Who are the best politics authors?

The best-known politics authors here, ranked by how widely they are read and written about, are Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, George W. Bush and John F. Kennedy.

What are the best politics series?

Mitch Rapp by Vince Flynn and Trotsky by Isaac Deutscher — each listed in reading order.

Can I read politics books for free?

Yes. 184 politics books by these authors are in the public domain in the US and free to read here.

Politics authors and series

The best-known politics authors are Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln and Mahatma Gandhi. Below are all 476 politics writers in the directory, their series in reading order, and 184 of their books free to read.

Authors: 476
Series: 2
Free to read: 184

Best-known politics authors

Politics series in reading order

All series

Mitch Rapp
Vince Flynn · 13 books
Trotsky
Isaac Deutscher · 3 books

Free politics classics

All free classics

The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln
Freedom's Battle
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Home Rule
Mahatma Gandhi
The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America
Thomas Jefferson
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Mussolini as revealed in his political speeches (November 1914-August 1923)
Benito Mussolini
My autobiography
Benito Mussolini
The new freedom
Woodrow Wilson
Congressional government
Woodrow Wilson
The Bolsheviki and World Peace
Leon Trotsky
Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism)
Leon Trotsky
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 04 (of 11)
Thomas Hobbes

Classic politics authors

All politics authors

Barack Obama 15 books
Abraham Lincoln 17 books
Mahatma Gandhi 52 books
George W. Bush 6 books
John F. Kennedy 16 books
Thomas Jefferson 10 books
Mao Zedong 33 books
Benito Mussolini 5 books
Woodrow Wilson 18 books
Leon Trotsky 40 books
Dwight D. Eisenhower 15 books
Thomas Hobbes 9 books
Noam Chomsky 117 books
Jawaharlal Nehru 20 books
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1 books
Otto von Bismarck 7 books
Fidel Castro 15 books
B. R. Ambedkar 21 books
Thomas Paine 14 books
Kamala Harris 4 books
Herbert Hoover 12 books
Eleanor Roosevelt 19 books
Kwame Nkrumah 23 books
Narendra Modi 4 books
Indira Gandhi 9 books
Edmund Burke 28 books
Muammar Gaddafi 4 books
Sun Yat-sen 9 books
Aung San Suu Kyi 8 books
Mahathir Mohamad 8 books
Michelle Obama 5 books
Henry Kissinger 21 books
James Monroe 6 books
Saddam Hussein 6 books
Václav Havel 22 books
Boris Johnson 8 books
Ali Khamenei 7 books
German Emperor William II 9 books
Martin Van Buren 5 books
Alexander Hamilton 28 books
Antonio Gramsci 6 books
Benjamin Harrison 6 books
Julian Assange 3 books
Shimon Peres 4 books
George Soros 14 books
Deng Xiaoping 2 books
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 2 books
Arundhati Roy 23 books
Ruhollah Khomeini 5 books
Madeleine Albright 7 books
François Mitterrand 1 books
Angela Davis 10 books
Willy Brandt 7 books
Jefferson Davis 3 books
Helmut Schmidt 2 books
Christopher Hitchens 29 books
Walter Lippmann 19 books
Sheikh Hasina 2 books
Gordon Brown 5 books
Charlie Kirk 7 books
Anna Politkovskaya 6 books
Frantz Fanon 7 books
Maximilien Robespierre 0 books
Naomi Klein 15 books
Liu Xiaobo 2 books
Steve Biko 3 books
Mother Jones 1 books
Ron Paul 9 books
Samuel P. Huntington 14 books
Peter Thiel 3 books
Zbigniew Brzezinski 22 books
Walter Bagehot 7 books
Syngman Rhee 6 books
Julius Nyerere 7 books
Cardinal Richelieu 1 books
James Mill 12 books
Subhas Chandra Bose 9 books
Howard Zinn 36 books
John C. Calhoun 16 books
Michael Moore 7 books
Kim Dae-jung 4 books
Pierre Trudeau 5 books
Donald Rumsfeld 3 books
Ayaan Hirsi Ali 6 books
Atal Bihari Vajpayee 4 books
Tomáš Masaryk 6 books
Mohammad Khatami 1 books
Giorgio Napolitano 0 books
Klemens von Metternich 1 books
Bob Woodward 23 books
Charles A. Beard 27 books
António de Oliveira Salazar 3 books
Jon Stewart 5 books
Hans Morgenthau 8 books
Jill Biden 4 books
Alec Baldwin 2 books
Timothy Snyder 14 books
Daniel Webster 3 books
James A. Robinson 5 books
George Canning 9 books
Boutros Boutros-Ghali 4 books
William Cobbett 35 books
Tariq Ali 34 books
Harold Laski 19 books
Abdullah Öcalan 7 books
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce 15 books
Benedict Anderson 9 books
Niall Ferguson 17 books
Newt Gingrich 29 books
Rajendra Prasad 4 books
Juan Manuel Santos 1 books
Ben Shapiro 20 books
Ralph Nader 13 books
P. V. Narasimha Rao 5 books
Étienne de La Boétie 1 books
Natan Sharansky 3 books
Anne Applebaum 9 books
Thomas L. Friedman 7 books
Robert Fisk 9 books
Joachim Gauck 2 books
William H. Seward 32 books
Leonard Woolf 19 books
Shashi Tharoor 21 books
Carles Puigdemont 1 books
Henry A. Wallace 5 books
Rachel Maddow 4 books
Nathuram Godse 1 books
Fareed Zakaria 6 books
Robert Conquest 22 books
Bernard-Henri Lévy 13 books
Tucker Carlson 5 books
William Jennings Bryan 23 books
Lala Lajpat Rai 5 books
Lajos Kossuth 4 books
Stacey Abrams 16 books
Varlam Shalamov 3 books
Ian Kershaw 14 books
Jung Chang 6 books
Edvard Beneš 8 books
Mobutu Sese Seko 0 books
Anton Denikin 2 books
Pete Hegseth 4 books
Lester B. Pearson 5 books
Norman Finkelstein 14 books
Carl Bernstein 7 books
Raymond Poincaré 3 books
Mohammad Mosaddegh 1 books
Charles Sumner 7 books
Yeonmi Park 2 books
Michael Parenti 25 books
Giulio Andreotti 3 books
Michael Walzer 20 books
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax 7 books
Arianna Huffington 7 books
Caroline Kennedy 10 books
Bill Maher 5 books
Pat Buchanan 10 books
Assata Shakur 3 books
Don Cheadle 3 books
Ann Coulter 14 books
Rush Limbaugh 7 books
Glenn Beck 24 books
Gustav Stresemann 3 books
Glenn Greenwald 5 books
Philip Jaisohn 1 books
Tony Judt 13 books
Agostinho Neto 1 books
Vince Flynn 27 books
Amílcar Cabral 4 books
Manuel Azaña 1 books
Jesse Ventura 10 books
Pedro I of Brazil 0 books
Sol Plaatje 3 books
Abbie Hoffman 8 books
Pat Robertson 14 books
Nuruddin Farah 14 books
Paul Robeson 2 books
Carl von Ossietzky 1 books
Douglas Murray 10 books
Antonio Negri 8 books
Henry Clay 23 books
John Pilger 8 books
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. 35 books
Joel Barlow 11 books
Mike Huckabee 6 books
Subcomandante Marcos 6 books
Arun Shourie 17 books
Al Franken 8 books
Timothy Garton Ash 7 books
Queen Noor of Jordan 2 books
Lothrop Stoddard 4 books
Olympe de Gouges 1 books
P. J. O'Rourke 22 books
Stéphane Hessel 3 books
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar 10 books
Robert Caro 4 books
Roy Jenkins 11 books
Dominique de Villepin 1 books
Abdurrahman Wahid 1 books
David Halberstam 20 books
Mary McAleese 2 books
John Gray 19 books
Norberto Bobbio 8 books
Johannes Rau 0 books
C. L. R. James 18 books
Rachel Corrie 2 books
Nadezhda Mandelstam 3 books
Augusto Boal 5 books
Larry Kramer 9 books
Urho Kekkonen 1 books
Zviad Gamsakhurdia 0 books
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just 1 books
M. Gessen 11 books
Giovanni Sartori 7 books
Eric Foner 23 books
NoViolet Bulawayo 2 books
Alcide De Gasperi 0 books
Seymour Martin Lipset 21 books
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès 1 books
Susan Abulhawa 5 books
Fatima Jinnah 1 books
Larry Flynt 5 books
Russell Kirk 27 books
Alan García 0 books
Chittaranjan Das 3 books
Mumia Abu-Jamal 8 books
Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi 2 books
Tony Benn 12 books
Kamel Daoud 2 books
Amy Chua 6 books
Bernhard von Bülow 2 books
Karl Renner 1 books
Aleksandr Dugin 3 books
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel 2 books
Ion Iliescu 0 books
Sebastian Haffner 6 books
Edward S. Herman 8 books
Ulrike Meinhof 1 books
Sandro Pertini 0 books
Hans von Seeckt 3 books
Robert Keohane 5 books
Juscelino Kubitschek 0 books
Sahra Wagenknecht 1 books
George Monbiot 15 books
James Harrington 9 books
Brian Mulroney 1 books
Alpha Condé 0 books
Jean-Luc Mélenchon 1 books
Roy Medvedev 14 books
Marilyn Waring 3 books
Yevgenia Ginzburg 2 books
Anna Burns 3 books
Jaswant Singh 3 books
Allan Bloom 5 books
Milo Yiannopoulos 4 books
Eleftherios Venizelos 2 books
Reza Pahlavi 0 books
Chris Patten 4 books
Joe Lieberman 8 books
Hjalmar Branting 0 books
Alexander Litvinenko 2 books
Isser Harel 1 books
Francisco I. Madero 1 books
Lynne Cheney 7 books
Robert Kagan 8 books
Bhagat Singh 1 books
Isaac Deutscher 12 books
Amy Goodman 6 books
Guy Verhofstadt 0 books
Dorothy Thompson 4 books
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa 2 books
József Eötvös 0 books
Andrew Heywood 13 books
Otto Strasser 3 books
Ales Bialiatski 0 books
Zoran Đinđić 0 books
James I of Scotland 0 books
Massimo D'Alema 0 books
Vladimir Bukovsky 1 books
Daniel Pipes 7 books
Schuyler Colfax 4 books
Daniel Cohn-Bendit 2 books
Malalai Joya 1 books
Julia Butterfly Hill 2 books
Georgi Markov 1 books
Xanana Gusmão 0 books
Ibrahim Rugova 0 books
Ruth First 9 books
Naim Qassem 1 books
Béla Kun 4 books
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot 2 books
Bernardo O'Higgins 0 books
Laura Ingraham 5 books
Wolfe Tone 5 books
Gaetano Mosca 1 books
Julius Streicher 0 books
Charles Krauthammer 4 books
Andrew Breitbart 2 books
Nicolas Notovitch 2 books
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan 0 books
Thomas R. Marshall 0 books
Richard Sorge 0 books
Jan Karski 2 books
Koenraad Elst 6 books
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke 22 books
Scholastique Mukasonga 3 books
Jozef Tiso 0 books
13th Dalai Lama 0 books
Konstantin Päts 0 books
Otto Kuusinen 3 books
Herman Cain 4 books
Mike Gravel 5 books
Vytautas Landsbergis 1 books
B. P. Koirala 3 books
Antanas Smetona 0 books
Ludvík Svoboda 0 books
Henry Wilson 10 books
José Antonio Primo de Rivera 1 books
Alfred von Tirpitz 1 books
Alexander Zinoviev 4 books
Daniel O'Connell 14 books
Erwin Piscator 1 books
Paul Deschanel 1 books
José Carlos Mariátegui 1 books
George Padmore 9 books
Frances Perkins 2 books
Régis Debray 5 books
Wolf Biermann 2 books
Camille Desmoulins 0 books
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger 0 books
Bronisław Geremek 1 books
Bill Bradley 7 books
Bill Weld 3 books
Volin 1 books
Nizam al-Mulk 1 books
Geraldine Ferraro 3 books
John Kasich 6 books
M. N. Roy 7 books
Michael Foot 13 books
Hrant Dink 0 books
Hipólito Yrigoyen 0 books
Pak Hon-yong 0 books
Maud Gonne 4 books
Heinrich von Treitschke 2 books
Algernon Sidney 3 books
E. D. Morel 6 books
José López Portillo 1 books
Christopher Andrew 8 books
Valérie Trierweiler 2 books
Robert Filmer 3 books
Éric Zemmour 2 books
Françoise Giroud 1 books
Mahadev Desai 6 books
Jacques Hébert 0 books
Ivanoe Bonomi 1 books
Mihály Károlyi 2 books
Hara Takashi 0 books
John Wilkes 20 books
Carlos Marighella 4 books
Wilfrid Laurier 11 books
Jules Ferry 0 books
Rómulo Betancourt 1 books
Karl Haushofer 0 books
Santiago Carrillo 1 books
Daniel Schneidermann 0 books
Sabino Arana 1 books
Mahammad Amin Rasulzade 2 books
John Dickinson 11 books
Roman Dmowski 1 books
U Nu 1 books
Vladimir Kara-Murza 0 books
Alexander H. Stephens 11 books
Arturo Frondizi 0 books
Stjepan Radić 0 books
Bettino Ricasoli 0 books
Agostino Depretis 1 books
Denis Healey 4 books
Terry McAuliffe 3 books
Slobodan Jovanović 1 books
Barbara Boxer 3 books
Helen Thomas 3 books
Christiane Taubira 0 books
Adrian Năstase 1 books
Hitoshi Ashida 0 books
Walter Veltroni 0 books
Arthur Griffith 3 books
Gregor Gysi 0 books
Joaquín Balaguer 0 books
Edgar Faure 1 books
Altiero Spinelli 1 books
Markus Wolf 2 books
Kurt Eisner 1 books
Janko Prunk 1 books
Gabriel Bonnot de Mably 1 books
Saad Zaghloul 0 books
Gianfranco Fini 0 books
Enric Prat de la Riba 1 books
Richard Price 29 books
Friedrich Naumann 2 books
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn 0 books
Émile Ollivier 2 books
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury 11 books
Filippo Turati 10 books
Adam Michnik 2 books
Thomas E. Dewey 0 books
Rudi Dutschke 1 books
Gustav Noske 0 books
Arthur Moeller van den Bruck 2 books
Aleksandar Stamboliyski 0 books
Stanisław Konarski 0 books
Francisco Morazán 0 books
André Tardieu 2 books
Mark Eyskens 1 books
Milan Hodža 1 books
Sergey Sazonov 1 books
Nicolás Avellaneda 0 books
Francesc Pi i Margall 0 books
Luigi Carlo Farini 1 books
Andreu Nin 0 books
Adam Jerzy Czartoryski 0 books
Bernardino Machado 0 books
Stepan Shaumian 0 books
Pietro Nenni 0 books
Kurt Schumacher 0 books
Quintus Tullius Cicero 0 books
Christian Rakovsky 0 books
Marco Minghetti 0 books
Jacques Vergès 0 books
Alberto Lleras Camargo 0 books
Danielle Mitterrand 0 books
Alfonso López Michelsen 0 books
José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva 0 books
Sergei Nechaev 1 books
Camilo Torres Restrepo 4 books
Beate Klarsfeld 0 books
Michael Oakeshott 4 books
Carlos Pellegrini 0 books
Stefan Stambolov 0 books
Svetozar Marković 0 books
Judah P. Benjamin 8 books
Laureano Gómez 0 books
Winfried Kretschmann 0 books
Mustafa Reşid Pasha 0 books
Alexandre Ribot 0 books
Gabriel García Moreno 0 books
Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha 0 books
Gustave de Molinari 0 books
Wincenty Witos 0 books
Jürgen Trittin 0 books
Ignacy Daszyński 0 books
Madan Mohan Malaviya 3 books
Alejandro Lerroux 0 books
Ante Starčević 0 books
Juan Donoso Cortés 0 books
José María Iglesias 0 books
Margherita Sarfatti 1 books
Baltasar Garzón 0 books
Stéphane Dion 0 books
René Lévesque 0 books
Andrej Hlinka 0 books
Anders Chydenius 1 books
Alexander Parvus 0 books
Erkki Tuomioja 0 books
Juan Bautista Alberdi 0 books
Juan José Arévalo 0 books
Maciej Rataj 0 books
Andrei Amalrik 2 books
Indalecio Prieto 0 books
Erik Möller 0 books
Rafael Núñez 0 books
Yusuf Akçura 0 books
Dragiša Cvetković 0 books
Ricardo Flores Magón 0 books
Ram Prasad Bismil 0 books
Diego Martínez Barrio 0 books
Edem Kodjo 1 books

Politics FAQ

Who are the best politics authors?: The best-known politics authors here, ranked by how widely they are read and written about, are Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, George W. Bush and John F. Kennedy.
What are the best politics series?: Mitch Rapp by Vince Flynn and Trotsky by Isaac Deutscher — each listed in reading order.
Can I read politics books for free?: Yes. 184 politics books by these authors are in the public domain in the US and free to read here.

Best-known politics authors

Barack Obama

George W. Bush

John F. Kennedy

Mao Zedong

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Noam Chomsky

Jawaharlal Nehru

Fidel Castro

Kamala Harris

Eleanor Roosevelt

Kwame Nkrumah

Narendra Modi

Indira Gandhi

Muammar Gaddafi

Aung San Suu Kyi

Mahathir Mohamad

Michelle Obama

Henry Kissinger

Politics series in reading order

Free politics classics

Classic politics authors

Abraham Lincoln

Mahatma Gandhi

Thomas Jefferson

Benito Mussolini

Woodrow Wilson

Leon Trotsky

Thomas Hobbes

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Otto von Bismarck

B. R. Ambedkar

Thomas Paine

Herbert Hoover

Edmund Burke

Sun Yat-sen

James Monroe

German Emperor William II

Martin Van Buren

Alexander Hamilton

All politics authors

Politics FAQ