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Loved The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt? 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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    Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed. HC)

    Ayn Rand · 1936 · Politics & Society

    The year 2005 marks Ayn Rand's Centennial Year.The astounding story of a man that said that he would stop the motor of the world-and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrug

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    Bartleby, the Scrivener

    Herman Melville · 1966 · Politics & Society

    "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Putnam's Magazine in two parts. The first part appeared in November 1853

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    Válka s mloky

    Karel Čapek · 1936 · Politics & Society

    Originally written in 1936, two years before Capek's death and three years before the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, War with the Newts is considered by many to be Capek's greatest book. Working in

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    The Logic of Scientific Discovery

    Karl Popper · 1935 · Politics & Society

    When first published in 1959, this book revolutionized contemporary thinking about science and knowledge. It remains the one of the most widely read books about science to come out of the twentieth ce

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    Marlborough

    Winston S. Churchill · 1933 · Politics & Society

    "Marlborough: His Life and Times is an exhaustive, four-volume panegyric biography, in which Churchill defends his ancestor against claims of war-mongering and charlatanism made by Thomas Macaulay, a

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    The Planning (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003

    Rand McNally · 1972 · Politics & Society

    Hello. I recommend this book to everyone. There you will find a lot of interesting things for your health. You can use their advice and be healthy. But if you need psychological help, you can always u

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    American Government

    James Q. Wilson · 1980 · Politics & Society

    This classic text, known for its authoritative scholarship, clarity, and comprehensive coverage, explores the foundations of our national political system and shows how the fundamental features of our

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    De amor y de sombra

    Isabel Allende · 1984 · Politics & Society

    En palabras de la propia Isabel Allende, De amor y de sombra «es la historia de una mujer y un hombre que se amaron en plenitud, salvándose así de una historia vulgar. La he llevado en la memoria cuid

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