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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Daron Acemoğlu
4.08 average rating, · 65.9k ratings
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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
Steven Levitsky
4.16 average rating, · 34.3k ratings
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Why We're Polarized
Ezra Klein
4.21 average rating, · 20.4k ratings
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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
Jason F. Stanley
4.25 average rating, · 18.6k ratings
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
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Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
4.40 average rating, · 9.7k ratings
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
Francis Fukuyama
4.19 average rating, · 10.6k ratings
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How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
Barbara F. Walter
4.24 average rating, · 6.2k ratings
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Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
Noam Chomsky
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The Anatomy of Fascism
Robert O. Paxton
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Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People
Thomas Frank
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A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
Thomas Sowell
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How the World Works
Noam Chomsky
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Surviving Autocracy
Masha Gessen
4.14 average rating, · 4.8k ratings
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American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
Chris Hedges
4.03 average rating, · 4.9k ratings
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Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
Amy Chua
4.19 average rating, · 4.1k ratings
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The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
Daron Acemoğlu
4.22 average rating, · 4k ratings
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Death of the Liberal Class
Chris Hedges
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The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent
Ben Shapiro
4.15 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
Friedrich A. Hayek
4.22 average rating, · 2.6k ratings
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How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship
Ece Temelkuran
4.04 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
James Burnham
4.27 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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The Naked Communist
W. Cleon Skousen
4.29 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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The Light that Failed: A Reckoning
Ivan Krastev
4.14 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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