Books for Future Presidents

1.
Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference 4.18 avg rating — 7,713 ratings
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The Prince
The Prince 3.84 avg rating — 371,378 ratings
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies 3.85 avg rating — 20,387 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 4.34 avg rating — 1,201,592 ratings
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Manifesto of the Free People's Union
Manifesto of the Free People's Union 4.52 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness 3.84 avg rating — 92,725 ratings
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Politics
Politics
by: Aristotle
3.98 avg rating — 41,879 ratings
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The Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers 4.10 avg rating — 41,555 ratings
9.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow 4.17 avg rating — 564,493 ratings
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Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating — 445,014 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,443 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference 4.01 avg rating — 844,203 ratings
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The United States of Elfin: Imagining a More Elven Style of Government
The United States of Elfin: Imagining a More Elven Style of Government it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Campaign Battle: Control the Masses
Campaign Battle: Control the Masses 4.04 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 4.01 avg rating — 885,798 ratings
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Capital in the Twenty First Century
Capital in the Twenty First Century 4.06 avg rating — 33,857 ratings
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Moneyball
Moneyball 4.27 avg rating — 141,344 ratings
18.
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion 4.22 avg rating — 170,780 ratings
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Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series) 4.05 avg rating — 11,574 ratings
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined 4.16 avg rating — 29,267 ratings
21.
The Open Society and Its Enemies
The Open Society and Its Enemies 4.08 avg rating — 2,312 ratings
22.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Debt: The First 5,000 Years 4.21 avg rating — 25,617 ratings
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 3.75 avg rating — 206,251 ratings
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Animal Liberation
Animal Liberation 4.30 avg rating — 11,076 ratings
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
The Theory of the Leisure Class 3.87 avg rating — 3,937 ratings
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Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World 3.79 avg rating — 8,270 ratings
27.
The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder 3.74 avg rating — 846 ratings
28.
Bad Science
Bad Science 4.06 avg rating — 44,415 ratings
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The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer
The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer 3.87 avg rating — 45 ratings
30.
World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction 3.92 avg rating — 1,604 ratings
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The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom 4.09 avg rating — 43,674 ratings
32.
La democrazia in America
La democrazia in America 4.05 avg rating — 26,627 ratings
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The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos 3.83 avg rating — 156 ratings
34.
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine 4.30 avg rating — 168,089 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 4.14 avg rating — 6,198 ratings
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present 4.08 avg rating — 259,680 ratings
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The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap 4.21 avg rating — 7,582 ratings
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Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America 3.58 avg rating — 6,033 ratings
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This Machine Kills Secrets: How Wikileakers, Hacktivists, and Cipherpunks Are Freeing the World's Information
This Machine Kills Secrets: How Wikileakers, Hacktivists, and Cipherpunks Are Freeing the World's Information 4.01 avg rating — 1,188 ratings
40.
Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View
Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View 3.73 avg rating — 648 ratings
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Glaciers: The Politics of Ice
Glaciers: The Politics of Ice 3.56 avg rating — 48 ratings
42.
The Future of Power
The Future of Power 3.79 avg rating — 1,167 ratings
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
by: Tony Judt
4.38 avg rating — 13,387 ratings
44.
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics 4.16 avg rating — 23,023 ratings
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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us 3.72 avg rating — 8,117 ratings
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Holy Hullabaloos: A Road Trip to the Battlegrounds of the Church/State Wars
Holy Hullabaloos: A Road Trip to the Battlegrounds of the Church/State Wars 4.14 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters
Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters 4.04 avg rating — 26 ratings
48.
Escape from Freedom
Escape from Freedom 4.27 avg rating — 15,569 ratings
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Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future 3.96 avg rating — 9,471 ratings
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The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart 3.84 avg rating — 2,351 ratings
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The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050
The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050 3.22 avg rating — 207 ratings
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More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want
More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want 3.98 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century 3.97 avg rating — 2,592 ratings
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Death and Life of Great American Cities 4.29 avg rating — 19,189 ratings
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The Next Century
The Next Century 3.78 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Una teoria della giustizia
Una teoria della giustizia 3.95 avg rating — 13,399 ratings
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The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology 3.93 avg rating — 12,327 ratings
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Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge
Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge 4.03 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth
Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth 4.17 avg rating — 694 ratings
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The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security 3.76 avg rating — 7,160 ratings
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The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies 3.91 avg rating — 2,152 ratings
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Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other Peoples Minds
Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other Peoples Minds 3.59 avg rating — 653 ratings
63.
Asimov's New Guide to Science
Asimov's New Guide to Science 4.33 avg rating — 857 ratings
64.
The People's Republic of Chemicals
The People's Republic of Chemicals 4.09 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Problems of Philosophy
The Problems of Philosophy 3.90 avg rating — 18,140 ratings
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The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good 3.84 avg rating — 5,637 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating — 73,869 ratings
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First In, Last Out: Leadership Lessons from the New York Fire Department
First In, Last Out: Leadership Lessons from the New York Fire Department 4.10 avg rating — 325 ratings
69.
Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas
Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas 4.37 avg rating — 220 ratings
70.
Psicologia delle folle
Psicologia delle folle 3.81 avg rating — 19,883 ratings
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The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor 3.87 avg rating — 1,355 ratings
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Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?
Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? 3.98 avg rating — 687 ratings
73.
The Closing of the American Mind
The Closing of the American Mind 3.76 avg rating — 5,867 ratings
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Politics Among Nations
Politics Among Nations 4.09 avg rating — 1,106 ratings
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The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age
The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age 4.07 avg rating — 249 ratings
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas
The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas 4.10 avg rating — 943 ratings
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The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet 4.14 avg rating — 1,412 ratings
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The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better
The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better 3.73 avg rating — 2,363 ratings
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Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality
Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality 3.80 avg rating — 716 ratings
80.
Pensieri
Pensieri 4.28 avg rating — 320,654 ratings
81.
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time 4.32 avg rating — 8,339 ratings
82.
What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?: How Money Really Does Grow on Trees
What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?: How Money Really Does Grow on Trees 4.21 avg rating — 411 ratings
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In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire 3.90 avg rating — 5,311 ratings
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion 4.20 avg rating — 63,320 ratings
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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies 3.91 avg rating — 12,074 ratings
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The Reckoning
The Reckoning 4.43 avg rating — 1,535 ratings
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Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much 3.94 avg rating — 7,269 ratings
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Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy 4.11 avg rating — 5,081 ratings
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One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America 3.96 avg rating — 2,551 ratings
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Sistema económico y rentístico de la Confederación argentina según su constitución de 1853
Sistema económico y rentístico de la Confederación argentina según su constitución de 1853 4.40 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty
Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty 4.15 avg rating — 1,126 ratings
90.
Se questo è un uomo - La tregua
Se questo è un uomo - La tregua 4.54 avg rating — 21,711 ratings
90.
How to Win Friends & Influence People
How to Win Friends & Influence People 4.22 avg rating — 1,110,668 ratings
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Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History
Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History 4.05 avg rating — 305 ratings
90.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century 4.27 avg rating — 89,871 ratings
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The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents
The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents 4.16 avg rating — 165 ratings
90.
Understanding Power : The Indispensable Chomsky
Understanding Power : The Indispensable Chomsky 4.41 avg rating — 9,421 ratings
90.
The Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the United States
The Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the United States 4.44 avg rating — 26,980 ratings
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Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition
Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition 3.94 avg rating — 97 ratings
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The Secret of Divine Civilization
The Secret of Divine Civilization 4.81 avg rating — 147 ratings
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