22 best-selling nonfiction books like A Foreign Policy for the Left by Michael Walzer

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A Foreign Policy for the Left

By: Michael Walzer

3.71

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Something that has been needed for a leftist foreign policy with a clear moral basis Foreign poli…

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1. Lalka

By: Bolesław Prus

3.82

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Lalka ukazała się pierwotnie w odcinkach na łamach warszawskiego "Kuriera Codziennego", stanowiąc d… read more

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"Toteż mając lat osiemnaście, panna Izabela tyranizowała mężczyzn chłodem."

-Bolesław Prus, Lalka

"Przez rok cierpiałem na jakąś chorobę mózgową, a zdawało mi się, że jestem zakochany."

-Bolesław Prus, Lalka

"Bo widzisz, najgorszą samotnością nie jest ta, która otacza człowieka, ale ta pustka w nim samym."

-Bolesław Prus, Lalka

"Bywają wielkie zbrodnie na świecie, ale chyba największą jest zabić miłość. Tyle lat upłynęło, prawie pół wieku ; wszystko przeszło: majątek, tytuły, młodość, szczęście... Sam tylko żal nie przeszedł…"

-Bolesław Prus, Lalka

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2. Joseph Anton: A Memoir

By: Salman Rushdie

3.64

Format: 636 pages, Hardcover

On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journali… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Trouble in a marriage,"

-Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir

"The self was both its origins and its journey."

-Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir

"Where they burn books they will in the end burn people too."

-Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir

"The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue."

-Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir

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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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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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4. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

By: Timothy Snyder

4.38

Format: 524 pages, Hardcover

Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Now we will live!"

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

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5. The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West

By: Gilles Kepel

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

The events of September 11, 2001, forever changed the world as we knew it. In their wake, the quest… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

6. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

By: Noam Chomsky , Edward S. Herman

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book . In this pathb… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics

7. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

By: Serhii Plokhy

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more

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8. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

By: None

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I see [Raworth] as the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century: by ref… read more

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9. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

Cover of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1) by John Le Carré

10. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

By: John Le Carré

4.06

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, … read more

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"As a good Socialist, I'm going for the money."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

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11. Platform

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.80

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world… read more

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"Tout peut arriver dans la vie, et surtout rien."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"Anything can happen in life, especially nothing."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"L'absence d'envie de vivre, hélas, ne suffit pas pour avoir envie de mourir."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"Als ik de liefde niet heb begrepen, wat heb ik er dan aan om de rest te begrijpen?"

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

12. The Road to Serfdom

By: Friedrich A. Hayek

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road … read more

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13. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

By: Friedrich Engels

4.24

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Modern socialism is not a doctrine, Engels explains, but a working-class movement growing out of th… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by th…"

-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

"Las fuerzas activas de la sociedad obran, mientras no las conocemos y contamos con ellas, exactamente lo mismo que las fuerzas de la naturaleza: de un modo ciego, violento, destructor. Pero, una vez …"

-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

14. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more

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15. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

By: Vladislav M. Zubok

4.26

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

16. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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17. The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

4.10

Format: 592 pages, Kindle Edition

Hailed by Thomas Jefferson as “the best commentary on the principles of government which was ever w… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Liberty is to faction what air is to fire..."

-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

"If we are to be one Nation in any respect, it clearly ought to be in respect to other Nations."

-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

"An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth. No. 75"

-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

"No man ought certainly to be a judge in his own cause, or in any cause in respect to which he has the least interest or bias."

-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

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18. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

By: Nathan Thrall

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Profesor Andrews w Warszawie. Wyspa

By: Olga Tokarczuk

3.74

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Dwa opowiadania za zbioru Gra na wielu bębenkach. Oko w oko z niespodziewanym. Dwie historie lud… read more

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20. The Netanyahus

By: Joshua Cohen

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more

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  • politics
Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

21. 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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22. The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China

By: Robert D. Kaplan

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just ou… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

By: Martin Wolf

3.97

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, a magnificent reckoning with how and w… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
Cover of Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism by Kathleen Stock

24. Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

By: Kathleen Stock

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an imp… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"I am critical of gender identity theory – but not of trans people, for whom I have friendly sympathy and respect."

-Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

"The background assumption seems to be that, paradoxically, by identifying and discussing socially produced inequalities, we further entrench them; whereas if we ignore them, perhaps they will go away."

-Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

"A first thing to note, in case it’s unclear, is that I am not arguing against legal protections for trans people against violence, discrimination or coercive surgeries. I enthusiastically support the…"

-Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

"And perhaps most awkwardly, they have been left unable properly to explain why, internationally, half the population in a given culture might be disproportionately subject to specific experiences lik…"

-Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

Cover of Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know by Serhy Yekelchyk

25. Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know

By: Serhy Yekelchyk

3.89

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Conventional wisdom dictates that Ukraine's political crises can be traced to the linguistic differ… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine by Christopher       Miller

26. The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine

By: Christopher Miller

4.05

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking exploration of Ukraine's past, present, and future, and a heartbreaking account of t… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era by Gary Gerstle

27. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

By: Gary Gerstle

4.19

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order by G. John Ikenberry

28. A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order

By: G. John Ikenberry

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of the rise and evolution of liberal internationalism in the modern era, selecte… read more

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  • politics
  • international relations
  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. 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

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  • politics
  • international relations
  • history
  • nonfiction
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30. A Foreign Policy for the Left

By: Michael Walzer

3.71

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Something that has been needed for a leftist foreign policy with a clear moral basis Foreign poli… read more

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  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
Cover of Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society by Daniel   Chandler

31. Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

By: Daniel Chandler

3.97

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Imagine: you are designing a society, but you don't know who you'll be within it - rich or poor, ma… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics

20 Best history books like A Foreign Policy for the Left by Michael Walzer

Transform Your Habits

Joseph Anton: A Memoir

Salman Rushdie

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Timothy Snyder

4.38

Transform Your Habits

The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West

Gilles Kepel

4.00

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27 Top history books like A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order by G. John Ikenberry

Transform Your Habits

Orientalism

None , Edward W. Said

4.12

The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays

Richard Hofstadter

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Tony Judt

4.37

Transform Your Habits

The Taste Of War: World War Two And The Battle For Food

Lizzie Collingham

3.20

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