5 Political Books That Changed Modern Day Politics

Should we change again?

Bryan Dijkhuizen
Lessons from History
3 min readJan 14, 2022

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Politics has had a long history of evaluation, and it will keep evolving forever. The first type of politics was discovered to be found in the pre-history. People were living in families together with other families in communities. These people had to work together to have a kind of structured life. They set rules and had basic etiquette.

Below you’ll find an overview of 5 books that changed the political landscape — from the modern-day era to the ancient Greeks; everything is connected.

1. Democracy in America — By Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America — By Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America is a look into American culture and institutions in general, as well as the reasons why American democratic equality persists and thrives at the time of writing.

It was initially intended to be a study on the American jail system.

Alexis de Tocqueville tracked the development of equality throughout history, claiming that certain circumstances, such as broad economic opportunity and the elimination of primogeniture, triggered the American…

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Bryan Dijkhuizen
Lessons from History

Writing about the life of a neurodivergent creative in a neurotypical world. — https://bryandijkh.substack.com/