Hello, /lit/ I am an unbiased, ignorant pleb when it comes to

Art of the deal

Other people here may give you more classic texts, but it can't hurt to start with something like this.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Contemporary-Political-Philosophy-An-Introduction/dp/0198782748
I'd advise making a thread on /his/ too, we'll be more likely to give you left wing writers, whereas /his/ will lean to more right wing writers. Should give you a nice balance. Always maintain your undogmatic attitude though. Never get sucked into bullshit /pol/ memes like Trump, he is scum.

>>7684357
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America - George Packer

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy - Francis Fukuyama

>>7684357
>start from the beginning

We don't know the beginning. I would maintain that you can't understand politics without understanding a good chunk of philosophy - that is why it is in so many courses of political science. So read some of the early and later chapters in A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell.

>>7684357
Have you tried starting with the Greeks?