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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as government)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,719,489 ratings — published 1949
The Federalist Papers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 86 times as government)
avg rating 4.10 — 42,642 ratings — published 1788
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as government)
avg rating 4.10 — 48,844 ratings — published 2018
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as government)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,777,864 ratings — published 1945
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as government)
avg rating 4.18 — 16,699 ratings — published 2025
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as government)
avg rating 4.29 — 117,465 ratings — published 2017
The Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the United States (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as government)
avg rating 4.44 — 27,807 ratings — published 1776
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as government)
avg rating 3.84 — 398,306 ratings — published 1513
Common Sense (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as government)
avg rating 4.01 — 41,009 ratings — published 1776
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as government)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,568 ratings — published 1835
The United States Constitution (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as government)
avg rating 4.52 — 27,225 ratings — published 1787
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as government)
avg rating 3.97 — 231,971 ratings — published -400
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as government)
avg rating 4.31 — 285,765 ratings — published 2020
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as government)
avg rating 3.84 — 171,286 ratings — published 2006
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as government)
avg rating 4.09 — 383,390 ratings — published 2001
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as government)
avg rating 4.28 — 204,248 ratings — published 2005
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 39 times as government)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,773 ratings — published 2018
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as government)
avg rating 4.15 — 34,683 ratings — published 2018
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as government)
avg rating 3.69 — 208,116 ratings — published 1848
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as government)
avg rating 4.22 — 205,892 ratings — published 2004
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as government)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,227,957 ratings — published 2008
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as government)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,236,714 ratings — published 2018
Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as government)
avg rating 3.87 — 65,882 ratings — published 2018
The Law (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as government)
avg rating 4.33 — 14,604 ratings — published 1849
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as government)
avg rating 3.88 — 54,460 ratings — published 2025
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as government)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,947 ratings — published 2018
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as government)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,237 ratings — published 2017
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as government)
avg rating 4.15 — 19,451 ratings — published 2024
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as government)
avg rating 4.09 — 18,789 ratings — published 2007
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as government)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,638 ratings — published 2012
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as government)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,308,741 ratings — published 2009
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as government)
avg rating 4.09 — 272,974 ratings — published 1980
Second Treatise of Government (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 26 times as government)
avg rating 3.78 — 24,671 ratings — published 1689
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as government)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,142,365 ratings — published 1932
The Road to Serfdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as government)
avg rating 4.14 — 26,720 ratings — published 1944
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as government)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,853,054 ratings — published 2010
I Am America (And So Can You!)
by (shelved 24 times as government)
avg rating 3.90 — 84,909 ratings — published 2007
Two Treatises of Government (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as government)
avg rating 3.87 — 19,845 ratings — published 1689
The Social Contract (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as government)
avg rating 3.78 — 59,922 ratings — published 1762
Leviathan (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as government)
avg rating 3.70 — 54,722 ratings — published 1651
Permanent Record (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as government)
avg rating 4.30 — 59,318 ratings — published 2019
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as government)
avg rating 3.44 — 77,737 ratings — published 2018
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as government)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,116 ratings — published 2010
Obama's Wars (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 22 times as government)
avg rating 3.82 — 9,221 ratings — published 2011
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as government)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,541,955 ratings — published 1985
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as government)
avg rating 4.32 — 43,723 ratings — published 2021
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as government)
avg rating 4.08 — 359,393 ratings — published 1997
America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
by (shelved 21 times as government)
avg rating 4.01 — 97,695 ratings — published 2004
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as government)
avg rating 4.27 — 66,650 ratings — published 2023
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as government)
avg rating 4.25 — 787,511 ratings — published 2007
“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
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“In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one's own place and economy.
In such a society, also, our private economies will depend less and less upon the private ownership of real, usable property, and more and more upon property that is institutional and abstract, beyond individual control, such as money, insurance policies, certificates of deposit, stocks, and shares. And as our private economies become more abstract, the mutual, free helps and pleasures of family and community life will be supplanted by a kind of displaced or placeless citizenship and by commerce with impersonal and self-interested suppliers...
Thus, although we are not slaves in name, and cannot be carried to market and sold as somebody else's legal chattels, we are free only within narrow limits. For all our talk about liberation and personal autonomy, there are few choices that we are free to make. What would be the point, for example, if a majority of our people decided to be self-employed?
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.”
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
In such a society, also, our private economies will depend less and less upon the private ownership of real, usable property, and more and more upon property that is institutional and abstract, beyond individual control, such as money, insurance policies, certificates of deposit, stocks, and shares. And as our private economies become more abstract, the mutual, free helps and pleasures of family and community life will be supplanted by a kind of displaced or placeless citizenship and by commerce with impersonal and self-interested suppliers...
Thus, although we are not slaves in name, and cannot be carried to market and sold as somebody else's legal chattels, we are free only within narrow limits. For all our talk about liberation and personal autonomy, there are few choices that we are free to make. What would be the point, for example, if a majority of our people decided to be self-employed?
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.”
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays












