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Books of the Week

Updated 1611 GMT (0011 HKT) February 21, 2021

(CNN)02/21/2021 "The Wake Up Call" by John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge

02/14/2021 "Losing the Long Game" by Philip H. Gordon
    02/07/2021 "Homeland Elegies" by Ayad Akhtar
      12/20/2020 This week Fareed offered up not one book of the week, but five drawn from his books of the week this year, which might make for good presents this holiday season. They are:
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        12/06/2020 "The Weirdest People in the World" by Joseph Henrich
        11/22/2020 "A Promised Land" by Barack Obama
        10/04/2020 "Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World" by Fareed Zakaria
        09/27/2020 "Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?" by Ezekiel Emanuel
        08/23/2020 "The Great Leveler" by Walter Scheidel
        07/12/2020 "The Precipice" by Toby Ord
        07/05/2020 "Humankind" by Rutger Bregman
        06/28/2020 "The Inevitability of Tragedy" by Barry Gewen
        06/07/2020 "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
        05/17/2020 "The World: A Brief Introduction" by Richard Haass & "The New Class War" by Michael Lind
        05/03/2020 "Has China Won?" by Kishore Mahbubani
        04/26/2020 "The Plot Against America" on HBO
        04/05/2020 "The Defining Moment" by Jonathan Alter
        03/29/2020 "Less" by Andrew Sean Greer & "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
        03/08/2020 "The Great Reversal" by Thomas Philippon
        02/23/2020 "Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word" by Fred P. Hochberg
        02/16/2020 "The Decadent Society" by Ross Douthat
        02/09/2020 "Erdogan's Empire" by Soner Cagaptay
        01/26/2020 "City of Thieves" by David Benioff
        01/12/2020 "All the Shah's Men" by Stephen Kinzer
        01/05/2020 "A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves" by Jason DeParle
        12/22/2019 "Impeachment: A Handbook" by Charles Black
        12/15/2019 January 2020 issue of Foreign Affairs Magazine
        12/08/2019 "Prisoners of Geography" by Tim Marshall
        12/01/2019 "The American Story" by David Rubenstein
        11/24/2019 "American Elections: Wicked Game" a podcast hosted by Lindsay Graham
        11/17/2019 "The Invisible Bridge" by Rick Perlstein
        11/10/2019 "Don't Be Evil" by Rana Foroohar
        11/03/2019 "Succession" an HBO series
        10/27/2019 "Safe Enough Spaces" by Michael Roth
        10/20/2019 "Impeachment" by Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali, Peter Baker & Jeffrey A. Engel
        10/13/2019 "Age of Ambition" by Evan Osnos
        10/06/2019 "The Meritocracy Trap" by Daniel Markovits
        09/29/2019 "Education of an Idealist" by Samantha Power
        09/22/2019 "Talking to Strangers" by Malcolm Gladwell
        09/15/2019 "On Writing" by Stephen King
        09/08/2019 "The Song of Achilles" by Madeline Miller
        08/25/2019 "Our Boys" a new series on HBO
        08/11/2019 "The Professor and the Madman" by Simon Winchester
        07/28/2019 "Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe" by Sheri Berman
        07/21/2019 "The Guarded Gate" by Daniel Okrent
        07/14/2019 "Leadership" by Doris Kearns Goodwin
        06/30/2019 "A Gentleman in Moscow" by Amor Towles
        06/23/2019 "The Conservative Sensibility" by George F. Will
        06/16/2019 "The Island of the Day Before" by Umberto Eco, "Longitude" by Dava Sobel, "Circe" by Madeline Miller
        06/09/2019 "War and Peace" by Nigel Hamilton
        06/02/2019 "The Shadow War" by Jim Sciutto
        05/26/2019 "Against the Rules" a podcast by Michael Lewis
        05/19/2019 "A Thousand Small Sanities" by Adam Gopnik
        05/12/2019 "World Without Mind" by Franklin Foer
        05/05/2019 "Our Man" by George Packer
        04/28/2019 "Working" by Robert Caro
        04/14/2019 "Accidental Presidents" by Jared Cohen
        04/07/2019 "Open" by Kimberly Clausing
        03/31/2019 "Melting Pot or Civil War?" by Reihan Salam
        03/10/2019 "The Third Pillar" by Raghuram Rajan's
        02/17/2019 "Billion Dollar Whale" by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope
        02/10/2019 "A Foreign Policy for the Left" by Michael Walzer
        02/03/2019 "Crude Nation" by Raul Gallegos
        01/27/2019 "The Death of Truth" by Michiko Kakutani
        01/13/2019 "Roma" a film by Alfonso Cuaron
        12/16/2018 "Cultural Evolution" by Ronald Inglehart
        2/09/2018 "21 Lessons for the 21st Century" by Yuval Harari
        12/04/2018 "Presidents Under Fire: The History of Impeachment" (CNN documentary)
        11/18/2018 "Revolution Française" by Sophie Pedder
        10/07/2018 "Capitalism in America: A History" by Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge
        09/30/2018 "Identity" by Francis Fukuyama
        09/16/2018 "Detroit" (2017) directed by Kathryn Bigelow
        08/19/2018 "Uncivil Agreement" by Lilliana Mason
        08/12/2018 "The Summer Before the War" by Helen Simonson
        08/05/2018 "Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think" by Hans Rosling
        07/22/2018 "The China Mission" by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
        07/15/2018 "Our Towns: A 100,000 mile journey into the Heart of America" by James & Deborah Fallows
        07/01/2018 "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
        06/24/2018 "American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction" by David Gerber
        06/17/2018 "Origin Story" by David Christian
        05/27/2018 "Goodbye, Columbus" by Philip Roth
        05/20/2018 "Breaking the Bee" a film directed by Sam Rega and produced by Chris Weller
        05/13/2018 "Us vs. Them: The Failure of Global Capitalism" by Ian Bremmer
        05/06/2018 "Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How we Earn." by Chris Hughes
        04/22/2018 "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer Adler
        04/15/2018 "Post Truth" by Lee McIntyre
        04/08/2018 "The Death of Democracy" by Benjamin Carter Hett
        04/01/2018 "The Ordinary Virtues" by Michael Ignatieff
        03/11/2018 "Five Days in London, May 1940" by John Lukacs
        03/04/2018 "How to Think" by Alan Jacobs
        02/25/2018 "The Second Amendment: A Biography" by Michael Waldman
        02/18/2018 "Trumpocracy" by David Frum
        02/11/2018 "How Democracies Die" by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
        02/04/2018 "White Working Class" by Joan C. Williams
        01/28/2018 "Twilight of the Elites" by Christopher Hayes
        01/21/2018 "The Road not Taken" by Max Boot
        01/14/2018 "Devil's Bargain" by Joshua Green
        01/07/2018 "Kings and Presidents" by Bruce Riedel
        12/17/2017 Fareed's 10 Books, Movies and TV shows of the Year
        12/10/2017 "Rescue" by David Miliband
        12/03/2017 "The Vanity Fair Diaries" by Tina Brown
        11/19/2017 "Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine" by Anne Applebaum
        10/29/2017 "Novitiate" a film from Sony Pictures Classics
        10/22/2017 "Leonardo da Vinci" by Walter Isaacson
        10/08/2017 "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
        10/01/2017 "The Vietnam War" by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick for PBS
        09/24/2017 "27 Articles" by T. E. Lawrence
        09/17/2017 "Unaccustomed Earth" by Jhumpa Lahiri
        08/20/2017 "The Once and Future Liberal" by Mark Lilla
        07/23/2017 "Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation" by Adam Roberts
        07/16/2017 "VICE Special Report: A World In Disarray " by VICE on HBO
        07/09/2017 "Seven Brief Lessons on Physics" by Carlo Rovelli
        07/02/2017 "I Am Not Your Negro" a documentary from Magnolia Pictures
        06/25/2017 "The Retreat of Western Liberalism" by Edward Luce
        06/18/2017 "Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom" by Thomas E. Ricks
        06/11/2017 "Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?" by Graham Allison
        06/04/2017 "Start the Week Podcast" by BBC Radio
        05/28/2017 "Can't We All Disagree More Constructively?" by Jonathan Haidt
        05/14/2017 "Do I make Myself Clear? Why Writing Well Matters" by Harold Evans
        05/07/2017 "The Islamic Enlightenment" by Christopher de Bellaigue
        04/23/2017 "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow" by Yuval Noah Harari
        04/16/2017 "Hit Maker: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction" by Derek Thompson
        04/09/2017 "Easternization: Asia's Rise and America's Decline" by Gideon Rachman
        04/02/2017 "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder
        03/19/2017 "The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human" by Adam Piore
        03/12/2017 "War in European History" by Michael Howard
        02/26/2017 "Commander in Chief: FDR's Batle with Churchill, 1943" by Nigel Hamilton
        02/12/2017 "The Best and the Brightest" by David Halberstam
        02/05/2017 "The Undoing Project" by Michael Lewis
        01/15/2017 "A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order" by Richard Haass
        01/08/2017 "Deutschland 83" airing on SundanceTV
        12/18/2016 "In Defense of a Liberal Education" by Fareed Zakaria
        12/11/2016 "Shoe Dog" by Phil Knight
        12/04/2016 "Thank You for Being Late: an Optimist's Guide to Excelling in the Age of Accelerations" by Thomas L. Friedman
        11/27/2016 "Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity" by Samuel Huntington
        11/20/2016 "The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan" by Sebastian Mallaby
        11/13/2016 "Hillary Clinton and the Populist Revolt" by George Packer in the New Yorker
        10/30/2016 "The Conservative Heart" by Arthur Brooks
        10/16/2016 "The Populist Explosion" by John Judas
        10/02/2016 "His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt" by Joseph Lelyveld
        09/25/2016 "The Fix" by Jonathan Tepperman
        09/04/2016 "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead and "Sapiens" by Yuval Harari
        08/14/2016 "Hillbilly Elegy" by J.D. Vance
          08/07/2016 "ISIS: A History" by Fawaz Gerges
          07/31/2016 "Eye in the Sky" a film by Bleeker Street Media