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Loved The Constitution of the United States and related documents by United States? 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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    Farewell address

    George Washington · 1796 · Politics & Society

    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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    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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    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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    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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    The Origins of Totalitarianism

    Hannah Arendt · 1951 · Politics & Society

    How totalitarian movements rise; a demanding but essential work of political thought.

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