Both unique and interesting.
Century of the self is about The establishment and leaders try to manipulate us through the growth of the mass-consumer society, based on Freudian theories, in Britain and the United States.
Hard to explain really. It's good though and it's very highly rated.
Bitter lake focuses on Saudi Arabia and oil. But also how shows how the narrative politicians try to craft have become so simplified that most people cannot really see or understand what's going on in the world properly.
It starts off with a meeting between US President Roosevelt and King Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia in 1945, and goes on to examine the west's increasingly murky dealings with the middle east.