The Living Presidency by Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash
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A smart analysis of the growing power of the US Presidency - and a call to limit that power.
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The Will of the People by T.H. Bree
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An extremely well-paced and engaging account of those who never enjoyed the attentions of history.
Read MoreUnbound by Heather Boushey
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The author assumes a degree of ignorance on the part of the reader, taking them on a journey that was only ever going to go in one direction.
Capitalism, Alone by Branko Milanovic
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Milanovic attempts to identify the key systemic, as opposed to incidental, social and economic features of two main variants of capitalism.
Read MoreThe Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting as a Nazi by Johann Chapoutot
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The Law of Blood does invigorating work in attempting to explain how such a wildly repulsive ideology could take hold in the hearts and minds of ordinary people.
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