أمريكي

تتكشف التجربة الأمريكية من خلال أصوات تتساءل وتحتفي وتتصارع مع مُثُل الأمة ومؤسساتها وهويتها المتغيرة باستمرار. تلتقط هذه الأعمال المسار الواسع للتاريخ الأمريكي والقصص الحميمة لشعبه على حد سواء، من البيانات السياسية والتعليقات الثقافية إلى المقالات الشخصية والحكايات المحلية.

أمريكي ملخصات الكتب

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

بقلم Joan Didion • 1968

At the continent's edge, the American dream frays into murder, lost children, self-deception.

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✍️ New Journalism 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🌸 California Counterculture 🏚️ American Dream Critique 🎬 Hollywood Critique

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

At the continent's edge, the American dream frays into murder, lost children, self-deception.

بقلم Joan Didion 1968 238 صفحة

4.18

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✍️ New Journalism 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🌸 California Counterculture 🏚️ American Dream Critique 🎬 Hollywood Critique

Kamala's Way

بقلم DAN MORIAN • 2021

She battled Wall Street for $20 billion and interrogated her way to the vice presidency.

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🗳️ Women In Politics 🌉 California Politics 🥇 Political Firsts 🌍 Immigrant Roots 🏠 Mortgage Crisis

Kamala's Way

She battled Wall Street for $20 billion and interrogated her way to the vice presidency.

بقلم DAN MORIAN 2021

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🗳️ Women In Politics 🌉 California Politics 🥇 Political Firsts 🌍 Immigrant Roots 🏠 Mortgage Crisis

Daisy Miller

بقلم Henry James • 1879

In Europe, an American girl flouts convention, and one man can't decide: innocent or reckless flirt?

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🗽 American Abroad 🥀 Tragic Heroine 👥 Social Ostracism ❓ Ambiguous Innocence 👁️ Unreliable Observer

Daisy Miller

In Europe, an American girl flouts convention, and one man can't decide: innocent or reckless flirt?

بقلم Henry James 1879 164 صفحة

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🗽 American Abroad 🥀 Tragic Heroine 👥 Social Ostracism ❓ Ambiguous Innocence 👁️ Unreliable Observer

The Lottery and Other Stories

بقلم Shirley Jackson • 1949

An annual lottery where winning means death opens a collection where menace wears an ordinary face.

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🏠 Domestic Horror 🏘️ Small-Town Secrets 👥 Mob Mentality 🪞 Uncanny 🔇 Quiet Dread

The Lottery and Other Stories

An annual lottery where winning means death opens a collection where menace wears an ordinary face.

بقلم Shirley Jackson 1949 302 صفحة

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🏠 Domestic Horror 🏘️ Small-Town Secrets 👥 Mob Mentality 🪞 Uncanny 🔇 Quiet Dread

Autobiography of Mark Twain

بقلم Mark Twain • 2010

Sealed for a century: Twain's unfiltered life, with the portrait his daughter wrote tucked inside.

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🖋️ Literary Lives 🇺🇸 American Authors ✍️ Author Memoirs 😂 Humorists 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Memoir

Autobiography of Mark Twain

Sealed for a century: Twain's unfiltered life, with the portrait his daughter wrote tucked inside.

بقلم Mark Twain 2010 414 صفحة

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🖋️ Literary Lives 🇺🇸 American Authors ✍️ Author Memoirs 😂 Humorists 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Memoir

Marxismo norteamericano

بقلم Mark R. Levin • 2021

The radical ideology that captured American institutions, and a practical guide to reclaiming them.

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🔥 Culture Wars 🚩 Modern Marxism 💼 Corporate Wokeness 📺 Media Manipulation 🗣️ Cancel Culture

Marxismo norteamericano

The radical ideology that captured American institutions, and a practical guide to reclaiming them.

بقلم Mark R. Levin 2021 348 صفحة

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🔥 Culture Wars 🚩 Modern Marxism 💼 Corporate Wokeness 📺 Media Manipulation 🗣️ Cancel Culture

Tocqueville

بقلم Harvey C. Mansfield • 2007

Tocqueville saw democracy's rise as inevitable, but warned of two quiet threats. A compact guide.

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🗳️ Democratic Theory 📜 19th-Century Thought 🌐 Civil Society 🏘️ Local Governance 👥 Democratic Tyranny

Tocqueville

Tocqueville saw democracy's rise as inevitable, but warned of two quiet threats. A compact guide.

بقلم Harvey C. Mansfield 2007 124 صفحة

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🗳️ Democratic Theory 📜 19th-Century Thought 🌐 Civil Society 🏘️ Local Governance 👥 Democratic Tyranny

The Son

بقلم Philipp Meyer • 2013

A Comanche captive builds a Texas empire, and every generation after him pays the debt.

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🐂 Texas Family Saga 🏛️ Generational Saga 🪶 Frontier Captivity ⚔️ Inherited Violence 💔 Love Across Borders

The Son

A Comanche captive builds a Texas empire, and every generation after him pays the debt.

بقلم Philipp Meyer 2013 561 صفحة

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🐂 Texas Family Saga 🏛️ Generational Saga 🪶 Frontier Captivity ⚔️ Inherited Violence 💔 Love Across Borders

Why Nothing Works

بقلم Marvin Harris • 1981

An anthropologist finds that broken toasters, inflation, and cults share a single cause.

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🏛️ Cultural Anthropology 🇺🇸 American Society 📖 Cultural Criticism 📊 Political Economy 🏪 Service Economy

Why Nothing Works

An anthropologist finds that broken toasters, inflation, and cults share a single cause.

بقلم Marvin Harris 1981 224 صفحة

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🏛️ Cultural Anthropology 🇺🇸 American Society 📖 Cultural Criticism 📊 Political Economy 🏪 Service Economy

The Case for Trump

بقلم Victor Davis Hanson • 2019

Trump was the symptom of an establishment that had failed its own voters for decades.

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🔨 Populist Movements ⚡ Political Polarization 🏛️ Administrative State 🏭 Economic Nationalism 🏚️ Deindustrialization

The Case for Trump

Trump was the symptom of an establishment that had failed its own voters for decades.

بقلم Victor Davis Hanson 2019 400 صفحة

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🔨 Populist Movements ⚡ Political Polarization 🏛️ Administrative State 🏭 Economic Nationalism 🏚️ Deindustrialization

Run With the Hunted

بقلم Charles Bukowski • 1994

Childhood beatings, dead-end jobs, cheap wine: an outsider's life in his own poems and stories.

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🚬 Dirty Realism ✍️ Autobiographical Fiction 🍺 Hard Drinking Writer 🎨 Survival Through Art 💸 Down And Out Life

Run With the Hunted

Childhood beatings, dead-end jobs, cheap wine: an outsider's life in his own poems and stories.

بقلم Charles Bukowski 1994 497 صفحة

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🚬 Dirty Realism ✍️ Autobiographical Fiction 🍺 Hard Drinking Writer 🎨 Survival Through Art 💸 Down And Out Life

The Last Shah

بقلم Ray Takeyh • 2021

Two Pahlavi kings tried to drag Iran into modernity by force. Both died in exile.

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🇮🇷 Iranian History 🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🏗️ Top-Down Modernization 🕌 Islamic Revolution 🛢️ Oil Politics

The Last Shah

Two Pahlavi kings tried to drag Iran into modernity by force. Both died in exile.

بقلم Ray Takeyh 2021 336 صفحة

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🇮🇷 Iranian History 🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🏗️ Top-Down Modernization 🕌 Islamic Revolution 🛢️ Oil Politics

The Black Hand

بقلم Chris Blatchford • 2008

He was the Mexican Mafia's most brutal enforcer. Then he became its greatest target.

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🇲🇽 Mexican Mafia 🕴️ Organized Crime ⛓️ Prison Gangs 🚪 Gang Defection 🕵️ Criminal Informants

The Black Hand

He was the Mexican Mafia's most brutal enforcer. Then he became its greatest target.

بقلم Chris Blatchford 2008 352 صفحة

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🇲🇽 Mexican Mafia 🕴️ Organized Crime ⛓️ Prison Gangs 🚪 Gang Defection 🕵️ Criminal Informants

A View from the Bridge

بقلم Arthur Miller • 1977

A longshoreman's grip on his niece turns desperate when her suitor arrives from Italy.

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🎭 Modern Greek Tragedy 🧳 Immigrant Narrative 💚 Obsessive Jealousy 🤫 Code Of Silence ⚔️ Honor And Shame

A View from the Bridge

A longshoreman's grip on his niece turns desperate when her suitor arrives from Italy.

بقلم Arthur Miller 1977 96 صفحة

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🎭 Modern Greek Tragedy 🧳 Immigrant Narrative 💚 Obsessive Jealousy 🤫 Code Of Silence ⚔️ Honor And Shame

Slanted

بقلم Sharyl Attkisson • 2020

How newsrooms kill inconvenient stories, and the words that tell you they're doing it.

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📰 Media Bias 🎭 Narrative Control 🗣️ Weaponized Language 🕹️ Media Manipulation 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Slanted

How newsrooms kill inconvenient stories, and the words that tell you they're doing it.

بقلم Sharyl Attkisson 2020 316 صفحة

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📰 Media Bias 🎭 Narrative Control 🗣️ Weaponized Language 🕹️ Media Manipulation 🔍 Investigative Journalism

After the Music Stopped

بقلم Alan S. Blinder • 2013

Two bubbles, forty-to-one leverage, and a rescue that saved the system but lost the public.

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📉 Financial Crises 📚 Economic History 🏠 Housing Bubbles ⚖️ Leverage And Risk 🦊 Regulatory Capture

After the Music Stopped

Two bubbles, forty-to-one leverage, and a rescue that saved the system but lost the public.

بقلم Alan S. Blinder 2013 496 صفحة

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📉 Financial Crises 📚 Economic History 🏠 Housing Bubbles ⚖️ Leverage And Risk 🦊 Regulatory Capture

The First Family Detail

بقلم Ronald Kessler • 2014

Cruelty, affairs, nuclear lapses: what Secret Service agents witnessed inside the White House.

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🏛️ Presidential History 🛡️ Secret Service 📰 Political Exposé 👁️ Insider Accounts ⚠️ Institutional Failure

The First Family Detail

Cruelty, affairs, nuclear lapses: what Secret Service agents witnessed inside the White House.

بقلم Ronald Kessler 2014 272 صفحة

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🏛️ Presidential History 🛡️ Secret Service 📰 Political Exposé 👁️ Insider Accounts ⚠️ Institutional Failure

Summer of My German Soldier

بقلم Bette Greene • 1973

In WWII Arkansas, a Jewish girl shelters an escaped German POW who showed her she mattered.

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🏠 Wwii Home Front 🏘️ Small Town Prejudice 🤫 Secret Friendship 👥 Found Family ✡️ Jewish Protagonist

Summer of My German Soldier

In WWII Arkansas, a Jewish girl shelters an escaped German POW who showed her she mattered.

بقلم Bette Greene 1973 203 صفحة

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🏠 Wwii Home Front 🏘️ Small Town Prejudice 🤫 Secret Friendship 👥 Found Family ✡️ Jewish Protagonist

A Patriot's History of the United States

بقلم Larry Schweikart • 2004

The conservative reply to Zinn: America's record, from Columbus to 9/11, earns its patriotism.

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🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 🦅 Patriotic History 📈 Economic History 📜 Founding Era ⚖️ Limited Government

A Patriot's History of the United States

The conservative reply to Zinn: America's record, from Columbus to 9/11, earns its patriotism.

بقلم Larry Schweikart 2004 932 صفحة

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🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 🦅 Patriotic History 📈 Economic History 📜 Founding Era ⚖️ Limited Government

Liberty and Tyranny

بقلم Mark R. Levin • 2004

The Constitution was not repealed, it was reinterpreted: the conservative case for reversal.

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🏛️ American Conservatism 📜 Originalism ⚖️ Natural Law Theory 🔗 Limited Government 💸 Welfare State Critique

Liberty and Tyranny

The Constitution was not repealed, it was reinterpreted: the conservative case for reversal.

بقلم Mark R. Levin 2004 245 صفحة

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🏛️ American Conservatism 📜 Originalism ⚖️ Natural Law Theory 🔗 Limited Government 💸 Welfare State Critique

لا تتنازل قيد أنملة

بقلم مايك بومبيو • 2022

Refusing to pay, apologize, or sign weak agreements: inside Trump’s nationalist foreign policy.

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🇺🇸 America First 🇨🇳 Us China Rivalry 🏛️ Cabinet Memoirs ✝️ Faith And Diplomacy 🛡️ Deterrence Strategy

لا تتنازل قيد أنملة

Refusing to pay, apologize, or sign weak agreements: inside Trump’s nationalist foreign policy.

بقلم مايك بومبيو 2022 434 صفحة

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🇺🇸 America First 🇨🇳 Us China Rivalry 🏛️ Cabinet Memoirs ✝️ Faith And Diplomacy 🛡️ Deterrence Strategy

The Years That Matter Most

بقلم Paul Tough • 2019

Getting into an elite college depends more on your parents’ income than your SAT score.

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🎓 Higher Education 📝 College Admissions 📈 Social Mobility ⚖️ Educational Inequality 🏛️ Meritocracy Critique

The Years That Matter Most

Getting into an elite college depends more on your parents’ income than your SAT score.

بقلم Paul Tough 2019 400 صفحة

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🎓 Higher Education 📝 College Admissions 📈 Social Mobility ⚖️ Educational Inequality 🏛️ Meritocracy Critique

Arrest-Proof Yourself

بقلم Dale C. Carson • 2007

A former cop's blunt rules for staying invisible to police and out of the permanent digital prison.

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🧑‍✈️ Police Encounters ⚖️ Legal Self-Defense ⛓️‍💥 Criminal Justice Reform 🌃 Street Survival 🔫 Firearm Ownership

Arrest-Proof Yourself

A former cop's blunt rules for staying invisible to police and out of the permanent digital prison.

بقلم Dale C. Carson 2007 384 صفحة

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🧑‍✈️ Police Encounters ⚖️ Legal Self-Defense ⛓️‍💥 Criminal Justice Reform 🌃 Street Survival 🔫 Firearm Ownership

The Wisdom of the Heart

بقلم Henry Miller • 1941

Modern men are half-alive and call it progress. The cure starts when the thinking stops.

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📖 Literary Philosophy 📚 Essay Collections 🎨 Creative Process 🤲 Acceptance Philosophy 🏭 Anti-Modernity

The Wisdom of the Heart

Modern men are half-alive and call it progress. The cure starts when the thinking stops.

بقلم Henry Miller 1941 250 صفحة

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📖 Literary Philosophy 📚 Essay Collections 🎨 Creative Process 🤲 Acceptance Philosophy 🏭 Anti-Modernity

We Are the Change We Seek

بقلم E.J. Dionne Jr. • 2017

The speeches that carried a presidency: how rhetoric meets crisis and race in a divided country.

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🏛️ Presidential Rhetoric 🎙️ Political Oratory ⚖️ Racial Justice 🗳️ Civic Engagement 🌹 Progressive Politics

We Are the Change We Seek

The speeches that carried a presidency: how rhetoric meets crisis and race in a divided country.

بقلم E.J. Dionne Jr. 2017 369 صفحة

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🏛️ Presidential Rhetoric 🎙️ Political Oratory ⚖️ Racial Justice 🗳️ Civic Engagement 🌹 Progressive Politics

ماء للأفيال

بقلم سارا غروين • 2006

Orphaned, a vet student joins a traveling circus and falls for the mercurial animal trainer's wife.

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🎪 Circus Fiction 🏚️ Great Depression ⏳ Dual Timeline 💔 Forbidden Love 🔗 Abusive Marriage

ماء للأفيال

Orphaned, a vet student joins a traveling circus and falls for the mercurial animal trainer's wife.

بقلم سارا غروين 2006 368 صفحة

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🎪 Circus Fiction 🏚️ Great Depression ⏳ Dual Timeline 💔 Forbidden Love 🔗 Abusive Marriage

The Smear

بقلم Sharyl Attkisson • 2017

Billion-dollar industry of leaks, astroturf, and dark money controls the news. Insider shows how.

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🎯 Character Assassination 📰 Media Manipulation 🤥 Fake News 💰 Dark Money 📢 Propaganda Techniques

The Smear

Billion-dollar industry of leaks, astroturf, and dark money controls the news. Insider shows how.

بقلم Sharyl Attkisson 2017 288 صفحة

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🎯 Character Assassination 📰 Media Manipulation 🤥 Fake News 💰 Dark Money 📢 Propaganda Techniques

Helen Keller

بقلم Tanya Savory • 2017

One word at a water pump. Then Radcliffe, socialism, and a lifelong fight for the marginalized.

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⚖️ Disability Rights 📚 Special Education 🤝 Teacher-Student Bonds 🌹 American Socialism 🗳️ First-Wave Feminism

Helen Keller

One word at a water pump. Then Radcliffe, socialism, and a lifelong fight for the marginalized.

بقلم Tanya Savory 2017 122 صفحة

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⚖️ Disability Rights 📚 Special Education 🤝 Teacher-Student Bonds 🌹 American Socialism 🗳️ First-Wave Feminism

American Story

بقلم Bob Dotson • 2013

Four decades on American back roads, collecting the lives no news camera ever found.

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🧑‍🚒 Everyday Heroes 🧑‍🏭 Unsung Lives 🗞️ Human-Interest Stories 🇺🇸 Americana 🌍 Immigrant Experience

American Story

Four decades on American back roads, collecting the lives no news camera ever found.

بقلم Bob Dotson 2013 274 صفحة

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🧑‍🚒 Everyday Heroes 🧑‍🏭 Unsung Lives 🗞️ Human-Interest Stories 🇺🇸 Americana 🌍 Immigrant Experience

All the Presidents' Bankers

بقلم Nomi Prins • 2014

A century of backroom deals: how bankers, not presidents, drove America's rise to global power.

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🏦 Banking History 💰 Political Economy 🏛️ Regulatory Capture 📉 Financial Crises 🗽 American Empire

All the Presidents' Bankers

A century of backroom deals: how bankers, not presidents, drove America's rise to global power.

بقلم Nomi Prins 2014 544 صفحة

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🏦 Banking History 💰 Political Economy 🏛️ Regulatory Capture 📉 Financial Crises 🗽 American Empire

The Facts

بقلم Philip Roth • 1988

A master of fiction tries to write the straight truth about his life, and discovers why he cannot.

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🖋️ Literary Memoir ✍️ Writers On Writing ✡️ Jewish Identity 🔄 Metafiction 🗽 Artistic Freedom

The Facts

A master of fiction tries to write the straight truth about his life, and discovers why he cannot.

بقلم Philip Roth 1988 208 صفحة

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🖋️ Literary Memoir ✍️ Writers On Writing ✡️ Jewish Identity 🔄 Metafiction 🗽 Artistic Freedom

Thinking like an Economist

بقلم Elizabeth Popp Berman • 2022

How efficiency-driven economics took over US policy, even from liberals, and what it left behind.

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📜 Economic Policy History 🌐 Neoliberalism ⚖️ Cost-Benefit Analysis 🏛️ Law And Economics 💰 Market Fundamentalism

Thinking like an Economist

How efficiency-driven economics took over US policy, even from liberals, and what it left behind.

بقلم Elizabeth Popp Berman 2022 344 صفحة

3.93

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📜 Economic Policy History 🌐 Neoliberalism ⚖️ Cost-Benefit Analysis 🏛️ Law And Economics 💰 Market Fundamentalism

Steal This Book

بقلم Abbie Hoffman • 1971

The counterculture manual: how to get everything free and fight the system.

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🏴 Counterculture Manuals ✊ Direct Action 🎭 Culture Jamming 🗑️ Freegan Living ⚔️ Guerrilla Tactics

Steal This Book

The counterculture manual: how to get everything free and fight the system.

بقلم Abbie Hoffman 1971 352 صفحة

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🏴 Counterculture Manuals ✊ Direct Action 🎭 Culture Jamming 🗑️ Freegan Living ⚔️ Guerrilla Tactics

Supreme Commander

بقلم Seymour Morris Jr. • 2014

Eleven million lives saved, a constitution written in nine days: the occupation that remade Japan.

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🏛️ Postwar Occupation 🏗️ Nation Building 🪖 Military Governance 📜 Constitutional Design ❄️ Cold War Strategy

Supreme Commander

Eleven million lives saved, a constitution written in nine days: the occupation that remade Japan.

بقلم Seymour Morris Jr. 2014 384 صفحة

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🏛️ Postwar Occupation 🏗️ Nation Building 🪖 Military Governance 📜 Constitutional Design ❄️ Cold War Strategy

بقلم George W. Bush • 2014

A son's Oval Office portrait of his father: loss, war, and the quiet character that held.

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🏛️ Presidential Biography 📜 Political Memoirs 🧭 Principled Leadership ⚔️ Wartime Leadership 🛡️ Resilience In Adversity

A son's Oval Office portrait of his father: loss, war, and the quiet character that held.

بقلم George W. Bush 2014 294 صفحة

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🏛️ Presidential Biography 📜 Political Memoirs 🧭 Principled Leadership ⚔️ Wartime Leadership 🛡️ Resilience In Adversity

Firefighting

بقلم Ben S. Bernanke • 2019

Bernanke's 2008 account: the system nearly collapsed, and the tools that stopped it no longer exist.

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🏦 Financial Crises 🏛️ Central Banking ⛓️ Systemic Risk 🐘 Too Big To Fail 📉 The Great Recession

Firefighting

Bernanke's 2008 account: the system nearly collapsed, and the tools that stopped it no longer exist.

بقلم Ben S. Bernanke 2019 240 صفحة

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🏦 Financial Crises 🏛️ Central Banking ⛓️ Systemic Risk 🐘 Too Big To Fail 📉 The Great Recession

The Heretic's Daughter

بقلم Kathleen Kent • 2008

Salem witch trials: a girl's coerced confession could save her life or condemn her mother.

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🧙‍♀️ Salem Witch Trials ⛪ Puritan New England ⚖️ Wrongfully Accused 🔗 Coerced Confession 🩹 Generational Trauma

The Heretic's Daughter

Salem witch trials: a girl's coerced confession could save her life or condemn her mother.

بقلم Kathleen Kent 2008 332 صفحة

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🧙‍♀️ Salem Witch Trials ⛪ Puritan New England ⚖️ Wrongfully Accused 🔗 Coerced Confession 🩹 Generational Trauma

A Raisin in the Sun

بقلم Lorraine Hansberry • 2002

An insurance check pits a Black family's dreams against each other in a cramped Chicago apartment.

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🏠 Domestic Drama 👵 Generational Conflict 💔 Thwarted Dreams 👩‍👧‍👦 Matriarchal Family 🚫 Housing Segregation

A Raisin in the Sun

An insurance check pits a Black family's dreams against each other in a cramped Chicago apartment.

بقلم Lorraine Hansberry 2002 162 صفحة

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🏠 Domestic Drama 👵 Generational Conflict 💔 Thwarted Dreams 👩‍👧‍👦 Matriarchal Family 🚫 Housing Segregation

Strong Men Armed

بقلم Robert Leckie • 1961

The Marine Corps' Pacific campaign stripped of myth: chaos that no map could prepare them for.

4.38

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🏝️ Pacific Theater 🦅 Marine Corps History ⚓ Amphibious Warfare 🔐 Codebreaking 🎖️ Wartime Leadership

Strong Men Armed

The Marine Corps' Pacific campaign stripped of myth: chaos that no map could prepare them for.

بقلم Robert Leckie 1961 576 صفحة

4.38

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🏝️ Pacific Theater 🦅 Marine Corps History ⚓ Amphibious Warfare 🔐 Codebreaking 🎖️ Wartime Leadership

Allow Me to Retort

بقلم Elie Mystal • 2022

The Constitution isn't sacred. It was built for white power and still works as designed.

4.57

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🏛️ Constitutional Law 📜 Originalism Critique ⛓️ Structural Racism 👮 Policing And Race 🗳️ Voting Rights

Allow Me to Retort

The Constitution isn't sacred. It was built for white power and still works as designed.

بقلم Elie Mystal 2022 270 صفحة

4.57

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🏛️ Constitutional Law 📜 Originalism Critique ⛓️ Structural Racism 👮 Policing And Race 🗳️ Voting Rights

Men Without Work

بقلم Nicholas Eberstadt • 2016

Seven million prime-age men have quit the workforce entirely. The problem isn't a lack of jobs.

3.41

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🏭 Labor Economics 📊 Workforce Participation 🏛️ Welfare Reform 🔗 Mass Incarceration 🚹 Male Identity Crisis

Men Without Work

Seven million prime-age men have quit the workforce entirely. The problem isn't a lack of jobs.

بقلم Nicholas Eberstadt 2016 152 صفحة

3.41

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🏭 Labor Economics 📊 Workforce Participation 🏛️ Welfare Reform 🔗 Mass Incarceration 🚹 Male Identity Crisis

اذهب وستر حارساً

بقلم هاربر لي • 2015

Home from New York, a young woman finds her father, her moral hero, sitting with segregationists.

3.31

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🖋️ Southern Literary Fiction 🗳️ Civil Rights Era 🏛️ Fallen Idol 🔗 Generational Divide 👨‍👧 Fathers And Daughters

اذهب وستر حارساً

Home from New York, a young woman finds her father, her moral hero, sitting with segregationists.

بقلم هاربر لي 2015 7 صفحة

3.31

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🖋️ Southern Literary Fiction 🗳️ Civil Rights Era 🏛️ Fallen Idol 🔗 Generational Divide 👨‍👧 Fathers And Daughters

سيرة حياة فريدريك دوغلاس، عبد أمريكي

بقلم فريدريك دوغلاس • 2004

A former slave's firsthand account of how literacy unlocked his escape from bondage.

4.13

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📜 Slave Narratives ⛓️ American Slavery 🔓 Self-Emancipation 📚 Literacy And Freedom ✊ Abolitionist Literature

سيرة حياة فريدريك دوغلاس، عبد أمريكي

A former slave's firsthand account of how literacy unlocked his escape from bondage.

بقلم فريدريك دوغلاس 2004 158 صفحة

4.13

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📜 Slave Narratives ⛓️ American Slavery 🔓 Self-Emancipation 📚 Literacy And Freedom ✊ Abolitionist Literature

Decision Points

بقلم George W. Bush • 2010

He arrived planning education reform; history handed him 9/11 and two wars.

3.81

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📖 Presidential Memoirs 🏛️ Post-9/11 Politics 🛡️ Counterterrorism 🏗️ Nation-Building ⚔️ Wartime Leadership

Decision Points

He arrived planning education reform; history handed him 9/11 and two wars.

بقلم George W. Bush 2010 496 صفحة

3.81

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📖 Presidential Memoirs 🏛️ Post-9/11 Politics 🛡️ Counterterrorism 🏗️ Nation-Building ⚔️ Wartime Leadership

We Had a Little Real Estate Problem

بقلم Kliph Nesteroff • 2021

From Wild West exploitation to viral sketches: how Native comedians turned erasure into an art form.

4.06

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🪶 Native American History 🎭 Comedy History ✊ Cultural Reclamation 🎬 Media Stereotypes 💪 Humor As Resistance

We Had a Little Real Estate Problem

From Wild West exploitation to viral sketches: how Native comedians turned erasure into an art form.

بقلم Kliph Nesteroff 2021 319 صفحة

4.06

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🪶 Native American History 🎭 Comedy History ✊ Cultural Reclamation 🎬 Media Stereotypes 💪 Humor As Resistance

Black Flags, Blue Waters

بقلم Eric Jay Dolin • 2018

From welcomed economic partners to hanged outlaws: the real story of pirates in colonial America.

3.76

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🏴‍☠️ Golden Age Piracy 🏛️ American Colonies ⛵ Maritime History 💰 Colonial Trade 📈 Economics Of Crime

Black Flags, Blue Waters

From welcomed economic partners to hanged outlaws: the real story of pirates in colonial America.

بقلم Eric Jay Dolin 2018 380 صفحة

3.76

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🏴‍☠️ Golden Age Piracy 🏛️ American Colonies ⛵ Maritime History 💰 Colonial Trade 📈 Economics Of Crime

The Coming China Wars

بقلم Peter Navarro • 2006

Cheap goods, cheap debt: the two chains binding America to a rival that already writes rules.

3.32

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🇨🇳 China Trade Policy 🇺🇸 Economic Nationalism 🏴‍☠️ Intellectual Property Theft 🛢️ Resource Diplomacy 🌊 Hydropolitics

The Coming China Wars

Cheap goods, cheap debt: the two chains binding America to a rival that already writes rules.

بقلم Peter Navarro 2006 263 صفحة

3.32

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🇨🇳 China Trade Policy 🇺🇸 Economic Nationalism 🏴‍☠️ Intellectual Property Theft 🛢️ Resource Diplomacy 🌊 Hydropolitics

Show Don't Tell

بقلم Curtis Sittenfeld • 2025

Twelve stories exposing the hunger, hypocrisy, and heartbreak of ordinary life.

3.89

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🎭 Social Satire 🕰️ Midlife Reflection ⚔️ Ambition And Envy 🤦 Liberal Guilt 🍂 Bittersweet Nostalgia

Show Don't Tell

Twelve stories exposing the hunger, hypocrisy, and heartbreak of ordinary life.

بقلم Curtis Sittenfeld 2025 320 صفحة

3.89

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🎭 Social Satire 🕰️ Midlife Reflection ⚔️ Ambition And Envy 🤦 Liberal Guilt 🍂 Bittersweet Nostalgia

From Here to Equality

بقلم William A. Darity Jr. • 2020

A ten-to-one wealth gap, built by slavery and Jim Crow. The economic argument for reparations.

4.38

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💸 Racial Wealth Gap ⚖️ Reparations Debate 🔗 Systemic Racism 📊 Wealth Inequality 📜 Black Economic History

From Here to Equality

A ten-to-one wealth gap, built by slavery and Jim Crow. The economic argument for reparations.

بقلم William A. Darity Jr. 2020 424 صفحة

4.38

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💸 Racial Wealth Gap ⚖️ Reparations Debate 🔗 Systemic Racism 📊 Wealth Inequality 📜 Black Economic History

The Tunnels of Cu Chi

بقلم Tom Mangold • 1985

A hand-dug city beneath the jungle survived the heaviest bombing; the fighting went underground.

4.07

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🇻🇳 Vietnam War 🕳️ Tunnel Warfare 🌿 Guerrilla Warfare ⚙️ Military Engineering ⚔️ Asymmetric Warfare

The Tunnels of Cu Chi

A hand-dug city beneath the jungle survived the heaviest bombing; the fighting went underground.

بقلم Tom Mangold 1985 302 صفحة

4.07

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🇻🇳 Vietnam War 🕳️ Tunnel Warfare 🌿 Guerrilla Warfare ⚙️ Military Engineering ⚔️ Asymmetric Warfare

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