Nonfiction
Politics & Society, Explained
Books that make sense of how we live together.
14 books · ranked
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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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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
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American Government
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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Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed. HC)
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
"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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Bel-Ami
.I Quand la caissiere lui eut rendu la monnaie de sa piece de cent sous, Georges Duroy sortit du restaurant. Comme il portait beau, par nature et par pose d'ancien sous-officier, il cambra sa taille,
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Buried Alive
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
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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De amor y de sombra
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