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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

Ronan Farrow

How Democracies Die

Steven Levitsky

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Edward S. Herman

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World

Tim Marshall

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Barack Obama

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Jonathan Haidt

The Shock Doctrine: Disaster capitalism's rise and what it means for you

Naomi Klein

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Daron Acemoglu

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A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America

Philip Rucker

A Warning

Miles Taylor

A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order

Richard Haass

AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

Kai-Fu Lee

Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis

Tracy Rosenthal

Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to

Jessica Valenti

Adults in The Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment

Yanis Varoufakis

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari

After the Fall: The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We've Made

Ben Rhodes

A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir

Jacinda Ardern

Age of Anger: A History of the Present

Pankaj Mishra

A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership

James Comey

Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion

Anthony Pratkanis

A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

Melissa Fleming

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and Creation of the

David Fromkin

A Promised Land

Barack Obama

A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea

Masaji Ishikawa

A Theory of Justice

John Rawls

A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of

John Preston

An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination

Sheera Frenkel

Power Dynamics

A Warning

Miles Taylor

Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk

Elizabeth Anderson

Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

Carol Leonnig

The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Masha Gessen

Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us

Gary F. Marcus

I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

Carol Leonnig

On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller

Richard Norton Smith

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency

Chris Whipple

Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World!

Andrew Breitbart

Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On

Catherine Belton

The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

George Stephanopoulos

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About

Cory Doctorow

Becoming Kim Jong Un: A Former CIA Officer's Insights into North Korea's Enigmatic Young

Jung H. Pak

The Wretched of the Earth

Frantz Fanon

American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and

Tim Alberta

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

Timothy Snyder

On the House: A Washington Memoir

John Boehner

Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam

Vivek Ramaswamy

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

Jason Stanley

Political Science

American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and

Tim Alberta

Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign

Jonathan Allen

The Open Society and Its Enemies

Karl Popper

The Man Without A Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

Masha Gessen

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

Barbara Demick

On the House: A Washington Memoir

John Boehner

Outsider in the White House

Bernie Sanders

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt

The Conscience of a Conservative

Barry Goldwater

The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

Dinesh D’Souza

What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism

Dan Rather

How Democracies Die

Steven Levitsky

Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Non-Violent

Srdja Popovic

Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction

Colin Ward

Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again

Dan Pfeiffer

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

Francis Fukuyama

Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim “Other”

Francis Wade

Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk

Elizabeth Anderson

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Jonathan Haidt

Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media

Jacob Mchangama

Geopolitics

AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

Kai-Fu Lee

The American War in Afghanistan: A History

Carter Malkasian

The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire

Julian Assange

The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks

Joshua Cooper Ramo

New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the

David E. Sanger

Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On

Catherine Belton

Rare: The High-Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest

Keith Veronese

The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House

Ben Rhodes

The Fractured Age: How Geopolitics Will Splinter the Global Economy

Neil Shearing

The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being

Moisés Naím

Freedom: Memories 1954 – 2021

Angela Merkel

Becoming Kim Jong Un: A Former CIA Officer's Insights into North Korea's Enigmatic Young

Jung H. Pak

American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of

Craig Unger

Reagan: The Life

H. W. Brands

Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love

Mike Pompeo

Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

Adam Tooze

Travel as a Political Act: Change the world one trip at a time

Rick Steves

For the Record: THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND ‘THE POLITICAL MEMOIR

David Cameron

Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump

Peter Strzok

Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and

Lee Kuan Yew

Public Policy

American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Andrew M. Cuomo

The Fixer: Saving Startups from Death by Politics

Bradley Tusk

Travel as a Political Act: Change the world one trip at a time

Rick Steves

The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers

Zeke Hernandez

Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary

Timothy Snyder

Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us

Gary F. Marcus

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Barack Obama

Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States and the Road Ahead

Shannon K. O’Neil

The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

Bryan Caplan

The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens

Gabriel Zucman

How to Be an Anticapitalist in the 21st Century

Erik Olin Wright

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

Johann Hari

Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

Mark Blyth

The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System

Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman

One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger

Matthew Yglesias

The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age

Tim Wu

Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service

Michael Lewis

Good Economics for Hard Times

Abhijit V. Banerjee

Engines of Liberty: How Citizen Movements Succeed

David Cole

Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

Gaia Vince

Current Affairs

American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of

Craig Unger

The Witches Are Coming

Lindy West

You Will Own Nothing: Your War with a New Financial World Order and How

Carol Roth

The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent

Ben Shapiro

The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind

Greg Grandin

The January 6th Report: Findings from the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th

Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol

Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism

Ian Bremmer

Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the

Scott Gottlieb

Melania

Melania Trump

Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of

Glenn Simpson

Chaos Under Heaven: America, China, and the Battle for the 21st Century

Josh Rogin

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta

Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

Thomas L. Friedman

The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

David A. Graham

Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy

Jeanine Pirro

Get It Together: Troubling Tales from the Liberal Fringe

Jesse Watters

Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the

Michael Isikoff

The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power

Stephen Vladeck

The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

Daniel Yergin

How Democracies Die

Steven Levitsky

Misinformation

An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination

Sheera Frenkel

Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump

Dan Pfeiffer

Public Opinion

Walter Lippmann

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

Heather Cox Richardson

Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

Anne Applebaum

Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City

Fang Fang

Propaganda

Edward Bernays

How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions

Francis Wheen

The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House

Ben Rhodes

Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies about Our

Kevin Kruse

Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion

Anthony Pratkanis

Ukraine Crisis: What It Means for the West

Andrew Wilson

Talking Across the Divide: How to Communicate with People You Disagree with and Maybe

Justin Lee

Charlatans: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Hucksters Bamboozle the Media, the Markets,

Moises Naim

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

The January 6th Report: Findings from the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th

Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol

Deepfakes and the Infocalypse: What You Urgently Need To Know

Nina Schick

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Edward S. Herman

How to Be Right: In a World Gone Wrong

James O’Brien

Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to

Jessica Valenti

Inequality

China In Ten Words: Essays

Yu Hua

The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

Ernesto Che Guevara

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People

Frances Ryan

The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens

Gabriel Zucman

Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few

Robert B. Reich

Wildland: The Making of America's Fury

Evan Osnos

The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World

Johan Norberg

Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country

Alex Cuadros

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

Anand Giridharadas

Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

Don’t Buy It: The Trouble with Talking Nonsense About the Economy

Anat Shenker-Osorio

The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties

Paul Collier

Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

Rutger Bregman

Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

Daniel Chandler

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Barack Obama

Socialism: A Very Short Introduction

Michael Newman

Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis

Tracy Rosenthal

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Heather McGhee

A Theory of Justice

John Rawls

Media

Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

Maggie Haberman

The Making of Donald Trump

David Cay Johnston

Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies

The Secret Barrister

Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of

Glenn Simpson

The Case for Trump

Victor Davis Hanson

Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy

Jeanine Pirro

Public Opinion

Walter Lippmann

Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

Amy Chozick

The Witches Are Coming

Lindy West

Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People

Frances Ryan

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump

Dan Pfeiffer

Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival

Omid Scobie

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Edward S. Herman

Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the

Russ Buettner

Areopagitica: Philosophy)

John Milton

The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

Chris Hayes

#NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line

David Hogg

Melania

Melania Trump

Conspiracy: A True Story of Power, Sex, and a Billionaire's Secret

Ryan Holiday

Globalization

Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare

Edward Fishman

Why Taiwan Matters: A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate

Kerry Brown

In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong

Amin Maalouf

Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth – and

Dambisa Moyo

Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism

Ian Bremmer

The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global

Peter Zeihan

The Fractured Age: How Geopolitics Will Splinter the Global Economy

Neil Shearing

China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants are Building a New Empire in

Howard French

Every Nation For Itself: What Happens When No One Leads the World

Ian Bremmer

Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States and the Road Ahead

Shannon K. O’Neil

How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization

Franklin Foer

The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea

Victor Davis Hanson

The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World

Johan Norberg

Age of Anger: A History of the Present

Pankaj Mishra

A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order

Richard Haass

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

Peter Zeihan

Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower

Henry M. Paulson

Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How

Oliver Bullough

Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and

Lee Kuan Yew

Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization

John Robb

Criminal Justice

Doing Justice: A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of

Preet Bharara

Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel

Tom Wainwright

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

Kamala Harris

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

Johann Hari

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

Beverly Gage

Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our

Shaun King

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

Ta-Nehisi Coates

United: Thoughts on finding common ground and advancing the common good

Cory Booker

A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of

John Preston

A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership

James Comey

Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation

Andrew Weissmann

Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies

The Secret Barrister

Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust

James Comey

One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

Åsne Seierstad

Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction

Colin Ward

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

Patricia Evangelista

Guantánamo Diary

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror

Andrew G. McCabe

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe

Politics & Current Affairs Library

#NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir

A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership

A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and Creation of the Modern Middle East

A Promised Land

A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea

A Theory of Justice

A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment

A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America

A Warning

A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order

Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis

Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win

Adults in The Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment

After the Fall: The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We've Made

Age of Anger: A History of the Present

Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion

AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump

American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery

An American Sickness: How Health Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford

An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination

Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction

Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Areopagitica: Philosophy)

At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House

Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

Austerity: When It Works and When It Doesn't

Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana

Becoming

Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President

Becoming Kim Jong Un: A Former CIA Officer's Insights into North Korea's Enigmatic Young Dictator

Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

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