Political Science
Explore a comprehensive selection of political science books, including essential titles on the fundamentals and principles of the field. Discover the best political science booklist and best-selling books at our online bookstore.
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The Paradox of Democracy: Free Speech, Open Media, and Perilous PersuasionA thought-provoking history of communications that challenges ideas about freedom of speech and democracy. At the heart of democracy lies a contradiction that cannot be resolved, one that has affected free societies since their advent: Though freedom of speech and media has always been...
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The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of DisastersAn urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today's foremost thinkers in crisis management. The future may still be unpredictable, but nowadays, disasters are not. We live in a time of constant, consistent catastrophe, where things more often go wrong than...
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Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic IndependenceA spirited, deeply researched exploration of why capitalism is bad for women and how, when done right, socialism leads to economic independence, better labor conditions, better work-life balance and, yes, even better sex. In a witty, irreverent op-ed piece that went viral, Kristen Ghodsee...
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The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's EnemiesNational Bestseller NPR Best Book of the Year"Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie." --The New York TimesJoining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true...
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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir PutinNational Book Award winner Masha Gessen's biography of a ruthless man's ascent to near-absolute power. "In a country where journalists critical of the government have a way of meeting untimely deaths, Gessen has shown remarkable courage in researching and writing this unflinching indictment of...
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You're Not Enough (and That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-LoveFrom one of the sharpest Christian voices of her generation and host of the podcast Relatable comes a framework for escaping our culture of trendy narcissism--and embracing God instead. We're told that the key to happiness is self-love. Instagram influencers, mommy bloggers, self-help gurus,...
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Final Battle: The Next Election Could Be the Last"I could not be a bigger fan...David Horowitz has been telling the truth for decades, in a way that almost nobody else has been willing to."--PETE HEGSETH "Nothing less than a handbook for the salvation of the United States of America."--DENNIS PRAGER"Exposes the outrages...
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Hold the Line: The Essential Guide to Protecting Your Law Enforcement RelationshipShe was frustrated Feeling second to the department again had begun to breed indifference and contempt in her relationship. As a mental health and couple's counselor, she knew those were bad omens. Despite her training, she could not figure out what was happening with...
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The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security StateThe coronavirus pandemic conferred enormous power on certain government officials. They have no intention of giving it up. In the space of a few weeks in early 2020, Americans witnessed the imposition of previously unimagined social controls by the biomedical security state--the unelected technocrats...
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The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. PowerTwo of our most celebrated intellectuals grapple with the uncertain aftermath of the American collapse in Afghanistan"Through the structure of a deeply engaging conversation between two of our most important contemporary public intellectuals, we are urged to defy the inattention of the media to...
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Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of KnowledgeA Wolfson History Prize FinalistA New Statesman Book of the YearA Sunday Times Book of the Year "Timely and authoritative...I enjoyed it immensely."--Philip Pullman "If you care about books, and if you believe we must all stand up to the destruction of knowledge and...
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical--and accessible--plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade...
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The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed HistoryThe vivid, behind-the-scenes story of perhaps the most consequential political moment in American history--Abraham Lincoln's history-changing nomination to lead the Republican Party in the 1860 presidential electionIllinois lawyer Abraham Lincoln had a record of political failure. In 1858, he had lost a celebrated Senate...
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How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth CenturyFrom the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of China After Mao, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth-century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily,...
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Against the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976-2009From the author of Catching the Wind comes the second volume of the definitive biography of Ted Kennedy and a history of modern American liberalism. "Magisterial . . . an intricate, astute study of political power brokering comparable to Robert A. Caro's profile of...
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Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021A chronicle of recent events that have shaken the world, from the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century "What makes this manifesto noteworthy is that it comes from . . . an economist who gained his reputation as a researcher with vaguely left-of-center...
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Waco Rising: David Koresh, the Fbi, and the Birth of America's Modern MilitiasA news-making account of the war between David Koresh's Branch Davidians and the FBI, and how their standoff launched today's militias In 1993, David Koresh and a band of heavily armed evangelical Christians took on the might of the US government. A two-month siege...
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Volodymyr Zelensky in His Own WordsAn intimate look at the awe-inspiring president of Ukraine--Volodymyr Zelensky, the new hero of the West--through an expansive book of his quotations covering his stance on a wide variety of issues, from acting and climate change to war and peace. Since Russia invaded Ukraine,...
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Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, from the rise of autocracy unleashed by Trump to the January 6 insurrection, and a warning that those forces remain as potent as ever--from the congressman who...
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Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA WorldAn eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today, and how disability attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) In Disability Pride, disabled journalist Ben Mattlin weaves together interviews and reportage to...
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