American Politics

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Foundational Texts and Historical Documents

  1. "The Federalist Papers" by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay

  2. "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville

  3. "The Constitution of the United States"

  4. "The Declaration of Independence"

  5. "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine

  6. "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" by Benjamin Franklin

  7. "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois

  8. "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" by Frederick Douglass

Biographies and Histories of Political Figures

  1. "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Doris Kearns Goodwin

  2. "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" by Edmund Morris

  3. "Truman" by David McCullough

  4. "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House" by Jon Meacham

  5. "No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt" by Doris Kearns Goodwin

  6. "The Years of Lyndon Johnson" series by Robert A. Caro

  7. "Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow

  8. "Grant" by Ron Chernow

Political Theory and Philosophy

  1. "The Road to Serfdom" by Friedrich Hayek

  2. "Capitalism and Freedom" by Milton Friedman

  3. "The Conscience of a Conservative" by Barry Goldwater

  4. "The Liberal Tradition in America" by Louis Hartz

  5. "The End of History and the Last Man" by Francis Fukuyama

  6. "The Origins of Political Order" by Francis Fukuyama

  7. "Democracy and Its Critics" by Robert A. Dahl

Civil Rights and Social Movements

  1. "Parting the Waters: America in the King Years" by Taylor Branch

  2. "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan

  3. "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

  4. "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

  5. "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander

  6. "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn

Contemporary Politics and Issues

  1. "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order" by Samuel P. Huntington

  2. "Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community" by Robert D. Putnam

  3. "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion" by Jonathan Haidt

  4. "The Fifth Risk" by Michael Lewis

  5. "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right" by Jane Mayer

  6. "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" by Matthew Desmond

Policy, Economics, and Governance

  1. "The Affluent Society" by John Kenneth Galbraith

  2. "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money" by John Maynard Keynes

  3. "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith

  4. "Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty" by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

  5. "The Best and the Brightest" by David Halberstam

  6. "The Price of Inequality" by Joseph E. Stiglitz

  7. "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States" by Charles A. Beard

Political Commentaries and Essays

  1. "The American Crisis" by Thomas Paine

  2. "The Public and Its Problems" by John Dewey

  3. "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" by Richard Hofstadter

  4. "The Power Elite" by C. Wright Mills

  5. "God and Man at Yale" by William F. Buckley Jr.

  6. "The Audacity of Hope" by Barack Obama

Foreign Policy and International Relations

  1. "Diplomacy" by Henry Kissinger

  2. "The Tragedy of American Diplomacy" by William Appleman Williams

  3. "Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World" by Walter Russell Mead

  4. "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives" by Zbigniew Brzezinski

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