14 Best history books like American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers by Perry Anderson

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American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers

By: Perry Anderson

3.98

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Magisterial account of the ideas and the figures who have forged the American Empire.Since the birt…

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1. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

By: Tim Weiner

3.94

Format: 514 pages, Hardcover

For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its t… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • the united states of america
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
"To the CIA, everyone's an outsider."

-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

"Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light."

-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

"The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition."

-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

"It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world."

-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

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2. For Marx (Radical Thinkers)

By: Louis Althusser

3.93

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A milestone in the development of post-war Marxist thought. This is the work in which Louis Alth… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

4. The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays

By: Richard Hofstadter

4.29

Format: None pages,

This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence Americ… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
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5. Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context

By: Lars T. Lih

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School

By: Stuart Jeffries

3.62

Format: None pages, ebook

"Grand Hotel Abyss investigates the lives and afterlives of the critical theorists who formed the F… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

7. Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life

By: Theodor W. Adorno , None

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece, built from aphorisms and reflections. A reflection… read more

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8. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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9. Historical Capitalism with Capitalist Civilization

By: Immanuel Wallerstein

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this short, highly readable book Immanuel Wallerstein provides a condensation of the central ide… read more

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10. A Brief History of Neoliberalism

By: David Harvey

3.76

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guid… read more

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11. American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804

By: Alan Taylor

3.14

Format: 54 pages, Hardcover

Often wishfully understood as a high-minded, orderly event, the American Revolution builds in this … read more

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12. Petersburg

By: Andrei Bely , Robert A. Maguire , None

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

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13. The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times

By: Odd Arne Westad

4.25

Format: 194 pages,

The Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States indelibly shaped the world we li… read more

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14. Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

By: Jefferson R. Cowie

3.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An epic account of how middle-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals o… read more

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15. Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City

By: Mike Davis , None

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2001 Carey McWilliams Award Is the capital of Latin America a small island at the mou… read more

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16. A Confederacy of Dunces

By: John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy

3.89

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thom… read more

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  • american
"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!"

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

17. The War State: The Cold War Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex

By: None

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Today when you factor in the interest on the national debt from past wars and total defense expendi… read more

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18. 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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19. A Life Beyond Boundaries: A Memoir

By: Benedict Anderson

4.33

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities Born in China, Benedict … read more

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20. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

By: China Miéville

3.82

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months … read more

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21. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

By: Edward E. Baptist

4.34

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but… read more

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22. American Pastoral

By: Philip Roth

3.94

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998) In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified g… read more

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  • american
  • the united states of america
"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"[...] ero una biografia in moto perpetuo, memoria sino al midollo delle ossa."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"Exhibitionismul inerent unei marturisiri nu face decat sa agraveze suferinta."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

23. Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

By: Noam Chomsky

4.13

Format: None pages,

From the world's foremost intellectual activist, an irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of to… read more

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24. King: A Life

By: Jonathan Eig

4.67

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy

By: Matthew Karp

4.29

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When the United States emerged as a world power in the years before the Civil War, the men who pres… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • the united states of america
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
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26. Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory

By: Moishe Postone

4.32

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

In this ambitious book, Moishe Postone undertakes a fundamental reinterpretation of Marx's mature c… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures)

By: Tareq Baconi

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Hamas rules Gaza and the lives of the two million Palestinians who live there. Demonized in media a… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"The prevailing inability or unwillingness to talk about Hamas in a nuanced manner is deeply familiar. During the summer of 2014, when global newsrooms were covering Israel’s military operation in the…"

-Tareq Baconi, Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures)

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28. To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change

By: Alfred W. McCoy

4.23

Format: 621 pages, Kindle Edition

In a tempestuous narrative that sweeps across five continents and seven centuries, this book explai… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • international relations
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29. The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan: A Chronicle Foretold

By: Tariq Ali

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The occupation of Afghanistan is over, and a balance sheet can be drawn. These essays on war and pe… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • the united states of america
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30. American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers

By: Perry Anderson

3.98

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Magisterial account of the ideas and the figures who have forged the American Empire.Since the birt… read more

Similar categories in Perry Anderson's American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers book and Perry Anderson's American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers

  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • international relations
  • the united states of america
  • politics
  • war
  • united states
  • nonfiction
  • political science
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31. Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class (Essential Mike Davis)

By: Mike Davis

4.38

Format: 332 pages, Paperback

Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analyt… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • united states
  • nonfiction

14 best-selling politics books like American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers by Perry Anderson

Transform Your Habits

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Tim Weiner

3.94

Transform Your Habits

For Marx (Radical Thinkers)

Louis Althusser

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays

Richard Hofstadter

4.29

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18 must-read history books like This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy by Matthew Karp

Transform Your Habits

Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery

Paul Collins

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

Donald L. Miller

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

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

4.32

Transform Your Habits

The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)

Robert A. Caro

4.36

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