The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

1810 ★ 3.9

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift

1726 ★ 3.6

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

1791 ★ 4.0

An autobiography

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

1940 ★ 4.2

Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela

1994 ★ 4.5

Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell

1938 ★ 4.2

The Audacity of Hope

Barack Obama, Esther Roig Giménez, Erwin Dorado et al.

2006 ★ 3.5

Alexander Hamilton

Ron Chernow

2004 ★ 4.6

Les damnés de la terre

Frantz Fanon

1965 ★ 4.7

Dreams from My Father

Barack Obama

1996 ★ 3.8

Common Sense

Thomas Paine

1776 ★ 4.1

Wild Swans

Jung Chang

1991 ★ 4.5

Las venas abiertas de América Latina

Eduardo Galeano

1974 ★ 4.5

A Man of the People

Chinua Achebe

1966 ★ 3.6

Hitler (Profiles in Power)

Ian Kershaw

1991 ★ 3.4

King Leopold's ghost

Adam Hochschild

1998 ★ 3.6

Why We Can't Wait

Martin Luther King Jr., J.D. Jackson

1964 ★ 5.0

De la démocratie en Amérique

Gustave de Beaumont, Alexis de Tocqueville

1835 ★ 4.7

Diaries

Joseph Goebbels

1948 ★ 2.3

Pyongyang

Guy Delisle

2005 ★ 3.6

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz

2014 ★ 3.7

Public policy-making

James E. Anderson

1979

American Government

James Q. Wilson, John J. DiIulio, Jr

1986 ★ 3.7

Rights of Man

Thomas Paine

1791 ★ 4.5

Agendas, alternatives, and public policies

John W. Kingdon

1984

Founding Brothers

Joseph J. Ellis

2000 ★ 3.2

Give Me Liberty!

Eric Foner

2013

These Truths

Jill Lepore

2018 ★ 4.7

La Fiesta del Chivo

Mario Vargas Llosa

2000 ★ 4.2

Memoirs of a Revolutionist

Peter Kropotkin

1899