{"id":11627,"count":48,"description":"Ideology is a dirty word in some quarters, but politics would be unrecognisable (and probably undoable) without ideologies. We have experts recommending books on political ideology, covering Maoism<\/a>, fascism<\/a>, anarchism<\/a>, Communism<\/a> and every other \"ism\".\r\n\r\nWe cover what in the United States would be called \u201cconservatism\u201d and \u201cliberal\u201d or \u201cprogressive\u201d politics extensively. E J Dionne, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, talks about the appeal of conservatism<\/a>, Grover Norquist, founder of America for Tax Reform, chooses his best books on Tea Party conservatism<\/a>. Anne Heller, biographer of Ayn Rand, talks about libertarianism<\/a> and Mitch Daniels, former governor of Indiana, discusses how libertarians can govern<\/a>. Journalist Sam Tanenhaus chooses his best books on conservatism and culture<\/a>.\r\n\r\nOn the other side of the ledger, Matthew Taylor, former adviser to Tony Blair, talks about progress<\/a>, Journalist Franklin Foer talks about the roots of liberalism<\/a> and US Congressman Keith Ellison chooses his best books on progressivism<\/a>. Former secretary of state John Kerry also talks about progressivism<\/a> and former mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa chooses his best books on progressive America<\/a>. Both Kerry and Villaraigosa choose The Grapes of Wrath<\/em><\/a> by John Steinbeck.\r\n\r\nBeyond that, to mention only a handful, former UK Labour cabinet minister, James Purnell, chooses his best books on power and ideas<\/a>, Professor Harvey Klehr chooses his best books on Communism in America<\/a>. Richard McGregor, former FT<\/em> Beijing correspondent, looks at the Chinese Communist Party<\/a>, Nick Thorpe, the BBC\u2019s central Europe correspondent, talks about the fall of Communism<\/a>. Elsewhere, Iraqi poet Nabeel Yasin discusses democracy in Iraq<\/a>, Professor Mary Habeck terrorism<\/a> and Martin Sixsmith why Russia isn\u2019t a democracy<\/a>. Lastly, Professor Michael Kazin looks at the roots of the Occupy movement<\/a>.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/politics-and-society\/political-ideologies\/","name":"Political Ideologies","slug":"political-ideologies","taxonomy":"category","parent":6245,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/6245"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=11627"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=11627"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=11627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}