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"Political Mythmaking" refers to books that examine how simplified, emotionally resonant stories, symbols, rituals and images are created, circulated and institutionalized to mobilize support, legitimize power, shape identity, and influence policy. The category includes scholarly analyses and narrative accounts of national founding myths, leader cults, propaganda, conspiracy narratives and invented traditions, as well as fiction that explores or satirizes those processes. Interdisciplinary perspectives — history, political theory, sociology, media and cultural studies, anthropology — probe the mechanisms of mythmaking (rhetoric, education, commemorations, monuments, film and social media) and their effects on collective memory, polarization, democratic deliberation and social cohesion. These books ask who benefits from particular myths, how myths are sustained or contested, and how the emergence or collapse of competing myths reshapes political life.

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