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Fareed Zakaria

Journalist & author

CNN host, Washington Post columnist, and author of The Post-American World. One of the most globally-minded thinkers in American media. His reading is international in scope — reflecting a mind that thinks in civilizations, not just news cycles.

@fareedzakaria

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Timeless books

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Stood the test of time — old, widely published, and repeatedly endorsed

1984 remains the definitive warning about the dangers of totalitarianism and the fragility of truth.

No book better explains the geographic and biological roots of global inequality.

No book better illustrates the recurring patterns of civilization, war, and human nature.

Mill's On Liberty is the foundational text of classical liberalism. Every generation should reread it.

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I would say to you, it's a very good formula, and he executes it so well, making this book compulsively readable and insightful. Like all of his work, agree or not, it will make you think.

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The Decadent Society

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I benefitted from reading this strikingly well-written book that ranges widely and intelligently over politics, economics, and culture, and captures something very essential about America today.

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The Great Reversal

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This is the most important book on economics I've read in a while. It will explains how the United States went from being a vibrant free market with low prices for consumers to one in which oligopolies and monopolies abound and consumers get shafted with higher price.

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Erdogan's Empire

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This is the best book on Turkey today. Well-written, with good, short sections on the country's past, that then shed light on its present.

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The American Story

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It is superbly done, making for a rich wide-ranging discussion of American history. But because of the format, a very engaging one that is very easy to read and reread.

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Don't Be Evil

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This is a fascinating highly engaging account of the rise of big technology companies and how they have betrayed their ideals and endangered American democracy. It will make you think hard about something we tend to simply accept as normal. The way technology now dominates our lives and societies.

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Blowout

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The Meritocracy Trap

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This is the most interesting and provocative book I have read in a while. The author sits atop America's meritocracy. He is a Yale Law School Professor. But he argues that it has become a deeply dysfunctional and pernicious system causing crazed competition and anxiety for those on the inside succeeding and the sense of exclusion and isolation for those on the outside.

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Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word

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Hochberg has managed to do the seemingly impossible, write a breezy, smart, funny book about trade, he weaves in stories with the data, has a refreshingly informal voice and takes the reader on an entertaining ride. The bonus is he's right about the subject as well.