 | Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $0.79 The best autobiography I've ever read from one of the world's greatest leaders
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 | Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990 by Vaclav Havel
Buy new: $12.44 / Used from: $0.99 This selection includes the excellent essay, "The Power of the Powerless", which should be read by any student of politics
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 | The Art of the Impossible: Politics as Morality in Practice by Vaclav Havel
Buy used from: $29.50 A collection of Vaclav Havel's writings during part of his presidency of the Czech Republic
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 | Madam Secretary: A Memoir by Madeleine Albright
Buy new: $27.95 / Used from: $0.01 A fascinating look at diplomacy from America's first female Secretary of State
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 | Freedom from Fear and Other Writings: Revised Edition by Aung San Suu Kyi
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.83 Collected writings from the greatest female dissident and her ongoing struggle to bring democracy to Burma
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 | Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Huizdala by Vaclav Havel
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.36 Written in an interview format for the entire book, which makes it an interesting read, with a lot of insight into the mind and life of Vaclav Havel
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 | A World Transformed by George Bush
Buy used from: $0.01 President George H.W. Bush swore he would never write a memoir of his presidency, but this covers the international events that occurred on his watch, from Tiannanman to the Gulf War
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 | The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir by Joseph Wilson
Buy new: $22.23 / Used from: $0.01 Anyone who wishes a career in the State Department as a diplomat or Ambassador should read about his life experiences. Covers a lot more than just defending his wife from the Bush smear machine
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 | Conversations with Gorbachev by Mikhail Gorbachev
Buy new: $79.00 / Used from: $6.91 Gorbachev...simply one of the greatest political figures for our time
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 | Rousseau: 'The Social Contract' and Other Later Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) (v. 2) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Buy new: $14.44 / Used from: $5.96 My favorite political philosopher and his unconventional ideas about society
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 | Mandela : The Authorized Biography by Anthony Sampson
Buy used from: $0.86 The companion piece to the Mandela Autobiography
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 | The Marx-Engels Reader (Second Edition) by Karl Marx
Buy new: $23.51 / Used from: $7.41 Reading Marx doesn't make one a communist, his manifesto does express truth about the natural alienation of capitalism, so I believe both systems are wrong/immoral
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 | Memoirs by Mikhail Gorbachev
Buy used from: $12.00 The life story of one of the greatest political figures of our time
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 | Gorbachev by Mikhail Gorbachev
Buy new: $25.35 / Used from: $1.90 |
 | Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $4.75 The personal memoir of the man who gave birth to nonviolent movements in India, South Africa, the USA, Burma, Eastern Europe, China and other places around the globe.
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 | A Discourse on Inequality (Penguin Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.56 Jean Jacques Rousseau offers a compelling look at inequality in society
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 | The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher
Buy used from: $0.01 Margaret Thatcher offers the British perspective of what it was like politically in the last decade of the Cold War
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 | Diplomacy (A Touchstone book) by Henry Kissinger
Buy new: $16.56 / Used from: $4.00 A history of American diplomacy from Nixon's Secretary of State
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 | Thirteen Days (Infinifilm Edition)
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $0.77 The best political film I've ever seen, portraying the tensions of the Cuban Missile Crisis and how diplomacy worked over a potential WWIII outcome some argued for
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 | Evita
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.77 This musical gives an interesting portrait of Eva Peron, though its unknown how much of it is true, its still entertaining with great music
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 | Cry Freedom
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.94 A look at life under apartheid when a dissident is banned and a white reporter tries to let the world know the truth about what's going on in his country
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 | Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World by Johnny Clegg & Savuka
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $0.93 A great political album that encapsulates the eurphoric optimism of the years 1989-1991
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 | Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
Buy new: $10.55 / Used from: $1.98 Microlending is an issue that's bound to grown as poor people raise their standard of living through creative means
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 | Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $4.99 |
 | Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World
Buy new: $15.26 / Used from: $6.99 |
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