The World According to Star Wars

Cass R. Sunstein reads the Star Wars films as a guide to large questions about childhood, fathers, rebellion, redemption and the pull of the Dark Side. He also uses the saga to discuss constitutional law, economics and political uprisings, and as a vehicle for ideas from behavioral psychology. A separate thread tells how the films became a hit that almost nobody predicted, and asks what makes one creative work succeed where another fails. Sunstein's central claim is that the story is about freedom of choice and the capacity to decide well at the decisive moment. It appeared in 2016 and became a New York Times best seller.

Ryan Holiday counted it among the best books he read in 2016, describing it as an interesting study of the business side of creative work.