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Fiction · Political fiction

Conversation in The Cathedral

Mario Vargas Llosa

1969 · 601 pages

At what moment did Peru screw itself up? A newspaperman and his father's chauffeur drink through an afternoon in a Lima bar called the Cathedral, and their talk rebuilds a country under dictatorship.

★ 6.9

Nonfiction · Poltical theory

Montesquieu sorts governments into republics that run on virtue, monarchies on honor, and despotisms on fear, then argues that liberty survives only where power is divided. The American framers read him closely.

★ 7.5

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Conversation in The Cathedral

Spirit of the Laws