22 Top history books like Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy by Claire Provost

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Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy

By: Claire Provost

4.47

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

As European empires crumbled in the 20th century, the power structures that had dominated the world…

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1. Economics: The User's Guide

By: Ha-Joon Chang

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In his bestselling 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chan… read more

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"95% of economics is common sense"

-Ha-Joon Chang, Economics: The User's Guide

"... the human tendency to be seduced by a theory that supposedly explains everything."

-Ha-Joon Chang, Economics: The User's Guide

"95 per cent of economics is common sense – made to look difficult, with the use of jargons and mathematics."

-Ha-Joon Chang, Economics: The User's Guide

"Once we learn that different economic theories say different things partly because they are based on different ethical and political values, we will have the confidence to discuss economics for what …"

-Ha-Joon Chang, Economics: The User's Guide

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2. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more

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  • politics
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"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

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3. Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland

By: David McKittrick , David McVea

3.77

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Compellingly written and even-handed in its judgments, this is by far the clearest account of what … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage

4.31

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for histori… read more

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"Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap labor."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Cuando el Estado se hace dueño de la principal riqueza de un país, corresponde preguntarse quién es el dueño del Estado."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

5. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By: Ilan Pappé

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more

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6. War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier

By: Adam Parfrey , Smedley D. Butler

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Major General Smedley D. Butler was a military hero of the first rank, the winner of two Medals of … read more

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7. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

3.65

Format: 192 pages,

Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategyis … read more

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8. Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam

By: Nick Turse

4.21

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated inc… read more

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9. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

By: Vincent Bevins

4.28

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 20… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

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10. When McKinsey Comes to Town

By: Walt Bogdanich

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

**A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive exposé of the world's most pre… read more

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"One former McKinsey consultant wrote anonymously, ¨To those convinced that a secretive cabal controls the world, the usual suspect are Illuminati, Lizard People, or ´globalists.' They are wrong, natu…"

-Walt Bogdanich, When McKinsey Comes to Town

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11. 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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"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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12. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

By: Stephen Vladeck

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed legal scholar’s “essential” (Linda Greenhouse) exp… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"But in order after order, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration most of what it wanted without endorsing principles that the justices would be bound to apply to future presidents, so that t…"

-Stephen Vladeck, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

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13. 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
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"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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14. Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe

By: Sathnam Sanghera

4.04

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

By: Stephanie Kelton

4.04

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
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16. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

By: Shoshana Zuboff

4.06

Format: 691 pages, Hardcover

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unpre… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
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"This is the existential contradiction of the second modernity that defines our conditions of existence: we want to exercise control over our own lives, but everywhere that control is thwarted. Indivi…"

-Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

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17. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

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18. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

By: Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more

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"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

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19. Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

By: Grace Blakeley

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journa… read more

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"The work of a revolutionary is more like that of a gardener than a builder. The new world will not be brought about overnight - its seeds have to be planted, nurtured, and protected."

-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

"The US government wanted to send a message to poor and downtrodden people around the world: they could not hope to resist the power of American capitalism. Such a show of force was necessary because …"

-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

"Ultimately, the US state took it upon itself to ensure that no part of the world could close its doors to international investment. This desire to keep the world 'open' to capital, rather than overac…"

-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

"The greatest barrier to the emergence and spread of these movements is not the overwhelming power of capital. It is the conviction, held by millions of people, that change is impossible. The moment w…"

-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

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20. Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire

By: Caroline Elkins

4.26

Format: 896 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. The Horse

By: Willy Vlautin

4.26

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more

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22. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

By: Kelly Hayes

4.64

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
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23. Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

By: Quinn Slobodian

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas… read more

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  • history
  • politics
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  • economics
  • society
  • business
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24. Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk

By: Billy Walters

3.84

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “An insightful read…Walters is a larger-than-life character.” — Sports … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
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25. Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism

By: George Monbiot

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A sharp, fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • society
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26. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. The Case for Open Borders

By: John Washington

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A beautifully-written, broadly accessible, and forthright argument for a solution to the migration … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy

By: Claire Provost

4.47

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

As European empires crumbled in the 20th century, the power structures that had dominated the world… read more

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  • society
  • business
  • sociology
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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

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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.

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30. Avoidance, Drugs, Heartbreak and Dogs

By: Jordan Stephens

4.22

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

Love is a gift, isn't it? From our early childhood years to growing up and pairing off, it's a feel… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. The New Cold War: The United States, Russia, and China from Kosovo to Ukraine

By: Gilbert Achcar

3.62

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

A leading international relations expert uncovers the key stages that led from the end of the Cold … read more

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  • politics
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23 Top politics books like Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy by Claire Provost

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Ha-Joon Chang

4.16

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4.42

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David McKittrick , David McVea

3.77

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4.29

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Naomi Klein

4.22

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Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe

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4.04

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