My Book of the Week from Sunday's show: Graham Allison's "Destined for War." A very smart and important book

My Book of the Week from Sunday’s show: “How Democracies Die,” by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt – a smart book about the ways in which democracy is being undermined in dozens of countries.

My book of the week from Sunday's show: Bruce Riedel's fascinating, highly-intelligent book "Kings and Presidents: Saudi Arabia and the United States since FDR."

"My book of the week, from our special in St. Petersburg: Fyodor Dostoyevsky's ""Crime and Punishment""

My book of the week: E.J. Dionne's "Why the Right Went Wrong," an intelligent history of Republican ideology.

My book of the week: @gideonrachman 's "Easternization," a superb survey of global affairs

As America descends deeper into polarization and paralysis, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has done the seemingly impossible—he has explained the origins of morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to everyone on the political spectrum. Drawing on twenty-five years of groundbreaking research, Haidt shows why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have such different intuitions about right and wrong, and why we need the insights of each if we are to flourish as a nation. Here is the key to understanding the miracle of human cooperation and the eternal curse of moralistic aggression, across the political divide and around the world. A Vintage Shorts Selection. An ebook short.

"My book of the week: @RichardHaass 's ""A World in Disarray"" offers a punchy critique of U.S. foreign policy"

My book of the week is a terrific new book on #India: "Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation" by Adam Roberts.

My Book of the Week: "The Best and the Brightest," David Halberstam's brilliant critique of US stumble into Vietnam.

My book of week from Sunday: Yuval Noah Harari's "Homo Deus." One of those books sure to make you think, even argue.

My book of week: "Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution," brilliant book by John Paul Stevens .

This week's Book of the Week: An old favorite I was reminded of when I finally saw "Hamilton." Gore Vidal's "Burr"

My book of week: "The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan." A wonderfully written, intimate biography.

My book of the week from yesterday's show: "How to Think" by Alan Jacobs. The book is a revelation and a pleasure

My book of the week: James Traub's biography of John Quincy Adams, a man of vast intelligence and political courage.

My Book of the Week: "ISIS: A History", by Fawaz Gerges. It's superbly researched and intelligent throughout.

My book of the week: "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder. Very short, but very profound.

My book of the week: "Understanding Iran" by William Polk. A great short guide if you want to understand the country.

My book of the week: Ruchir Sharma's "The Rise and Fall of Nations":

It is a powerful, deeply well-written book about disturbing phenomena in America today: the way that fantasy has eclipsed facts in politics, but also in our culture. (1m58s)

I find this book to be truly enlightening on the relationships with the President and his former Chief Strategist, but also on a large bigger issue of the rise of populism in the West today. (1m38s)

How Germany went from the advanced Wiemar republic, one of the most extraordinary countries in the world to the nazis. (1m00s)

This book will teach you more about the world with its charts than thousand of pages of prose. (00m40s)