- Hope & scorn, eggheads, experts, and elites in American politics, Michael J. Brown
- The utopia of rules, on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy, David Graeber
- Sovereignty, Inc., three inquiries in politics and enjoyment, William Mazzarella, Eric L. Santner, Aaron Schuster
- Dick Gregory's political primer, by Dick Gregory ; edited by James R. McGraw
- The contest, the 1968 election and the war for America's soul, Michael Schumacher
- The fortunes of liberalism, essays on Austrian economics and the ideal of freedom, edited by Peter G. Klein
- Demagogue, the fight to save democracy from its worst enemies, Michael Signer
- The Cold War, a world history, Odd Arne Westad
- Demagogue, the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy, Larry Tye
- The sins of the fathers, Germany, memory, method, Jeffrey K. Olick
- A history of the Low Countries, Paul Arblaster
- Civilization, how we all became American, ReĢgis Debray ; translated by David Fernbach
- From development to dictatorship, Bolivia and the alliance for progress in the Kennedy era, Thomas C. Field Jr
- How race survived US history, from settlement and slavery to the eclipse of post-racialism, David R. Roediger
- Readings in American foreign policy, problems and responses, edited by Glenn P. Hastedt, James Madison University
- The Founders' Second Amendment, origins of the right to bear arms, Stephen P. Halbrook ; foreword by Nelson Lund and a new preface by the author
- Great society, a new history, Amity Shlaes
- Horace Greeley, print, politics, and the failure of American Nationhood, James M. Lundberg
- City on a hill, a history of American exceptionalism, Abram C. Van Engen
- The time of liberty, popular political culture in Oaxaca, 1750-1850, Peter Guardino
- A lie too big to fail, the real history of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Lisa Pease
- Color coded, party politics in the American West, 1950-2016, Walter Nugent
- A brief history of now, the past and present of global power, Diego Olstein
- Caligula, the mad Emperor of Rome, Stephen Dando-Collins
- Population wars, a new perspective on competition and coexistence, Greg Graffin
- Wrong-doing, truth-telling, the function of avowal in justice, Michel Foucault ; edited by Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt ; translated by Stephen W. Sawyer
- The death and life of the urban commonwealth, Margaret Kohn
- Why we lost the sex wars, sexual freedom in the #MeToo era, Lorna N. Bracewell
- The ant trap, rebuilding the foundations of the social sciences, Brian Epstein
- The last Brahmin, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the making of the Cold War, Luke A. Nichter
- Philosophy between the lines, the lost history of esoteric writing, Arthur M. Melzer
- The good state, on the principles of democracy, A.C. Grayling
- Hitler and Stalin, parallel lives, Alan Bullock
- Politics at work, how companies turn their workers into lobbyists, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
- Checkmate, the king's game in the Middle East, Gennaro Buonocore
- The little book of politics
- Conservative moments, reading conservative texts, edited by Mark Garnett
- Post-growth living, for an alternative hedonism, Kate Soper
- Feminist manifestos, a global documentary reader, edited by Penny A. Weiss with Megan Brueske
- American progressivism, a reader, edited and introduced by Ronald J. Pestritto and William J. Atto
- Dreaming of empire, Mumia Abu-Jamal & Stephen Vittoria
- When right makes might, rising powers and world order, Stacie E. Goddard
- Grand Hotel Abyss, the lives of the Frankfurt School, Stuart Jeffries
- Manifesto of the Communist Party, a modern edition, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels with an introduction by Tariq Ali
- American political thought, an alternative view, edited by Jonathan Keller and Alex Zamalin
- The coming of the American behemoth, the genesis of fascism in the United States, 1920-1940, Michael Joseph Roberto
- Obama, an intimate portrait, Pete Souza ; foreword by Barack Obama
- The first American, the life and times of Benjamin Franklin, H.W. Brands
- The divorce of Henry VIII, the untold story from inside the Vatican, Catherine Fletcher
- The speech, the story behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream, Gary Younge