26 Best nonfiction books like The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger by Bhaskar Sunkara

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The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger

By: Bhaskar Sunkara

4.02

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

"The collection strikes a blackly comic but erudite tone."–Sophia Nguyen, The Washington PostKissin…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger by Bhaskar Sunkara , here is a list of 26 books like this:

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1. Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman

By: Greg Grandin

4.03

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

A new account of America’s most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"Henry, there’s something I would like to tell you, for what it’s worth, something I wish I had been told years ago. You’ve been a consultant for a long time, and you’ve dealt a great deal with top se…"

-Greg Grandin, Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman

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2. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

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3. On Palestine

By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

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4. The State and Revolution

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

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5. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

6. The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

By: Norman G. Finkelstein

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own gain. In a… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war

7. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By: Ilan Pappé

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more

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8. Ten Myths about Israel

By: Ilan Pappé

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more

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9. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View

By: Ellen Meiksins Wood

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more

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10. Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam

By: Nick Turse

4.21

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated inc… read more

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11. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

By: Vincent Bevins

4.28

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 20… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

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12. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

By: Marc Lamont Hill

4.21

Format: 227 pages, Hardcover

A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins

13. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

By: Vincent Bevins

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

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14. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics by Troy Vettese

15. Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

By: Troy Vettese

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this thrilling and capacious book, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass challenge the inertia of ca… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"The aim for socialism is not Soviet-style Stakhanovite toil, but rien faire comme une bête."

-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

"Nothing scares neoliberals more than radical science allied with social movements, but until such a union arises, they have little to fear."

-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

"Despite our knowledge of what needs to be done, carbon emissions increase and mass extinctions continue relentlessly. Capital is at the helm, blindly steering the ship of fools towards ecological dis…"

-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

"Environmentalists think that their political moderation will be rewarded by the powerful, who will allow them to play a small role in shaping the future. Yet the elite and their neoliberal brain trus…"

-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

Cover of Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

16. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

Cover of The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation by Cory Doctorow

17. The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation

By: Cory Doctorow

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A detailed disassembly manual for people who want to dismantle Big Tech When the tech platforms … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue

18. You Dreamed of Empires

By: Álvaro Enrigue

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more

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Cover of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein

19. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

By: Antony Loewenstein

4.44

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation by Sophie   Lewis

20. Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

By: Sophie Lewis

3.70

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

What if everyone was family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom by Norman G. Finkelstein

21. Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom

By: Norman G. Finkelstein

4.66

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

The Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories by Ilan Pappé

22. The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories

By: Ilan Pappé

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Following his critically acclaimed investigation of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1940s,… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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23. README.txt

By: Chelsea Manning

4.23

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, revealing memoir from one of the most important activists of our time. While workin… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"With enough grief, adrenaline, and fear we can all become amoral- even malevolent."

-Chelsea Manning, README.txt

Cover of The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor by Hamilton Nolan

24. The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor

By: Hamilton Nolan

4.16

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A timely, in-depth, and vital exploration of the American labor movement and its critical place in … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

By: Elizabeth Catte

4.02

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America’s “forgotten tribe” of white working… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence by Matteo Pasquinelli

26. The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence

By: Matteo Pasquinelli

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial fact… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. Dirtbag: Essays

By: Amber A'Lee Frost

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The victories and failures of millennial socialism, as told by the writer who lived it. Amber A'Le… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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28. The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger

By: Bhaskar Sunkara

4.02

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

"The collection strikes a blackly comic but erudite tone."–Sophia Nguyen, The Washington PostKissin… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

29. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Salvage Editions) by Kevin Ochieng Okoth

30. Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Salvage Editions)

By: Kevin Ochieng Okoth

4.15

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

Salvaging a decolonised futureRed Africa makes the case for a revolutionary Black politics inspired… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. The Case for Open Borders

By: John Washington

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A beautifully-written, broadly accessible, and forthright argument for a solution to the migration … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

24 Best history books like The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger by Bhaskar Sunkara

Transform Your Habits

Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman

Greg Grandin

4.03

Transform Your Habits

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Transform Your Habits

On Palestine

Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

Transform Your Habits

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

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8 Best history books like The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence by Matteo Pasquinelli

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Transform Your Habits

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation

Cory Doctorow

4.17

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