Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton
Category: Politics
In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism - that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and ...Show more
Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency by Michael Wolff
Category: Politics
New York Times bestselling author of Fire and Fury and Siege completes the trilogy on the epic presidency of Donald J. TrumpWith Fire and Fury Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; in Siege he wrote an explosive account of a presidency under fire. In Landslide Wolff closes the story ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern (I Know This to Be True): On Kindness, Empathy and Strength by Geoff Blackwell; Jacinda Ardern
Category: Politics | Series: I KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE
Thoughts on kindness, empathy and strength from Jacinda Ardern, politician, feminist and champion for social equality.
Rage by Bob Woodward
Category: Politics
Bob Woodward's new book, Rage, is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of original reporting on the Trump presidency. Rage goes behind the scenes like never before, with stunning new details about early national security decisions and operations and Trump's moves as he faces a global pandemic, ec ...Show more
What Next by Daniel Hannan
Category: Politics
On 23 June 2016, against all forecasts, Britain voted to leave the EU. Drawing on his experiences at the heart of the campaign, Daniel Hannan disects the result and our reaction. He outlines why Vote Leave won, exploring what people were voting for and what they weren't. He looks at the immediate afterm ...Show more
The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton
Category: Politics
Trump's National Security Advisor took detailed notes. The result is the most comprehensive and substantial account of the Trump Administration from a senior advisor who had served three previous presidents over 30 years, with stunning revelations about happened inside the most powerful room in the nati ...Show more
How Trump Thinks: His Tweets and the Birth of a New Political Language by Peter Oborne
Category: Politics
The most unusual feature of Donald Trump's nationalist and populist campaign for the presidency of the USA was his obsessive use of Twitter. Like other social media, this form of communication has often been assumed to encourage the dissemination of liberal values and the circulation of facts. Trump's t ...Show more
Total Propaganda: Basic Marxist Brainwashing for the Angry and the Young by Helen Razer
Category: Politics
Marxism and socialism explained for a younger readership
Red Roulette - An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China by Desmond Shum
Category: Politics
'THE BOOK CHINA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ' CNN In the headline-making and bestselling tradition of Bill Browder's Red Notice comes a unique and incendiary memoir from an entrepreneur who rose to the zenith of power and money in 21st century China and whose wife was disappeared - and then mysteriously rea ...Show more
Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain by Fintan O'Toole
Category: Politics
'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' The Times. A TIMESBOOK OF THE YEAR. 'A quite brilliant dissection of the cultural roots of the Brexit narrative'David Miliband. 'Hugely entertaining and engrossing'Roddy Doyle. 'Best book about the ...Show more
Lies and Falsehoods: The Morrison Government and the New Culture of Deceit by Bernard Keane
Category: Politics | Series: The\Critical Take Ser.
Lies and Falsehoods: The Morrison Governmentand The New Culture of Deceit by well-known political journalist Bernard Keane combines Crikey's eye-opening dossier of Scott Morrison's documented lies with Keane's insightful take on why deceivers dominate in the new era of politics. This book is the first i ...Show more
Trump's Australia: How Trumpism changed Australia and the shocking consequences for us of a second term by Bruce Wolpe
Category: Politics
Trump (or a Trumpist) could well win the 2024 US presidential election, and if he does, American democracy as we have known it will probably come to an end. Australia's best-informed commentator on US politics sends a chilling warning. What if Trump (or a Trump-like candidate) becomes US president in 2 ...Show more