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Books like Speeches
Loved Speeches by Cicero? 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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De bello judaico
The Jewish War is a work of Jewish history written by Josephus, a first-century Roman-Jewish historian. It has been described by the biblical historian Steve Mason as "perhaps the most influential non
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Plutarchi Vitae parallelae
This story is set in the mid-fourth century B.C., in the city-state of Syracuse on the island of Sicily. It's the story of two father-and-son tyrant rulers who called themselves kings, both named Dion
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Istorie Fiorentine
The extraordinary times, persons and events in Florence, Italy history from the period of 379-1492.
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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