military-industrial complex
description: concept in military and political science
468 results
Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead
by Kenneth Rogoff · 27 Feb 2025 · 330pp · 127,791 words
scaling up defense capabilities might still be prohibitive. There are many obstacles to integration, ranging from disagreement over who would control a more united European military-industrial complex to fears of German rearmament (within and outside Germany). A European economist suggested to me recently that there might be an unspoken French concern that
Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
by Jacob Silverman · 9 Oct 2025 · 312pp · 103,645 words
was no longer unusual to see MAGA-aligned software engineers and top venture capitalists stumping for the tech industry to elevate its role in the military-industrial complex. During this period, Silicon Valley also saw the creation of startups explicitly designed to do military and intelligence work. Palantir, with its proudly jingoistic CEO
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New Alignment” chapter, a nascent political awakening seemed to be happening around this time in tech—interest in unionization, a refusal to contribute to the military-industrial complex, a general discomfort with the social, political, and mental health effects of social-media platforms, particularly on young people. But it was a scattered sense
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everyone to get ahead.1 Like President Dwight D. Eisenhower warning the public about “the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex,” Biden was alerting the people to a political concern that had become a crisis under his watch. The parallels were explicit: invoking Eisenhower’s example
The Dream of Europe: Travels in the Twenty-First Century
by Geert Mak · 27 Oct 2021 · 722pp · 223,701 words
of his time talking about an entirely legitimate issue, one that could even be called left wing.’ Trump talked about the industrial lobbies, about the military-industrial complex, about the ideology of the free market and the loss of millions of jobs to Mexico and China that went with it, as a result
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defence and security further towards the Americans, who, whether on the left or the right, had gradually come to resent it. Urged on by their military-industrial complex, they were spending twice as much on defence as the Europeans, who had cut their budgets time and again. In 2016 a retired British general
The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth
by Nicolas Niarchos · 20 Jan 2026 · 654pp · 170,150 words
complexity as the government moved to protect strategic industries and firms at which layoffs threatened labor unrest. SAIC, which had close ties to the Chinese military-industrial complex, refused to negotiate with Aronson. Something else was also afoot. “The Chinese government decided to commandeer his factories to make submarine batteries, and they wanted
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, the Chinese government was using SFAIC as a tool for spying on the U.S., and as a way of diverting technology to Beijing’s military-industrial complex. “They had a liaison office at McDonnell Douglas in connection with their agreement with us, so we were really a cover for an espionage operation
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
by Quinn Slobodian · 4 Apr 2023 · 360pp · 107,124 words
saw America’s self-appointed role of global policeman as a pretext for centralizing state power and expanding the cronyism, waste, and inefficiency of the military-industrial complex.8 A tax-funded standing army with a monopoly on modern weaponry was anathema to his principles, and conscription was “mass enslavement.”9 Although Rothbard
The 9/11 Wars
by Jason Burke · 1 Sep 2011 · 885pp · 271,563 words
theories were rife. In France a book by a Marxist polemicist called Thierry Meyssan which argued that 9/11 was set up by the American ‘military-industrial complex’ was a bestseller. Similarly, in the UK such views were not simply restricted to the 45 per cent of the British Muslims who thought that
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
by Liz Pelly · 7 Jan 2025 · 293pp · 104,461 words
, there had been a surge of university research on topics like workplace productivity and music therapy, and it had a surprising role in bolstering the military-industrial complex, lulling the makers of war materials: the BBC radio program Music While You Work was meant to boost the moods of workers in weapons factories
Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity
by Paul Kingsnorth · 23 Sep 2025 · 388pp · 110,920 words
permitted and yet nothing was centred or lasting. The counter-culture had, in its own way, taken aim at the Machine, at Mammon, at the military-industrial complex, but it had stood on the ground of extreme personal liberation, and that ground turned out to be too swampy to hold. It took two
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
by Chris Hedges · 31 Aug 2002 · 218pp · 61,301 words
African states, has left the country beset by violent crime and dominated by armed militias and gangs. We are hostage to a vast and powerful military-industrial complex that exports more weapons than all other nations combined. I knew a Muslim soldier, a father, who fought on the front lines around Sarajveo. His
The Extreme Centre: A Warning
by Tariq Ali · 22 Jan 2015 · 160pp · 46,449 words
protect and sustain the system of global capitalism remain firmly anchored in Washington. The Pacific and the Atlantic are both the setting for an outsize military-industrial complex and the world’s largest national economy. The interrelationship between the two is likely to determine the course of the twenty-first century, with Europe
Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
by Robert B. Reich · 21 Sep 2010 · 147pp · 45,890 words
An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent
by Owen Matthews · 21 Mar 2019 · 589pp · 162,849 words
Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe
by Noam Chomsky and Laray Polk · 29 Apr 2013
Lethal Passage
by Erik Larson · 27 Jul 2011 · 291pp · 87,296 words
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
by Kashmir Hill · 19 Sep 2023 · 487pp · 124,008 words
The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
by Michael Scott Moore · 23 Jul 2018 · 476pp · 124,973 words
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
by Kristen R. Ghodsee · 20 Nov 2018 · 211pp · 57,759 words
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty
by Harry Browne · 1 Jan 1973 · 312pp · 114,586 words
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
by Jane Mayer · 19 Jan 2016 · 558pp · 168,179 words
The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
by Steve Olson · 28 Jul 2020 · 378pp · 103,136 words
What's Left?: How Liberals Lost Their Way
by Nick Cohen · 15 Jul 2015 · 414pp · 121,243 words
Anatomy of the Bear: Lessons From Wall Street's Four Great Bottoms
by Russell Napier · 18 Jan 2016 · 358pp · 119,272 words
Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places
by Paul Collier · 9 Feb 2010 · 264pp · 74,313 words
Rust: The Longest War
by Jonathan Waldman · 10 Mar 2015 · 347pp · 112,727 words
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (Politics of Place)
by Tim Marshall · 10 Oct 2016 · 306pp · 79,537 words
Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War: 1938-1941
by Alan Allport · 2 Sep 2020 · 1,520pp · 221,543 words
Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?
by Thomas Geoghegan · 20 Sep 2011 · 364pp · 104,697 words
American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup
by F. H. Buckley · 14 Jan 2020
The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
by Andrew J. Bacevich · 7 Jan 2020 · 254pp · 68,133 words
Free Money for All: A Basic Income Guarantee Solution for the Twenty-First Century
by Mark Walker · 29 Nov 2015
A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption
by Steven Hiatt; John Perkins · 1 Jan 2006 · 497pp · 123,718 words
The Power Elite
by C. Wright Mills and Alan Wolfe · 1 Jan 1956 · 568pp · 174,089 words
Chomsky on Mis-Education
by Noam Chomsky · 24 Mar 2000
The Great Depression: A Diary
by Benjamin Roth, James Ledbetter and Daniel B. Roth · 21 Jul 2009 · 408pp · 94,311 words
Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It
by Richard A. Clarke and Robert Knake · 15 Dec 2010 · 282pp · 92,998 words
The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War
by Norman Stone · 15 Feb 2010 · 851pp · 247,711 words
Nine Crises: Fifty Years of Covering the British Economy From Devaluation to Brexit
by William Keegan · 24 Jan 2019 · 309pp · 85,584 words
The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?
by Ian Bremmer · 12 May 2010 · 247pp · 68,918 words
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
by Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff · 8 Jul 2024 · 272pp · 103,638 words
Why Orwell Matters
by Christopher Hitchens · 1 Jan 2002 · 184pp · 54,833 words
Moscow, December 25th, 1991
by Conor O'Clery · 31 Jul 2011 · 449pp · 127,440 words
Big Debt Crises
by Ray Dalio · 9 Sep 2018 · 782pp · 187,875 words
Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
by Dan Senor and Saul Singer · 3 Nov 2009 · 285pp · 81,743 words
Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick
by J. David McSwane · 11 Apr 2022 · 368pp · 102,379 words
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
by Max Fisher · 5 Sep 2022 · 439pp · 131,081 words
Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
by William Blum · 31 Mar 2002
The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
by Craig Nelson · 25 Mar 2014 · 684pp · 188,584 words
McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
by Ronald Purser · 8 Jul 2019 · 242pp · 67,233 words
Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
by Arianna Huffington · 7 Sep 2010 · 300pp · 78,475 words
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters With Reality and Virtual Reality
by Jaron Lanier · 21 Nov 2017 · 480pp · 123,979 words
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
by Harsha Walia · 9 Feb 2021
The Cold War: A New History
by John Lewis Gaddis · 1 Jan 2005 · 392pp · 106,532 words
Rethinking Camelot
by Noam Chomsky · 7 Apr 2015
A Theory of the Drone
by Gregoire Chamayou · 23 Apr 2013 · 335pp · 82,528 words
Necessary Illusions
by Noam Chomsky · 1 Sep 1995
Near and Distant Neighbors: A New History of Soviet Intelligence
by Jonathan Haslam · 21 Sep 2015 · 525pp · 131,496 words
How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets
by Andy Kessler · 13 Jun 2005 · 218pp · 63,471 words
10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less
by Garett Jones · 4 Feb 2020 · 303pp · 75,192 words
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
by Niall Ferguson · 1 Jan 2002 · 469pp · 146,487 words
1968: The Year That Rocked the World
by Mark Kurlansky · 30 Dec 2003 · 538pp · 164,533 words
The Nation City: Why Mayors Are Now Running the World
by Rahm Emanuel · 25 Feb 2020 · 212pp · 69,846 words
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
by Gary Gerstle · 14 Oct 2022 · 655pp · 156,367 words
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
by Serhii Plokhy · 1 Mar 2018 · 465pp · 140,800 words
The Long History of the Future: Why Tomorrow's Technology Still Isn't Here
by Nicole Kobie · 3 Jul 2024 · 348pp · 119,358 words
The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power
by Jacob Helberg · 11 Oct 2021 · 521pp · 118,183 words
Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life
by Richard Beck · 2 Sep 2024 · 715pp · 212,449 words
The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
by Max Chafkin · 14 Sep 2021 · 524pp · 130,909 words
Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
by Annalee Newitz · 3 Jun 2024 · 251pp · 68,713 words
The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century
by Rodrigo Aguilera · 10 Mar 2020 · 356pp · 106,161 words
Thinking Without a Banister: Essays in Understanding, 1953-1975
by Hannah Arendt · 6 Mar 2018 · 653pp · 218,559 words
The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire
by Jeff Berwick and Charlie Robinson · 14 Apr 2020 · 491pp · 141,690 words
Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World
by Ian Bremmer · 30 Apr 2012 · 234pp · 63,149 words
Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control
by Medea Benjamin · 8 Apr 2013 · 188pp · 54,942 words
The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
by Victor Davis Hanson · 16 Oct 2017 · 908pp · 262,808 words
Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
by Jonathan Taplin · 17 Apr 2017 · 222pp · 70,132 words
The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities
by John J. Mearsheimer · 24 Sep 2018 · 443pp · 125,510 words
Let them eat junk: how capitalism creates hunger and obesity
by Robert Albritton · 31 Mar 2009 · 273pp · 93,419 words
The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
by Noam Chomsky · 24 Oct 2014
Masters of Mankind
by Noam Chomsky · 1 Sep 2014
Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush
by Geoff Dyer · 19 May 2014 · 169pp · 56,555 words
The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives
by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen · 22 Apr 2013 · 525pp · 116,295 words
Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping
by Roger Faligot · 30 Jun 2019 · 615pp · 187,426 words
The Year That Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall
by Michael Meyer · 7 Sep 2009 · 323pp · 95,188 words
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
by Naomi Klein · 12 Jun 2017 · 357pp · 94,852 words
Death of the Liberal Class
by Chris Hedges · 14 May 2010 · 422pp · 89,770 words
Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
by Robert W. McChesney · 5 Mar 2013 · 476pp · 125,219 words
Culture & Empire: Digital Revolution
by Pieter Hintjens · 11 Mar 2013 · 349pp · 114,038 words
The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey Into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future
by Geoffrey Cain · 28 Jun 2021 · 340pp · 90,674 words
Brexit, No Exit: Why in the End Britain Won't Leave Europe
by Denis MacShane · 14 Jul 2017 · 308pp · 99,298 words
Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
by Andrew Lambert · 1 Oct 2018 · 618pp · 160,006 words
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
by Neil Degrasse Tyson and Avis Lang · 10 Sep 2018 · 745pp · 207,187 words
How the World Works
by Noam Chomsky, Arthur Naiman and David Barsamian · 13 Sep 2011 · 489pp · 111,305 words
American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15
by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson · 25 Sep 2023 · 525pp · 166,724 words
Mr Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the World's Richest Man
by Jonathan Conlin · 3 Jan 2019 · 604pp · 165,488 words
Stealth
by Peter Westwick · 22 Nov 2019 · 474pp · 87,687 words
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
by Brian Merchant · 25 Sep 2023 · 524pp · 154,652 words
The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite
by Ann Finkbeiner · 26 Mar 2007
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell
by Phil Lapsley · 5 Feb 2013 · 744pp · 142,748 words
Who Stole the American Dream?
by Hedrick Smith · 10 Sep 2012 · 598pp · 172,137 words
Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections
by Mollie Hemingway · 11 Oct 2021 · 595pp · 143,394 words
Underground
by Suelette Dreyfus · 1 Jan 2011 · 547pp · 160,071 words
Economists and the Powerful
by Norbert Haring, Norbert H. Ring and Niall Douglas · 30 Sep 2012 · 261pp · 103,244 words
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin · 18 Dec 2007 · 1,041pp · 317,136 words
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
by Sebastian Mallaby · 1 Feb 2022 · 935pp · 197,338 words
The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be
by Moises Naim · 5 Mar 2013 · 474pp · 120,801 words
The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
by Victor Davis Hanson · 15 Nov 2021 · 458pp · 132,912 words
If Then: How Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
by Jill Lepore · 14 Sep 2020 · 467pp · 149,632 words
DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You
by Misha Glenny · 3 Oct 2011 · 274pp · 85,557 words
Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race
by Tim Fernholz · 20 Mar 2018 · 328pp · 96,141 words
Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves
by Matthew Sweet · 13 Feb 2018 · 493pp · 136,235 words
The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism
by Joyce Appleby · 22 Dec 2009 · 540pp · 168,921 words
Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex
by Yasha Levine · 6 Feb 2018 · 474pp · 130,575 words
The Gun
by C. J. Chivers · 12 Oct 2010 · 845pp · 197,050 words
The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink
by Michael Blanding · 14 Jun 2010 · 385pp · 133,839 words
The Zenith Angle
by Bruce Sterling · 27 Apr 2004 · 342pp · 95,013 words
The Oil Age Is Over: What to Expect as the World Runs Out of Cheap Oil, 2005-2050
by Matt Savinar · 2 Jan 2004 · 127pp · 51,083 words
A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn · 2 Jan 1977 · 913pp · 299,770 words
Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
by Peter Warren Singer · 1 Jan 2003 · 482pp · 161,169 words
Red Moon Rising
by Matthew Brzezinski · 2 Jan 2007 · 497pp · 124,144 words
The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World
by Ruchir Sharma · 5 Jun 2016 · 566pp · 163,322 words
How the Post Office Created America: A History
by Winifred Gallagher · 7 Jan 2016 · 431pp · 106,435 words
Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
by Branko Milanovic · 10 Apr 2016 · 312pp · 91,835 words
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty
by Bradley K. Martin · 14 Oct 2004 · 1,509pp · 416,377 words
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
by Neil Sheehan · 21 Sep 2009 · 589pp · 197,971 words
Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
by Silvia Federici · 4 Oct 2012 · 277pp · 80,703 words
Empire of Guns
by Priya Satia · 10 Apr 2018 · 927pp · 216,549 words
Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
by Chris Hayes · 11 Jun 2012 · 285pp · 86,174 words
Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back
by Douglas Rushkoff · 1 Jun 2009 · 422pp · 131,666 words
The Scientist as Rebel
by Freeman Dyson · 1 Jan 2006 · 332pp · 109,213 words
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
by Ron Chernow · 1 Jan 1990 · 1,335pp · 336,772 words
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
by Deirdre N. McCloskey · 15 Nov 2011 · 1,205pp · 308,891 words
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World
by Vincent Bevins · 18 May 2020 · 393pp · 115,178 words
The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet
by Justin Peters · 11 Feb 2013 · 397pp · 102,910 words
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
by Kim Zetter · 11 Nov 2014 · 492pp · 153,565 words
The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
by Margaret O'Mara · 8 Jul 2019
The Cold War: A World History
by Odd Arne Westad · 4 Sep 2017 · 846pp · 250,145 words
The End of Work
by Jeremy Rifkin · 28 Dec 1994 · 372pp · 152 words
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
by Richard McGregor · 8 Jun 2010
The Abandonment of the West
by Michael Kimmage · 21 Apr 2020 · 378pp · 121,495 words
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
by Ashlee Vance · 18 May 2015 · 370pp · 129,096 words
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500 to 2000
by Paul Kennedy · 15 Jan 1989 · 1,477pp · 311,310 words
Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil
by Nicholas Shaxson · 20 Mar 2007
Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
by Bhu Srinivasan · 25 Sep 2017 · 801pp · 209,348 words
Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream
by R. Christopher Whalen · 7 Dec 2010 · 488pp · 144,145 words
The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
by Richard Heinberg · 1 Jun 2011 · 372pp · 107,587 words
On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense
by David Brooks · 2 Jun 2004 · 262pp · 79,469 words
Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution
by Richard Whittle · 15 Sep 2014 · 455pp · 131,569 words
Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
by Tao Leigh. Goffe · 14 Mar 2025 · 441pp · 122,013 words
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
by Malcolm Harris · 14 Feb 2023 · 864pp · 272,918 words
The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine
by Christopher Miller · 17 Jul 2023 · 469pp · 149,526 words
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China
by Desmond Shum · 6 Sep 2021 · 277pp · 85,191 words
The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future
by Alec Ross · 13 Sep 2021 · 363pp · 109,077 words
They All Came to Barneys: A Personal History of the World's Greatest Store
by Gene Pressman · 2 Sep 2025 · 313pp · 107,586 words
In Europe
by Geert Mak · 15 Sep 2004
The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath
by Nicco Mele · 14 Apr 2013 · 270pp · 79,992 words
The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley
by Leslie Berlin · 9 Jun 2005
Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle
by Jamie Woodcock · 17 Jun 2019 · 236pp · 62,158 words
The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
by Christopher Lasch · 16 Sep 1991 · 669pp · 226,737 words
Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration―and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives
by Danny Dorling and Kirsten McClure · 18 May 2020 · 459pp · 138,689 words
Firepower: How Weapons Shaped Warfare
by Paul Lockhart · 15 Mar 2021
The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security
by Deborah D. Avant · 17 Oct 2010 · 872pp · 135,196 words
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
by Daniel Yergin · 14 May 2011 · 1,373pp · 300,577 words
Why the West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
by Ian Morris · 11 Oct 2010 · 1,152pp · 266,246 words
The Cigarette: A Political History
by Sarah Milov · 1 Oct 2019
Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
by Rick Perlstein · 17 Aug 2020
The Skripal Files
by Mark Urban · 291pp · 85,908 words
Behind the Berlin Wall: East Germany and the Frontiers of Power
by Patrick Major · 5 Nov 2009 · 669pp · 150,886 words
Only Americans Burn in Hell
by Jarett Kobek · 10 Apr 2019 · 338pp · 74,302 words
Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri · 1 Jan 2004 · 475pp · 149,310 words
Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism
by Richard D. Wolff · 1 Oct 2012 · 165pp · 48,594 words
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World
by Oliver Morton · 26 Sep 2015 · 469pp · 142,230 words
Europe: A History
by Norman Davies · 1 Jan 1996
The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class
by Kees Van der Pijl · 2 Jun 2014 · 572pp · 134,335 words
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
by Andrew Smith · 3 Apr 2006 · 409pp · 138,088 words
Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
by Peter Frase · 10 Mar 2015 · 121pp · 36,908 words
The Making of Global Capitalism
by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin · 8 Oct 2012 · 823pp · 206,070 words
The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
by Saifedean Ammous · 23 Mar 2018 · 571pp · 106,255 words
China's Future
by David Shambaugh · 11 Mar 2016 · 261pp · 57,595 words
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
by Marvin Harris · 1 Dec 1974 · 206pp · 67,030 words
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
by Jeremy Scahill · 1 Jan 2007 · 924pp · 198,159 words
The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991
by Robert Service · 7 Oct 2015
Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism
by Peter Marshall · 2 Jan 1992 · 1,327pp · 360,897 words
Capitalism in America: A History
by Adrian Wooldridge and Alan Greenspan · 15 Oct 2018 · 585pp · 151,239 words
Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age
by Manuel Castells · 19 Aug 2012 · 291pp · 90,200 words
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union
by Serhii Plokhy · 12 May 2014
Understanding Power
by Noam Chomsky · 26 Jul 2010
Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government
by Robert Higgs and Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr. · 15 Jan 1987
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
by Kevin Phillips · 31 Mar 2008 · 422pp · 113,830 words
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
by Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos · 1 Jan 1994 · 382pp · 116,351 words
Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins
by Andrew Cockburn · 10 Mar 2015 · 389pp · 108,344 words
Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge · 4 Mar 2003 · 196pp · 57,974 words
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
by David E. Hoffman · 9 May 2016
The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times
by Giovanni Arrighi · 15 Mar 2010 · 7,371pp · 186,208 words
The Industries of the Future
by Alec Ross · 2 Feb 2016 · 364pp · 99,897 words
Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing Before Cybernetics
by David A. Mindell · 10 Oct 2002 · 759pp · 166,687 words
The Streets Were Paved With Gold
by Ken Auletta · 14 Jul 1980 · 407pp · 135,242 words
Gorbachev: His Life and Times
by William Taubman
I You We Them
by Dan Gretton
Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
by James Risen · 15 Feb 2014 · 339pp · 99,674 words
A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
by Bruce Cannon Gibney · 7 Mar 2017 · 526pp · 160,601 words
John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
by John M. Logsdon · 15 Dec 2010 · 306pp · 36,032 words
Does Capitalism Have a Future?
by Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi Derluguian, Craig Calhoun, Stephen Hoye and Audible Studios · 15 Nov 2013 · 238pp · 73,121 words
Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics
by Peter Geoghegan · 2 Jan 2020 · 388pp · 111,099 words
Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World
by Matt Alt · 14 Apr 2020
The Enablers: How the West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption - Endangering Our Democracy
by Frank Vogl · 14 Jul 2021 · 265pp · 80,510 words
The Pentagon: A History
by Steve Vogel · 26 May 2008 · 760pp · 218,087 words
Post Wall: Rebuilding the World After 1989
by Kristina Spohr · 23 Sep 2019 · 1,123pp · 328,357 words
Four Battlegrounds
by Paul Scharre · 18 Jan 2023
The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived: Tom Watson Jr. And the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age
by Ralph Watson McElvenny and Marc Wortman · 14 Oct 2023 · 567pp · 171,072 words
A People’s History of Computing in the United States
by Joy Lisi Rankin
Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge
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