of Acquiescence
The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
History
Politics
Economics
The Economists' Hour
False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
Economics
History
Politics
The Great Risk Shift
The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement--And How You Can Fight Back
Economics
Politics
History
The Bloody Shirt
Terror After Appomattox
History
Civil War
American History
The Shadows of Power
The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline
Politics
History
Conspiracy Theories
Earth Democracy
Justice, Sustainability, and Peace
Environment
Politics
Sustainability
Citizenship between Empire and Nation
Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960
History
Africa
France
From Rebel to Ruler
One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party
China
History
Politics
Making Gay Okay
How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything
Cultural
Politics
Catholic
A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877
History
American History
Civil War
The Price of Democracy
The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History
History
Politics
Economics
Unequal Democracy
The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age
Politics
Economics
Political Science
The Fall of the House of Labor
The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925
History
Labor
Politics
The Quest for Community
A Study in the Ethics of Order & Freedom
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
Nationalism
Five Roads to Modernity
History
Politics
Sociology
American Grace
How Religion Divides and Unites Us
Religion
Politics
Sociology
Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy
Politics
History
Political Science
Explaining Postmodernism
Skepticism And Socialism From Rousseau To Foucault
Philosophy
Politics
History
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
History
Politics
Sociology
Why Privacy Matters
Technology
Politics
Science
Ungoverning
The Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos
Politics
Government
The Divided States of America
Why Federalism Doesn't Work
Politics
History
American History
The Right
The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
Politics
History
American History
Paths Out of Dixie
The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944-1972
History
Politics
Political Science
The Age of Responsibility
Luck, Choice, and the Welfare State
Politics
Philosophy
Economics
How Democratic Is the American Constitution?
Politics
History
Political Science
The Wretched of the Earth
Politics
History
Philosophy
America’s Best Idea
The Separation of Church and State
History
Politics
Religion
Birth of the Leviathan
History
Politics
Political Science
A Nation Under Our Feet
Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
History
American History
Race
Why Nudge?
The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism
Politics
Economics
Psychology
A Nation of Deadbeats
An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters
History
Economics
Politics
The Good Society
Sociology
Philosophy
Society
How to Make a Killing
Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine
Medicine
Science
History
Political Animals
How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics
Politics
Psychology
History
Yankee Leviathan
The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877
History
American History
Politics
