The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani
This week's book of the week is "The Death of Truth" by Michiko Kakutani. We all see that truth and facts have become endangered species, but we're not really aware of why and when it happened. It didn't start with Trump, argues Kakutani in this rich, erudite book. She brilliantly explains the cultural and political forces that brought us to our current sorry condition -- a must read.
The Hundred-Year Marathon by Michael Pillsbury
Michael, pleasure to have you on. I have to say I also really enjoyed your book. It's called "A Hundred Year Marathon," and I very much advocate people read it because it's a very thoughtful book about what China might -- you know, what Chinese intentions are in this longer term.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari (2018)
My book of the week is Yuval Harari's book, "21 Lessons." If you liked "Sapiens" or "Homo Deus," you will enjoy this wide-ranging, speculative look at the world today and where it is going -- fascinating big think.
December 9
Fantasyland : How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History ​by Kurt Andersen (2017)
This is a powerful, well-written book about perhaps the most deeply disturbing phenomenon in America today, the way that fantasy has eclipsed fact in our politics and culture. If you want to understand why this has happened, read this essential book.
November 4
Revolution Francaise: Emmanuel Macron and the Quest to Reinvent a Nation by ​Sophie Pedder (2018)
I read this while preparing for my interview last week. For all those intrigued by Macron, a fascinating figure on the world stage, this is the best book on him and his effort to make France great again.
November 18
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari (2018)
My book of the week is Yuval Harari's book, "21 Lessons." If you liked "Sapiens" or "Homo Deus," you will enjoy this wide-ranging, speculative look at the world today and where it is going -- fascinating big think.
December 9
Cultural Evolution: People's Motivations are Changing, and Reshaping the World by Ronald Inglehart (2018)
If you've noticed that people seem to be voting more on the basis of their cultural identity than economic ones, this book explains that deep and powerful trend better than any other I have read -- really brilliant work. 
December 16
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation For Failure by   Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff (guest)
Jonathan Haidt has written a fantastic book, "The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation For Failure," along with Greg Lukianoff.
September 9
Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward (Guest)
ZAKARIA: When I read the book, what I'm struck by is the degree of chaos that you describe. All of which centers around a president who seems, you know, somewhat impulsive to listen to the person who last talked to him. He pits his advisers against each other almost deliberately. How much of that is normal?
September 16
Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment by Francis Fukuyama
Fukuyama is one of America's leading thinkers and this book is a highly intelligent account of how identity politics developed, from Plato to the "MeToo" movement. But it is also an urgent argument on how to use identity as a unifying force, not a divisive one.
September 30
Capitalism In America : A History by Alan Greenspan, Adrian Wooldridge
This impressive book by the former Fed chairman and a brilliant journalist takes the reader through the history of the American economy, ending with some provocative thoughts about America's declining productivity, declining risk-taking, declining entrepreneurship, declining dynamism.
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September 2

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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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The Order of Time
ZAKARIA: My next guest is a brilliant scientist and an excellent writer. Those are two things that rarely go together. You may have read the physicist Carlo Rovelli's last book, it was called "Seven Brief Lessons on Physics." I recommended it to you here on GPS, saying it was insightful and intelligent. Rovelli writes with elegance and clarity. 

Now he's outdone himself. His new book takes on a crucial subject. It's called "The Order of Time." Ready to have your mind blown?
September 2

 AUGUST 19

Uncivil Agreement : How Politics Became Our Identity by ​Lilliana Mason
Uncivil Agreement : How Politics Became Our Identity by ​Lilliana Mason
Book of the week
There are many books now explaining why Americans are so divided. This slender academic treatise strikes me as the most persuasive. It points out that our political identity has now been fused with our social identity. If you tell me who you voted for, I can tell you where you live, shop, eat and pray. That turns out to produce extreme polarization and gridlock.
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 AUGUST 12

The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
Book of the week
My book of the week is Helen Simonson's "The Summer Before the War." This is a gentle sweet novel that describes how a small town in England reacts to its first female teacher on the eve of the first World War. If you like "Downton Abby," you will love this little jewel of a book.*
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August 5​

Factfulness: Ten Reasons Why You Are Wrong About the World and Things Are Better Than We Think by Hans Rosling
Factfulness: Ten Reasons Why You Are Wrong About the World and Things Are Better Than We Think by Hans Rosling
Book of the week
My book of the week is "Factfulness: Ten Reasons Why You Are Wrong About the World and Things Are Better Than We Think." 

The title and subtitle say it all. It's a fact-filled book with great charts that will teach you more than thousands of pages of prose. The lead author, the late Hans Rosling, was a "GPS" favorite. He did a wonderful segment for us years ago. *

July 29

The China Mission : George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947 by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
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Book of the week
My book of the week is "The China Mission" by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan. We think foreign policy has become partisan today, but this superb book reminds us that the debate over who lost China, as it went Communist in 1949, was ferocious, even engulfing the most admired man in America at the time, General George Marshall. 

The portrait of Marshall, who was sent on a mission to China, is, by itself, worth the price of the book. His decency and rectitude is so impressive -- he refused to write his memoirs because he thought that would be improperly profiting from government service -- that he stands like an ancient Roman statue in today's Washington. *

July 15

Our Towns : A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America by James Fallows, Deborah Fallows
Our Towns : A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America by James Fallows, Deborah FallowsOur Towns : A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America by James Fallows, Deborah Fallows
Book of the week​
My book of the week is Jim and Deborah Fallows' book "Our Towns: A 100,000 Mile Journey Into the Heart of America." Tom Friedman said in a recent column, "If you want to be an optimist about America, stand on your head. The country looks so much better from the bottom up."

Well, that's exactly what the married writers Deb and Jim Fallows did. They took off in their single-engine plane and looked at America's small towns, its people, its heart. And what they found was a surprising amount of dynamism and optimism. If you are grim about America these days, read this book.*

July 1

East of Eden by John Steinbeck ​
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My book of the week is a classic. John Steinbeck's "East of Eden."

If you're looking for a big fat book of fiction for the summer as I was, try this one. It is to my mind the book that best illustrates the idea of the great American novel. A rich saga of families moving westward on a vast, unformed continent making a new life and a new nation. *

June 24

American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction by David Gerber
American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction by David Gerber
Book of the week​
My book of the week is "American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction" by David Gerber. It falls to a British scholar to write this balanced, intelligent and well-written primer on a controversial topic. He succeeds admirably, highlighting the contributions of immigration to America but also noting the downsides, which are largely focused on illegal immigration. In the midst of all the noise on this topic, if you want clarity, read this very short book.*

June 17

Origin Story : A Big History of Everything by ​David Christian
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My book of the week is David Christian's "The Origin Story." I first came across David Christian because I would work out to his fantastic lectures on big history. Yes, I know, very nerdy behavior. This is the book version. Basically, it is the history of the universe from the Big Bang to now in a few 100 pages. If you read one book this year, make it this one. It is the most powerful example of interdisciplinary scholarship that I know of.  *

May 27

Goodbye, Columbus ​by Philip Roth
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My book of the week is Philip Roth's "Goodbye, Columbus." Roth, who died last week, was, to my mind, the most important American novelist of the last half century. In 2006 the New York Times did a survey of the best of American fiction of the prior 25 years and six of Philip Roth's books received multiple votes from prominent critics. This is his debut, a collection of short stories written when he was 26 years old that won the National Book Award in 1960.*

May 13

Us Versus Them: The Failure of Globalism by Ian Bremmer
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This week's book is "Us Versus Them: The Failure of Globalism." Ian Bremmer is a card-carrying globalist, but he is clear- eyed in this book about the shortcomings and failures of global capitalism. In a short series of essays, he intelligently sketches out the problem and possible paths forward.

May 6

Fair Shot : Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn by Chris Hughes
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This week's book is Chris Hughes' "Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn." Earlier on the show Hughes told us the story of how he became a half-billionaire and described the winner-takes-all economy in which we live. "Fair Shot" is his take on how to stop runaway inequality. But it does not read like most wonky books. It's personal, intelligent, very well-written and moves along briskly. Do get this short, fascinating brief. 

April 22

How to Read a Book : The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J Adler 
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Before I tell you the correct answer, let me recommend a book. This week, it's a classic. Mortimer Adler's "How to Read a Book." 

This 1940 extended essay explains not just why we should read books, but how we should read them. It will help you get the most out of books, but also make you understand how to learn, comprehend and analyze any written material. It's masterfully done.

April 15

Post-Truth by Lee McIntyre
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My book of the week is "Post-Truth" by Lee McIntyre. This is a slender volume from MIT's Essential Knowledge series that looks at one of the most disturbing trends of our time, the increasing dismissal of science, evidence, fact and truth itself. The author gives us an intelligent account of why it's happened and a compelling reminder that we should all fight against this dangerous, nihilistic idea.
The Death of Democracy by Benjamin Carter Hett (2018)
My book of the week is Benjamin Carter Hett's "The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic." People forget that Weimar Germany was probably the world's most advanced country. How we went from there to the Nazis is a fascinating story that Hett tells, and it does have real lessons for today about the elites who either assisted or were complacent as Hitler destroyed German democracy. 
April 8
The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World by Michael Ignatieff
My book of the week is "The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World" by Michael Ignatieff, a philosopher and former Canadian politician.

Ignatieff asks a simple question, is globalization bringing us together or tearing us apart? 

He answers it by taking us around the world from Bosnia to Brazil, South Africa to Myanmar. The result is a fascinating and deeply engaging book. 
April 1
Five Days in London: May 1940 by John Lukac
My book of the week is John Lukacs "Five Days in London: May 1940." If you watched "Dunkirk" or "Darkest Hour" and you want more, this is a short, compelling case that Adolf Hitler almost conquered Europe in May 1940, with France of the verge of defeat, Britain alone with virtually its entire army surrounded by Nazi forces on the French coast. But one man fought back and turned the tide -- riveting reading. 
March 11​
How to Think by Alan Jacobs
My book of the week is "How to Think" by Alan Jacobs. "We suffer from a settled determination not to think," writes the author. But he is determined to rouse us out of our intellectual laziness and brilliantly and wisely shows us why and how to think well. This book is a revelation and a pleasure. It is one of the most original books I have encountered in a long while. Run, don't walk, to get it. 
March 4​
The Second Amendment: A Biography by Michael Waldman
My book of the week is Michael Waldman's "The Second Amendment: A Biography," a fascinating biography of one line, the one line that is at the heart of America's gun debate. Waldman makes us realize just how ambiguous and uncertain the second amendment's meaning has been for most of American history. 
​February 25​
Trumpocracy by David Frum
My book of the week is David Frum's "Trumpocracy." Yes, this is an anti-Trump book, but it is written by a diehard conservative whose objections to Trump at core are not about his politics and policies, some of which the author agrees with, nor about his bad manners and vulgarity; it is about the way Donald Trump is eroding democratic norms in the world's oldest constitutional republic. The chapter on economic corruption, "Plunder," is worth the price of the book. 
​February 18
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt.
My book of the week is "How Democracies Die" by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt. This is not another diatribe against Donald Trump though there is some of that. It's mainly a smart and deeply informed book about the ways in which democracy is being undermined in dozens of countries around the world and in ways that are perfectly legal. 

The authors remind us that what sustains democracy is not just constitutions and laws but norms and behavior. If leaders act in thoroughly undemocratic ways, democracy, over time, will collapse. 
​February 11
White Working Class by Joan Williams
My book of the week is "White Working Class" by Joan Williams, a very smart, caustic book that tries to understand the dynamic behind Donald Trump's legions of supporters. The author tries to explain to America's elites why the working class resents them, professionals, who tell them how to live, work, get educated, eat, dress and behave. It's tough love for a group that generally doesn't get much pushback. 
​February 4
​A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love Friendship and the Things that Really Matter by William Deresiewicz
A Journey: My Political Life by Tony Blair
A Nation of Takers: America’s Entitlement Epidemic by Nicholas Eberstadt
A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class by Joe Nocera
After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead by Alan Blinder
Aftershock: The Next Economy & America's Future by Robert Reich
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune Truth and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder by Bret Stephens
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph Ellis
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City by Russell Shorto
Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy by Michael Soussan (2008)
Behind The Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden
Bloodmoney: A Novel of Espionage by David Ignatius
Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles by Ruchir Sharma
Catastrophic Care: Why Everything We Think We Know about Health Care Is Wrongv by David Goldhill
China Airborne by James Fallows
China Goes Global: The Partial Power by David Shambaugh
China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy by Minxin Pei
Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility by David Walker
Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are by Sebastian Seung
Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags by Linda Rottenberg
Don’t Get Me Wrong!: The Global Gestures Guide by Julia Grosse
Education of an American Dreamer by Pete Peterson
Egypt after Mubarak: Liberalism Islam and Democracy in the Arab World by Bruce Rutherford
Einstein: His Life And Universe by Walter Isaacson
Elements of Investing by Burton Malkiel and Charles Ellis
End This Depression Now by Paul Krugman
Engaging the Muslim World by Juan Cole
Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned The Tide in the Second World War by Paul Kennedy
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz
First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President
Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World by Vali Nasr
Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order by Richard Haass
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph Ellis
Franklin and Winston An Intimate Portrait of An Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom by Conrad Black
Free World: America Europe and the Surprising Future of the West by Timothy Garton Ash
Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson
George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
Getting Bin Laden by Nicholas Schmidle
God Is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World by John Micklethwait
Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story by Jack Devine with Vernon Loeb
Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India by Joseph Lelyved
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women by Nick Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn
Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature by Vaclav Smil
Here's the Deal: How Washington Can Solve the Deficit and Spur Growth by David Leonhardt
Higher Education in the Digital Age by William Bowen
How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle by Gideon Rose
If Kennedy Lived: The First and Second Terms of President by Jeff Greenfield
If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities by Benjamin Barber
Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation by Nandan Nilekani
In Other Rooms Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
India Grows At Night: A Liberal Case for A Strong State by Gurcharan Das
Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East by Martin Indyk
Innovation Nation: How America is losing its innovation edge why it matters and what we can do to get it back by John Kao
Interventions: A Life in War and Peace by Kofi Annan
Into the Story: A Writer's Journey Through Life, Politics, Sports and Loss by David Maraniss
Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerilla Warfare by Max Boot
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe by Anne Applebaum
Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty by Mustafa Akyol
It's Even Worse Than It Looks by Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein
John Maynard Keynes: Economist Philosopher Statesman by Robert Skidelsky
Keynes: Return of the Master by Robert Skidelsky
Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States by Michael Lind
Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights by Graham Allison
Liar's Poker: Rising through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis
Lost for Words: A Novel by Edward St. Aubyn
Mandela's Way: 15 Lessons on Life Love and Courage by Rick Stengel
Maximalist: America in the World from Truman to Obama by Stephen Sestanovich
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer by Tracy Kidder
Museums Matter: In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum by James Cuno
My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir by Mark Whitaker
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel by Ari Shavit
National Insecurity: American Leadership in an Age of Fear by David Rothkopf
Numbers Rule Your World : The Hidden Influence of Probability and Statistics on Everything You Do by Kaiser Fung
To End a War by Richard Holbrooke
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs
One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy by Allison Stanger
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military by Hussain Haqqani
Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity by Michael Lewis
Paper Promises: Debt Money and the New World Order by Philip Coggan
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland
Postcards From Tomorrow Square by James Fallows
Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy by Les Gelb
Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era by Joseph Nye
Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget by David Wessel
Reimagining India by McKinsey & Company
Republic Lost How Money Corrupts Congress and A Plan to Stop It by Lawrence Lessig
Reset: Iran Turkey and America's Future by Steven Kinsler
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
Secrecy: The American Experience by Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael Oren
Sleepless in Hollywood: Tales from the New Abnormal in the Movie Business by Lynda Obst
Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl
Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West by Peter Hessler
Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power by Zbigniew Brzezinski
Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises by Timothy Geithner
Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo by Anjan Sundaram
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt
​Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
​On China by Henry Kissinger
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World's Prosperity Depends on It by Zachary Karabell
Superpower?: The Amazing Race between China's Hare and India's Tortoise by Raghav Bahl
Talibanistan: Negotiating the Borders Between Terror, Politics, and Religion by Peter Bergen
Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East by Shadi Hamid
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back by Tom Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
The Accidental Guerilla: Fighting Small Wars In The Midst Of A Big One by David Kilcullen
The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder by Peter Zeihan
The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America by Ernest Freeberg
The Age of the Unthinkable by Joshua Cooper Ramo
The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, Chris Yeh
The Annals of Unsolved Crime by Edward Jay Epstein
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran by Hooman Majd
The Ayatollah’s Democracy by Hooman Majd
The Benefit And The Burden Tax Reform Why We Need It And What It Will Take by Bruce Bartlett
The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives by Katie Couric
The Best Things in Life: A Guide to What Really Matters by Thomas Hurka
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century by Steve Coll
The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created by William Bernstein
The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick
The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall by Mary Elise Sarotte
The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present by David Runciman
The Crisis of Zionism by Peter Beinart
The Defining Moment by Jonathan Alter
The Director by David Ignatius
The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn't What It Used to Be by Moises Naim
The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War between States and Corporations by Ian Bremmer
The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge in an Uncertain World by Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat
The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It by Fred Guterl
The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe by Peter Godwin
The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State by John Micklethwait
The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army by Greg Jaffe and David Cloud
The Future of Power by Joseph S. Nye Jr.
The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Fear Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World by Dominique Moisi
Fantasyland : How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History ​by Kurt Andersen (2017)
This is a powerful, well-written book about perhaps the most deeply disturbing phenomenon in America today, the way that fantasy has eclipsed fact in our politics and culture. If you want to understand why this has happened, read this essential book.
November 4
Revolution Francaise: Emmanuel Macron and the Quest to Reinvent a Nation by ​Sophie Pedder (2018)
I read this while preparing for my interview last week. For all those intrigued by Macron, a fascinating figure on the world stage, this is the best book on him and his effort to make France great again.
November 18
Cultural Evolution: People's Motivations are Changing, and Reshaping the World by Ronald Inglehart (2018)
If you've noticed that people seem to be voting more on the basis of their cultural identity than economic ones, this book explains that deep and powerful trend better than any other I have read -- really brilliant work. 
December 16
The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor
The Great Inflation and its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence by Robert Samuelson
The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-CrashProsperity by Richard Florida
The Great War: A Photographic Narrative by Mark Holborn and Hilary Roberts
The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris by Peter Beinart
The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States by Gordon Wood
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
The Increment by David Ignatius
The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power by David Sanger
The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company by Michael Malone
The Kennan Diaries by George Kennan
The Last Narco: Inside the Hunt for El Chapo, the World's Most Wanted Drug Lord by Malcolm Beith
​The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century by Angela Stent
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore White
The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency by James Tobin
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado
The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester
The Mantle of Command: FDR at War 1941-1942 by Nigel Hamilton
The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy by Bruce Katz
The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam Industry and Invention by William Rosen
The New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces both Russia and the West by Edward Lucas
The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen
The New Machiavelli: How to Wield Power in the Modern World by Jonathan Powell
The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era by Michael Grunwald
The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multi-Speed World by Michael Spence
The Oath: the Obama White House and the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
The Origin of the Financial Crises by George Cooper
The Parties Versus The People by Mickey Edwards
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The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita (2011)

For eighteen years, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith have been part of a team revolutionizing the study of politics by turning conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single assertion: Leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don’t care about the “national interest”—or even their subjects—unless they have to. This clever and accessible book shows that the difference between tyrants and democrats is just a convenient fiction. Governments do not differ in kind but only in the number of essential supporters, or backs that need scratching. The size of this group determines almost everything about politics: what leaders can get away with, and the quality of life or misery under them. The picture the authors paint is not pretty. But it just may be the truth, which is a good starting point for anyone seeking to improve human governance.
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
The Promise: President Obama, Year One by Jonathan Alter
The Quest: Energy Security and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman
The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert Kaplan
The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America by John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama (2011)
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Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the peace and uniform laws that applied to all citizens. Some went on to create governments that were accountable to their constituents. We take these institutions for granted, but they are absent or are unable to perform in many of today’s developing countries—with often disastrous consequences for the rest of the world
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt (2012)
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Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding.
The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government by Philip K. Howard
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail but Some Don't by Nate Silver
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Brooks
The Soros Lectures at the Central European University by George Soros
The Steps Across the Water by Adam Gopnik
The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square by Steven Cook
The System Worked: How the World Stopped Another Great Depression by Daniel Drezner
The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism by Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson
The Terror Presidency by Jack Goldsmith
The Universe: Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos by John Brockman
The Unquiet American edited by Samantha Power
The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success by Megan McArdle
The Way of the Knife by Mark Mazzetti
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made by Walter Isaacson
Things I've Been Silent about: Memories of a Prodigal Daughter by Azar Nafisi
This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works by John Brockman
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Faust
This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!-in America's Gilded Capital by Mark Leibovich
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin
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Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (2011)
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In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities—and also the faults and biases—of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior...
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The Story of the Jews (1000 BCE - 1492)
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The Story of the Jews (1492-1900)
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Truman by David McCullough (1992)
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The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (1993)
War Made New by Max Boot
War of Necessity War of Choice by Richard Haass
War Front to Store Front: Americans Rebuilding Trust and Hope in Nations Under Fire by Paul Brinkley
War Is Boring: Bored Stiff Scared to Death in the World's Worst War Zones by David Axe and Matt Bors
Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century by Orville Schell
What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era by Peggy Noonan
What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer
Why Romney Lost by David Frum
Winner Take All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer–and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson
Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and Execution by Tarun Khanna and Krishna Palepu
Work Hard Study and Keep Out of Politics by James Baker

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