Politics & Society

Power, justice and the structures that govern how we live together.

10 books

Social History

Caste

Isabel Wilkerson · 2020

The origins of our discontents: America's hidden caste system.

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Urban Sociology

Evicted

Matthew Desmond · 2016

Poverty and profit in the American city, told through eight families.

pulitzerhousing

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Memoir of Class

Hillbilly Elegy

J. D. Vance · 2016

A memoir of a family and culture in crisis in working-class America.

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Political History

On Tyranny

Timothy Snyder · 2017

Twenty lessons from the twentieth century on resisting authoritarianism.

democracylessons

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Political Memoir

The Audacity of Hope

Barack Obama · 2006

Thoughts on reclaiming the American dream, written before the presidency.

americabestseller

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Criminal Justice

The New Jim Crow

Michelle Alexander · 2010

Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness.

mass-incarcerationcivil-rights

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Political Science

The Origins of Political Order

Francis Fukuyama · 2011

From prehuman times to the French Revolution: how political order emerges.

state-building

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Political Psychology

The Righteous Mind

Jonathan Haidt · 2012

Why good people are divided by politics and religion.

moralitypolarization

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Political Economy

The Shock Doctrine

Naomi Klein · 2007

The rise of disaster capitalism.

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Political Economy

Why Nations Fail

Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson · 2012

The origins of power, prosperity and poverty: inclusive vs. extractive institutions.

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