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Democracy and Social Ethics
by Jane Addams • 1902
Democracy is a social ethic requiring cross-class mixing and mutual understanding.
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170
🕰️ Progressive Era💡 American Pragmatism⚖️ Social Ethics🤝 Cross-Class Empathy🎗️ Philanthropy Reform
Democracy and Social Ethics Summary
Democracy and Social Ethics 93%
Democracy is a social ethic requiring cross-class mixing and mutual understanding.
by Jane Addams 1902
3.94
170 ratings
🕰️ Progressive Era💡 American Pragmatism⚖️ Social Ethics🤝 Cross-Class Empathy🎗️ Philanthropy Reform
The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution
by Joseph Fishkin • 2022
A lost constitutional tradition: preventing oligarchy as the government's first duty.
4.10
40
🏦 Political Economy📜 Constitutional History⚖️ Economic Justice🛠️ Labor History🌾 Populism
The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution Summary
The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution 92%
A lost constitutional tradition: preventing oligarchy as the government's first duty.
by Joseph Fishkin 2022
4.10
40 ratings
🏦 Political Economy📜 Constitutional History⚖️ Economic Justice🛠️ Labor History🌾 Populism
The Storm Before the Calm
by George Friedman • 2020
Every eighty years America's government breaks; every fifty, its economy. Now both arrive at once.
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🏛️ American Political History🔄 Cyclical History🌪️ Crisis And Renewal👥 Demographic Shifts💾 Technology And Society
The Storm Before the Calm Summary
The Storm Before the Calm 92%
Every eighty years America's government breaks; every fifty, its economy. Now both arrive at once.
by George Friedman 2020
4.05
3k+ ratings
🏛️ American Political History🔄 Cyclical History🌪️ Crisis And Renewal👥 Demographic Shifts💾 Technology And Society
The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Krugman • 2007
Extreme inequality didn't just happen: a political movement used race to dismantle the middle class.
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6k+
📊 Income Inequality🏛️ Political Economy🗳️ Racial Politics🏥 Universal Healthcare🛡️ Welfare State Politics
The Conscience of a Liberal Summary
The Conscience of a Liberal 92%
Extreme inequality didn't just happen: a political movement used race to dismantle the middle class.
by Paul Krugman 2007
3.97
6k+ ratings
📊 Income Inequality🏛️ Political Economy🗳️ Racial Politics🏥 Universal Healthcare🛡️ Welfare State Politics
The Human Cost of Welfare
by Phil Harvey • 2016
Welfare was built to end poverty. Its rules punish work, marriage, and saving instead.
4.45
20
🏛️ Welfare Reform📉 Anti-Poverty Policy💼 Work Incentives🔗 Welfare Dependency🪢 Social Safety Net
The Human Cost of Welfare Summary
The Human Cost of Welfare 92%
Welfare was built to end poverty. Its rules punish work, marriage, and saving instead.
by Phil Harvey 2016
4.45
20 ratings
🏛️ Welfare Reform📉 Anti-Poverty Policy💼 Work Incentives🔗 Welfare Dependency🪢 Social Safety Net
The Upswing
by Robert D. Putnam • 2020
America swings between "we" and "me" eras. The pivot decade was the 1960s.
3.94
2k+
📈 Economic History🏛️ Political Polarization🏘️ Civic Decline💰 Income Inequality🤝 Social Capital
The Upswing Summary
The Upswing 92%
America swings between "we" and "me" eras. The pivot decade was the 1960s.
by Robert D. Putnam 2020
3.94
2k+ ratings
📈 Economic History🏛️ Political Polarization🏘️ Civic Decline💰 Income Inequality🤝 Social Capital
The Two Percent Solution
by Matt Miller • 2003
America's biggest domestic problems cost two percent of GDP to fix. That's the whole argument.
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89
🏛️ Domestic Policy🏥 Healthcare Reform📚 Education Reform💰 Campaign Finance🤝 Bipartisan Solutions
The Two Percent Solution Summary
The Two Percent Solution 92%
America's biggest domestic problems cost two percent of GDP to fix. That's the whole argument.
by Matt Miller 2003
3.98
89 ratings
🏛️ Domestic Policy🏥 Healthcare Reform📚 Education Reform💰 Campaign Finance🤝 Bipartisan Solutions
A Patriot's History of the United States
by Larry Schweikart • 2004
The conservative reply to Zinn: America's record, from Columbus to 9/11, earns its patriotism.
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🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism🦅 Patriotic History📈 Economic History📜 Founding Era⚖️ Limited Government
A Patriot's History of the United States Summary
A Patriot's History of the United States 92%
The conservative reply to Zinn: America's record, from Columbus to 9/11, earns its patriotism.
by Larry Schweikart 2004
4.11
4k+ ratings
🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism🦅 Patriotic History📈 Economic History📜 Founding Era⚖️ Limited Government
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
by Kristen R. Ghodsee • 2018
East German women had more orgasms. The reason: they didn't need men's money.
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8k+
🧮 Feminist Economics🔗 Political Economy🏠 Unpaid Care Work💰 Gender Wage Gap🏛️ Welfare State
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism Summary
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism 92%
East German women had more orgasms. The reason: they didn't need men's money.
by Kristen R. Ghodsee 2018
3.98
8k+ ratings
🧮 Feminist Economics🔗 Political Economy🏠 Unpaid Care Work💰 Gender Wage Gap🏛️ Welfare State
End Times
by Peter Turchin • 2023
Ten millennia of data point to two conditions for state collapse. America now meets both.
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📊 Quantitative History💥 Political Instability👑 Elite Theory✊ Revolution Theory🏚️ State Collapse
End Times Summary
End Times 92%
Ten millennia of data point to two conditions for state collapse. America now meets both.
by Peter Turchin 2023
4.06
3k+ ratings
📊 Quantitative History💥 Political Instability👑 Elite Theory✊ Revolution Theory🏚️ State Collapse
The Age of Entitlement
by Christopher Caldwell • 2020
Civil rights built a rival constitution. Debt papered over the conflict. Now the bill is due.
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2k+
⚖️ Civil Rights Law🇺🇸 Postwar America🏛️ Constitutional Crisis🎓 Political Correctness🏰 Elite Capture
The Age of Entitlement Summary
The Age of Entitlement 92%
Civil rights built a rival constitution. Debt papered over the conflict. Now the bill is due.
by Christopher Caldwell 2020
4.04
2k+ ratings
⚖️ Civil Rights Law🇺🇸 Postwar America🏛️ Constitutional Crisis🎓 Political Correctness🏰 Elite Capture
The Great Divergence
by Kenneth Pomeranz • 2000
Europe's industrial breakthrough wasn't its own genius. It took colonial land and underground coal.
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📚 Comparative History🏭 Industrial Revolution🏫 California School⛓️ Colonial Resources⚔️ State Competition
The Great Divergence Summary
The Great Divergence 92%
Europe's industrial breakthrough wasn't its own genius. It took colonial land and underground coal.
by Kenneth Pomeranz 2000
3.68
1k+ ratings
📚 Comparative History🏭 Industrial Revolution🏫 California School⛓️ Colonial Resources⚔️ State Competition
How the South Won the Civil War
by Heather Cox Richardson • 2020
Southern oligarchy lost the war but won the West, rebranding as cowboy individualism.
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🇺🇸 American Political History🏛️ Oligarchy Studies🐎 Frontier Mythology⛓️ Racial Hierarchy🗳️ Voter Suppression
How the South Won the Civil War Summary
How the South Won the Civil War 92%
Southern oligarchy lost the war but won the West, rebranding as cowboy individualism.
by Heather Cox Richardson 2020
4.31
5k+ ratings
🇺🇸 American Political History🏛️ Oligarchy Studies🐎 Frontier Mythology⛓️ Racial Hierarchy🗳️ Voter Suppression
The Project
by David A. Graham • 2025
A manual for capturing the state: gut the civil service, politicize the DOJ, and nullify Congress.
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2k+
🏛️ Presidential Power✝️ Christian Nationalism🐘 American Conservatism📋 Administrative State🗳️ State Capture
The Project Summary
The Project 91%
A manual for capturing the state: gut the civil service, politicize the DOJ, and nullify Congress.
by David A. Graham 2025
4.02
2k+ ratings
🏛️ Presidential Power✝️ Christian Nationalism🐘 American Conservatism📋 Administrative State🗳️ State Capture
The Age of Abundance
by Brink Lindsey • 2007
Postwar abundance split America into two rival faiths; their deadlock still defines us.
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🇺🇸 Postwar America💰 Mass Affluence✌️ Counterculture⛪ Evangelical Politics🏛️ Political Realignment
The Age of Abundance Summary
The Age of Abundance 91%
Postwar abundance split America into two rival faiths; their deadlock still defines us.
by Brink Lindsey 2007
3.51
134 ratings
🇺🇸 Postwar America💰 Mass Affluence✌️ Counterculture⛪ Evangelical Politics🏛️ Political Realignment
City of Women
by Christine Stansell • 1986
In early New York, working-class women built a hidden city of mutual aid and sexual exchange.
3.89
562
👩 Working-Class Women👷 Labor History🏚️ Urban Poverty👥 Sex And Class🏠 Cult Of Domesticity
City of Women Summary
City of Women 91%
In early New York, working-class women built a hidden city of mutual aid and sexual exchange.
by Christine Stansell 1986
3.89
562 ratings
👩 Working-Class Women👷 Labor History🏚️ Urban Poverty👥 Sex And Class🏠 Cult Of Domesticity
The Nordic Theory of Everything
by Anu Partanen • 2016
What Americans call socialist actually produces the world's most self-sufficient individuals.
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9k+
🏔️ Nordic Model🏛️ Welfare State🌹 Social Democracy📊 Comparative Politics🏥 Universal Healthcare
The Nordic Theory of Everything Summary
The Nordic Theory of Everything 91%
What Americans call socialist actually produces the world's most self-sufficient individuals.
by Anu Partanen 2016
3.86
9k+ ratings
🏔️ Nordic Model🏛️ Welfare State🌹 Social Democracy📊 Comparative Politics🏥 Universal Healthcare
White Feminism
by Koa Beck • 2021
Individual success or collective liberation: the choice mainstream feminism keeps getting wrong.
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🕰️ Feminist History📢 Mainstream Feminism🧩 Intersectionality💼 Corporate Feminism🏗️ Movement Building
White Feminism Summary
White Feminism 91%
Individual success or collective liberation: the choice mainstream feminism keeps getting wrong.
by Koa Beck 2021
4.24
2k+ ratings
🕰️ Feminist History📢 Mainstream Feminism🧩 Intersectionality💼 Corporate Feminism🏗️ Movement Building
The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33
by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. • 1957
An aristocrat's reluctant turn toward populism, set against the crash of an economic order.
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455
🇺🇸 Presidential Biography🗽 Interwar America🌱 Political Origins🌊 Progressive Era🏛️ Aristocratic Legacy
The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33 Summary
The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33 91%
An aristocrat's reluctant turn toward populism, set against the crash of an economic order.
by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. 1957
4.19
455 ratings
🇺🇸 Presidential Biography🗽 Interwar America🌱 Political Origins🌊 Progressive Era🏛️ Aristocratic Legacy
The Origins of Political Order
by Francis Fukuyama • 2011
China built a modern state eighteen centuries before Europe. That gap reshapes political history.
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🏛️ Comparative Politics🧱 State Formation🦍 Evolutionary Anthropology📉 Institutional Decay👪 Kinship And Politics
The Origins of Political Order Summary
The Origins of Political Order 91%
China built a modern state eighteen centuries before Europe. That gap reshapes political history.
by Francis Fukuyama 2011
4.18
10k+ ratings
🏛️ Comparative Politics🧱 State Formation🦍 Evolutionary Anthropology📉 Institutional Decay👪 Kinship And Politics
The Origins of Woke
by Richard Hanania • 2023
Wokeness is a legal compliance regime, not a cultural shift. Here is the repeal roadmap.
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282
🧑‍⚖️ Civil Rights Law🏛️ Political History🐙 Institutional Capture📋 Affirmative Action🏢 Corporate Compliance
The Origins of Woke Summary
The Origins of Woke 91%
Wokeness is a legal compliance regime, not a cultural shift. Here is the repeal roadmap.
by Richard Hanania 2023
3.71
282 ratings
🧑‍⚖️ Civil Rights Law🏛️ Political History🐙 Institutional Capture📋 Affirmative Action🏢 Corporate Compliance
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
by Howard Zinn • 1994
Shipyards, bombers, protest lines: a historian argues that sitting still picks a side.
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4k+
✊ Activist Memoir🕊️ Civil Disobedience☮️ Antiwar Movements📜 History From Below🔍 Critical History
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train Summary
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train 91%
Shipyards, bombers, protest lines: a historian argues that sitting still picks a side.
by Howard Zinn 1994
4.34
4k+ ratings
✊ Activist Memoir🕊️ Civil Disobedience☮️ Antiwar Movements📜 History From Below🔍 Critical History
The Republic for Which It Stands
by Richard White • 2017
America rebuilt itself after 1865 into something no one voted for. A history of broken promises.
4.16
2k+
🏛️ Reconstruction Era💰 Gilded Age🔨 Labor History🌳 Environmental History⚖️ Jim Crow Origins
The Republic for Which It Stands Summary
The Republic for Which It Stands 91%
America rebuilt itself after 1865 into something no one voted for. A history of broken promises.
by Richard White 2017
4.16
2k+ ratings
🏛️ Reconstruction Era💰 Gilded Age🔨 Labor History🌳 Environmental History⚖️ Jim Crow Origins
A Protest History of the United States
by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall • 2025
From Indigenous resistance to Black Lives Matter, American progress came when protest demanded it.
4.12
188
🪧 Social Movements📖 People's History✊🏿 Racial Justice🏹 Indigenous Sovereignty⚒️ Labor History
A Protest History of the United States Summary
A Protest History of the United States 91%
From Indigenous resistance to Black Lives Matter, American progress came when protest demanded it.
by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall 2025
4.12
188 ratings
🪧 Social Movements📖 People's History✊🏿 Racial Justice🏹 Indigenous Sovereignty⚒️ Labor History
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich • 2007
The famous slogan was never just about misbehavior. It was about how history itself erases women.
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2k+
🏛️ Women's History✊ Feminist History⚔️ Women Warriors✍️ Early Women Writers⛓️ Slave Narratives
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History Summary
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History 91%
The famous slogan was never just about misbehavior. It was about how history itself erases women.
by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 2007
3.82
2k+ ratings
🏛️ Women's History✊ Feminist History⚔️ Women Warriors✍️ Early Women Writers⛓️ Slave Narratives
The New Feminist Agenda
by Madeleine Kunin • 2012
Most rich nations mandate paid family leave. The US does not. A former governor on why.
3.76
119
🏛️ Work-Family Policy🇩🇰 Nordic Social Model🧒 Child Poverty💰 Gender Wage Gap👩‍👧 Working Mothers
The New Feminist Agenda Summary
The New Feminist Agenda 91%
Most rich nations mandate paid family leave. The US does not. A former governor on why.
by Madeleine Kunin 2012
3.76
119 ratings
🏛️ Work-Family Policy🇩🇰 Nordic Social Model🧒 Child Poverty💰 Gender Wage Gap👩‍👧 Working Mothers
The Case for Colonialism
by Bruce Gilley • 2023
Start new colonies from scratch. The controversial solution to a century of post-colonial disaster.
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191
📚 Revisionist History🏗️ State Building👑 Imperial History🌍 Post-Colonial States⏳ Modernization Theory
The Case for Colonialism Summary
The Case for Colonialism 91%
Start new colonies from scratch. The controversial solution to a century of post-colonial disaster.
by Bruce Gilley 2023
4.32
191 ratings
📚 Revisionist History🏗️ State Building👑 Imperial History🌍 Post-Colonial States⏳ Modernization Theory
What We Owe Each Other
by Minouche Shafik • 2021
The safety net is fraying from childhood to old age. A single plan to rewire it.
3.85
1k+
🏛️ Social Policy📉 Economic Inequality👷 Labor Markets🎓 Education Reform👶 Early Childhood
What We Owe Each Other Summary
What We Owe Each Other 91%
The safety net is fraying from childhood to old age. A single plan to rewire it.
by Minouche Shafik 2021
3.85
1k+ ratings
🏛️ Social Policy📉 Economic Inequality👷 Labor Markets🎓 Education Reform👶 Early Childhood
Outclassed
by Joan C. Williams • 2025
The Left lost the working class to economic precarity and condescension. How to win them back.
4.20
248
👷 Class Politics🇺🇸 American Populism📢 Political Messaging🎓 Educational Sorting🎭 Cultural Capital
Outclassed Summary
Outclassed 91%
The Left lost the working class to economic precarity and condescension. How to win them back.
by Joan C. Williams 2025
4.20
248 ratings
👷 Class Politics🇺🇸 American Populism📢 Political Messaging🎓 Educational Sorting🎭 Cultural Capital
The Fourth Turning Is Here
by Neil Howe • 2023
An 80-year cycle pushes America toward a 2030 crisis. The last two ended in total war.
3.93
3k+
🌀 Cyclical History🧬 Generational Theory⚠️ Crisis Cycles🔮 Social Forecasting🇺🇸 American Crisis
The Fourth Turning Is Here Summary
The Fourth Turning Is Here 91%
An 80-year cycle pushes America toward a 2030 crisis. The last two ended in total war.
by Neil Howe 2023
3.93
3k+ ratings
🌀 Cyclical History🧬 Generational Theory⚠️ Crisis Cycles🔮 Social Forecasting🇺🇸 American Crisis
The Conservative Heart
by Arthur C. Brooks • 2015
Half of happiness is genetic. The other half: that is what conservatism should actually be about.
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1k+
🏛️ American Conservatism😊 Happiness Economics🔨 Meaningful Work🏚️ Poverty And Culture🗣️ Political Persuasion
The Conservative Heart Summary
The Conservative Heart 91%
Half of happiness is genetic. The other half: that is what conservatism should actually be about.
by Arthur C. Brooks 2015
4.11
1k+ ratings
🏛️ American Conservatism😊 Happiness Economics🔨 Meaningful Work🏚️ Poverty And Culture🗣️ Political Persuasion
Kingmaker
by Sonia Purnell • 2024
Dismissed as a courtesan, she rebuilt the Democrats and became ambassador to France at 73.
4.16
6k+
🏛️ Political Biography🗳️ Women In Politics🕊️ Soft Power⚔️ Wartime Diplomacy🌊 Transatlantic Relations
Kingmaker Summary
Kingmaker 91%
Dismissed as a courtesan, she rebuilt the Democrats and became ambassador to France at 73.
by Sonia Purnell 2024
4.16
6k+ ratings
🏛️ Political Biography🗳️ Women In Politics🕊️ Soft Power⚔️ Wartime Diplomacy🌊 Transatlantic Relations
Buddhism
by Damien Keown • 1996
Buddhism has no god, no bible, no pope. What holds its many traditions together?
3.74
3k+
📖 Introductory Buddhism☸️ Buddhist Philosophy🛕 Theravada Buddhism🪷 Mahayana Buddhism🧘 Meditation Practice
Buddhism Summary
Buddhism 91%
Buddhism has no god, no bible, no pope. What holds its many traditions together?
by Damien Keown 1996
3.74
3k+ ratings
📖 Introductory Buddhism☸️ Buddhist Philosophy🛕 Theravada Buddhism🪷 Mahayana Buddhism🧘 Meditation Practice
The Fourth Turning
by William Strauss • 1996
America's history runs on an 80-year cycle of four social seasons. The crisis season has begun.
3.87
8k+
🕰️ Cyclical History👥 Generational Dynamics⚠️ Crisis Forecasting🏚️ Institutional Decay🌋 Cultural Upheaval
The Fourth Turning Summary
The Fourth Turning 91%
America's history runs on an 80-year cycle of four social seasons. The crisis season has begun.
by William Strauss 1996
3.87
8k+ ratings
🕰️ Cyclical History👥 Generational Dynamics⚠️ Crisis Forecasting🏚️ Institutional Decay🌋 Cultural Upheaval
What You Should Know About Politics . . . But Don't
by Jessamyn Conrad • 2008
What every voter should know about the issues, explained without the partisan spin.
3.94
2k+
🦅 American Politics📋 Public Policy📚 Civic Education⚡ Political Polarization🔥 Culture Wars
What You Should Know About Politics . . . But Don't Summary
What You Should Know About Politics . . . But Don't 91%
What every voter should know about the issues, explained without the partisan spin.
by Jessamyn Conrad 2008
3.94
2k+ ratings
🦅 American Politics📋 Public Policy📚 Civic Education⚡ Political Polarization🔥 Culture Wars
Thinking like an Economist
by Elizabeth Popp Berman • 2022
How efficiency-driven economics took over US policy, even from liberals, and what it left behind.
3.93
213
📜 Economic Policy History🌐 Neoliberalism⚖️ Cost-Benefit Analysis🏛️ Law And Economics💰 Market Fundamentalism
Thinking like an Economist Summary
Thinking like an Economist 91%
How efficiency-driven economics took over US policy, even from liberals, and what it left behind.
by Elizabeth Popp Berman 2022
3.93
213 ratings
📜 Economic Policy History🌐 Neoliberalism⚖️ Cost-Benefit Analysis🏛️ Law And Economics💰 Market Fundamentalism
Notes on Resistance
by Noam Chomsky • 2022
Four crises are converging. The institutions that caused them are now blocking every fix.
4.30
405
🌍 Us Foreign Policy🏛️ American Politics✊ Political Resistance🌱 Grassroots Organizing📰 Media Criticism
Notes on Resistance Summary
Notes on Resistance 91%
Four crises are converging. The institutions that caused them are now blocking every fix.
by Noam Chomsky 2022
4.30
405 ratings
🌍 Us Foreign Policy🏛️ American Politics✊ Political Resistance🌱 Grassroots Organizing📰 Media Criticism
On Power
by Robert A. Caro • 2017
How one man built a financial empire inside the government and became untouchable.
3.95
1k+
🏙️ Urban Planning🏛️ Political Power🗳️ Machine Politics🏚️ Displacement🏢 Public Authorities
On Power Summary
On Power 91%
How one man built a financial empire inside the government and became untouchable.
by Robert A. Caro 2017
3.95
1k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Planning🏛️ Political Power🗳️ Machine Politics🏚️ Displacement🏢 Public Authorities
The Dying Citizen
by Victor Davis Hanson • 2021
The four forces dismantling American citizenship are one crisis, each speeding the others.
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2k+
🗽 American Citizenship🏴 National Identity📉 Middle Class Decline🏢 Bureaucratic State🎭 Identity Politics Critique
The Dying Citizen Summary
The Dying Citizen 91%
The four forces dismantling American citizenship are one crisis, each speeding the others.
by Victor Davis Hanson 2021
4.35
2k+ ratings
🗽 American Citizenship🏴 National Identity📉 Middle Class Decline🏢 Bureaucratic State🎭 Identity Politics Critique
The Truths We Hold
by Kamala Harris • 2019
Banks, broken courts, separated families: a prosecutor turned senator on the fights that made her.
4.05
34k+
📖 Political Memoirs🗳️ Progressive Politics⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform🌎 Immigration Policy✊ Civil Rights Movement
The Truths We Hold Summary
The Truths We Hold 91%
Banks, broken courts, separated families: a prosecutor turned senator on the fights that made her.
by Kamala Harris 2019
4.05
34k+ ratings
📖 Political Memoirs🗳️ Progressive Politics⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform🌎 Immigration Policy✊ Civil Rights Movement
Women, Race, & Class
by Angela Y. Davis • 1981
From abolition to abortion, the women's movement has a race problem it has never solved.
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35k+
🖤 Black Feminism🧩 Intersectionality🏥 Reproductive Justice🏠 Domestic Labor🌱 Abolitionist Roots
Women, Race, & Class Summary
Women, Race, & Class 91%
From abolition to abortion, the women's movement has a race problem it has never solved.
by Angela Y. Davis 1981
4.59
35k+ ratings
🖤 Black Feminism🧩 Intersectionality🏥 Reproductive Justice🏠 Domestic Labor🌱 Abolitionist Roots
Stolen Pride
by Arlie Russell Hochschild • 2024
Shame from economic decline, redirected into racial blame, powers today's right-wing resurgence.
4.02
2k+
🏛️ American Politics🌾 Rural Sociology🏭 Deindustrialization⛰️ Appalachian Studies😤 Political Emotion
Stolen Pride Summary
Stolen Pride 91%
Shame from economic decline, redirected into racial blame, powers today's right-wing resurgence.
by Arlie Russell Hochschild 2024
4.02
2k+ ratings
🏛️ American Politics🌾 Rural Sociology🏭 Deindustrialization⛰️ Appalachian Studies😤 Political Emotion
The Case for Trump
by Victor Davis Hanson • 2019
Trump was the symptom of an establishment that had failed its own voters for decades.
4.21
2k+
🔨 Populist Movements⚡ Political Polarization🏛️ Administrative State🏭 Economic Nationalism🏚️ Deindustrialization
The Case for Trump Summary
The Case for Trump 91%
Trump was the symptom of an establishment that had failed its own voters for decades.
by Victor Davis Hanson 2019
4.21
2k+ ratings
🔨 Populist Movements⚡ Political Polarization🏛️ Administrative State🏭 Economic Nationalism🏚️ Deindustrialization
A New Foreign Policy
by Jeffrey D. Sachs • 2018
The world became multipolar. America didn't notice. Here is the cost and the way out.
3.88
337
🦅 American Exceptionalism🏛️ Us Foreign Policy🌐 Multipolarity☮️ Anti-Interventionism🎯 Regime Change
A New Foreign Policy Summary
A New Foreign Policy 90%
The world became multipolar. America didn't notice. Here is the cost and the way out.
by Jeffrey D. Sachs 2018
3.88
337 ratings
🦅 American Exceptionalism🏛️ Us Foreign Policy🌐 Multipolarity☮️ Anti-Interventionism🎯 Regime Change
The Big Change
by Frederick Lewis Allen • 1952
America went from farmers to superpower in fifty years: the metamorphosis that reshaped its soul.
3.95
243
📖 American History🕰️ Early 20th Century🔄 Economic Transformation📈 Social Mobility🏢 Corporate America
The Big Change Summary
The Big Change 90%
America went from farmers to superpower in fifty years: the metamorphosis that reshaped its soul.
by Frederick Lewis Allen 1952
3.95
243 ratings
📖 American History🕰️ Early 20th Century🔄 Economic Transformation📈 Social Mobility🏢 Corporate America
In Our Hands
by Charles Murray • 2006
Eliminate every welfare program. Send every adult one check. It costs less and ends poverty.
3.74
290
🏦 Universal Basic Income📋 Welfare Reform🏘️ Civil Society🗽 Libertarian Economics🛡️ Social Insurance
In Our Hands Summary
In Our Hands 90%
Eliminate every welfare program. Send every adult one check. It costs less and ends poverty.
by Charles Murray 2006
3.74
290 ratings
🏦 Universal Basic Income📋 Welfare Reform🏘️ Civil Society🗽 Libertarian Economics🛡️ Social Insurance
Choice Theory
by William Glasser • 1999
How the frontier let America flee racism and inequality, until the wall shut the last exit.
4.01
4k+
🇺🇸 American History🏔️ Frontier Myth🏹 Settler Colonialism💰 Racial Capitalism✨ American Exceptionalism
Choice Theory Summary
Choice Theory 90%
How the frontier let America flee racism and inequality, until the wall shut the last exit.
by William Glasser 1999
4.01
4k+ ratings
🇺🇸 American History🏔️ Frontier Myth🏹 Settler Colonialism💰 Racial Capitalism✨ American Exceptionalism
Mother of Invention
by Katrine Marçal • 2020
From the wheeled suitcase to AI, one question decides what succeeds: does it threaten masculinity?
3.90
2k+
💰 Feminist Economics⚙️ History Of Technology💡 Gender And Innovation🕵️‍♀️ Hidden Women In History🤲 Care Work
Mother of Invention Summary
Mother of Invention 90%
From the wheeled suitcase to AI, one question decides what succeeds: does it threaten masculinity?
by Katrine Marçal 2020
3.90
2k+ ratings
💰 Feminist Economics⚙️ History Of Technology💡 Gender And Innovation🕵️‍♀️ Hidden Women In History🤲 Care Work
War and Peace and War
by Peter Turchin • 2005
Empires aren't conquered. They dissolve from within, on a schedule that mathematics can model.
4.17
928
🌀 Imperial Cycles📉 Inequality And Collapse🔢 Quantitative History🏹 Frontier Societies⚔️ Warfare And State Building
War and Peace and War Summary
War and Peace and War 90%
Empires aren't conquered. They dissolve from within, on a schedule that mathematics can model.
by Peter Turchin 2005
4.17
928 ratings
🌀 Imperial Cycles📉 Inequality And Collapse🔢 Quantitative History🏹 Frontier Societies⚔️ Warfare And State Building
America's Cultural Revolution
by Christopher F. Rufo • 2023
The bombs stopped. The ideas didn't. How the 1960s left captured every institution you trust.
4.21
1k+
⚔️ Culture Wars🏛️ American Conservatism🎓 Academic Politics✊ Student Radicalism🏗️ Institutional Capture
America's Cultural Revolution Summary
America's Cultural Revolution 90%
The bombs stopped. The ideas didn't. How the 1960s left captured every institution you trust.
by Christopher F. Rufo 2023
4.21
1k+ ratings
⚔️ Culture Wars🏛️ American Conservatism🎓 Academic Politics✊ Student Radicalism🏗️ Institutional Capture
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