6 Top biography books like Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes by Tariq Ali

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Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes

By: Tariq Ali

3.81

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A coruscating portrait of Britain’s greatest imperialist The modern Churchill cult is out of contr…

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1. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

By: Tom Holland

4.22

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • world history
"Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest…"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

"Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had a duty to propagate them; that …"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

"Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true of her citizens, naturally, was also true of Rome herself. For the generation that had liv…"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

"It was an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world. How else was the size of their empire to be explained? Yet they also knew that the Republic's gre…"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

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2. The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857

By: William Dalrymple

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

On a hazy November afternoon in Rangoon, 1862, a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of B… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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3. All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

By: Stephen Kinzer

4.12

Format: 29 pages, Paperback

An American Coup & the Roots of Middle East Terror Half a century ago, the United States overthrew … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • world history
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4. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

By: C.L.R. James

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • world history
  • politics
  • nonfiction

5. Lord Jim

By: Joseph Conrad

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

Haunted by the memory of a moment of lost nerve during a disastrous voyage, Jim submits to condemna… read more

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6. 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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7. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England

By: Dan Jones

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it int… read more

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8. Nostromo

By: Joseph Conrad

3.44

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

Joseph Conrad's 1904 adventure novel, set amid the mist-covered mountains of a fictional South Amer… read more

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9. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

By: Travis Alabanza

4.38

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more

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  • politics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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10. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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11. 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
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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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12. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

By: Daniel Immerwahr

4.46

Format: 513 pages, Hardcover

A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • world history
"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."

-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"

-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

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13. 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
  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. 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)

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15. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

By: Christina Thompson

4.24

Format: 365 pages, Hardcover

A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intel… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • world history
"Vision is not so much about just looking but knowing what to look for. It's experience."

-Christina Thompson, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

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16. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

By: Shon Faye

4.55

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

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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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  • 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. A Village in the Third Reich

By: Julia Boyd

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more

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  • european history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. The End of Policing

By: Alex S. Vitale

4.19

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

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20. Churchill: Walking with Destiny

By: Andrew Roberts

4.36

Format: 1105 pages, Hardcover

A landmark reconsideration of the iconoclastic war leader, based on extensive new material, from pr… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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21. Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes

By: Tariq Ali

3.81

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A coruscating portrait of Britain’s greatest imperialist The modern Churchill cult is out of contr… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • world history
  • british literature
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history

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Joan Druett

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Simon Winchester

4.04

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Neil Price

4.18

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