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The Sum of Us Summary
The Sum of Us
What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
by Heather McGhee 2021 415 pages
4.62
20.1K ratings
Race
History
Politics
How to stand Up to a Dictator Summary
How to stand Up to a Dictator
by Maria Ressa 2022 288 pages
4.35
4.7K ratings
Politics
Memoir
History
Profit and Punishment Summary
Profit and Punishment
How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice
by Tony Messenger 2021 272 pages
4.26
606 ratings
Politics
Social Justice
History
Why Men Fight Summary
Why Men Fight
by Bertrand Russell 1916 280 pages
3.95
233 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
The Capitalist Manifesto Summary
The Capitalist Manifesto
Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World
by Johan Norberg 2023 331 pages
4.26
641 ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
Enter Ghost Summary
Enter Ghost
by Isabella Hammad 2023 336 pages
4.11
9.1K ratings
Literary Fiction
Contemporary
Historical Fiction
She Said Summary
She Said
Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
by Jodi Kantor 2019 310 pages
4.34
42.8K ratings
Feminism
True Crime
Politics
The Future Is Asian Summary
The Future Is Asian
by Parag Khanna 2019 448 pages
3.70
1.3K ratings
Politics
China
Economics
Unsettled Summary
Unsettled
What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters
by Steven E. Koonin 2021 320 pages
4.25
3.6K ratings
Science
Climate Change
Politics
Dreams from My Father Summary
Dreams from My Father
A Story of Race and Inheritance; The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama 2008
4.04
510 ratings
Biography
History
Politics
The Crisis of the Modern World Summary
The Crisis of the Modern World
by René Guénon 1927 136 pages
4.11
2.1K ratings
Philosophy
Religion
Politics
A Field Guide to Lies Summary
A Field Guide to Lies
Critical Thinking in the Information Age
by Daniel J. Levitin 2016 292 pages
3.76
4.6K ratings
Psychology
Science
Self Help
The Light We Carry Summary
The Light We Carry
Overcoming in Uncertain Times
by Michelle Obama 2022 319 pages
4.27
93.2K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Self Help
Monopoly Capital Summary
Monopoly Capital
An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order
by Paul A. Baran 1966 416 pages
4.20
261 ratings
Economics
Politics
History
The New Paradigm for Financial Markets Summary
The New Paradigm for Financial Markets
The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means
by George Soros 2008 163 pages
3.41
1.5K ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
The Rare Metals War Summary
The Rare Metals War
the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies
by Guillaume Pitron 2018 288 pages
4.03
1.2K ratings
Science
Technology
Economics
Command and Control Summary
Command and Control
Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
by Eric Schlosser 2013 656 pages
4.27
14.0K ratings
History
Politics
Science
Rules for Revolutionaries Summary
Rules for Revolutionaries
How Big Organizing Can Change Everything
by Becky Bond 2016 200 pages
3.83
747 ratings
Politics
Activism
Social Justice
LatinoLand Summary
LatinoLand
A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority
by Marie Arana 2024 573 pages
4.32
382 ratings
History
Sociology
Politics
The Legal Analyst Summary
The Legal Analyst
A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law
by Ward Farnsworth 2007 326 pages
4.27
609 ratings
Law
Politics
Economics
Dark Money Summary
Dark Money
The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
by Jane Mayer 2016 464 pages
4.31
26.5K ratings
Politics
History
Economics
Hardball Summary
Hardball
How Politics Is Played, Told by One Who Knows the Game
by Chris Matthews 1988 240 pages
3.50
1.8K ratings
Politics
School
Political Science
Kushner, Inc. Summary
Kushner, Inc.
Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
by Vicky Ward 2019 304 pages
3.53
2.1K ratings
Politics
Biography
History
The Good Immigrant Summary
The Good Immigrant
26 Writers Reflect on America
by Nikesh Shukla 2019 336 pages
4.25
2.3K ratings
Essays
Race
Short Stories
The Next Civil War Summary
The Next Civil War
Dispatches from the American Future
by Stephen Marche 2022 238 pages
3.67
1.8K ratings
Politics
History
American History
The Art of War Summary
The Art of War
by Niccolò Machiavelli 1521 247 pages
4.05
8.9K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Politics
The ANC Billionaires Summary
The ANC Billionaires
Big Capital's Gambit and the Rise of the Few
by Pieter Du Toit 2022 333 pages
3.94
136 ratings
Politics
The Reactionary Mind Summary
The Reactionary Mind
Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
by Corey Robin 2011 290 pages
3.94
2.7K ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
Colossus Summary
Colossus
The Rise and Fall of the American Empire
by Niall Ferguson 2004 417 pages
3.58
2.2K ratings
History
Politics
American History
"They Take Our Jobs!" Summary
"They Take Our Jobs!"
And 20 Other Myths about Immigration
by Aviva Chomsky 2007 264 pages
4.06
598 ratings
Politics
History
Economics
Winners Take All Summary
Winners Take All
The Elite Charade of Changing the World
by Anand Giridharadas 2018 288 pages
4.13
16.8K ratings
Politics
Economics
Business
Crisis Economics Summary
Crisis Economics
A Crash Course in the Future of Finance
by Nouriel Roubini 2010 368 pages
3.84
2.8K ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
Occupy Summary
Occupy
by Noam Chomsky 2012 128 pages
3.60
2.2K ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
War and Peace and War Summary
War and Peace and War
The Rise and Fall of Empires
by Peter Turchin 2005 416 pages
4.18
854 ratings
History
Politics
War
Main Currents Of Marxism Summary
Main Currents Of Marxism
The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown
by Leszek Kołakowski 1976 1284 pages
4.26
438 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
Mission Economy Summary
Mission Economy
A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
by Mariana Mazzucato 2020 272 pages
3.85
2.4K ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
Saving Capitalism Summary
Saving Capitalism
For the Many, Not the Few
by Robert B. Reich 2004 219 pages
4.19
5.2K ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
Politics On the Edge Summary
Politics On the Edge
A Memoir From Within
by Rory Stewart 2023 436 pages
4.33
14.5K ratings
Politics
Biography
Memoir
Founding Brothers Summary
Founding Brothers
The Revolutionary Generation
by Joseph J. Ellis 2000 288 pages
3.95
46.7K ratings
History
American History
Biography
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels Summary
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
by Alex Epstein 2014 248 pages
4.08
2.4K ratings
Politics
Science
Economics
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division Summary
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
by Elif Shafak 2020 96 pages
3.98
7.6K ratings
Essays
Politics
Philosophy
A Doctor in the House Summary
A Doctor in the House
The Memoirs of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad
by Mahathir Mohamad 2011 843 pages
4.26
1.1K ratings
Biography
Politics
History
Poverty Safari Summary
Poverty Safari
by Darren McGarvey 2017 224 pages
4.02
6.3K ratings
Politics
Memoir
Sociology
The Tyranny of Good Intentions Summary
The Tyranny of Good Intentions
How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice
by Paul Craig Roberts 2000 256 pages
4.04
127 ratings
Politics
Law
History
How to Save the West Summary
How to Save the West
Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises
by Spencer Klavan 2023 256 pages
4.29
424 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
The Origin of Wealth Summary
The Origin of Wealth
Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics
by Eric D. Beinhocker 2006 527 pages
4.27
1.7K ratings
Economics
History
Business
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power Summary
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power
5 Battlegrounds
by Rajiv Malhotra 2021 520 pages
4.27
199 ratings
Artificial Intelligence
Science
Politics
War Summary
War
How Conflict Shaped Us
by Margaret MacMillan 2020 304 pages
3.58
3.7K ratings
History
War
Politics
Best Evidence Summary
Best Evidence
by David S. Lifton 1980 920 pages
4.00
622 ratings
History
Conspiracy Theories
Politics
The Square and the Tower Summary
The Square and the Tower
Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
by Niall Ferguson 2017 592 pages
3.66
4.2K ratings
History
Politics
Economics
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