الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية

تتكشف النسيجة المعقدة للقوة الأمريكية من خلال روايات استقصائية عن المؤامرات السياسية والتدخلات العسكرية والقوى الثقافية والشخصيات التي تشكل الأمة الأكثر نفوذاً في العالم. تتناول هذه الأعمال الثاقبة كل شيء بدءاً من دراما البيت الأبيض والسياسة الخارجية وصولاً إلى الحركات الاجتماعية وآليات السيطرة الخفية التي تستمر في تحديد دور أمريكا على المسرح العالمي.

الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية ملخصات الكتب

Marriage Meetings for Lasting Love

بقلم Marcia Naomi Berger • 2014

A weekly 30-minute meeting with a fixed agenda: the practice that outlasts every good intention.

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💬 Couples Communication 🔧 Relationship Maintenance 🔬 Gottman Method ⚡ Conflict Management 💝 Appreciation Practice

Marriage Meetings for Lasting Love الملخص

تجربة غامرة

Marriage Meetings for Lasting Love

A weekly 30-minute meeting with a fixed agenda: the practice that outlasts every good intention.

بقلم Marcia Naomi Berger 2014 232 صفحة

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💬 Couples Communication 🔧 Relationship Maintenance 🔬 Gottman Method ⚡ Conflict Management 💝 Appreciation Practice

One Nation Under Blackmail

بقلم Whitney Alyse Webb • 2022

Seventeen White House visits. The blackmail machine that protected Jeffrey Epstein for decades.

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🏛️ Political Corruption 🕵️ Intelligence History 🔫 Organized Crime 📹 Surveillance State 🕶️ Modern Espionage

One Nation Under Blackmail

Seventeen White House visits. The blackmail machine that protected Jeffrey Epstein for decades.

بقلم Whitney Alyse Webb 2022 432 صفحة

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🏛️ Political Corruption 🕵️ Intelligence History 🔫 Organized Crime 📹 Surveillance State 🕶️ Modern Espionage

Martin Eden

بقلم Jack London • 1909

A sailor meets a refined girl and destroys himself trying to become worthy of her love.

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🔨 Working Class Fiction 🏛️ Gilded Age Fiction 💔 Doomed Ambition 🎨 Artist As Outsider 💕 Class Divide Romance

Martin Eden

A sailor meets a refined girl and destroys himself trying to become worthy of her love.

بقلم Jack London 1909 480 صفحة

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🔨 Working Class Fiction 🏛️ Gilded Age Fiction 💔 Doomed Ambition 🎨 Artist As Outsider 💕 Class Divide Romance

قتل الأمل

بقلم ويليام بلوم • 1995

For forty years, the CIA overthrew governments across the globe. The full ledger is in one book.

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❄️ Cold War Politics 🕵️ Covert Operations 🌎 American Empire 🏛️ Regime Change 💰 Corporate Imperialism

قتل الأمل

For forty years, the CIA overthrew governments across the globe. The full ledger is in one book.

بقلم ويليام بلوم 1995 469 صفحة

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❄️ Cold War Politics 🕵️ Covert Operations 🌎 American Empire 🏛️ Regime Change 💰 Corporate Imperialism

Colossus

بقلم Niall Ferguson • 2004

America has always been an empire. Refusing to admit it is the root of its failures.

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🇺🇸 American Hegemony 🏛️ Comparative Empires 🏗️ Nation-Building 💸 Fiscal Crisis 📉 Declinism

Colossus

America has always been an empire. Refusing to admit it is the root of its failures.

بقلم Niall Ferguson 2004 417 صفحة

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🇺🇸 American Hegemony 🏛️ Comparative Empires 🏗️ Nation-Building 💸 Fiscal Crisis 📉 Declinism

Fire and Fury

بقلم Michael Wolff • 2018

Bannon versus the family. Cable news versus the briefings. The West Wing as it actually ran.

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🏛️ White House Insider 🇺🇸 Trump Presidency ⚔️ Political Infighting 💥 White House Dysfunction 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Fire and Fury

Bannon versus the family. Cable news versus the briefings. The West Wing as it actually ran.

بقلم Michael Wolff 2018 336 صفحة

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🏛️ White House Insider 🇺🇸 Trump Presidency ⚔️ Political Infighting 💥 White House Dysfunction 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Monopoly Capital

بقلم Paul A. Baran • 1966

A surplus the system cannot absorb: monopoly capitalism's real engine is not production, but waste.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 📉 Economic Stagnation 💣 Military-Industrial Complex ⚠️ Crisis Theory

Monopoly Capital

A surplus the system cannot absorb: monopoly capitalism's real engine is not production, but waste.

بقلم Paul A. Baran 1966 416 صفحة

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🏛️ Political Economy 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 📉 Economic Stagnation 💣 Military-Industrial Complex ⚠️ Crisis Theory

On Boxing

بقلم Joyce Carol Oates • 1987

A novelist finds that inside the ring, pain, time, and masculinity obey different laws.

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🥊 Boxing Culture ✍️ Literary Sports Writing 🧠 Philosophy Of Sport 💪 Masculinity And Violence 🩸 Athletic Suffering

On Boxing

A novelist finds that inside the ring, pain, time, and masculinity obey different laws.

بقلم Joyce Carol Oates 1987 304 صفحة

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🥊 Boxing Culture ✍️ Literary Sports Writing 🧠 Philosophy Of Sport 💪 Masculinity And Violence 🩸 Athletic Suffering

A Century of War

بقلم F. William Engdahl • 1992

How Anglo-American elites controlled oil to engineer a century of wars and financial crises.

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🛢️ Oil Geopolitics 🇬🇧🇺🇸 Anglo-American Power 💵 Petrodollar System 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 British Empire ⚠️ Manufactured Crises

A Century of War

How Anglo-American elites controlled oil to engineer a century of wars and financial crises.

بقلم F. William Engdahl 1992 312 صفحة

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🛢️ Oil Geopolitics 🇬🇧🇺🇸 Anglo-American Power 💵 Petrodollar System 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 British Empire ⚠️ Manufactured Crises

The Politics Industry

بقلم Katherine M. Gehl • 2020

Two parties rigged the political market. One election redesign can open it.

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🗳️ Electoral Reform 🏛️ Political Duopoly 📊 Ranked Choice Voting 🔓 Gridlock Solutions 🇺🇸 American Democracy

The Politics Industry

Two parties rigged the political market. One election redesign can open it.

بقلم Katherine M. Gehl 2020 272 صفحة

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🗳️ Electoral Reform 🏛️ Political Duopoly 📊 Ranked Choice Voting 🔓 Gridlock Solutions 🇺🇸 American Democracy

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

بقلم John Fante • 1938

Starving in a Colorado shack, an Italian bricklayer abandons his family for a widow's bed.

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🧳 Immigrant Hardship 🙏 Catholic Guilt 💔 Troubled Marriage 👨‍👦 Father Son Conflict 💘 Adolescent Infatuation

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

Starving in a Colorado shack, an Italian bricklayer abandons his family for a widow's bed.

بقلم John Fante 1938 266 صفحة

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🧳 Immigrant Hardship 🙏 Catholic Guilt 💔 Troubled Marriage 👨‍👦 Father Son Conflict 💘 Adolescent Infatuation

JFK's Forgotten Crisis

بقلم Bruce Riedel • 2015

A CIA shadow war in Tibet helped spark the 1962 Sino-Indian War. Asia never recovered.

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🌐 Cold War Geopolitics 🏔️ Sino-Indian Relations 🕵️ Covert Operations 🔍 Intelligence Failures ⚡ Crisis Management

JFK's Forgotten Crisis

A CIA shadow war in Tibet helped spark the 1962 Sino-Indian War. Asia never recovered.

بقلم Bruce Riedel 2015 177 صفحة

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🌐 Cold War Geopolitics 🏔️ Sino-Indian Relations 🕵️ Covert Operations 🔍 Intelligence Failures ⚡ Crisis Management

Hypnotizing Maria

بقلم Richard Bach • 2009

After a midair rescue, a pilot crosses America with a hypnotist to see how belief shapes reality.

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📖 Philosophical Parable ✈️ Aviation Fiction 🔮 New Age Wisdom 🧠 Power Of Belief 🕸️ Interconnected Lives

Hypnotizing Maria

After a midair rescue, a pilot crosses America with a hypnotist to see how belief shapes reality.

بقلم Richard Bach 2009 160 صفحة

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📖 Philosophical Parable ✈️ Aviation Fiction 🔮 New Age Wisdom 🧠 Power Of Belief 🕸️ Interconnected Lives

Deliver Me from Nowhere

بقلم Warren Zanes • 2023

Why Bruce Springsteen's darkest album was a home demo he never meant to release.

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🎧 Album Making-Of 🏠 Home Recording 🧠 Creative Struggle 🌾 Dark Americana 🔧 Working Class Stories

Deliver Me from Nowhere

Why Bruce Springsteen's darkest album was a home demo he never meant to release.

بقلم Warren Zanes 2023 320 صفحة

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🎧 Album Making-Of 🏠 Home Recording 🧠 Creative Struggle 🌾 Dark Americana 🔧 Working Class Stories

Rogue State

بقلم William Blum • 2000

The world's leading democracy has overthrown forty governments since 1945, calling it freedom.

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🏛️ U.S. Foreign Policy 🦅 American Imperialism 🕵️ Covert Operations 📢 Propaganda Critique 💣 Military Intervention

Rogue State

The world's leading democracy has overthrown forty governments since 1945, calling it freedom.

بقلم William Blum 2000 393 صفحة

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🏛️ U.S. Foreign Policy 🦅 American Imperialism 🕵️ Covert Operations 📢 Propaganda Critique 💣 Military Intervention

A Renegade History of the United States

بقلم Thaddeus Russell • 2010

America's founders feared pleasure. Its drunkards, prostitutes, and gangsters made freedom real.

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📚 Revisionist History 👇 History From Below 🚔 Social Control 💋 Sexual Politics 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Race And Whiteness

A Renegade History of the United States

America's founders feared pleasure. Its drunkards, prostitutes, and gangsters made freedom real.

بقلم Thaddeus Russell 2010 400 صفحة

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📚 Revisionist History 👇 History From Below 🚔 Social Control 💋 Sexual Politics 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Race And Whiteness

House of Bush, House of Saud

بقلم Craig Unger • 2004

Oil, covert wars, and a revolving door: the Bush-Saudi alliance that 9/11 nearly destroyed.

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🛢️ Oil Politics 🇸🇦 Us-Saudi Relations 🔍 Investigative Journalism 💥 Blowback 🔄 Revolving Door

House of Bush, House of Saud

Oil, covert wars, and a revolving door: the Bush-Saudi alliance that 9/11 nearly destroyed.

بقلم Craig Unger 2004 384 صفحة

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🛢️ Oil Politics 🇸🇦 Us-Saudi Relations 🔍 Investigative Journalism 💥 Blowback 🔄 Revolving Door

The Republic for Which It Stands

بقلم Richard White • 2017

America rebuilt itself after 1865 into something no one voted for. A history of broken promises.

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era 💰 Gilded Age 🔨 Labor History 🌳 Environmental History ⚖️ Jim Crow Origins

The Republic for Which It Stands

America rebuilt itself after 1865 into something no one voted for. A history of broken promises.

بقلم Richard White 2017 962 صفحة

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era 💰 Gilded Age 🔨 Labor History 🌳 Environmental History ⚖️ Jim Crow Origins

The End of the Myth

بقلم Greg Grandin • 2019

How to build a property portfolio with positive cashflow, even if you've hit the borrowing wall.

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💰 Positive Cashflow 🏠 Rental Properties 🧾 Tax Depreciation 🤝 Tenant Relationships 📈 Portfolio Scaling

The End of the Myth

How to build a property portfolio with positive cashflow, even if you've hit the borrowing wall.

بقلم Greg Grandin 2019 369 صفحة

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💰 Positive Cashflow 🏠 Rental Properties 🧾 Tax Depreciation 🤝 Tenant Relationships 📈 Portfolio Scaling

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

Hidden History

بقلم Brian Haughton • 2007

Twelve ancient mysteries where the evidence outlasts every explanation archaeologists have offered.

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🏛️ Lost Civilizations 🔍 Ancient Mysteries ⛏️ Alternative Archaeology ⚙️ Ancient Technology ⭐ Archaeoastronomy

Hidden History

Twelve ancient mysteries where the evidence outlasts every explanation archaeologists have offered.

بقلم Brian Haughton 2007 272 صفحة

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🏛️ Lost Civilizations 🔍 Ancient Mysteries ⛏️ Alternative Archaeology ⚙️ Ancient Technology ⭐ Archaeoastronomy

The Truth About Trump

بقلم Michael D'Antonio • 2015

A Queens developer's decades-long project of self-invention, and how it conquered America.

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🏛️ Political Biographies 💼 Business Moguls 👨‍👦 Family Dynasties 🗳️ Populist Politics 📺 Media Manipulation

The Truth About Trump

A Queens developer's decades-long project of self-invention, and how it conquered America.

بقلم Michael D'Antonio 2015 550 صفحة

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🏛️ Political Biographies 💼 Business Moguls 👨‍👦 Family Dynasties 🗳️ Populist Politics 📺 Media Manipulation

The Art Of Creative Writing

بقلم Lajos Egri • 1995

Unforgettable fiction starts with a character too insecure to walk away from their opposite.

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🎭 Character Design 🎪 Playwriting 🧠 Human Motivation 😨 Creative Anxiety 🏛️ Aristotelian Poetics

The Art Of Creative Writing

Unforgettable fiction starts with a character too insecure to walk away from their opposite.

بقلم Lajos Egri 1995 224 صفحة

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🎭 Character Design 🎪 Playwriting 🧠 Human Motivation 😨 Creative Anxiety 🏛️ Aristotelian Poetics

Amexica

بقلم Ed Vulliamy • 2010

Drugs north, guns south: the border is its own nation, and the cartels are its government.

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🕴️ Organized Crime ⚔️ Drug War 💀 Narco Culture 💰 Cartel Economics 🏜️ Migrant Journeys

Amexica

Drugs north, guns south: the border is its own nation, and the cartels are its government.

بقلم Ed Vulliamy 2010 368 صفحة

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🕴️ Organized Crime ⚔️ Drug War 💀 Narco Culture 💰 Cartel Economics 🏜️ Migrant Journeys

Moon Palace

بقلم Paul Auster • 1989

As the world watches the moon landing, an orphaned student starves alone in New York.

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🧒 Orphan Protagonist 🫂 Found Family 🤫 Family Secrets 🎭 Picaresque Novel 💭 Existential Fiction

Moon Palace

As the world watches the moon landing, an orphaned student starves alone in New York.

بقلم Paul Auster 1989 320 صفحة

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🧒 Orphan Protagonist 🫂 Found Family 🤫 Family Secrets 🎭 Picaresque Novel 💭 Existential Fiction

The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy

بقلم Jim Marrs • 2010

A century-long campaign to crash the economy, sicken the people, and lock down the state.

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👤 Shadow Government 💸 Financial Conspiracy 📹 Mass Surveillance 📺 Media Manipulation 💊 Big Pharma

The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy

A century-long campaign to crash the economy, sicken the people, and lock down the state.

بقلم Jim Marrs 2010 496 صفحة

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👤 Shadow Government 💸 Financial Conspiracy 📹 Mass Surveillance 📺 Media Manipulation 💊 Big Pharma

The Mammoth Book of the West

بقلم Jon E. Lewis • 1996

Land seized, gold mined, bison slaughtered: how the real West vanished behind the myth.

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🏔️ American Frontier 🐂 Westward Expansion 🛤️ Pioneer Migration 💰 Gold Rush California 🐄 Cattle Ranching

The Mammoth Book of the West

Land seized, gold mined, bison slaughtered: how the real West vanished behind the myth.

بقلم Jon E. Lewis 1996 544 صفحة

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🏔️ American Frontier 🐂 Westward Expansion 🛤️ Pioneer Migration 💰 Gold Rush California 🐄 Cattle Ranching

Overthrow

بقلم Stephen Kinzer • 2006

America has toppled 14 governments since 1893; the reasons it gave were almost never real.

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🌎 American Foreign Policy 🔄 Regime Change 💰 Economic Imperialism 💥 Blowback 🥶 Cold War History

Overthrow

America has toppled 14 governments since 1893; the reasons it gave were almost never real.

بقلم Stephen Kinzer 2006 384 صفحة

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🌎 American Foreign Policy 🔄 Regime Change 💰 Economic Imperialism 💥 Blowback 🥶 Cold War History

سيد الواقع

بقلم جون دارنيل • 2008

The staff took his Walkman. They cannot take the Black Sabbath album inside his head.

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🏥 Psychiatric Ward 🎸 Music As Refuge 😤 Angry Teen Narrator 🌑 Dark Coming Of Age 📓 Epistolary Novel

سيد الواقع

The staff took his Walkman. They cannot take the Black Sabbath album inside his head.

بقلم جون دارنيل 2008 112 صفحة

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🏥 Psychiatric Ward 🎸 Music As Refuge 😤 Angry Teen Narrator 🌑 Dark Coming Of Age 📓 Epistolary Novel

[(The Coup

بقلم Ervand Abrahamian • 2013

Oil, not communism, drove the 1953 Iran coup. Its buried logic still poisons US-Iran relations.

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📜 Iranian History 🕵️ Covert Operations 🛢️ Oil Politics 🌐 Us-Iran Relations 🌍 Imperialism

[(The Coup

Oil, not communism, drove the 1953 Iran coup. Its buried logic still poisons US-Iran relations.

بقلم Ervand Abrahamian 2013

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📜 Iranian History 🕵️ Covert Operations 🛢️ Oil Politics 🌐 Us-Iran Relations 🌍 Imperialism

Hazards of Time Travel

بقلم Joyce Carol Oates • 2018

A teenager's forbidden questions land her in 1959 Wisconsin, where one wrong memory means erasure.

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📚 Literary Dystopia 🧠 Memory Erasure 👁️ Surveillance State 💔 Forbidden Love 🌧️ Melancholy Tone

Hazards of Time Travel

A teenager's forbidden questions land her in 1959 Wisconsin, where one wrong memory means erasure.

بقلم Joyce Carol Oates 2018 336 صفحة

2.98

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📚 Literary Dystopia 🧠 Memory Erasure 👁️ Surveillance State 💔 Forbidden Love 🌧️ Melancholy Tone

The Management of Savagery

بقلم Max Blumenthal • 2019

Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Trump: three products of the same American national security machine.

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🏛️ American Empire ↩️ Blowback 🔄 Regime Change 📢 War Propaganda ☪️ Political Islam

The Management of Savagery

Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Trump: three products of the same American national security machine.

بقلم Max Blumenthal 2019 400 صفحة

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🏛️ American Empire ↩️ Blowback 🔄 Regime Change 📢 War Propaganda ☪️ Political Islam

The Counter-Revolution of 1776

بقلم Gerald Horne • 2014

Britain was turning against slavery. The American Revolution was the slaveholders' answer.

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🇺🇸 American Revolution ⛓️ Atlantic Slavery 🏘️ Settler Colonialism ✊ Slave Resistance 📚 Revisionist History

The Counter-Revolution of 1776

Britain was turning against slavery. The American Revolution was the slaveholders' answer.

بقلم Gerald Horne 2014 363 صفحة

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🇺🇸 American Revolution ⛓️ Atlantic Slavery 🏘️ Settler Colonialism ✊ Slave Resistance 📚 Revisionist History

The Jungle Grows Back

بقلم Robert Kagan • 2018

The global peace is a fluke. American power built it; without constant effort, it collapses.

4.09

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🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🌐 Liberal Internationalism 🕊️ Pax Americana 🦅 Neoconservatism ⚔️ Great Power Competition

The Jungle Grows Back

The global peace is a fluke. American power built it; without constant effort, it collapses.

بقلم Robert Kagan 2018 192 صفحة

4.09

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🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🌐 Liberal Internationalism 🕊️ Pax Americana 🦅 Neoconservatism ⚔️ Great Power Competition

A Man Called White

بقلم Walter Francis White • 1948

Blue-eyed and Black, he could pass for white, so he walked straight into lynch mobs.

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✊🏾 Civil Rights Movement ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🪢 Anti-Lynching Activism 🪞 Passing Narratives 🗳️ Voting Rights

A Man Called White

Blue-eyed and Black, he could pass for white, so he walked straight into lynch mobs.

بقلم Walter Francis White 1948 392 صفحة

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✊🏾 Civil Rights Movement ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🪢 Anti-Lynching Activism 🪞 Passing Narratives 🗳️ Voting Rights

Race and Manifest Destiny

بقلم Reginald Horsman • 1981

Manifest Destiny had a hidden engine: a pseudo-science that ranked races and justified conquest.

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🏛️ Intellectual History 🌎 American Expansionism 🧬 Scientific Racism 🗺️ Manifest Destiny 👑 Anglo-Saxonism

Race and Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny had a hidden engine: a pseudo-science that ranked races and justified conquest.

بقلم Reginald Horsman 1981 380 صفحة

3.84

١٥٠ تقييم

🏛️ Intellectual History 🌎 American Expansionism 🧬 Scientific Racism 🗺️ Manifest Destiny 👑 Anglo-Saxonism

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.

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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

Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution

بقلم Woody Holton • 2007

Statehouses were too soft on debtors, so the Constitution shifted power to creditors.

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🏛️ Constitutional History 📜 American Revolution 💸 Economic History ⚖️ Class Conflict 🏹 Popular Uprisings

Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution

Statehouses were too soft on debtors, so the Constitution shifted power to creditors.

بقلم Woody Holton 2007 384 صفحة

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🏛️ Constitutional History 📜 American Revolution 💸 Economic History ⚖️ Class Conflict 🏹 Popular Uprisings

Ask the Dust

بقلم John Fante • 1939

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

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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

How to Hide an Empire

بقلم Daniel Immerwahr • 2019

The pandemic was a hoax to feed invisible entities. Next step: they merge you with machines.

4.46

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🕵️ New World Order 🧠 Mind Control 🤖 Transhumanism 🖥️ Simulation Theory 📜 Gnosticism

How to Hide an Empire

The pandemic was a hoax to feed invisible entities. Next step: they merge you with machines.

بقلم Daniel Immerwahr 2019 513 صفحة

4.46

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🕵️ New World Order 🧠 Mind Control 🤖 Transhumanism 🖥️ Simulation Theory 📜 Gnosticism

Cultural Backlash

بقلم Pippa Norris • 2019

Social liberalism's growth triggered an authoritarian backlash. Trump and Brexit are its expression.

3.81

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🗳️ Comparative Politics 📢 Populism Studies ⚠️ Authoritarian Values 🔄 Value Change 🌍 Immigration Attitudes

Cultural Backlash

Social liberalism's growth triggered an authoritarian backlash. Trump and Brexit are its expression.

بقلم Pippa Norris 2019 554 صفحة

3.81

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🗳️ Comparative Politics 📢 Populism Studies ⚠️ Authoritarian Values 🔄 Value Change 🌍 Immigration Attitudes

Great American Hypocrites

بقلم Glenn Greenwald • 2008

Republicans win by dressing up as John Wayne while the press applauds the costume.

3.70

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🐘 Republican Party 🎭 Political Mythology 📺 Media Criticism 🃏 Political Deception 💪 Masculinity Politics

Great American Hypocrites

Republicans win by dressing up as John Wayne while the press applauds the costume.

بقلم Glenn Greenwald 2008 304 صفحة

3.70

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🐘 Republican Party 🎭 Political Mythology 📺 Media Criticism 🃏 Political Deception 💪 Masculinity Politics

Liberty and Coercion

بقلم Gary Gerstle • 2015

Federal liberty, state coercion: the two-hundred-year paradox at the heart of American governance.

4.04

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🏛️ Constitutional History 🌐 Federalism ⚖️ States' Rights 🇺🇸 American Political Development 🗽 Classical Liberalism

Liberty and Coercion

Federal liberty, state coercion: the two-hundred-year paradox at the heart of American governance.

بقلم Gary Gerstle 2015 472 صفحة

4.04

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🏛️ Constitutional History 🌐 Federalism ⚖️ States' Rights 🇺🇸 American Political Development 🗽 Classical Liberalism

This Vast Southern Empire

بقلم Matthew Karp • 2016

Why the slaveholding South pushed for a powerful state: to protect and project slavery worldwide.

4.28

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🏛️ Antebellum Politics 🌍 Geopolitics Of Slavery 💰 Commodity Power ⚔️ Military Expansion 🧬 Scientific Racism

This Vast Southern Empire

Why the slaveholding South pushed for a powerful state: to protect and project slavery worldwide.

بقلم Matthew Karp 2016 368 صفحة

4.28

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🏛️ Antebellum Politics 🌍 Geopolitics Of Slavery 💰 Commodity Power ⚔️ Military Expansion 🧬 Scientific Racism

The Hell of Good Intentions

بقلم Stephen M. Walt • 2018

After the Cold War, America tried to lead the world. It overreached, failed, and learned nothing.

4.01

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🗺️ Grand Strategy 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy ⚔️ Military Overreach 🌍 Post-Cold War Era 🏛️ Foreign Policy Elite

The Hell of Good Intentions

After the Cold War, America tried to lead the world. It overreached, failed, and learned nothing.

بقلم Stephen M. Walt 2018 400 صفحة

4.01

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🗺️ Grand Strategy 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy ⚔️ Military Overreach 🌍 Post-Cold War Era 🏛️ Foreign Policy Elite

The Next American Nation

بقلم Michael Lind • 1995

Three racial orders have governed America. The fourth has no use for race at all.

3.95

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📜 American Nationalism 🏴 National Identity 🕊️ Liberal Nationalism ⚖️ Color-Blind Policy 🗳️ Racial Politics

The Next American Nation

Three racial orders have governed America. The fourth has no use for race at all.

بقلم Michael Lind 1995 448 صفحة

3.95

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📜 American Nationalism 🏴 National Identity 🕊️ Liberal Nationalism ⚖️ Color-Blind Policy 🗳️ Racial Politics

American Political Parties and Elections

بقلم L. Sandy Maisel • 2016

Why your vote matters less than your zip code: the institutional rules that run American elections.

3.39

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🗳️ Electoral Systems 💰 Campaign Finance 🏛️ Two-Party System ✊ Voting Rights 🎯 Political Parties

American Political Parties and Elections

Why your vote matters less than your zip code: the institutional rules that run American elections.

بقلم L. Sandy Maisel 2016 208 صفحة

3.39

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🗳️ Electoral Systems 💰 Campaign Finance 🏛️ Two-Party System ✊ Voting Rights 🎯 Political Parties

Paths Out of Dixie

بقلم Robert Mickey • 2015

The Jim Crow South was authoritarian, not democratic. It fell along three distinct paths.

4.36

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📍 Southern Politics 🏛️ Authoritarian Regimes 🗳️ Voting Rights 🚫 Racial Segregation 🏢 One-Party Rule

Paths Out of Dixie

The Jim Crow South was authoritarian, not democratic. It fell along three distinct paths.

بقلم Robert Mickey 2015 584 صفحة

4.36

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📍 Southern Politics 🏛️ Authoritarian Regimes 🗳️ Voting Rights 🚫 Racial Segregation 🏢 One-Party Rule

American Exceptionalism and American Innocence

بقلم Roberto Sirvent • 2019

American history is the original fake news: a cover story for genocide, slavery, and endless war.

4.08

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🏛️ American Empire 🪓 Settler Colonialism 📜 National Myths ⚪ White Supremacy 📢 Propaganda Studies

American Exceptionalism and American Innocence

American history is the original fake news: a cover story for genocide, slavery, and endless war.

بقلم Roberto Sirvent 2019 256 صفحة

4.08

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🏛️ American Empire 🪓 Settler Colonialism 📜 National Myths ⚪ White Supremacy 📢 Propaganda Studies

Yankee Leviathan

بقلم Richard Franklin Bensel • 1991

The Confederacy's statist war machine, not the Constitution, built the modern American state.

3.69

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📜 Civil War History 🏚️ Reconstruction Era 🏛️ State Formation 💰 Political Economy 🗳️ American Political Development

Yankee Leviathan

The Confederacy's statist war machine, not the Constitution, built the modern American state.

بقلم Richard Franklin Bensel 1991 466 صفحة

3.69

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📜 Civil War History 🏚️ Reconstruction Era 🏛️ State Formation 💰 Political Economy 🗳️ American Political Development

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