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

Affluence and Influence

بقلم Martin Gilens • 2010

When the rich and the rest disagree, policy follows the rich. Forty years of data.

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💰 Money In Politics 📉 Income Inequality 🏛️ Plutocracy 🗳️ Political Representation 🧠 Power Elite Theory

Affluence and Influence

When the rich and the rest disagree, policy follows the rich. Forty years of data.

بقلم Martin Gilens 2010 352 صفحة

3.79

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💰 Money In Politics 📉 Income Inequality 🏛️ Plutocracy 🗳️ Political Representation 🧠 Power Elite Theory

The Divided Welfare State

بقلم Jacob S. Hacker • 2002

America didn't skip the welfare state. It hid it in tax breaks and employer benefits.

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🏛️ Welfare State 🔄 Path Dependence 🏢 Private Welfare 💰 Tax Subsidies 🏫 Historical Institutionalism

The Divided Welfare State

America didn't skip the welfare state. It hid it in tax breaks and employer benefits.

بقلم Jacob S. Hacker 2002 447 صفحة

3.70

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🏛️ Welfare State 🔄 Path Dependence 🏢 Private Welfare 💰 Tax Subsidies 🏫 Historical Institutionalism

Illiberal America

بقلم Steven Hahn • 2024

American liberty as a tradition is a Cold War invention; illiberalism is the nation's true center.

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🏛 Illiberal Politics ⛓ Racial Capitalism 📚 Revisionist History 🔒 Mass Incarceration 💹 Political Economy

Illiberal America

American liberty as a tradition is a Cold War invention; illiberalism is the nation's true center.

بقلم Steven Hahn 2024 464 صفحة

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🏛 Illiberal Politics ⛓ Racial Capitalism 📚 Revisionist History 🔒 Mass Incarceration 💹 Political Economy

The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe

بقلم James Patterson • 2025

A staged crime scene. A missing diary. The death of Marilyn Monroe was never a simple suicide.

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🎬 Hollywood History 🎥 Classic Cinema 🕵️ Unsolved Mystery 💊 Substance Abuse 🏛️ Political Scandal

The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe

A staged crime scene. A missing diary. The death of Marilyn Monroe was never a simple suicide.

بقلم James Patterson 2025 416 صفحة

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🎬 Hollywood History 🎥 Classic Cinema 🕵️ Unsolved Mystery 💊 Substance Abuse 🏛️ Political Scandal

Spy Schools

بقلم Daniel Golden • 2017

China, Cuba, and the CIA recruit on American campuses. The schools look the other way.

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🔍 Academic Espionage 🇨🇳 Chinese Espionage 🕵️ Covert Operations 🛡️ Counterintelligence 🌐 Foreign Influence

Spy Schools

China, Cuba, and the CIA recruit on American campuses. The schools look the other way.

بقلم Daniel Golden 2017 352 صفحة

3.57

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🔍 Academic Espionage 🇨🇳 Chinese Espionage 🕵️ Covert Operations 🛡️ Counterintelligence 🌐 Foreign Influence

Our Palestine Question

بقلم Geoffrey Phillip Levin • 2023

Declassified files expose Israel's covert campaign to suppress American Jewish dissent on Palestine.

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📜 American Jewish History 🕊️ Israel-Palestine Conflict 🌐 Diaspora Politics 📢 Jewish Anti-Zionism ⚖️ Palestinian Rights

Our Palestine Question

Declassified files expose Israel's covert campaign to suppress American Jewish dissent on Palestine.

بقلم Geoffrey Phillip Levin 2023 320 صفحة

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📜 American Jewish History 🕊️ Israel-Palestine Conflict 🌐 Diaspora Politics 📢 Jewish Anti-Zionism ⚖️ Palestinian Rights

Lions and Scavengers

بقلم Ben Shapiro • 2025

Two spirits fight for America: one builds civilization, the other feeds on its carcass.

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🏛️ Western Civilization 📜 Political Philosophy 🐘 American Conservatism 📉 Civilizational Decline 🌱 Cultural Renewal

Lions and Scavengers

Two spirits fight for America: one builds civilization, the other feeds on its carcass.

بقلم Ben Shapiro 2025 256 صفحة

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🏛️ Western Civilization 📜 Political Philosophy 🐘 American Conservatism 📉 Civilizational Decline 🌱 Cultural Renewal

The Deadline

بقلم Jill Lepore • 2023

The dead still run the country. A historian shows how, from the Constitution to the smartphone.

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🏛️ Cultural History 📚 Essay Collections 📰 Media Criticism 🇺🇸 American Democracy ⚖️ Constitutional Law

The Deadline

The dead still run the country. A historian shows how, from the Constitution to the smartphone.

بقلم Jill Lepore 2023 622 صفحة

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🏛️ Cultural History 📚 Essay Collections 📰 Media Criticism 🇺🇸 American Democracy ⚖️ Constitutional Law

What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

بقلم Elizabeth Catte • 2018

Appalachia's story isn't moral failure. It's extraction, and resistance is the real tradition.

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🌄 Appalachian Studies 🏘️ Rural America 🔍 Debunking Myths ⛏️ Economic Exploitation ⚒️ Labor History

What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

Appalachia's story isn't moral failure. It's extraction, and resistance is the real tradition.

بقلم Elizabeth Catte 2018 200 صفحة

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🌄 Appalachian Studies 🏘️ Rural America 🔍 Debunking Myths ⛏️ Economic Exploitation ⚒️ Labor History

When We Were the Kennedys

بقلم Monica Wood • 2012

A girl loses her father. Then JFK is shot, and private grief finds a national mirror.

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🧒 Childhood Memoir 🕊️ Parental Loss ☮️ 1960s America 🔧 Working Class Life ✝️ Catholic Family Life

When We Were the Kennedys

A girl loses her father. Then JFK is shot, and private grief finds a national mirror.

بقلم Monica Wood 2012 235 صفحة

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🧒 Childhood Memoir 🕊️ Parental Loss ☮️ 1960s America 🔧 Working Class Life ✝️ Catholic Family Life

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806

بقلم Meriwether Lewis • 2005

Starvation, rapids, and tribal diplomacy: the raw journal that built an American myth.

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🏞️ Westward Expansion 🗄️ Primary Source Journal 🧭 Exploration Narratives 🌿 Natural History 🤝 Native Diplomacy

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806

Starvation, rapids, and tribal diplomacy: the raw journal that built an American myth.

بقلم Meriwether Lewis 2005 588 صفحة

3.93

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🏞️ Westward Expansion 🗄️ Primary Source Journal 🧭 Exploration Narratives 🌿 Natural History 🤝 Native Diplomacy

The Appeal

بقلم John Grisham • 2008

Their client won in court. Now a billionaire is buying the judges who can reverse it.

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🏛️ Legal Thriller ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 🪨 David Vs Goliath ☣️ Environmental Disaster 📜 Legal Ethics

The Appeal

Their client won in court. Now a billionaire is buying the judges who can reverse it.

بقلم John Grisham 2008 358 صفحة

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🏛️ Legal Thriller ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 🪨 David Vs Goliath ☣️ Environmental Disaster 📜 Legal Ethics

Furious Minds

بقلم Laura K. Field • 2025

A network of philosophers, lawyers, and clerics built MAGA's ideas. Their goal: an illiberal state.

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🇺🇸 American Conservatism ⚠️ Far-Right Movements ⚔️ Culture Wars 🏛️ Illiberal Politics ✝️ Christian Nationalism

Furious Minds

A network of philosophers, lawyers, and clerics built MAGA's ideas. Their goal: an illiberal state.

بقلم Laura K. Field 2025 432 صفحة

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🇺🇸 American Conservatism ⚠️ Far-Right Movements ⚔️ Culture Wars 🏛️ Illiberal Politics ✝️ Christian Nationalism

The Day Freedom Died

بقلم Charles Lane • 2008

The Easter Sunday slaughter that gave white supremacy a legal shield for a century.

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era ⚖️ Constitutional Law ☠️ White Supremacy 🩸 Racial Violence 📜 Constitutional Crisis

The Day Freedom Died

The Easter Sunday slaughter that gave white supremacy a legal shield for a century.

بقلم Charles Lane 2008 352 صفحة

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era ⚖️ Constitutional Law ☠️ White Supremacy 🩸 Racial Violence 📜 Constitutional Crisis

The Populist Moment

بقلم Lawrence Goodwyn • 1978

A democratic mass movement rose among farmers, until a hollow silver crusade stole its platform.

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🌾 Agrarian Movements 🗳️ American Populism 🏛️ Gilded Age Politics 🤝 Cooperative Economics 💵 Monetary Reform

The Populist Moment

A democratic mass movement rose among farmers, until a hollow silver crusade stole its platform.

بقلم Lawrence Goodwyn 1978 384 صفحة

3.80

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🌾 Agrarian Movements 🗳️ American Populism 🏛️ Gilded Age Politics 🤝 Cooperative Economics 💵 Monetary Reform

American Therapy

بقلم Jonathan Engel • 2008

America's century in therapy: why the couch lost to the pill, the clipboard, and the meeting.

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🛋️ Psychotherapy History 🇺🇸 American Cultural History 🗣️ Talk Therapy 🧠 Biological Psychiatry ✊ Anti-Psychiatry

American Therapy

America's century in therapy: why the couch lost to the pill, the clipboard, and the meeting.

بقلم Jonathan Engel 2008 368 صفحة

3.39

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🛋️ Psychotherapy History 🇺🇸 American Cultural History 🗣️ Talk Therapy 🧠 Biological Psychiatry ✊ Anti-Psychiatry

The Bartender's Tale

بقلم Ivan Doig • 2012

A bartender raises his son in a Montana saloon where stories matter more than whiskey.

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🍺 Saloon Life 🏘️ Eccentric Small Town 💔 Absent Mother 👨‍👦 Father-Son Bond 🎙️ Oral History

The Bartender's Tale

A bartender raises his son in a Montana saloon where stories matter more than whiskey.

بقلم Ivan Doig 2012 387 صفحة

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🍺 Saloon Life 🏘️ Eccentric Small Town 💔 Absent Mother 👨‍👦 Father-Son Bond 🎙️ Oral History

The Crusader

بقلم Paul Kengor • 2006

The Cold War didn't end by accident. Reagan spent six decades preparing to win it.

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❄️ Cold War History 🏛️ Presidential Biography 💰 Economic Warfare 🚀 Arms Race 🕵️ Covert Operations

The Crusader

The Cold War didn't end by accident. Reagan spent six decades preparing to win it.

بقلم Paul Kengor 2006 432 صفحة

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❄️ Cold War History 🏛️ Presidential Biography 💰 Economic Warfare 🚀 Arms Race 🕵️ Covert Operations

The Case Against Socialism

بقلم Rand Paul • 2019

Why socialism always ends in bread lines and body counts, from Venezuela to Mao's China.

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🚫 Anti-Socialism 📈 Free Market Economics 💰 Kleptocracy 👁️ Surveillance State 💀 State Violence

The Case Against Socialism

Why socialism always ends in bread lines and body counts, from Venezuela to Mao's China.

بقلم Rand Paul 2019 373 صفحة

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🚫 Anti-Socialism 📈 Free Market Economics 💰 Kleptocracy 👁️ Surveillance State 💀 State Violence

The Texan's Wager

بقلم Jodi Thomas • 2002

Banished women enter a frontier wife lottery. Bailee draws a silent farmer who speaks in sign.

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🤠 Western Romance 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🤫 Silent Hero 🔥 Slow Burn 🏠 Found Family

The Texan's Wager

Banished women enter a frontier wife lottery. Bailee draws a silent farmer who speaks in sign.

بقلم Jodi Thomas 2002 336 صفحة

3.88

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🤠 Western Romance 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🤫 Silent Hero 🔥 Slow Burn 🏠 Found Family

The Rise and Fall of American Growth

بقلم Robert J. Gordon • 2016

Indoor plumbing, electricity, and the car transformed daily life in ways the internet never will.

4.18

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🏛️ Economic History 🇺🇸 American Economy ⚙️ Technological Change 🏠 Standard Of Living 🏭 Industrial Revolutions

The Rise and Fall of American Growth

Indoor plumbing, electricity, and the car transformed daily life in ways the internet never will.

بقلم Robert J. Gordon 2016 784 صفحة

4.18

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🏛️ Economic History 🇺🇸 American Economy ⚙️ Technological Change 🏠 Standard Of Living 🏭 Industrial Revolutions

Reveille for Radicals

بقلم Saul D. Alinsky • 1946

Democracy requires organized conflict and leaders from the bottom. A 1946 manual, still unheeded.

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🤝 Community Organizing 🌱 Grassroots Democracy 👥 Indigenous Leadership 🎯 Self-Interest Politics ⚔️ Conflict As Catalyst

Reveille for Radicals

Democracy requires organized conflict and leaders from the bottom. A 1946 manual, still unheeded.

بقلم Saul D. Alinsky 1946 256 صفحة

3.84

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🤝 Community Organizing 🌱 Grassroots Democracy 👥 Indigenous Leadership 🎯 Self-Interest Politics ⚔️ Conflict As Catalyst

Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights

بقلم Stella Adler • 2012

Stella Adler's standard for American drama: why the play's world matters more than your feelings.

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🎬 Acting Technique 📚 Dramatic Literature 🇺🇸 American Theatre 🔍 Play Analysis 🎓 Acting Pedagogy

Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights

Stella Adler's standard for American drama: why the play's world matters more than your feelings.

بقلم Stella Adler 2012 400 صفحة

4.47

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🎬 Acting Technique 📚 Dramatic Literature 🇺🇸 American Theatre 🔍 Play Analysis 🎓 Acting Pedagogy

The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City

بقلم Alan Ehrenhalt • 2012

American metros are inverting: affluence returns downtown, immigrants settle the suburbs.

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📊 Demographic Shifts 🏘️ Suburban Transformation 🏗️ Gentrification ☀️ Sun Belt Cities 🏙️ Density And Sprawl

The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City

American metros are inverting: affluence returns downtown, immigrants settle the suburbs.

بقلم Alan Ehrenhalt 2012 288 صفحة

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📊 Demographic Shifts 🏘️ Suburban Transformation 🏗️ Gentrification ☀️ Sun Belt Cities 🏙️ Density And Sprawl

Politics by Other Means

بقلم Professor of Political Science Benjamin Ginsberg • 1990

When elections can't resolve political conflict, investigations, prosecutions, and press warfare do.

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🏛️ Political Institutions ⚖️ Divided Government 📜 American Political Development 🔍 Political Scandal ⚔️ Institutional Conflict

Politics by Other Means

When elections can't resolve political conflict, investigations, prosecutions, and press warfare do.

بقلم Professor of Political Science Benjamin Ginsberg 1990 268 صفحة

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🏛️ Political Institutions ⚖️ Divided Government 📜 American Political Development 🔍 Political Scandal ⚔️ Institutional Conflict

The Wright Brothers

بقلم David McCullough • 2015

No college, no funding, a bicycle shop: two brothers who beat the world to powered flight.

4.18

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🛩️ Aviation History 🛠️ Inventor Biographies 👥 Brother Partnerships 🏛️ Early 1900s America 🔧 Self-Taught Engineers

The Wright Brothers

No college, no funding, a bicycle shop: two brothers who beat the world to powered flight.

بقلم David McCullough 2015 320 صفحة

4.18

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🛩️ Aviation History 🛠️ Inventor Biographies 👥 Brother Partnerships 🏛️ Early 1900s America 🔧 Self-Taught Engineers

حديقة الحيوان الزجاجية

بقلم تينيسي ويليامز • 1945

When a gentleman caller arrives for dinner, a family's fragile hopes hang on one evening.

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🏚️ Southern Gothic 🎭 Domestic Tragedy 👒 Faded Southern Belle 🧠 Unreliable Memory 💔 Familial Obligation

حديقة الحيوان الزجاجية

When a gentleman caller arrives for dinner, a family's fragile hopes hang on one evening.

بقلم تينيسي ويليامز 1945 104 صفحة

3.74

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🏚️ Southern Gothic 🎭 Domestic Tragedy 👒 Faded Southern Belle 🧠 Unreliable Memory 💔 Familial Obligation

The White Hot

بقلم Quiara Alegría Hudes • 2025

Eight years after vanishing, a mother writes her daughter a letter explaining why she had to leave.

3.72

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🔥 Inherited Rage 👩‍👧 Disappearing Mother 🩸 Generational Trauma 🌺 Latinx Family Saga ✉️ Epistolary Novel

The White Hot

Eight years after vanishing, a mother writes her daughter a letter explaining why she had to leave.

بقلم Quiara Alegría Hudes 2025 176 صفحة

3.72

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🔥 Inherited Rage 👩‍👧 Disappearing Mother 🩸 Generational Trauma 🌺 Latinx Family Saga ✉️ Epistolary Novel

McNamara at War

بقلم Philip Taubman • 2025

By 1965, McNamara's data proved Vietnam unwinnable. Why he kept fighting for three more years.

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🇻🇳 Vietnam War 🥶 Cold War History 🧮 Technocratic Hubris 🌐 American Foreign Policy 📊 Quantitative Management

McNamara at War

By 1965, McNamara's data proved Vietnam unwinnable. Why he kept fighting for three more years.

بقلم Philip Taubman 2025 512 صفحة

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🇻🇳 Vietnam War 🥶 Cold War History 🧮 Technocratic Hubris 🌐 American Foreign Policy 📊 Quantitative Management

When Race Trumps Merit

بقلم Heather Mac Donald • 2023

When racial equity demands lowering standards, medicine suffers, art crumbles, and crime surges.

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🏛️ Affirmative Action 📊 Racial Disparities ⚖️ Diversity Debate 🚔 Race And Policing 🔥 Culture War

When Race Trumps Merit

When racial equity demands lowering standards, medicine suffers, art crumbles, and crime surges.

بقلم Heather Mac Donald 2023 320 صفحة

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🏛️ Affirmative Action 📊 Racial Disparities ⚖️ Diversity Debate 🚔 Race And Policing 🔥 Culture War

Anatomy of a Murder

بقلم Robert Traver • 1958

When a soldier kills his wife's accused rapist, a small-town lawyer must prove he was insane.

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🏛️ Legal Thriller ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 👤 Lawyer Protagonist 🧠 Insanity Defense 🤥 Unreliable Witnesses

Anatomy of a Murder

When a soldier kills his wife's accused rapist, a small-town lawyer must prove he was insane.

بقلم Robert Traver 1958 437 صفحة

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🏛️ Legal Thriller ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 👤 Lawyer Protagonist 🧠 Insanity Defense 🤥 Unreliable Witnesses

His Very Best

بقلم Jonathan Alter • 2020

The one-term president who redefined what a former president can do.

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🏛️ Presidential Biography 🚪 Outsider Politics 🕊️ Human Rights Diplomacy 📫 Post-Presidential Service 🤝 Conflict Resolution

His Very Best

The one-term president who redefined what a former president can do.

بقلم Jonathan Alter 2020 800 صفحة

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🏛️ Presidential Biography 🚪 Outsider Politics 🕊️ Human Rights Diplomacy 📫 Post-Presidential Service 🤝 Conflict Resolution

White Identity Politics

بقلم Ashley Jardina • 2019

One in three white Americans now see their race as politically meaningful. That changes everything.

3.90

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🦅 American Politics ✊ Racial Politics 🪞 Whiteness Studies 🧠 Political Psychology 📊 Racial Attitudes

White Identity Politics

One in three white Americans now see their race as politically meaningful. That changes everything.

بقلم Ashley Jardina 2019

3.90

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🦅 American Politics ✊ Racial Politics 🪞 Whiteness Studies 🧠 Political Psychology 📊 Racial Attitudes

The Sisterhood

بقلم Liza Mundy • 2023

The CIA's essential women were kept off the books. They sued, won, and hunted bin Laden.

4.19

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🕵️ Intelligence Agencies 👤 Women In Espionage ⚖️ Systemic Sexism 🏛️ Class Action Lawsuits 📋 Unpaid Labor

The Sisterhood

The CIA's essential women were kept off the books. They sued, won, and hunted bin Laden.

بقلم Liza Mundy 2023 400 صفحة

4.19

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🕵️ Intelligence Agencies 👤 Women In Espionage ⚖️ Systemic Sexism 🏛️ Class Action Lawsuits 📋 Unpaid Labor

Alex Haley

بقلم Robert J. Norrell • 2015

Family porch tales became the Roots miniseries seen by 85% of Americans. Then came the lawsuits.

3.48

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🔖 Literary Biography 📜 African American History 🗣️ Oral Tradition 🌳 Genealogical Research ⚖️ Plagiarism Controversies

Alex Haley

Family porch tales became the Roots miniseries seen by 85% of Americans. Then came the lawsuits.

بقلم Robert J. Norrell 2015 272 صفحة

3.48

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🔖 Literary Biography 📜 African American History 🗣️ Oral Tradition 🌳 Genealogical Research ⚖️ Plagiarism Controversies

The Plot to Seize the White House

بقلم Jules Archer • 1973

Wall Street plotted a fascist coup against FDR. The general they recruited was the wrong man.

4.03

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🏛️ American Politics 🕰️ 1930s America ⚠️ Fascism In America 💼 Corporate Power ⚡ Democracy Under Threat

The Plot to Seize the White House

Wall Street plotted a fascist coup against FDR. The general they recruited was the wrong man.

بقلم Jules Archer 1973 290 صفحة

4.03

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🏛️ American Politics 🕰️ 1930s America ⚠️ Fascism In America 💼 Corporate Power ⚡ Democracy Under Threat

Rural Versus Urban

بقلم Suzanne Mettler • 2025

The real divide isn't ideology: it's rural versus urban, and it's endangering American democracy.

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🌾 Rural Politics 🏙️ Urban-Rural Divide 💔 Affective Polarization 🏛️ Democratic Erosion 📉 Place-Based Inequality

Rural Versus Urban

The real divide isn't ideology: it's rural versus urban, and it's endangering American democracy.

بقلم Suzanne Mettler 2025 310 صفحة

4.19

٦٢ تقييم

🌾 Rural Politics 🏙️ Urban-Rural Divide 💔 Affective Polarization 🏛️ Democratic Erosion 📉 Place-Based Inequality

The Island Club

بقلم Nicola Harrison • 2026

Three women's secrets, scandals, and a shot at redemption collide at a 1950s island tennis club.

3.67

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🕰️ 1950s America 🌴 California Beach Town 🎾 Women's Tennis 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Strained Marriages

The Island Club

Three women's secrets, scandals, and a shot at redemption collide at a 1950s island tennis club.

بقلم Nicola Harrison 2026 304 صفحة

3.67

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🕰️ 1950s America 🌴 California Beach Town 🎾 Women's Tennis 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Strained Marriages

Ask the Dust

بقلم John Fante • 1939

An impoverished writer in 1930s Los Angeles meets a waitress whose scorn and need mirror his own.

4.10

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🏙️ 1930s Los Angeles 🎨 Starving Artist 💔 Obsessive Love 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 📉 Depression-Era America

Ask the Dust

An impoverished writer in 1930s Los Angeles meets a waitress whose scorn and need mirror his own.

بقلم John Fante 1939 165 صفحة

4.10

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🏙️ 1930s Los Angeles 🎨 Starving Artist 💔 Obsessive Love 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 📉 Depression-Era America

The Framers' Coup

بقلم Michael J. Klarman • 2016

The U.S. Constitution was an elite power grab, anti-democratic and shaped by slavery.

4.41

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📜 Constitutional History 🦅 Early American Republic ⛓️ Slavery Compromises ⚖️ Undemocratic Constitution 🤝 Political Compromise

The Framers' Coup

The U.S. Constitution was an elite power grab, anti-democratic and shaped by slavery.

بقلم Michael J. Klarman 2016 880 صفحة

4.41

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📜 Constitutional History 🦅 Early American Republic ⛓️ Slavery Compromises ⚖️ Undemocratic Constitution 🤝 Political Compromise

Whiteness of a Different Color

بقلم Matthew Frye Jacobson • 1998

The Irish, Jews, and Italians were not white until politics, law, and war made them so.

4.03

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🏳️ Whiteness Studies 🧳 Immigration History ⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🧬 Racial Formation 🌐 Ethnic Studies

Whiteness of a Different Color

The Irish, Jews, and Italians were not white until politics, law, and war made them so.

بقلم Matthew Frye Jacobson 1998 364 صفحة

4.03

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🏳️ Whiteness Studies 🧳 Immigration History ⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🧬 Racial Formation 🌐 Ethnic Studies

Ghost Town

بقلم Tom Perrotta • 2026

A boy's summer of grief cracks open the secrets his suburban town tried to bury.

3.68

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🏘️ Suburban Coming Of Age 💔 Grief And Guilt 👻 Haunting 🌾 1970s America 🔮 Ouija Board

Ghost Town

A boy's summer of grief cracks open the secrets his suburban town tried to bury.

بقلم Tom Perrotta 2026 273 صفحة

3.68

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🏘️ Suburban Coming Of Age 💔 Grief And Guilt 👻 Haunting 🌾 1970s America 🔮 Ouija Board

The Politics of Resentment

بقلم Katherine J. Cramer • 2016

Resentment toward cities and public employees, not ideology, drives rural small-government votes.

4.01

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🌾 Rural Politics 🛣️ Urban Rural Divide 📋 Ethnography 📍 Place-Based Identity 😤 Political Resentment

The Politics of Resentment

Resentment toward cities and public employees, not ideology, drives rural small-government votes.

بقلم Katherine J. Cramer 2016 225 صفحة

4.01

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🌾 Rural Politics 🛣️ Urban Rural Divide 📋 Ethnography 📍 Place-Based Identity 😤 Political Resentment

Olga Dies Dreaming

بقلم Xóchitl González • 2022

A Brooklyn wedding planner and her congressman brother face the mother who left them for revolution.

3.96

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🏠 Family Saga 💔 Mother Wound 🌋 Political Awakening 🚪 Closeted Identity 👫 Sibling Bond

Olga Dies Dreaming

A Brooklyn wedding planner and her congressman brother face the mother who left them for revolution.

بقلم Xóchitl González 2022 369 صفحة

3.96

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🏠 Family Saga 💔 Mother Wound 🌋 Political Awakening 🚪 Closeted Identity 👫 Sibling Bond

Fight for Liberty

بقلم Mark Lasswell • 2018

Democracy is besieged by authoritarians abroad. The weakening at home is the harder fight.

3.92

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🗳️ Liberal Democracy 🇺🇸 American Politics 🏛️ Democratic Institutions 💬 Free Speech ⚖️ Rule Of Law

Fight for Liberty

Democracy is besieged by authoritarians abroad. The weakening at home is the harder fight.

بقلم Mark Lasswell 2018 320 صفحة

3.92

٥٠ تقييم

🗳️ Liberal Democracy 🇺🇸 American Politics 🏛️ Democratic Institutions 💬 Free Speech ⚖️ Rule Of Law

Railroaded

بقلم Richard White • 2011

Corrupt, overbuilt, taxpayer-funded: the transcontinentals failed their way into modern America.

3.63

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🚂 Railroad History 💰 Gilded Age 🏜️ American West 🕵️ Corporate Corruption 🏛️ Political Economy

Railroaded

Corrupt, overbuilt, taxpayer-funded: the transcontinentals failed their way into modern America.

بقلم Richard White 2011 704 صفحة

3.63

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🚂 Railroad History 💰 Gilded Age 🏜️ American West 🕵️ Corporate Corruption 🏛️ Political Economy

America, América

بقلم Greg Grandin • 2025

Spain asked if conquest was just. England called emptied land vacant. The rift defines the Americas.

4.51

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📜 Comparative History ⚖️ International Law 🏛️ Colonial Legacies 🗳️ Social Democracy 🔗 Dependency Theory

America, América

Spain asked if conquest was just. England called emptied land vacant. The rift defines the Americas.

بقلم Greg Grandin 2025 768 صفحة

4.51

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📜 Comparative History ⚖️ International Law 🏛️ Colonial Legacies 🗳️ Social Democracy 🔗 Dependency Theory

Homegrown

بقلم Jeffrey Toobin • 2023

Oklahoma City was the first shot. The war it began now claims the Capitol.

4.16

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🧨 Domestic Terrorism 🪓 Right-Wing Extremism 🏛️ Anti-Government Militias 🎯 Lone Wolf Terrorism ⚖️ High-Profile Trials

Homegrown

Oklahoma City was the first shot. The war it began now claims the Capitol.

بقلم Jeffrey Toobin 2023 426 صفحة

4.16

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🧨 Domestic Terrorism 🪓 Right-Wing Extremism 🏛️ Anti-Government Militias 🎯 Lone Wolf Terrorism ⚖️ High-Profile Trials

The Price of Greatness

بقلم Jay Cost • 2018

The Constitution's coauthors split over its purpose. That rift still produces American oligarchy.

3.71

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🔔 Founding Era 📜 Constitutional Debates 💰 Hamiltonian Economics ⚖️ Madisonian Democracy 🐍 Political Corruption

The Price of Greatness

The Constitution's coauthors split over its purpose. That rift still produces American oligarchy.

بقلم Jay Cost 2018 256 صفحة

3.71

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🔔 Founding Era 📜 Constitutional Debates 💰 Hamiltonian Economics ⚖️ Madisonian Democracy 🐍 Political Corruption

On Power

بقلم Robert A. Caro • 2017

How one man built a financial empire inside the government and became untouchable.

3.95

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🏙️ Urban Planning 🏛️ Political Power 🗳️ Machine Politics 🏚️ Displacement 🏢 Public Authorities

On Power

How one man built a financial empire inside the government and became untouchable.

بقلم Robert A. Caro 2017 2 صفحة

3.95

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🏙️ Urban Planning 🏛️ Political Power 🗳️ Machine Politics 🏚️ Displacement 🏢 Public Authorities

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