Genre :: Politics (29 books)

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  #297

  On the Social Contract

  by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  (3 Reviews)

  72 Points

  "My purpose is to consider if, in political society, there can be any legitimate and sure principle of government, taking men as they are and laws as they might be."

  

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  #301

  Das Kapital

  by Karl Marx

  (1 Review)

  71 Points

  

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  #303

  The Prince

  by Niccolò Machiavelli

  (6 Reviews)

  70 Points

  "All the states, all the dominions under whose authority men have lived in the past and live now have been and are either republics or principalities.It is customary for those who wish to gain the..."

  

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  #306

  Atlas Shrugged

  by Ayn Rand

  (15 Reviews)

  70 Points

  "Who is John Galt?"

  

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  #318

  Leviathan

  by Thomas Hobbes

  (3 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "Nature (the ary whereby God hath made and governs the world) is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal."

  

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  #319

  The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

  by Robert Tressell

  (1 Review)

  68 Points

  

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  #329

  History of the Peloponnesian War

  by Thucydides

  (2 Reviews)

  67 Points

  "Thucydides the Athenian wrote the history of the war fought between Athens and Sparta, beginning the account at the very outbreak of the war, in the belief that it was going to be a great war and..."

  

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  #352

  One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

  by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  (5 Reviews)

  62 Points

  "As usual, at five o'clock that morning reveille was sounded by the blows of a hammer on a length of rail hanging up near the staff quarters."

  

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  #370

  The Jungle

  by Upton Sinclair

  (3 Reviews)

  56 Points

  

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  #420

  Libra

  by Don DeLillo

  (2 Reviews)

  46 Points

  

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