Politics Book Summaries

Freedom and Neurobiology Summary
Freedom and Neurobiology
Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power
by John R. Searle 2005 113 pages
3.55
244 ratings
Philosophy
Science
Neuroscience
Static Summary
Static
Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back
by Amy Goodman 2006 338 pages
4.06
380 ratings
Politics
Journalism
Sociology
Paint Your Town Red Summary
Paint Your Town Red
How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too
by Matthew Brown 2021 300 pages
3.71
165 ratings
Politics
Economics
Urbanism
The Arabs in History Summary
The Arabs in History
by Bernard Lewis 1950 256 pages
3.73
432 ratings
History
Islam
Religion
Excellent Daughters Summary
Excellent Daughters
The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World
by Katherine Zoepf 2016 258 pages
3.87
1.1K ratings
Feminism
Politics
History
No One Man Should Have All That Power Summary
No One Man Should Have All That Power
How Rasputins Manipulate the World
by Amos Barshad 2019 240 pages
3.67
178 ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
Breaking the Mould Summary
Breaking the Mould
Reimagining India's Economic Future
by Raghuram G. Rajan 2023 351 pages
4.05
446 ratings
Economics
India
Finance
Enough Summary
Enough
by Cassidy Hutchinson 2023 379 pages
4.30
17.9K ratings
Politics
Memoir
History
World Without Mind Summary
World Without Mind
The Existential Threat of Big Tech
by Franklin Foer 2017 272 pages
3.62
2.2K ratings
Technology
Science
Business
Eastward to Tartary Summary
Eastward to Tartary
Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
by Robert D. Kaplan 2000 384 pages
4.04
1.7K ratings
Travel
History
Politics
The Economics of Enough Summary
The Economics of Enough
How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters
by Diane Coyle 2011 336 pages
3.43
115 ratings
Economics
Politics
Ecology
Mother of Invention Summary
Mother of Invention
How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men
by Katrine Marçal 2020 296 pages
3.90
2.3K ratings
Feminism
History
Economics
For the New Intellectual Summary
For the New Intellectual
The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
by Ayn Rand 1961 224 pages
3.70
3.4K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Classics
The Gutenberg Parenthesis Summary
The Gutenberg Parenthesis
The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
by Jeff Jarvis 2023 328 pages
3.89
148 ratings
History
Politics
Cultural
Dit kan niet waar zijn. Onder bankiers Summary
Dit kan niet waar zijn. Onder bankiers
by Joris Luyendijk 2015 208 pages
3.84
7.2K ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
Monsoon Summary
Monsoon
The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
by Robert D. Kaplan 2010 323 pages
3.96
2.8K ratings
History
Politics
Asia
Zoned in the USA Summary
Zoned in the USA
The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation
by Sonia A. Hirt 2014 256 pages
4.02
121 ratings
Urban Planning
Urbanism
History
Transformative Scenario Planning Summary
Transformative Scenario Planning
Working Together to Change the Future
by Adam Kahane 2012 152 pages
4.04
130 ratings
Business
Leadership
Politics
Anti-Pluralism Summary
Anti-Pluralism
The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy
by William A. Galston 2018 176 pages
3.76
140 ratings
Politics
Political Science
Philosophy
Truth in Our Times Summary
Truth in Our Times
Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts
by David E. McCraw 2019 304 pages
4.14
593 ratings
Politics
Journalism
Memoir
Demanding the Impossible Summary
Demanding the Impossible
A History of Anarchism
by Peter H. Marshall 1992 767 pages
4.12
1.1K ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
Four Battlegrounds Summary
Four Battlegrounds
Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by Paul Scharre 2023 496 pages
3.81
416 ratings
Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Military Fiction
END OF OIL Summary
END OF OIL
by Paul Roberts 2004 412 pages
3.74
1.1K ratings
Politics
Science
Environment
These Are the Plunderers Summary
These Are the Plunderers
How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America
by Gretchen Morgenson 2023 391 pages
3.73
834 ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
How Woke Won Summary
How Woke Won
The Elitist Movement That Threatens Democracy, Tolerance and Reason
by Joanna Williams 2022 270 pages
4.10
167 ratings
Politics
Sociology
History
Dear Madam President Summary
Dear Madam President
An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
by Jennifer Palmieri 2018 179 pages
3.89
5.4K ratings
Politics
Feminism
Memoir
International Relations Summary
International Relations
by Joshua S. Goldstein 1993 624 pages
3.81
434 ratings
Politics
International Relations
Political Science
The Dark Valley Summary
The Dark Valley
A Panorama of the 1930s
by Piers Brendon 2000 848 pages
4.18
593 ratings
History
European History
World History
Butler Summary
Butler
The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland
by Salena Zito 2025 238 pages
4.52
560 ratings
Politics
History
American History
Smuggler Nation Summary
Smuggler Nation
How Illicit Trade Made America
by Peter Andreas 2013 472 pages
3.98
206 ratings
History
American History
Economics
The Company Summary
The Company
The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire
by Stephen R. Bown 2020 496 pages
4.15
1.7K ratings
History
Canada
Business
Decline and Fall Summary
Decline and Fall
The End of Empire and the Future of Democracy in 21st Century America
by John Michael Greer 2014 304 pages
4.29
153 ratings
Politics
History
Economics
The Ones We've Been Waiting for Summary
The Ones We've Been Waiting for
How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America
by Charlotte Alter 2020 368 pages
4.20
850 ratings
Politics
History
Leadership
The Stillborn God Summary
The Stillborn God
Religion, Politics, and the Modern West
by Mark Lilla 2007 352 pages
3.59
288 ratings
Religion
Philosophy
Politics
No. More. Plastic. Summary
No. More. Plastic.
What you can do to make a difference
by Martin Dorey 2018 103 pages
4.00
1.9K ratings
Environment
Sustainability
Science
Equal Is Unfair Summary
Equal Is Unfair
America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality
by Don Watkins 2016 258 pages
4.07
555 ratings
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
On Fascism Summary
On Fascism
by Matthew C. Macwilliams 2020 208 pages
3.96
604 ratings
History
Politics
Race
The Inevitability of Tragedy Summary
The Inevitability of Tragedy
Henry Kissinger and His World
by Barry Gewen 2020 480 pages
4.03
461 ratings
History
Politics
Biography
Lucky Summary
Lucky
How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency
by Jonathan Allen 2021 17 pages
3.86
1.2K ratings
Politics
History
American History
City of Gold Summary
City of Gold
Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism
by Jim Krane 2009 368 pages
3.96
746 ratings
History
Middle East
Politics
The Right Side of History Summary
The Right Side of History
How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
by Ben Shapiro 2019 277 pages
3.87
8.8K ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
The First Circle Summary
The First Circle
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 580 pages
4.24
8.2K ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
Not in God's Name Summary
Not in God's Name
Confronting Religious Violence
by Jonathan Sacks 2015 320 pages
4.36
1.4K ratings
Religion
Theology
Jewish
The Violence Project Summary
The Violence Project
How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic
by Jillian Peterson 2021 240 pages
4.46
1.3K ratings
Politics
True Crime
Psychology
The Nazi Conspiracy Summary
The Nazi Conspiracy
The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
by Brad Meltzer 2023 400 pages
4.15
9.2K ratings
History
World War II
Politics
Follow the Science Summary
Follow the Science
How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails
by Sharyl Attkisson 2024 336 pages
4.29
397 ratings
Health
Politics
Cult Classics
The Rage of a Privileged Class Summary
The Rage of a Privileged Class
by Ellis Cose 1993 192 pages
3.96
156 ratings
Race
Sociology
Politics
Obama Summary
Obama
From Promise to Power
by David Mendell 2007 416 pages
4.17
2.7K ratings
Biography
Politics
History
Democracy at Work Summary
Democracy at Work
A Cure for Capitalism
by Richard D. Wolff 2012 220 pages
3.95
1.7K ratings
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
The Accidental Admiral Summary
The Accidental Admiral
A Sailor Takes Command at NATO
by James G. Stavridis 2014 288 pages
3.98
240 ratings
Military Fiction
Biography
Leadership
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