Non-Fiction: Current Events
Explore a curated list of the best non-fiction books on current events, featuring insightful analysis and up-to-date coverage of today's most pressing global issues.
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Shah of Shahs
by Ryszard Kapuscinski
"Insightful and important.... A readable, timely and valuable contribution to the understanding of the revolutionary forces at work in Iran.... The reader almost becomes a …
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Active Liberty
by Stephen Breyer
A brilliant new approach to the Constitution and courts of the United States by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.For Justice Breyer, the Constitution’s primary role …
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Meltdown
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Discusses the economic crisis, claiming that government regulation and manipulation caused the financial downturn in real estate and that further regulation and government bailouts will …
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Bailout
by John Waggoner
In Bailout, John Waggoner answers the essential questions surrounding recent market catastrophes—from the failure of Bear Stearns to the credit crisis—and reveals how you can …
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The Looting of America
by Les Leopold
How could the best and brightest (and most highly paid) in finance crash the global economy and then get us to bail them out as …
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Against the Machine
by Lee Siegel
From the author hailed by the New York Times Book Review for his “drive-by brilliance” and dubbed by the New York Times Magazine as “one …
