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Political books

  • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
    Gideon Rachman
    Year in a word: Fascism

    The right-wing ideology is no longer confined to the dark underbelly of history

  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Twelve books that help explain what is happening in Syria

    A selection of some of the best titles shedding light on the conflict and its place in the wider power struggles across the Middle East

  • Saturday, 7 December, 2024
    Alex von Tunzelmann
    Why are political memoirs so mediocre?

    Most politicians are fundamentally unsuited to the painful and exposing reckoning that is required

    Angela Merkel’s autobiography, ‘Freedom’, has struggled to draw enthusiastic praise
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    FT SeriesThe best books of the year 2024
    Best books of 2024: Politics

    Gideon Rachman selects his must-read titles

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  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2024
    ReviewUS presidential election 2024
    The books to read now Trump has won

    A selection of the best titles to shed light on America’s decision to return the former president to power

  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    ReviewFT Wealth
    The modern British elite’s veil of pseudo-egalitarianism

    An analysis of how today’s ruling caste work very hard at appearing ordinary

    Photo of a man and a woman posing together at a concert
  • Saturday, 19 October, 2024
    FT Magazine
    How George Orwell became a dead metaphor

    On the use and abuse of one of Britain’s greatest writers

  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Trump spoke to Putin several times after he left White House, book says

    Bob Woodward says former US president also secretly sent Covid-19 tests to Russian leader

    Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump sit in front of flags in 2019 at the G7 summit in Osaka
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The best recent politics books — insights on conflict

    The US foreign policy machine in action, origins of the new cold war, and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as viewed from Washington

    Three book covers side by side:
  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
    FT Books Essay
    Did the 1990s break America’s faith in democracy?

    Three new books on the US look at the Clinton decade, the rise of conspiracies and the existential threat of November’s presidential election

    Fans of a political speaker gather at a convention to hear him talk
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    Review
    On Leadership by Tony Blair — things should only get better

    The former UK prime minister’s ‘how to’ manual captures his infectious optimism and mastery of the political arts

  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    Review
    From Labour’s vision for Britain to sewage and struggling prisons

    A clutch of books on British politics aims to diagnose the policy mistakes and leadership failures of recent years

  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    Review
    Lost Decade — how the US fell behind in checking China

    Robert Blackwill and Richard Fontaine give an authoritative, if bureaucratic, take on American foreign policy’s slow pivot to the east

    Biden extends an arm around Xi as they walk through a door
  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
    FT Books Essay
    Can Britain be mended?

    As the new government faces an economy, society and political system in despair, there is no shortage of prescriptions to put things right

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  • Sunday, 23 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Politics

    Gideon Rachman selects his best mid-year reads

  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Review
    The Searchers by Andy Beckett — the making of the Labour left

    A portrait of the figures from Benn to Corbyn who made waves in the party but often put protest before power

    A man in a suit and yellow tie stands smiling in a crowd of people holding balloons and placards with the words Ken’s Fare Deal
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Review
    UK general election 2024: FT readers recommend five books to read

    A selection of the most insightful titles on the race for Downing Street

    Labour leader Keir Starmer takes a campaign trail selfie with someone’s baby
  • Saturday, 25 May, 2024
    Review
    UK general election 2024: what books to read ahead of the July 4 ballot

    A selection of the most insightful titles on the race for Downing Street by FT experts

    Photographs of Boris Johnson, Rory Stewart, Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer against a background of the union jack and a large tick
  • Wednesday, 1 May, 2024
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    How to understand Modi’s India

    Is India enjoying a golden age or in democratic decline? And what will the prime minister do next? As the nation goes to the polls, four books attempt to unravel its many complexities

  • Monday, 29 April, 2024
    Review
    Downward Spiral by John Bowers — can British politics be saved?

    A senior barrister makes the case for fixing the ‘sense of decay’ affecting Westminster and offers detailed and robust reforms

    Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds England flag outside 10 Downing Street
  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Fragile alliance — is Nato still up for the fight?

    As the alliance prepares to celebrate its 75th anniversary, three books consider its relevance, and argue that its most difficult years may lie ahead

  • Tuesday, 19 March, 2024
    US 2024 election: The 10 books to read ahead of the ballot in November

    FT specialists recommend the most insightful volumes on the race for the White House

  • Tuesday, 27 February, 2024
    Review
    The best new politics books — a year of momentous elections

    The campaigns that shaped modern politics, a rallying cry from the North, and lessons for democracy in the realities of human behaviour

  • Friday, 17 November, 2023
    FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023
    Best books of 2023 — Politics

    Gideon Rachman selects his must-read titles

    Montage of book covers
  • Monday, 23 October, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    John Gray’s The New Leviathans — is the world doomed to get worse?

    From global crises to rising geopolitical tensions, the philosopher warns us against assuming that progress is inevitable

    Rubble lies on the ground next to the remains of a tree and an apartment block where all the windows have been blown out
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