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Loved Farewell address by George Washington? 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

    Michelle Alexander · 2010 · Politics & Society

    How mass incarceration recreates racial caste in America; a powerful, much-cited argument.

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    Between the World and Me

    Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2015 · Politics & Society

    A letter to a son about being Black in America; urgent, lyrical and unflinching.

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    The Constitution of the United States and related documents

    United States · 1787 · Politics & Society

    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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    Organon der rationellen Heilkunde

    Samuel Hahnemann · 1810 · Politics & Society

    Organon der rationellen Heilkunde (Dresden 1810). Spätere, jeweils vermehrte und veränderte Auflagen unter dem Titel: [Organon der Heilkunst][1]. [1]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL13116389W/Organon_

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    The bravo

    James Fenimore Cooper · 1831 · Politics & Society

    Originally published in 1831, this novel is set in Venice in the bygone days of the Doges. It was inspired by Cooper's travels in Italy. The author has intended to give his countrymen, writes Cooper i

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    Qu'est-ce que la propriété?

    P.-J. Proudhon · 1840 · Politics & Society

    “Property is robbery!” This slogan coined by the French political philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon is one of his answers to the titular question of his 1840 treatise, What Is Property? A fervent att

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    Life of George Washington

    Washington Irving · 1850 · Politics & Society

    Originally published in five volumes between 1853 and 1859, it is a treasure chest of information on Washington and the Civil War. This work is presumeably the most intimate and fascinating biography

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    Romola

    George Eliot · 1863 · Politics & Society

    Eliot’s only historical novel, set in 15th century Florence under the rule of the Medicis, blends fact with fiction as the reader follows the almost saint-like Romola and the amoral and feckless Tito

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    Max Havelaar of de koffijveilingen der Nederlansche handelmaatschappij

    Multatuli · 1868 · Politics & Society

    Max Havelaar; or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company (Dutch: Max Havelaar; of, De koffi-veilingen der Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappy) is an 1860 novel by Multatuli (the pen name of Edu

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    Lettres persanes

    Charles-Louis de Secondat baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu · 1721 · Politics & Society

    "This translation of Montesquieu's unsurpassed epistolary novel, the first to appear in over thirty years, is completely new and aims at being as literal as possible, including pulling no punches with

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