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1.
How Not to Be a Politician: A Memoir
by:
Rory Stewart
4.32 avg rating β 15,502 ratings
2.
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by:
Robert A. Caro
4.52 avg rating β 27,080 ratings
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The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
by:
Robert A. Caro
4.42 avg rating β 25,861 ratings
4.
A Promised Land
by:
Barack Obama
4.32 avg rating β 263,495 ratings
5.
Believer: My Forty Years in Politics
by:
David Axelrod
4.16 avg rating β 2,671 ratings
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Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
by:
John Lewis
4.60 avg rating β 3,777 ratings
7.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by:
Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating β 285,197 ratings
8.
The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians
by:
Carlos Lozada
4.08 avg rating β 127 ratings
9.
Why We Can't Wait
by:
Martin Luther King Jr.
4.54 avg rating β 8,975 ratings
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The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
by:
Chris Whipple
4.29 avg rating β 7,953 ratings
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The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
by:
Kamala Harris
4.05 avg rating β 32,572 ratings
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The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights and Other Appreciations
by:
John McCain
4.06 avg rating β 3,756 ratings
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The Luckiest Man: Life with John McCain
by:
Mark Salter
4.28 avg rating β 358 ratings
14.
Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics
by:
Michael Ignatieff
3.86 avg rating β 716 ratings
15.
Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
by:
Pete Buttigieg
4.21 avg rating β 16,410 ratings
16.
Madam Secretary
by:
Madeleine K. Albright
4.11 avg rating β 9,058 ratings
17.
Persist
by:
Elizabeth Warren
4.34 avg rating β 2,855 ratings
18.
To the Castle and Back: Reflections on My Strange Life as a Fairy-Tale Hero
by:
VΓ‘clav Havel
3.89 avg rating β 325 ratings
19.
Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years
by:
Nelson Mandela
3.67 avg rating β 591 ratings
20.
No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington
by:
Condoleezza Rice
3.95 avg rating β 4,085 ratings
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In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
by:
Robert S. McNamara
3.76 avg rating β 2,555 ratings
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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
by:
Robert F. Kennedy
4.08 avg rating β 8,804 ratings
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A View from the Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin
by:
Chris Mullin
4.16 avg rating β 728 ratings
24.
The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries
by:
Alastair Campbell
3.89 avg rating β 1,550 ratings
25.
Gorbachev: His Life and Times
by:
William Taubman
4.27 avg rating β 1,267 ratings
26.
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
by:
George Packer
4.38 avg rating β 2,265 ratings
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Konrad Adenauer: Memoirs 1945-1953
by:
Konrad Adenauer
4.06 avg rating β 16 ratings
28.
Tom Paine: A Political Life
by:
John Keane
4.23 avg rating β 124 ratings
29.
Reagan: His Life and Legend
by:
Max Boot
4.17 avg rating β 1,552 ratings
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The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
by:
Samantha Power
4.34 avg rating β 19,533 ratings
31.
There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
by:
Fiona Hill
4.12 avg rating β 4,936 ratings
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The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
by:
Randy Shilts
4.14 avg rating β 4,470 ratings
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My Life: A Spoken Autobiography
by:
Fidel Castro
4.20 avg rating β 3,473 ratings
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Churchill: Walking with Destiny
by:
Andrew Roberts
4.38 avg rating β 10,749 ratings
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Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy
by:
Peter S. Canellos
4.01 avg rating β 1,620 ratings
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JFK: Coming Of Age In The American Century, 1917-1956
by:
Fredrik Logevall
4.55 avg rating β 2,845 ratings
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Alan Clark: A Life in his Own Words: The Complete Diaries 1972 - 1999
by:
Alan Clark
4.09 avg rating β 69 ratings
38.
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
by:
Cleve Jones
4.35 avg rating β 2,845 ratings
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The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
by:
Adam Shatz
4.21 avg rating β 399 ratings
40.
To Build a Castle: My Life as a Dissenter
by:
Vladimir Bukovsky
4.47 avg rating β 331 ratings
41.
Fear No Evil
by:
Natan Sharansky
4.48 avg rating β 529 ratings
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
by:
David W. Blight
4.17 avg rating β 12,342 ratings
43.
Notes of a Native Son
by:
James Baldwin
4.37 avg rating β 23,284 ratings
44.
King: A Life
by:
Jonathan Eig
4.65 avg rating β 11,034 ratings
45.
I Write What I Like: Selected Writings
by:
Steve Biko
4.37 avg rating β 2,701 ratings
46.
Long Walk to Freedom
by:
Nelson Mandela
4.36 avg rating β 92,336 ratings
47.
The Captive Mind
by:
CzesΕaw MiΕosz
4.27 avg rating β 4,725 ratings
48.
Havel: Unfinished Revolution
by:
David Gilbreath Barton
4.72 avg rating β 18 ratings
49.
Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa
by:
Jacques E. Levy
4.25 avg rating β 114 ratings
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To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by:
Tommie Shelby
4.35 avg rating β 63 ratings
51.
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
by:
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
4.39 avg rating β 6,233 ratings
52.
Is Journalism Worth Dying For?: Final Dispatches
by:
Anna Politkovskaya
4.25 avg rating β 416 ratings
53.
Memoirs of a Revolutionary (Sightline Books)
by:
Victor Serge
4.45 avg rating β 801 ratings
54.
The Invisible Writing
by:
Arthur Koestler
4.35 avg rating β 186 ratings