8 must-read politics books like The Way It Works: Inside Ottawa by Eddie Goldenberg

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The Way It Works: Inside Ottawa

By: Eddie Goldenberg

3.71

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The ultimate insider takes us behind the scenes, in the book everyone is waiting for. As Jean Chré…

If you liked the politics plot in The Way It Works: Inside Ottawa by Eddie Goldenberg , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Liar's Poker

By: Michael Lewis

4.15

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. Michael L… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Buy potatoes,"

-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

"The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?"

-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

"In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king"

-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

"A commercial banker wasn’t any more a troublemaker than Dagwood Bumstead."

-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

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2. Cities for People

By: Jan Gehl

3.90

Format: 77 pages, Hardcover

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  • nonfiction
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3. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson

4.08

Format: 529 pages, Hardcover

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

4. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice

By: Bill Browder

4.36

Format: 39 pages, Hardcover

A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder o… read more

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5. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

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6. 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

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

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

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7. Four Thousand Weeks

By: Oliver Burkeman

4.22

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have… read more

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  • nonfiction
"We’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action."

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

"Rendering yourself more efficient — either by implementing various productivity techniques or by driving yourself harder—won’t generally result in the feeling of having ‘enough time,’ because, all el…"

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

"The problem with trying to make time for everything that feels important—or just for enough of what feels important—is that you definitely never will. The reason isn’t that you haven’t yet discovered…"

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

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8. 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

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy by Josh O'Kane

9. Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy

By: Josh O'Kane

3.94

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGFro… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • canada
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10. Governing Canada: A Guide to the Tradecraft of Politics

By: Michael Wernick

3.66

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

How does Canadian government work in practice? In this first ever handbook of its kind, Michael Wer… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • canada
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11. My Stories, My Times

By: Jean Chrétien

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

One of the most popular Canadian prime ministers in recent history, elected to government for three… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • canada
Cover of The Way It Works: Inside Ottawa by Eddie Goldenberg

12. The Way It Works: Inside Ottawa

By: Eddie Goldenberg

3.71

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The ultimate insider takes us behind the scenes, in the book everyone is waiting for. As Jean Chré… read more

Similar categories in Eddie Goldenberg's The Way It Works: Inside Ottawa book and Eddie Goldenberg's The Way It Works: Inside Ottawa

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • canada
Cover of My Stories, My Times, Volume 2 by Jean Chrétien

13. My Stories, My Times, Volume 2

By: Jean Chrétien

3.90

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Following on the heels of his bestselling collection of political reminiscences, former Canadian pr… read more

Similar categories in Jean Chrétien's My Stories, My Times, Volume 2 book and Eddie Goldenberg's The Way It Works: Inside Ottawa

  • canada

11 best-selling nonfiction books like The Way It Works: Inside Ottawa by Eddie Goldenberg

Transform Your Habits

Liar's Poker

Michael Lewis

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Cities for People

Jan Gehl

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

Tim Marshall

4.20

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14 best-selling audiobook books like Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy by Josh O'Kane

Transform Your Habits

When McKinsey Comes to Town

Walt Bogdanich

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Bezzle (Martin Hench #2)

Cory Doctorow

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)

Cory Doctorow

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Michael Lewis

3.80

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