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Books like Lettres persanes
Loved Lettres persanes by Charles-Louis de Secondat baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from politics & society, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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The New Jim Crow
How mass incarceration recreates racial caste in America; a powerful, much-cited argument.
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Between the World and Me
A letter to a son about being Black in America; urgent, lyrical and unflinching.
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Hitler
Imported from Britain, with its penetrating use of relatively new source material, its well sustained narrative, its deep concentration on the man, this book should prove one of the best studies to da
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The Constitution of the United States and related documents
The complete text of the U.S. Constitution including the Bill of Rights and all the Amendments handlettered and decorated with drawings and sketches.
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Farewell address
I own an original 1812 copy of THE VALEDICTORY ADDRESS OF WASHINGTON TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, in pristine condition, published by the "Washington Benevolent Society of Massachusetts". It is
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
How totalitarian movements rise; a demanding but essential work of political thought.
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Caste
American racism reframed as a caste system, compared with India and Nazi Germany; ambitious and resonant.
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Evicted
Poverty and the housing crisis told through eight families; immersive, humane reporting.
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The Shock Doctrine
How crises are used to push through unpopular economic policy; a fierce, influential polemic.
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A Century Of Dishonor
Originally published over 100 years ago, A Century of Dishonor is Helen Jackson’s eye- opening sketch of the U.S. government’s often shameful mishandling of what was called the “Indian problem”. Using