Best General Elections & Political Process Books of 2025

The First-Time Manager is a classic guide that helps new managers conquer every challenge they face. The book delivers new information that helps manage across generations, use online performance appraisal tools, persuade with stories, oversee remote employees, build a team dynamic, match a boss’s style, and more. With little experience or training, a coveted promotion can become a trial by fire. This book provides clear, candid advice and teaches skills, including leading meetings, hiring employees, motivating others, actively listening, staying calm under pressure, overcoming resistance, and much more. Overall, this book is an essential tool for those who want to hit the ground running as a first-time manager.

The Princeton Review AP U.S. Government & Politics Premium Prep, 2023 is an excellent resource for students preparing for the AP US Government and Politics exam. The book offers six full-length practice tests, content reviews, targeted test strategies, and online resources. The techniques provided in the book are tried-and-true, helping students avoid traps and beat the test. The book also includes tips for pacing and guessing logically. The content review covers all test topics, with a quick-reference glossary for the most important dates, cases, and information. The six full-length practice tests with detailed answer explanations and comprehension drills at the end of each content review chapter make it an ideal study guide. Overall, this book is a must-have for students who want to excel in the AP US Government and Politics exam.

The book "You Report to Me" by David Bernhardt provides a firsthand account of the dysfunction of our federal agencies and the concentration of unaccountable power in the administrative state. Bernhardt draws on his experiences working under two administrations to reveal how President Trump's leadership revealed a path for curtailing the administrative state in the future. The book calls on America's leaders to retake control of this unaccountable federal bureaucracy before it completely destroys the Founders' vision of a government based on the consent of the governed. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in political leadership and the inner workings of the government.

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book that explores the unlikely presidency of Abraham Lincoln and his cabinet of former political foes. Goodwin portrays Lincoln's exceptional ability to understand and empathize with people, which allowed him to bring together his disgruntled opponents and create the most unusual cabinet in history. This multiple biography centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history is an elegant and incisive study that is a must-read for anyone interested in American history.

The Princeton Review AP U.S. Government & Politics Prep, 2023 is a comprehensive study guide that includes 3 full-length practice tests, content reviews, and targeted strategies for every question type. It is fully aligned with the latest College Board standards for AP U.S. Government & Politics and offers access to free online bonus content. The book provides tried-and-true strategies to help students avoid traps and beat the test, tips for pacing themselves and guessing logically, and essential tactics to help them work smarter. The Princeton Review has been helping students achieve the best results since 1981. This book is an excellent resource for students preparing for the AP U.S. Government & Politics Exam.

The Prince is a classic political philosophy book written by Niccolò Machiavelli. It provides a pragmatic guide on how power works, examining rulers and regimes throughout history. Machiavelli answers questions such as when it is necessary to break the rules and whether it is better to be feared or loved. Penguin Classics has published a new series of hardcover classics, including The Prince, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. Tim Parks's contemporary translation captures the original's pointed style. This book is a must-have for those interested in political philosophy, and its timeless lessons are still applicable today.

Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness 25th Anniversary Edition by Robert K. Greenleaf is a practical philosophy that promotes ethical and holistic leadership. In an era of institutional failures and lack of trust in leadership, this book offers a refreshing approach that emphasizes collaboration, empowerment, and long-lasting change. Greenleaf's work has been embraced by cutting-edge management, and this edition will surely influence a new generation of leaders to serve better. This book is a must-read for leaders of all types of groups who seek to find their true power and moral authority to lead.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Christian Science Monitor • Southern Living Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the “better angels of our nature” have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln and other presidents, including Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and Lyndon B. Johnson, and illuminating the courage of such influential citizen activists as Martin Luther King, Jr., early suffragettes Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt, civil rights pioneers Rosa Parks and John Lewis, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and Army-McCarthy hearings lawyer Joseph N. Welch, Meacham brings vividly to life turning points in American history. He writes about the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the birth of the Lost Cause; the backlash against immigrants in the First World War and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s; the fight for women’s rights; the demagoguery of Huey Long and Father Coughlin and the isolationist work of America First in the years before World War II; the anti-Communist witch-hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy; and Lyndon Johnson’s crusade against Jim Crow. Each of these dramatic hours in our national life have been shaped by the contest to lead the country to look forward rather than back, to assert hope over fear—a struggle that continues even now.. While the American story has not always—or even often—been heroic, we have been sustained by a belief in progress even in the gloomiest of times. In this inspiring book, Meacham reassures us, “The good news is that we have come through such darkness before”—as, time and again, Lincoln’s better angels have found a way to prevail.Praise for The Soul of America. “Brilliant, fascinating, timely . . . With compelling narratives of past eras of strife and disenchantment, Meacham offers wisdom for our own time.”—Walter Isaacson. “Gripping and inspiring, The Soul of America is Jon Meacham’s declaration of his faith in America.”—Newsday“Meacham gives readers a long-term perspective on American history and a reason to believe the soul of America is ultimately one of kindness and caring, not rancor and paranoia.”—USA Today