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Books like Marlborough

Loved Marlborough by Winston S. Churchill? 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 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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    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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    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 Origins of Totalitarianism

    Hannah Arendt · 1951 · Politics & Society

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

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    Buried Alive

    Arnold Bennett · 1910 · Politics & Society

    No one in England would recognize famous painter Priam Farll, as he has lived abroad for many years. He is also quite shy and decides to change identities with his valet so not to be bothered by visit

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    Coniston

    Winston Churchill · 1906 · Politics & Society

    This book is about a love-story of long ago, of a time some little while after General Jackson had got into the White House and had shown the world what a real democracy was. The Era of the first six

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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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    Memoirs of a Revolutionist

    Peter Kropotkin · 1899 · Politics & Society

    Published in Atlantic monthly Sep. 1898-Sep. 1899 under title The autobiography of a revolutionist. Graphic details of Russian conditions and of an eventful life. — A.L.A. Catalog 1904 “Kropotkin’s st

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