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
Producers, Parasites, Patriots
Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity
Politics
Race
United States
Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic
History
Politics
Citizens
A Chronicle of the French Revolution
History
France
French Revolution
Democracy When the People Are Thinking
Revitalizing Our Politics Through Public Deliberation
Politics
Political Science
Eisenhower
Soldier and President
Biography
History
Presidents
The War Against the Past
Why The West Must Fight For Its History
History
Politics
A True History of the United States
Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism
History
Politics
American History
Uneasy Alliances
Race and Party Competition in America
Politics
Political Science
Social Justice
The Thinkers
The Rise of Partisan Think Tanks and the Polarization of American Politics
Politics
Our Dear Friends in Moscow
The Inside Story of a Broken Generation
Russia
History
Politics
The Bitter End
The 2020 Presidential Campaign and the Challenge to American Democracy
Politics
History
Political Science
A Revolution in Favor of Government
Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State
History
Politics
American History
The One Percent Solution
How Corporations Are Remaking America One State at a Time
Politics
Economics
American Prison
A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
History
Politics
Sociology
A Failure of Capitalism
The Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression
Economics
History
Politics
Echo Chamber
Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment
Politics
Research
Popular Dictatorships
Crises, Mass Opinion, and the Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism
Politics
Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?
Politics
Economics
History
The Forum and the Tower
How Scholars and Politicians Have Imagined the World, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt
Philosophy
History
Law
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Philosophy
Classics
Politics
The Pursuit of Loneliness
American Culture at the Breaking Point
Sociology
Psychology
Philosophy
A New World Begins
The History of the French Revolution
History
France
French Revolution
Building a New American State
The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities 1877-1920
History
Political Science
Politics
Who Rules America Now? A View for the 80's
Sociology
Politics
Political Science
The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite
Sociology
Politics
Political Science
Atlas Shrugged Part B
Philosophy
Dystopia
Business
Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East
Deception, Disinformation and Social Media
Middle East
Technology
Politics
Harvest the Vote
How Democrats Can Win Again in Rural America
Politics
Organizing America
Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism
History
Sociology
Business
American Taxation, American Slavery
History
Economics
American History
The Future of Liberalism
Politics
Philosophy
Political Science
Capitalism and Its Critics
A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI
Economics
History
Politics
Un espectro recorre el mundo. Sobre el Manifiesto comunista
Politics
History
Philosophy
Deeply Divided
Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America
Politics
History
Race
Nation on the Take
How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It
Politics
Economics
Decolonizing Palestine
The Land, The People, The Bible
Religion
History
Politics
La défaite de l'Occident
Politics
History
France
Rich Thanks to Racism
Race
Economics
Politics
Who Rules America?
The Corporate Rich, White Nationalist Republicans, and Inclusionary Democrats in the 2020s
Politics
America's Three Regimes
A New Political History
History
Politics
American History
Post-Racial or Most-Racial?
Race and Politics in the Obama Era
Politics
Race
African American
Demosclerosis
The Silent Killer of American Government
Politics
History
Another World Is Possible
How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Politics
Change They Can't Believe In
The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America
Politics
American History
Political Science
Kings or People
Power and the Mandate to Rule
History
Sociology
Political Science
These United States
A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present
History
Politics
American History
Big Money
2.5 Billion Dollars, One Suspicious Vehicle, and a Pimp-on the Trail of the Ultra-Rich Hijacking American Politics
Politics
History
Hitler
Ascent 1889-1939
History
Biography
Politics
The Global Police State
Politics
Sociology
Political Science
Past and Present
History
Philosophy
Politics
