7 must-read international relations books like America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger by Isaac Stone Fish

Cover of America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger by Isaac Stone Fish

America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

By: Isaac Stone Fish

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A timely, provocative expose of American political and business leadership's deep ties to China: a …

If you liked the international relations plot in America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger by Isaac Stone Fish , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor

1. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

By: Antony Beevor

4.32

Format: 494 pages, Paperback

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also chan… read more

Similar categories in Antony Beevor's Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene

2. Our Man in Havana

By: Graham Greene

3.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Mr. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts, becomes a spy to earn extra income. read more

Similar categories in Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

3. Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?

By: Graham Allison

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides's Trap… read more

Similar categories in Graham Allison's Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

4. Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet

By: John Bradshaw

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Cats have been popular household pets for thousands of years, and their numbers only continue to ri… read more

Similar categories in John Bradshaw's Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

Cover of The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill by Brad Meltzer

5. The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill

By: Brad Meltzer

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes the little-known true sto… read more

Similar categories in Brad Meltzer's The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World by Alex Joske

6. Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World

By: Alex Joske

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Spies and Lies by Alex Joske is a ground-breaking exposé of elite influence operations by China’s l… read more

Similar categories in Alex Joske's Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • political science
  • nonfiction
  • china
Cover of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris   Miller

7. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

Similar categories in Chris Miller's Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • economics
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Cover of Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell

8. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

By: Jenny Odell

3.61

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from … read more

Similar categories in Jenny Odell's Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • nonfiction
"Most living entities and systems on this planet obviously do not live by the Western human clock (though some, like the crows who memorize a city's daily garbage truck route, do of course adapt to th…"

-Jenny Odell, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

Cover of The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World by Tim  Marshall

9. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World

By: Tim Marshall

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more

Similar categories in Tim Marshall's The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything by Oliver Bullough

10. Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything

By: Oliver Bullough

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In his punchy follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World unravels the dark secre… read more

Similar categories in Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael   Lewis

11. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

By: Michael Lewis

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more

Similar categories in Michael Lewis's Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
Cover of Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China by Desmond Shum

12. Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China

By: Desmond Shum

3.91

Format: None pages, Audiobook

This “powerful and disturbing” (Bill Browder, author of Red Notice) New York Times bestseller is na… read more

Similar categories in Desmond Shum's Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • economics
Cover of The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend by Rob Copeland

13. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

By: Rob Copeland

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more

Similar categories in Rob Copeland's The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
Cover of This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy by Jonathan  Martin

14. This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy

By: Jonathan Martin

4.00

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency by… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Martin's This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • politics
  • political science
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Mr. Texas by Lawrence Wright

15. Mr. Texas

By: Lawrence Wright

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

A sharply drawn, page-turning send up of Texas politics—from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-sel… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Wright's Mr. Texas book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • politics
Cover of Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us by Russell "Russ" Roberts

16. Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us

By: Russell "Russ" Roberts

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the host of EconTalk, a guide to decision-making when you can't crunch the numbers Algorith… read more

Similar categories in Russell "Russ" Roberts's Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • economics
  • nonfiction
"Exploring can turn out much better than a planned itinerary."

-Russell "Russ" Roberts, Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us

"Spend more time getting used to the darkness and less time looking to expand the light."

-Russell "Russ" Roberts, Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us

"If the important things are hard to measure, and the measurable things misleading, what kind of decision framework is left? This book is my answer to that question."

-Russell "Russ" Roberts, Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us

Cover of The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth by Sam Quinones

17. The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

By: Sam Quinones

4.36

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Apple Best Books of 2021 * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction * Long… read more

Similar categories in Sam Quinones's The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikötter

18. China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

By: Frank Dikötter

3.94

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In China After Mao , award-winning author Frank Dikötter delves into the history of China under the… read more

Similar categories in Frank Dikötter's China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • economics
Cover of The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2) by Viet Thanh Nguyen

19. The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

By: Viet Thanh Nguyen

3.96

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited new novel from one of America’s most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Com… read more

Similar categories in Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2) book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

"Imagine always having to live with a hyphen dividing you!"

-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

"[B]ooks mean something different when return to them later, leavened with age."

-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

"[B]ooks meant something different when we returned to them later, leavened by life."

-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

"We were the unwanted, the unneeded, and the unseen, invisible to all but ourselves. And you are so happy you don’t know whether to laugh or cry."

-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

Cover of Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World by Bethany Allen

20. Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World

By: Bethany Allen

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

One of the most acclaimed journalists on contemporary China lays bare the country's two decade ques… read more

Similar categories in Bethany Allen's Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • economics
Cover of The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism by Keyu Jin

21. The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism

By: Keyu Jin

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy China's… read more

Similar categories in Keyu Jin's The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • political science
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • economics
Cover of The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China by Kevin Rudd

22. The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China

By: Kevin Rudd

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Rudd's The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
Cover of A Map for the Missing by Belinda Huijuan Tang

23. A Map for the Missing

By: Belinda Huijuan Tang

4.01

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An epic, mesmerizing debut novel set against a rapidly changing post–Cultural Revolution China, A M… read more

Similar categories in Belinda Huijuan Tang's A Map for the Missing book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • china
Cover of Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future by Chun Han Wong

24. Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future

By: Chun Han Wong

4.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and po… read more

Similar categories in Chun Han Wong's Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • political science
  • nonfiction
  • china
Cover of Surveillance State: China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control by Josh Chin

25. Surveillance State: China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control

By: Josh Chin

4.16

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Where is the line between digital utopia and digital police state? Surveillance State tells the gr… read more

Similar categories in Josh Chin's Surveillance State: China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • china
Cover of Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise by Susan L. Shirk

26. Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise

By: Susan L. Shirk

4.11

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

A sobering, penetrating, and illuminating examination of Chinese-US relations, what has contributed… read more

Similar categories in Susan L. Shirk's Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • international relations
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
Cover of No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs by Nury Turkel

27. No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs

By: Nury Turkel

4.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

*Shortlisted for the Moore Prize on Human Rights Literature* A powerful memoir by Nury Turkel that… read more

Similar categories in Nury Turkel's No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • china
Cover of America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger by Isaac Stone Fish

28. America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

By: Isaac Stone Fish

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A timely, provocative expose of American political and business leadership's deep ties to China: a … read more

Similar categories in Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • international relations
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • political science
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • economics
Cover of Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum

29. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

Similar categories in Anne Applebaum's Autocracy, Inc. book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • history
  • politics
  • china
  • nonfiction
  • political science
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

Cover of Crashback: The Power Clash Between the U.S. and China in the Pacific by Michael Fabey

30. Crashback: The Power Clash Between the U.S. and China in the Pacific

By: Michael Fabey

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An alarming message from an award-winning journalist with unprecedented access to the highest naval… read more

Similar categories in Michael Fabey's Crashback: The Power Clash Between the U.S. and China in the Pacific book and Isaac Stone Fish's America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china

21 must-read history books like America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger by Isaac Stone Fish

Transform Your Habits

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

Antony Beevor

4.32

Transform Your Habits

The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill

Brad Meltzer

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World

Alex Joske

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

View all the books

16 best-selling history books like Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor

Transform Your Habits

Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.24

Transform Your Habits

D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.30

Transform Your Habits

1776

David McCullough

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Tom Holland

4.22

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.