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

The Transformation of Corporate Control

بقلم Neil Fligstein • 1990

Antitrust, not markets, built the modern firm: four legal pivots that remade American business.

4.09

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🏢 Corporate History 📊 Economic Sociology ⚖️ Antitrust Law 🤝 Mergers And Acquisitions 🏛️ Corporate Governance

The Transformation of Corporate Control

Antitrust, not markets, built the modern firm: four legal pivots that remade American business.

بقلم Neil Fligstein 1990 408 صفحة

4.09

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🏢 Corporate History 📊 Economic Sociology ⚖️ Antitrust Law 🤝 Mergers And Acquisitions 🏛️ Corporate Governance

Regulating the Poor

بقلم Frances Fox Piven • 1971

Welfare has one rhythm: expand during riots, contract during calm, always to enforce cheap labor.

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🏛️ Welfare State 🔧 Work And Welfare 🎛️ Social Control 💰 Political Economy ✊ Social Movements

Regulating the Poor

Welfare has one rhythm: expand during riots, contract during calm, always to enforce cheap labor.

بقلم Frances Fox Piven 1971 544 صفحة

4.24

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🏛️ Welfare State 🔧 Work And Welfare 🎛️ Social Control 💰 Political Economy ✊ Social Movements

Trumpocracy

بقلم David Frum • 2018

American democracy didn't fall; it was hollowed out by lies and a party that looked away.

3.88

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🏛️ Democratic Backsliding 🇺🇸 Trump Administration 💰 Political Corruption 📺 Media Manipulation ⚠️ Authoritarian Drift

Trumpocracy

American democracy didn't fall; it was hollowed out by lies and a party that looked away.

بقلم David Frum 2018 301 صفحة

3.88

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🏛️ Democratic Backsliding 🇺🇸 Trump Administration 💰 Political Corruption 📺 Media Manipulation ⚠️ Authoritarian Drift

Inharmonious

بقلم Tammye Huf • 2025

A Black soldier passes as white while his sister builds the home America denies them.

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🎭 Racial Passing 🏚️ Jim Crow South 🪖 WWII Black Soldiers 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🏡 Housing Discrimination

Inharmonious

A Black soldier passes as white while his sister builds the home America denies them.

بقلم Tammye Huf 2025 360 صفحة

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🎭 Racial Passing 🏚️ Jim Crow South 🪖 WWII Black Soldiers 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🏡 Housing Discrimination

Republican Gomorrah

بقلم Max Blumenthal • 2007

The Christian right, built on crisis and submission, was destined to devour the GOP from inside.

3.88

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🗳️ American Politics ✝️ Christian Right 👑 Authoritarianism ⚔️ Culture Wars 📜 Theocratic Politics

Republican Gomorrah

The Christian right, built on crisis and submission, was destined to devour the GOP from inside.

بقلم Max Blumenthal 2007 432 صفحة

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🗳️ American Politics ✝️ Christian Right 👑 Authoritarianism ⚔️ Culture Wars 📜 Theocratic Politics

O Pioneers!

بقلم Willa Cather • 1913

A Swedish immigrant's daughter inherits the Nebraska farm and bets on land the neighbors abandon.

3.90

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🏡 Pioneer Fiction 👩‍🌾 Female Pioneer 🧳 Immigrant Saga 💔 Forbidden Love 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

O Pioneers!

A Swedish immigrant's daughter inherits the Nebraska farm and bets on land the neighbors abandon.

بقلم Willa Cather 1913 159 صفحة

3.90

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🏡 Pioneer Fiction 👩‍🌾 Female Pioneer 🧳 Immigrant Saga 💔 Forbidden Love 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

Eisenhower

بقلم Stephen E. Ambrose • 1990

A Kansas tantrum taught Eisenhower the restraint that held allies together and kept the peace.

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🏛️ Presidential Biography 🥶 Cold War History 🫡 Military Leadership 🤝 Alliance Diplomacy ☢️ Nuclear Deterrence

Eisenhower

A Kansas tantrum taught Eisenhower the restraint that held allies together and kept the peace.

بقلم Stephen E. Ambrose 1990 635 صفحة

4.03

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🏛️ Presidential Biography 🥶 Cold War History 🫡 Military Leadership 🤝 Alliance Diplomacy ☢️ Nuclear Deterrence

The Destructionists

بقلم Dana Milbank • 2022

Gingrich lit the match in 1993. Twenty-five years of arson later, Trump walked through the ashes.

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🐘 Republican Party 🏛️ American Conservatism 🔀 Political Polarization ⚠️ Democratic Backsliding 📺 Conservative Media

The Destructionists

Gingrich lit the match in 1993. Twenty-five years of arson later, Trump walked through the ashes.

بقلم Dana Milbank 2022 416 صفحة

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🐘 Republican Party 🏛️ American Conservatism 🔀 Political Polarization ⚠️ Democratic Backsliding 📺 Conservative Media

Grease

بقلم Ron De Christoforo • 1978

When a greaser's summer fling transfers to his high school, his heart collides with his rep.

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🕰️ 1950s Americana 💕 Good Girl Bad Boy 👥 Tight-Knit Gang ☀️ Summer Romance 💄 Makeover Romance

Grease

When a greaser's summer fling transfers to his high school, his heart collides with his rep.

بقلم Ron De Christoforo 1978 224 صفحة

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🕰️ 1950s Americana 💕 Good Girl Bad Boy 👥 Tight-Knit Gang ☀️ Summer Romance 💄 Makeover Romance

A Nation by Design

بقلم Aristide R. Zolberg • 2006

America's open-border myth hides a centuries-long project of population engineering.

3.82

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🛂 Immigration Policy 🏛️ American Political Development 🚧 Border Enforcement History 🧬 National Identity Politics 👷 Labor Migration

A Nation by Design

America's open-border myth hides a centuries-long project of population engineering.

بقلم Aristide R. Zolberg 2006 672 صفحة

3.82

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🛂 Immigration Policy 🏛️ American Political Development 🚧 Border Enforcement History 🧬 National Identity Politics 👷 Labor Migration

J R

بقلم William Gaddis • 1975

From a payphone, a sixth-grader builds a paper empire that consumes a struggling composer.

4.32

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📡 Postmodern Satire 🎨 Art Vs Commerce 🤝 Reluctant Accomplice 🏚️ Failing Institutions 🖤 Dark Satire

J R

From a payphone, a sixth-grader builds a paper empire that consumes a struggling composer.

بقلم William Gaddis 1975 752 صفحة

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📡 Postmodern Satire 🎨 Art Vs Commerce 🤝 Reluctant Accomplice 🏚️ Failing Institutions 🖤 Dark Satire

The Miracle of Love

بقلم Montana Ross • 2021

Rejected for her infertility, she weds a Colorado widower who only needs a mother for his child.

4.48

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🪪 Mail-Order Bride 🤝 Marriage Of Convenience 🏔️ Frontier Romance 💔 Widower Hero 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

The Miracle of Love

Rejected for her infertility, she weds a Colorado widower who only needs a mother for his child.

بقلم Montana Ross 2021 83 صفحة

4.48

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🪪 Mail-Order Bride 🤝 Marriage Of Convenience 🏔️ Frontier Romance 💔 Widower Hero 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

The Court v. The Voters

بقلم Joshua A. Douglas • 2024

We trust the Court to protect voting rights. Fifty years of rulings tell a different story.

4.46

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🗳️ Voting Rights ⚖️ Constitutional Law 🏛️ Supreme Court 📋 Judicial Activism ⚠️ Democratic Erosion

The Court v. The Voters

We trust the Court to protect voting rights. Fifty years of rulings tell a different story.

بقلم Joshua A. Douglas 2024 240 صفحة

4.46

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🗳️ Voting Rights ⚖️ Constitutional Law 🏛️ Supreme Court 📋 Judicial Activism ⚠️ Democratic Erosion

The Red and the Blue

بقلم Steve Kornacki • 2018

The prosperous 1990s: two men broke American politics, and we are still living in the wreckage.

4.20

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🏛️ Political Polarization 🗳️ Electoral History ⏳ Clinton Era 💥 Anti-Establishment 🔒 Congressional Gridlock

The Red and the Blue

The prosperous 1990s: two men broke American politics, and we are still living in the wreckage.

بقلم Steve Kornacki 2018

4.20

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🏛️ Political Polarization 🗳️ Electoral History ⏳ Clinton Era 💥 Anti-Establishment 🔒 Congressional Gridlock

One Nation Under God

بقلم Kevin M. Kruse • 2015

The 'Christian nation' was invented in the 1930s by corporations fighting the New Deal.

3.96

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🏛️ Church And State 🕰️ American Religious History 🔍 Invented Tradition 🇺🇸 Religious Nationalism 💼 Corporate Influence

One Nation Under God

The 'Christian nation' was invented in the 1930s by corporations fighting the New Deal.

بقلم Kevin M. Kruse 2015 384 صفحة

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🏛️ Church And State 🕰️ American Religious History 🔍 Invented Tradition 🇺🇸 Religious Nationalism 💼 Corporate Influence

The Populist Persuasion

بقلم Michael Kazin • 1995

Anti-elite language once belonged to labor and farmers. A history of how conservatives captured it.

3.75

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🇺🇸 American Populism 🗣️ Political Rhetoric 🏗️ Class Politics 🔨 Labor History 🐘 Conservative Movement

The Populist Persuasion

Anti-elite language once belonged to labor and farmers. A history of how conservatives captured it.

بقلم Michael Kazin 1995 387 صفحة

3.75

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🇺🇸 American Populism 🗣️ Political Rhetoric 🏗️ Class Politics 🔨 Labor History 🐘 Conservative Movement

Working Toward Whiteness

بقلم David R. Roediger • 2005

Southern and Eastern Europeans were not white when they arrived. The journey that changed that.

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🧳 Immigration History 👥 Whiteness Studies 🏭 Racialized Labor 🏡 Housing Segregation ✊ Labor Unions And Race

Working Toward Whiteness

Southern and Eastern Europeans were not white when they arrived. The journey that changed that.

بقلم David R. Roediger 2005 339 صفحة

3.83

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🧳 Immigration History 👥 Whiteness Studies 🏭 Racialized Labor 🏡 Housing Segregation ✊ Labor Unions And Race

The Age of Federalism

بقلم Stanley Elkins • 1993

How the fight over Hamilton's bank and the French Revolution turned founders into partisan enemies.

4.17

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🏛️ Early Republic 💰 Financial Founding ⚖️ Constitutional Debates 📈 Political Economy 🌍 Diplomatic History

The Age of Federalism

How the fight over Hamilton's bank and the French Revolution turned founders into partisan enemies.

بقلم Stanley Elkins 1993 944 صفحة

4.17

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🏛️ Early Republic 💰 Financial Founding ⚖️ Constitutional Debates 📈 Political Economy 🌍 Diplomatic History

The Partisan Sort

بقلم Matthew Levendusky • 2009

Your party shapes your beliefs, not the reverse. Elite polarization is why.

4.09

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🇺🇸 American Electorate 🗳️ Voter Behavior 📊 Elite Polarization 🔀 Partisan Sorting 💔 Affective Polarization

The Partisan Sort

Your party shapes your beliefs, not the reverse. Elite polarization is why.

بقلم Matthew Levendusky 2009 184 صفحة

4.09

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🇺🇸 American Electorate 🗳️ Voter Behavior 📊 Elite Polarization 🔀 Partisan Sorting 💔 Affective Polarization

Federalism

بقلم Mark J. Rozell • 2019

The Constitution did not settle the fight between national and state power; it designed the arena.

3.67

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📜 Federalism ⚖️ Constitutional Law 🏛️ American Government 🌍 Comparative Politics 👨‍⚖️ Supreme Court

Federalism

The Constitution did not settle the fight between national and state power; it designed the arena.

بقلم Mark J. Rozell 2019 160 صفحة

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📜 Federalism ⚖️ Constitutional Law 🏛️ American Government 🌍 Comparative Politics 👨‍⚖️ Supreme Court

The Death of Reconstruction

بقلم Heather Cox Richardson • 2001

The North's faith in free labor built Reconstruction, then provided the arguments to tear it down.

3.86

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era ⚒️ Labor History 💰 Political Economy 🗳️ Voting Rights 🚫 Anti-Statism

The Death of Reconstruction

The North's faith in free labor built Reconstruction, then provided the arguments to tear it down.

بقلم Heather Cox Richardson 2001 336 صفحة

3.86

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era ⚒️ Labor History 💰 Political Economy 🗳️ Voting Rights 🚫 Anti-Statism

State of the Union

بقلم Nelson Lichtenstein • 2002

Why American law expanded individual rights while dismantling the collective power of labor.

3.75

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🏭 Labor History 🇺🇸 American Labor Movement 📜 New Deal Era 👷 Working Class History 📉 Political Economy

State of the Union

Why American law expanded individual rights while dismantling the collective power of labor.

بقلم Nelson Lichtenstein 2002 352 صفحة

3.75

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🏭 Labor History 🇺🇸 American Labor Movement 📜 New Deal Era 👷 Working Class History 📉 Political Economy

The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit

بقلم Nelson Lichtenstein • 1995

The labor leader who could have reshaped American capitalism settled for a cost-of-living clause.

4.04

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🏭 Labor History 🚗 Auto Industry 🌹 Social Democracy 🤝 Collective Bargaining ✊ Labor Militancy

The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit

The labor leader who could have reshaped American capitalism settled for a cost-of-living clause.

بقلم Nelson Lichtenstein 1995 592 صفحة

4.04

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🏭 Labor History 🚗 Auto Industry 🌹 Social Democracy 🤝 Collective Bargaining ✊ Labor Militancy

The Rights Revolution

بقلم Charles R. Epp • 1998

Judges didn't expand civil liberties. Organized plaintiffs, their lawyers, and their funders did.

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⚖️ Judicial Politics 📜 Constitutional Rights 🏛️ Legal Mobilization 🔍 Comparative Politics 📚 Law And Society

The Rights Revolution

Judges didn't expand civil liberties. Organized plaintiffs, their lawyers, and their funders did.

بقلم Charles R. Epp 1998 342 صفحة

3.79

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⚖️ Judicial Politics 📜 Constitutional Rights 🏛️ Legal Mobilization 🔍 Comparative Politics 📚 Law And Society

The Broken Branch

بقلم Thomas E. Mann • 2006

Built to lead, Congress now defers to the president, skips debate, and legislates in the dark.

3.76

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🏛️ Congressional Dysfunction ⚔️ Partisan Polarization 📜 Legislative Process 🔀 Separation Of Powers 📉 Institutional Decline

The Broken Branch

Built to lead, Congress now defers to the president, skips debate, and legislates in the dark.

بقلم Thomas E. Mann 2006 288 صفحة

3.76

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🏛️ Congressional Dysfunction ⚔️ Partisan Polarization 📜 Legislative Process 🔀 Separation Of Powers 📉 Institutional Decline

Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement

بقلم William E. Forbath • 1989

American labor's early radicalism was crushed by a judge-made weapon, not conservative workers.

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🏛️ Legal History ⚖️ American Labor Law 🎩 Gilded Age America 💼 Business Unionism 📝 Liberty Of Contract

Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement

American labor's early radicalism was crushed by a judge-made weapon, not conservative workers.

بقلم William E. Forbath 1989 230 صفحة

3.93

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🏛️ Legal History ⚖️ American Labor Law 🎩 Gilded Age America 💼 Business Unionism 📝 Liberty Of Contract

The Right To Vote The Contested History Of Democracy In The United States

بقلم Alexander Keyssar • 2000

Voting rights advanced, then retreated. Each expansion triggered backlash, and the cycle continues.

4.04

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🗳️ Voting Rights 🇺🇸 American Democracy 💰 Class And Politics 🚫 Voter Suppression ⚖️ Constitutional Law

The Right To Vote The Contested History Of Democracy In The United States

Voting rights advanced, then retreated. Each expansion triggered backlash, and the cycle continues.

بقلم Alexander Keyssar 2000 512 صفحة

4.04

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🗳️ Voting Rights 🇺🇸 American Democracy 💰 Class And Politics 🚫 Voter Suppression ⚖️ Constitutional Law

The Market Revolution

بقلم Charles Grier Sellers • 1992

How capitalism conquered America: a 30-year clash that remade its courts, churches, and bedrooms.

3.63

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🏛️ Jacksonian Democracy 🕯️ Antebellum America ⚒️ Class Politics 🏭 Capitalist Development ⛪ Religious Revivalism

The Market Revolution

How capitalism conquered America: a 30-year clash that remade its courts, churches, and bedrooms.

بقلم Charles Grier Sellers 1992 512 صفحة

3.63

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🏛️ Jacksonian Democracy 🕯️ Antebellum America ⚒️ Class Politics 🏭 Capitalist Development ⛪ Religious Revivalism

Seven Social Movements That Changed America

بقلم Linda Gordon • 2025

Seven American movements, from the Klan to the farmworkers, and the hidden engine that powered them.

3.90

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🏘️ Grassroots Organizing 🔬 Social Movement Theory ⚠️ Authoritarian Movements ✊ Women Organizers 🔗 Intersectional Feminism

Seven Social Movements That Changed America

Seven American movements, from the Klan to the farmworkers, and the hidden engine that powered them.

بقلم Linda Gordon 2025 528 صفحة

3.90

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🏘️ Grassroots Organizing 🔬 Social Movement Theory ⚠️ Authoritarian Movements ✊ Women Organizers 🔗 Intersectional Feminism

In the Distance

بقلم Hernan Diaz • 2017

A Swedish immigrant, severed from his brother, becomes an unwilling legend crossing the frontier.

4.10

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🏜️ Revisionist Western 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🐻 Gentle Giant 🎭 Myth Versus Man 🌫️ Melancholy

In the Distance

A Swedish immigrant, severed from his brother, becomes an unwilling legend crossing the frontier.

بقلم Hernan Diaz 2017 256 صفحة

4.10

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🏜️ Revisionist Western 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🐻 Gentle Giant 🎭 Myth Versus Man 🌫️ Melancholy

Last Night in Brooklyn

بقلم Xóchitl González • 2026

A woman caught between old Brooklyn and new follows a fashion designer's IPO into glamour and ruin.

3.65

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🏗️ Gentrifying Brooklyn 🔥 Ambitious Women 👯 Found Family 📉 Tragic Rise And Fall 💔 Love Triangle

Last Night in Brooklyn

A woman caught between old Brooklyn and new follows a fashion designer's IPO into glamour and ruin.

بقلم Xóchitl González 2026 256 صفحة

3.65

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🏗️ Gentrifying Brooklyn 🔥 Ambitious Women 👯 Found Family 📉 Tragic Rise And Fall 💔 Love Triangle

يندهونك للعودة

بقلم تيم زد. هيرنانديز • 2024

1948 crash: 28 Mexican dead labeled 'deportees.' One writer's hunt to learn and return their names.

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🕳️ Historical Erasure 🌳 Family History 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🦋 Mexican Diaspora 🇲🇽 Chicano Memoir

يندهونك للعودة

1948 crash: 28 Mexican dead labeled 'deportees.' One writer's hunt to learn and return their names.

بقلم تيم زد. هيرنانديز 2024 272 صفحة

4.46

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🕳️ Historical Erasure 🌳 Family History 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🦋 Mexican Diaspora 🇲🇽 Chicano Memoir

To Catch a Fascist

بقلم Christopher Mathias • 2026

An infiltrator pulled 440 gigabytes of chat logs from a hate group, unleashing a wave of unmaskings.

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🏴 Modern Antifa 🇺🇸 American Far Right 💻 Open Source Intelligence 🎭 Unmasking Extremists 🕵️ Extremist Infiltration

To Catch a Fascist

An infiltrator pulled 440 gigabytes of chat logs from a hate group, unleashing a wave of unmaskings.

بقلم Christopher Mathias 2026 336 صفحة

4.41

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🏴 Modern Antifa 🇺🇸 American Far Right 💻 Open Source Intelligence 🎭 Unmasking Extremists 🕵️ Extremist Infiltration

Conservatism

بقلم Edmund Fawcett • 2020

Conservatism's two-century fight: resist liberal modernity or adapt? Neither side ever fully wins.

3.73

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🏛️ Political Traditions 📚 Intellectual History 🗳️ Modern Conservatism 📢 Populism Studies 🗽 Democratic Theory

Conservatism

Conservatism's two-century fight: resist liberal modernity or adapt? Neither side ever fully wins.

بقلم Edmund Fawcett 2020 544 صفحة

3.73

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🏛️ Political Traditions 📚 Intellectual History 🗳️ Modern Conservatism 📢 Populism Studies 🗽 Democratic Theory

The Little Book of Campaign Etiquette

بقلم Stephen Hess • 1998

The unwritten rules campaigns and journalists keep breaking, and the case for writing them down.

1.00

⚖️ Campaign Ethics 📰 Political Journalism 🔍 Media Bias 💰 Campaign Finance 🗳️ Election Reform

The Little Book of Campaign Etiquette

The unwritten rules campaigns and journalists keep breaking, and the case for writing them down.

بقلم Stephen Hess 1998 160 صفحة

1.00

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⚖️ Campaign Ethics 📰 Political Journalism 🔍 Media Bias 💰 Campaign Finance 🗳️ Election Reform

Witness to Gettysburg

بقلم Richard Wheeler • 1919

Gettysburg: a general vanishes, a subordinate disobeys, and 12,500 men walk a mile into cannon fire.

3.82

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⚔️ American Civil War 🪖 Military History 📜 Primary Sources 👁️ Eyewitness History 🎯 Decisive Battles

Witness to Gettysburg

Gettysburg: a general vanishes, a subordinate disobeys, and 12,500 men walk a mile into cannon fire.

بقلم Richard Wheeler 1919 288 صفحة

3.82

٢٠٣ تقييم

⚔️ American Civil War 🪖 Military History 📜 Primary Sources 👁️ Eyewitness History 🎯 Decisive Battles

Red State Revolt

بقلم Eric Blanc • 2019

How illegal teacher strikes in red states won, and what it reveals about working-class power.

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🍎 Teachers Strikes ✊ Union Activism 🏭 Labor History 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 💪 Working-Class Politics

Red State Revolt

How illegal teacher strikes in red states won, and what it reveals about working-class power.

بقلم Eric Blanc 2019 224 صفحة

4.18

٤٥٤ تقييم

🍎 Teachers Strikes ✊ Union Activism 🏭 Labor History 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 💪 Working-Class Politics

We Have Not a Government

بقلم George William Van Cleve • 2017

State free-riding broke the first U.S. government. A debt crisis and revolt forced a grand bargain.

3.99

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📜 Constitutional History 🇺🇸 Early Republic 🏛️ Federalism 🏴 State Sovereignty 💰 Political Economy

We Have Not a Government

State free-riding broke the first U.S. government. A debt crisis and revolt forced a grand bargain.

بقلم George William Van Cleve 2017 390 صفحة

3.99

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📜 Constitutional History 🇺🇸 Early Republic 🏛️ Federalism 🏴 State Sovereignty 💰 Political Economy

The Myth of American Exceptionalism

بقلم Godfrey Hodgson • 2009

America's founding myths were built on misreadings. Corrupted, they now fuel inequality and war.

3.46

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🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🏛 National Myths 📚 Historical Revisionism 💰 Global Inequality 🔗 Mass Incarceration

The Myth of American Exceptionalism

America's founding myths were built on misreadings. Corrupted, they now fuel inequality and war.

بقلم Godfrey Hodgson 2009 240 صفحة

3.46

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🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🏛 National Myths 📚 Historical Revisionism 💰 Global Inequality 🔗 Mass Incarceration

Indians and English

بقلم Karen Ordahl Kupperman • 2000

Before conquest came curiosity: both sides studied each other as mutual puzzles.

3.85

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🇺🇸 Early American History ⚓ Colonial Encounters 📜 Ethnohistory 🏹 Native Agency 🌊 Atlantic World

Indians and English

Before conquest came curiosity: both sides studied each other as mutual puzzles.

بقلم Karen Ordahl Kupperman 2000 320 صفحة

3.85

١١٤ تقييم

🇺🇸 Early American History ⚓ Colonial Encounters 📜 Ethnohistory 🏹 Native Agency 🌊 Atlantic World

The Pursuit of Loneliness

بقلم Philip Slater • 1970

America chose self-reliance. It got loneliness, and the hidden need for others is turning to rage.

4.08

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🏛️ Cultural Criticism 🇺🇸 American Culture 🏚️ Social Alienation 🧍 Individualism Critique ⚙️ Technological Critique

The Pursuit of Loneliness

America chose self-reliance. It got loneliness, and the hidden need for others is turning to rage.

بقلم Philip Slater 1970 208 صفحة

4.08

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🏛️ Cultural Criticism 🇺🇸 American Culture 🏚️ Social Alienation 🧍 Individualism Critique ⚙️ Technological Critique

The Federalist Society

بقلم Michael Avery • 2013

The conservative capture of the courts was built by law students, not politicians.

4.29

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⚖️ Judicial Politics 📜 Constitutional Law 🐘 Conservative Movement 🏛️ Executive Power 🎓 Affirmative Action

The Federalist Society

The conservative capture of the courts was built by law students, not politicians.

بقلم Michael Avery 2013

4.29

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⚖️ Judicial Politics 📜 Constitutional Law 🐘 Conservative Movement 🏛️ Executive Power 🎓 Affirmative Action

Southern Nation

بقلم David A. Bateman • 2018

After Reconstruction, the white South ran Congress and built white supremacy into American law.

3.38

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📜 Jim Crow Era 🗳️ Southern Politics 🏛️ Congressional History ⚖️ Institutional Racism 🚧 Legislative Obstruction

Southern Nation

After Reconstruction, the white South ran Congress and built white supremacy into American law.

بقلم David A. Bateman 2018 488 صفحة

3.38

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📜 Jim Crow Era 🗳️ Southern Politics 🏛️ Congressional History ⚖️ Institutional Racism 🚧 Legislative Obstruction

Us Against Them

بقلم Donald R. Kinder • 2009

An instinct to split the world into us and them shapes nearly every American political opinion.

3.97

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🧠 Political Psychology 📊 Public Opinion 👥 Intergroup Relations 🎯 In-Group Bias 🔍 Prejudice Research

Us Against Them

An instinct to split the world into us and them shapes nearly every American political opinion.

بقلم Donald R. Kinder 2009 354 صفحة

3.97

٣٣ تقييم

🧠 Political Psychology 📊 Public Opinion 👥 Intergroup Relations 🎯 In-Group Bias 🔍 Prejudice Research

The Making of American Exceptionalism

بقلم Kim Voss • 1993

The Knights of Labor fell to an employer offensive, not infighting, and U.S. unions never recovered.

3.80

١٠

🏭 Labor History 🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 💰 Gilded Age 👥 Working-Class Formation ⚔️ Union Busting

The Making of American Exceptionalism

The Knights of Labor fell to an employer offensive, not infighting, and U.S. unions never recovered.

بقلم Kim Voss 1993 290 صفحة

3.80

١٠ تقييم

🏭 Labor History 🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 💰 Gilded Age 👥 Working-Class Formation ⚔️ Union Busting

A Boy Named Shel

بقلم Lisa Rogak • 2007

He drew for Playboy, wrote for Johnny Cash, and authored The Giving Tree. Then he vanished.

3.42

٥٠٠+

📚 Children's Authors 🎵 Songwriters ✏️ Creative Process 🎭 Countercultural Figures 🕶️ Privacy And Fame

A Boy Named Shel

He drew for Playboy, wrote for Johnny Cash, and authored The Giving Tree. Then he vanished.

بقلم Lisa Rogak 2007 256 صفحة

3.42

٥٠٠+ تقييم

📚 Children's Authors 🎵 Songwriters ✏️ Creative Process 🎭 Countercultural Figures 🕶️ Privacy And Fame

Doc

بقلم Mary Doria Russell • 2011

A dying dentist gambles his way through Dodge City, holding to music and hope of belonging.

4.00

١٧٬٠٠٠+

🏜️ Revisionist Western 🫂 Found Family 💔 Doomed Friendship 🔥 Volatile Love Affair 🌅 Elegiac Tone

Doc

A dying dentist gambles his way through Dodge City, holding to music and hope of belonging.

بقلم Mary Doria Russell 2011 394 صفحة

4.00

١٧٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🏜️ Revisionist Western 🫂 Found Family 💔 Doomed Friendship 🔥 Volatile Love Affair 🌅 Elegiac Tone

The Black Hand

بقلم Stephan Talty • 2017

One NYPD detective took on the Black Hand. His bosses barely cared if his people survived.

3.63

٢٬٠٠٠+

🕵️ Organized Crime 🇮🇹 Early Mafia 🏙️ Gilded Age 🧳 Immigrant Experience 👮 Police History

The Black Hand

One NYPD detective took on the Black Hand. His bosses barely cared if his people survived.

بقلم Stephan Talty 2017 298 صفحة

3.63

٢٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🕵️ Organized Crime 🇮🇹 Early Mafia 🏙️ Gilded Age 🧳 Immigrant Experience 👮 Police History

The Second Mrs. Astor

بقلم Shana Abe • 2021

At eighteen she married a scandal-ridden tycoon. Their honeymoon escape ended on the Titanic.

4.09

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📜 Biographical Fiction 💞 Age Gap Romance 🕰️ Edwardian Era 🚢 Titanic Sinking 👁️ Public Eye

The Second Mrs. Astor

At eighteen she married a scandal-ridden tycoon. Their honeymoon escape ended on the Titanic.

بقلم Shana Abe 2021 55 صفحة

4.09

٢٦٥ تقييم

📜 Biographical Fiction 💞 Age Gap Romance 🕰️ Edwardian Era 🚢 Titanic Sinking 👁️ Public Eye

The House of Blue Leaves

بقلم John Guare • 1971

In Queens, a zookeeper chases Hollywood, pushed by his mistress, as his ailing wife unravels.

3.81

٢٬٠٠٠+

🎭 Absurdist Dark Comedy 💭 Failed American Dream ✨ Hollywood Dreams 🧠 Mental Illness 💔 Love Triangle

The House of Blue Leaves

In Queens, a zookeeper chases Hollywood, pushed by his mistress, as his ailing wife unravels.

بقلم John Guare 1971 80 صفحة

3.81

٢٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🎭 Absurdist Dark Comedy 💭 Failed American Dream ✨ Hollywood Dreams 🧠 Mental Illness 💔 Love Triangle

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