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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as government)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,316,362 ratings — published 1949
The Federalist Papers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 84 times as government)
avg rating 4.10 — 41,757 ratings — published 1788
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as government)
avg rating 4.09 — 47,627 ratings — published 2018
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as government)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,429,463 ratings — published 1945
The Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the United States (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as government)
avg rating 4.44 — 27,139 ratings — published 1776
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as government)
avg rating 3.84 — 376,210 ratings — published 1513
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as government)
avg rating 4.27 — 94,862 ratings — published 2017
Common Sense (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as government)
avg rating 4.00 — 38,888 ratings — published 1776
The United States Constitution (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as government)
avg rating 4.52 — 27,095 ratings — published 1787
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as government)
avg rating 4.05 — 26,783 ratings — published 1835
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as government)
avg rating 3.84 — 169,041 ratings — published 2006
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as government)
avg rating 3.97 — 222,448 ratings — published -400
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as government)
avg rating 4.08 — 375,116 ratings — published 2001
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as government)
avg rating 4.32 — 268,189 ratings — published 2020
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as government)
avg rating 4.28 — 197,868 ratings — published 2005
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 38 times as government)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,821 ratings — published 2018
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as government)
avg rating 3.68 — 192,590 ratings — published 1848
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as government)
avg rating 4.17 — 9,675 ratings — published 2025
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as government)
avg rating 4.16 — 31,203 ratings — published 2018
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as government)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,711,127 ratings — published 2008
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as government)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,174,361 ratings — published 2018
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as government)
avg rating 4.22 — 197,074 ratings — published 2004
Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as government)
avg rating 3.87 — 65,075 ratings — published 2018
The Law (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as government)
avg rating 4.34 — 13,731 ratings — published 1849
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as government)
avg rating 4.44 — 44,904 ratings — published 2017
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as government)
avg rating 4.09 — 18,375 ratings — published 2007
Second Treatise of Government (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 27 times as government)
avg rating 3.78 — 23,832 ratings — published 1689
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as government)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,281 ratings — published 2018
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as government)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,069,564 ratings — published 2009
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as government)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,007 ratings — published 2024
The Social Contract (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as government)
avg rating 3.78 — 56,564 ratings — published 1762
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as government)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,645,011 ratings — published 2010
I Am America (And So Can You!)
by (shelved 24 times as government)
avg rating 3.90 — 84,039 ratings — published 2007
The Road to Serfdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as government)
avg rating 4.15 — 25,624 ratings — published 1944
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as government)
avg rating 4.09 — 262,148 ratings — published 1980
Two Treatises of Government (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as government)
avg rating 3.87 — 19,480 ratings — published 1689
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as government)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,946 ratings — published 2010
Obama's Wars (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 23 times as government)
avg rating 3.82 — 9,103 ratings — published 2011
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as government)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,040,877 ratings — published 1932
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as government)
avg rating 3.44 — 77,079 ratings — published 2018
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as government)
avg rating 4.33 — 42,462 ratings — published 2021
Permanent Record (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as government)
avg rating 4.30 — 57,131 ratings — published 2019
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as government)
avg rating 4.09 — 60,701 ratings — published 2012
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as government)
avg rating 4.08 — 346,816 ratings — published 1997
Leviathan (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as government)
avg rating 3.70 — 51,995 ratings — published 1651
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (ebook)
by (shelved 20 times as government)
avg rating 4.31 — 26,919 ratings — published 2016
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as government)
avg rating 4.24 — 770,203 ratings — published 2007
The 5000 Year Leap (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as government)
avg rating 4.27 — 7,141 ratings — published 1981
America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
by (shelved 20 times as government)
avg rating 4.01 — 97,040 ratings — published 2004
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as government)
avg rating 3.16 — 14,651 ratings — published 2020
“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”
― Children of Dune
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”
― Children of Dune
“History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
