Books like The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
12 books with a reading profile close to The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World by Tim Marshall. Outward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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REGIME CHANGE
by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, analytical
Two White House correspondents for The New York Times delve into the first year of President Trump's second term.
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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, analytical
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt argue that modern democracies rarely collapse through violent military coups but instead erode from within through the legal subversion of institutions.
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RAGE AND THE REPUBLIC
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Jonathan Turley examines the history of public fury in the United States, tracking how political anger has shaped constitutional law and legislative cycles from the colonial era to the present.
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, analytical
Jason Reynolds adapts Ibram X.
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, analytical
James W.
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The Nineties
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Chuck Klosterman examines the decade between the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Twin Towers, defining it as a period of low-stakes sincerity and pervasive irony.
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Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
by Bill Browder
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, analytical
Bill Browder recounts his transition from a hedge fund manager in post-Soviet Russia to an accidental human rights activist.
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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, analytical
Michael Lewis chronicles the efforts of a clandestine group of scientists and public health officials who spent years preparing for a viral outbreak before COVID-19 surfaced.
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BLACK AF HISTORY
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Michael Harriot reconstructs the American timeline by centering Black agency rather than treating it as a footnote to white narratives.
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THE DAY AFTER
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, accessible
The author of “Shameless” looks at the relationship Republicans and Democrats have to power and prescribes ways for it to be used after Donald Trump’s presidency.
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Eric Schlosser tracks the evolution of the American fast food industry from its roots as localized drive-ins to a global economic force.
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, analytical
Timothy Snyder presents twenty concise instructions designed to prevent the collapse of democratic institutions into authoritarianism.
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