6 best-selling political science books like The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century by Helena Rosenblatt

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The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century

By: Helena Rosenblatt

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that h…

If you liked the political science plot in The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century by Helena Rosenblatt , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Bacchae

By: Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None

3.92

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently h… read more

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"Cleverness is not wisdom."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"He who believes needs no explanation."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!"

-Euripides, The Bacchae

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2. The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

By: John Vaillant

3.79

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It's December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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3. Friend of My Youth

By: Alice Munro

3.95

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulte… read more

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4. Runaway

By: Alice Munro

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Here are the infinite betrayals and surprises of love-between men and women, between friends, betwe… read more

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5. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California

By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

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6. On Liberty

By: John Stuart Mill

3.97

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780140432077 Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty p… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • economics
"خير لى أن أكون سقراطا ساخرا , من أن أبقى خنزيرا راضيا"

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

"Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field."

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

"An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular."

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

"Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement."

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

7. Theogony/Works and Days

By: Hesiod , None

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Hesiod, one of the oldest known Greek poets, stands out as the first personality in European litera… read more

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8. 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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9. Why Marx Was Right

By: Terry Eagleton

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism i… read more

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10. On the Republic/On the Laws

By: Marcus Tullius Cicero , None

4.21

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we k… read more

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11. Foucault: A Very Short Introduction

By: Gary Gutting

2.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure. Born in 1926 in France, ov… read more

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12. The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

By: Greg Lukianoff

3.93

Format: 432 pages, ebook

A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-ne… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Mistakes abound when groupthink goes unchallenged."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

"There is nothing about standing up for an underdog (or simply claiming to be) that means you're right."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

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13. The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

By: Stephanie Kelton

4.04

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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14. Why We're Polarized

By: Ezra Klein

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means f… read more

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  • politics
  • political science
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Unfortunately, the term “identity politics"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

"The key idea here is “negative partisanship"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

"So here, then, is the last fifty years of American politics summarized: we became more consistent in the party we vote for not because we came to like our party more—indeed, we’ve come to like the pa…"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

"The political media is biased, but not toward the Left or Right so much as toward loud, outrageous, colorful, inspirational, confrontational. It is biased toward the political stories and figures who…"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

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15. The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism

By: John Gray

3.54

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we un… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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16. Liberalism and Its Discontents

By: Francis Fukuyama

3.93

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

A short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling auth… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • economics
"Нема причин, з яких економічна ефективність має домінувати над усіма іншими соціальними цінностями."

-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents

"Комуністичні суспільства були схильні цінувати виробництво більше за споживання, що призвело до поганих наслідків: у них були «герої соціалістичної праці», але не було продуктів на полицях магазинів."

-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents

"Низка людей, які працюють у цій галузі, починаючи з таких постструктуралістів, як Лакан і Дерріда, писали в такий спосіб, який, здавалося, навмисне затуманював їхні думки й захищав від відповідальнос…"

-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents

"As instituições financeiras comportam-se de modo muito diferente do que as empresas na economia real. Ao contrário de uma companhia de manufatura, um grande banco de investimento é sistemicamente per…"

-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents

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17. How to Blow Up a Pipeline

By: Andreas Malm

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

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18. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

By: Kathleen Belew

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"Belew's book helps explain how we got to today's alt right."―Terry Gross, Fresh Air The white p… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The story of white power as a social movement exposes something broader about the enduring impact of state violence in America. It reveals one catastrophic ricochet of the Vietnam War, in the form of…"

-Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

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19. Considerations on Western Marxism

By: Perry Anderson

4.01

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

This synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in West… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • economics
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20. The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century

By: Helena Rosenblatt

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that h… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • female authors
  • politics
  • germany
  • philosophy
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • economics
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21. The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism

By: Thomas Frank

4.24

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

From the prophetic author of the now-classic What's the Matter with Kansas? and Listen, Liberal, an… read more

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  • politics
  • political science
  • history
  • nonfiction

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John Vaillant

3.79

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John Stuart Mill

3.97

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Greg Lukianoff

3.93

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Stephanie Kelton

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Jane Mayer

4.16

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Michael Parenti

4.41

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Bernie Sanders

4.09

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Robert M. Sapolsky

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