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Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life by Theodore M. Porter — science, objectivity, quantification, sociology, politics, measurement
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel • 2020 — philosophy, politics, sociology, inequality, education
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer • 1951 — sociology, psychology, politics, history, mass movements, ideology, religion
The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence — history, china, modernization, politics, society
The Rub of Time by Martin Amis — essays, literature, politics, culture, biography, personal experience
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin — history, economics, oil, business, politics, energy
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider by Michiko Kakutani — politics, technology, culture, disruption, democracy, social movements, outsiders, innovation
The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor — law, economics, politics, history, social justice, technology, ai
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin • 2005 — biography, history, politics, leadership, lincoln, civil war, american history
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi • 2016 — history, race, racism, social justice, culture, politics, america
Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott — history, politics, sociology, anthropology, economics, power, knowledge
Profiles in Leadership: Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness by Walter Isaacson — leadership, history, biography, politics, strategy
Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century by Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler • 1990 — power, knowledge, business, technology, politics, economics, information, strategy
Modern China by Jonathan Fenby — history, china, politics, economics, qing dynasty, mao zedong, deng xiaoping, authoritarianism, revolution
Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic by Maurice Meisner — china, history, communism, mao, revolution, politics
Kissinger: A Biography by Walter Isaacson — biography, politics, diplomacy, foreign policy, history, realpolitik
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze — economics, finance, history, globalization, politics
China since Tiananmen: From Deng Xiaoping to Hu Jintao, Second Edition by Joseph Fewsmith • 2008 — china, politics, economics, nationalism
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford • 2021 — artificial intelligence, technology, politics, power, surveillance, labor, environment, data, classification
American Sketches by Walter Isaacson — biography, leadership, history, politics, creativity, journalism, america, founding-fathers, foreign-policy, science, technology, einstein, franklin