Quest to Lighten My Non-Fiction TBR - hosted by misfitmoxie

Politics
Can be about a specific event in history where politics played a significant role, something regarding the nature of politics, or a book to bring understanding to a modern day political situation.
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The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger by Greg Grandin, Rene Rojas, Bhaskar Sunkara, Jonah Walters

The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger

Greg Grandin, Rene Rojas, Bhaskar Sunkara, Jonah Walters

174 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history emotional reflective medium-paced
Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality by Tanya Katerí Hernández, Tanya Katerí Hernández

Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality

Tanya Katerí Hernández, Tanya Katerí Hernández

6 hours, 12 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Power Systems: Conversations with David Barsamian on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire by David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky

Power Systems: Conversations with David Barsamian on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire

David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky

224 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics informative reflective medium-paced
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis

128 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
That's Funny, You Don't Look Anti-Semitic: An anti‐racist analysis of Left antisemitism by Steve Cohen

That's Funny, You Don't Look Anti-Semitic: An anti‐racist analysis of Left antisemitism

Steve Cohen

212 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction politics informative reflective medium-paced
1921, l'insurrection de Cronstadt la rouge: Le pouvoir des soviets libres by Mouvement communiste libertair

1921, l'insurrection de Cronstadt la rouge: Le pouvoir des soviets libres

Mouvement communiste libertair

91 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history
Chicago: A Novel of Prohibition by David Mamet

Chicago: A Novel of Prohibition

David Mamet

352 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history reference sociology informative reflective slow-paced
Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir by John McCain

Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir

John McCain

368 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction biography history politics informative reflective slow-paced
Où va l'argent des pauvres: Fantasmes politiques, réalités sociologiques by Denis Colombi

Où va l'argent des pauvres: Fantasmes politiques, réalités sociologiques

Denis Colombi

348 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction economics essays sociology informative reflective medium-paced
Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

Barbara Demick

319 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history politics emotional informative sad medium-paced