American History Book Summaries

Impounded Summary
Impounded
Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment
by Linda Gordon 2006 224 pages
4.27
372 ratings
History
Photography
World War II
American Brutus Summary
American Brutus
John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
by Michael W. Kauffman 2004 544 pages
4.15
2.4K ratings
History
Civil War
Biography
Killing the Dream Summary
Killing the Dream
James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Gerald Posner 1998 448 pages
4.08
211 ratings
History
American History
True Crime
The Second Amendment Summary
The Second Amendment
by Michael Waldman 2014 255 pages
4.03
1.3K ratings
History
Politics
Law
Give Your Heart to the Hawks Summary
Give Your Heart to the Hawks
by Win Blevins 1973 336 pages
3.99
408 ratings
History
American History
Westerns
Renegade Summary
Renegade
The Making of a President
by Richard Wolffe 2009 356 pages
3.94
2.0K ratings
Politics
Biography
History
Bunk Summary
Bunk
The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
by Kevin Young 2017 560 pages
3.17
1.1K ratings
History
Psychology
Sociology
The Age of Entitlement Summary
The Age of Entitlement
America Since the Sixties
by Christopher Caldwell 2020 352 pages
4.03
1.6K ratings
History
Politics
Cultural
The Case That Never Dies Summary
The Case That Never Dies
The Lindbergh Kidnapping
by Lloyd C. Gardner 2004 480 pages
3.47
112 ratings
True Crime
Crime
History
Mark Twain Summary
Mark Twain
by Ron Chernow 2025 1200 pages
4.23
2.7K ratings
Biography
History
Biography Memoir
Transaction Man Summary
Transaction Man
The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream
by Nicholas Lemann 2019 320 pages
3.70
296 ratings
Economics
History
Business
Liberty and Tyranny Summary
Liberty and Tyranny
A Conservative Manifesto
by Mark R. Levin 2004 245 pages
4.18
7.7K ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
Sea of Glory Summary
Sea of Glory
America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
by Nathaniel Philbrick 2001 452 pages
4.04
6.8K ratings
History
American History
Adventure
The Big Burn Summary
The Big Burn
Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
by Timothy Egan 2009 281 pages
4.14
18.0K ratings
History
American History
Nature
Coming Apart Summary
Coming Apart
The State of White America, 1960-2010
by Charles Murray 2012 416 pages
3.81
5.7K ratings
Politics
History
Sociology
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