9 best-selling philosophy books like Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy by James Hankins

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Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy

By: James Hankins

4.28

Format: 784 pages, Hardcover

A bold, revisionist account of the political thought of the Italian Renaissance--from Petrarch to M…

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1. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

By: Hannah Arendt

4.20

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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2. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

3.88

Format: 1076 pages, Paperback

Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production"

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

"of their passions in the same object at that particular time."

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

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3. How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower

By: Adrian Goldsworthy

4.00

Format: 4 pages, Hardcover

In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the know… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. The Fall of Rome And the End of Civilization

By: Bryan Ward-Perkins

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. The Cold War: A New History

By: John Lewis Gaddis

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The “dean of Cold War historians” (The New York Times) now presents the definitive account of the g… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's own vision."

-John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History

"Enrollments in American colleges tripled between 1955 and 1970, 250% in the Soviet Union, 400% in France, and more than 200% in China by 1965. Gaddis writes, "What governments failed to foresee was t…"

-John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History

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6. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

By: Carlo Ginzburg , John Tedeschi , Anne Tedeschi

3.57

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
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7. The Closing of the American Mind

By: Allan Bloom

3.93

Format: 233 pages,

The Closing of the American Mind,a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary … read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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9. Meditations on First Philosophy

By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

10. World Order

By: Henry Kissinger

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Henry Kissinger offers in World Ordera deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and gl… read more

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11. Two Treatises of Government

By: John Locke , Peter Laslett , Raymond Geuss

2.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

This presentation discusses the life of John Locke, the evolution of his ideas, and the political c… read more

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12. A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age

By: Steven Nadler

4.27

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's "Theological-Political Treatise" was denounced as the mo… read more

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13. History of the Peloponnesian War

By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner

3.94

Format: 648 pages, Paperback

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

14. The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

By: Douglas Murray

4.19

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The Strange Death of Europeis a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the ac… read more

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15. Politics

By: Aristotle

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Paperback

What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it br… read more

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16. The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

By: Peter Heather

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the barbarians, Heather relates the extraordina… read more

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17. Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

By: Andrea Wulf

4.18

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarka… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
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18. Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy

By: Henry Kissinger

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Well before the end of the 20th century however print had lost its former dominance. This resulted in, among other things, a different kind of person getting elected as leader. One who can present hi…"

-Henry Kissinger, Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy

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19. Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart--Again

By: Robert Kagan

4.48

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

A chilling and clear-eyed warning about the threats to our democracy posed by the increasing radica… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy

By: James Hankins

4.28

Format: 784 pages, Hardcover

A bold, revisionist account of the political thought of the Italian Renaissance--from Petrarch to M… read more

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  • european history

12 must-read history books like Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy by James Hankins

Transform Your Habits

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Hannah Arendt

4.20

Transform Your Habits

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

3.88

Transform Your Habits

How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower

Adrian Goldsworthy

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Fall of Rome And the End of Civilization

Bryan Ward-Perkins

2.50

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15 Best classics books like History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Moses I. Finley, Rex Warner

Transform Your Habits

The Histories

Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Lysistrata

Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Conquest of Gaul

S.A. Handford , Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner , Aulus Hirtius

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Twelve Caesars

Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius

4.33

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