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Giving Up Is Unforgivable Summary
Giving Up Is Unforgivable
A Manual for Keeping a Democracy
by Joyce Vance 2025 208 pages
4.38
726 ratings
Politics
History
Social Justice
Manufacturing Consent Summary
Manufacturing Consent
Noam Chomsky and the Media
by Mark Achbar 1994 264 pages
4.4
677 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
No Straight Road Takes You There Summary
No Straight Road Takes You There
Essays for Uneven Terrain
by Rebecca Solnit 2025 176 pages
4.17
801 ratings
Essays
Politics
Feminism
12 Commandments Summary
12 Commandments
For Extraordinary People To Master Ordinary Life
by Hanzi Freinacht 2022 415 pages
4.39
41 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Politics
All That Is Solid Summary
All That Is Solid
The Great Housing Disaster
by Danny Dorling 2014
3.54
143 ratings
Politics
Cities
Sociology
Why David Sometimes Wins Summary
Why David Sometimes Wins
Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement
by Marshall Ganz 2009 368 pages
3.99
175 ratings
History
Labor
Politics
Reveille for Radicals Summary
Reveille for Radicals
by Saul D. Alinsky 1989 256 pages
3.83
585 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
Agonistics Summary
Agonistics
Thinking the World Politically
by Chantal Mouffe 2013 176 pages
3.86
348 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
Intellectual Property Summary
Intellectual Property
A Very Short Introduction
by Siva Vaidhyanathan 2017 144 pages
3.94
172 ratings
Law
Economics
Politics
The South Was Right! Summary
The South Was Right!
by James Ronald Kennedy 1994 431 pages
3.95
474 ratings
History
Civil War
American History
Russian History Summary
Russian History
A Very Short Introduction
by Geoffrey Hosking 2012 154 pages
3.64
757 ratings
History
Russia
Russian History
Not Stolen Summary
Not Stolen
The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World
by Jeff Fynn-Paul 2023 397 pages
4.11
414 ratings
History
American History
Politics
Slow Burn Summary
Slow Burn
The Hidden Costs of a Warming World
by R. Jisung Park 2024 336 pages
3.76
62 ratings
Environment
Economics
Science
L'empathie est politique Summary
L'empathie est politique
Comment les normes sociales façonnent la biologie des sentiments
by Samah Karaki 2024 223 pages
4.36
100 ratings
Politics
Psychology
Feminism
Uncommon Wealth Summary
Uncommon Wealth
Britain and the Aftermath of Empire
by Kojo Koram 2022 304 pages
4.3
486 ratings
History
Politics
Economics
Arsenals of Folly Summary
Arsenals of Folly
The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
by Richard Rhodes 2007 400 pages
3.96
844 ratings
History
Science
Politics
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse Summary
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse
Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
by William Neuman 2022 352 pages
4.13
1.1K ratings
History
Politics
Economics
Che Guevara Reader Summary
Che Guevara Reader
Writings on Politics & Revolution
by Ernesto Che Guevara 2003 420 pages
4.07
355 ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
The Great Leveler Summary
The Great Leveler
Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
by Walter Scheidel 2017 528 pages
3.81
1.6K ratings
History
Economics
Politics
White Lies Summary
White Lies
The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret
by A.J. Baime 2022 384 pages
4.47
635 ratings
History
Biography
Race
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal Summary
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
by Mohammed El-Kurd 2025 256 pages
4.78
3.7K ratings
Politics
History
Essays
Science of Coercion Summary
Science of Coercion
Communication Research and Psychological Warfare, 1945-1960
by Christopher Simpson 1994 224 pages
4.09
87 ratings
History
Psychology
Politics
The Myth of the State Summary
The Myth of the State
by Ernst Cassirer 1961 303 pages
3.91
206 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
Bandits Summary
Bandits
by Eric J. Hobsbawm 2001 240 pages
3.75
792 ratings
History
Sociology
Crime
The Necessity of Exile Summary
The Necessity of Exile
Essays from a Distance
by Shaul Magid 2023 295 pages
4.22
241 ratings
Judaism
Jewish
Religion
The Mass Psychology of Fascism Summary
The Mass Psychology of Fascism
by Wilhelm Reich 1980 395 pages
4.03
1.4K ratings
Psychology
Politics
Philosophy
Southern Horrors and Other Writings Summary
Southern Horrors and Other Writings
The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900
by Ida B. Wells-Barnett 1996 240 pages
4.36
777 ratings
History
Race
Essays
Democracy Summary
Democracy
Eleven writers and leaders on what it is – and why it matters
by Margaret Atwood 2024 144 pages
3.99
242 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
I Never Thought of It That Way Summary
I Never Thought of It That Way
How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times
by Monica Guzmán 2022 304 pages
3.88
3.6K ratings
Politics
Self Help
Psychology
Daily Wisdom for Why Does He Do That? Summary
Daily Wisdom for Why Does He Do That?
by Lundy Bancroft 2015 464 pages
4.57
417 ratings
Self Help
Psychology
Abuse
The Deadline Summary
The Deadline
by Jill Lepore 2023 640 pages
4.31
591 ratings
Essays
History
Politics
A Man Called White Summary
A Man Called White
The Autobiography of Walter White
by Walter Francis White 1995 392 pages
4.23
48 ratings
Biography
History
Politics
Limits to Medicine Summary
Limits to Medicine
Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
by Ivan Illich 1976 320 pages
4.04
599 ratings
Philosophy
Medicine
Health
A Protest History of the United States Summary
A Protest History of the United States
by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall 2025 360 pages
4.2
107 ratings
History
Politics
American History
The Brothers Summary
The Brothers
John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War
by Stephen Kinzer 2013 416 pages
4.14
4.4K ratings
History
Biography
Politics
The Social Contract Summary
The Social Contract
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 2006 168 pages
3.78
57.8K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Classics
The Complete Infidel's Guide to Iran Summary
The Complete Infidel's Guide to Iran
by Robert Spencer 2016 256 pages
3.52
71 ratings
Religion
Politics
History
At the Hands of Persons Unknown Summary
At the Hands of Persons Unknown
The Lynching of Black America
by Philip Dray 2003 560 pages
4.45
672 ratings
History
Race
American History
The Price of Greatness Summary
The Price of Greatness
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy
by Jay Cost 2018 256 pages
3.71
239 ratings
History
Politics
American History
The Fight in the Fields Summary
The Fight in the Fields
Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement
by Susan Ferriss 1998 352 pages
3.97
96 ratings
History
Politics
Labor
How the South Won the Civil War Summary
How the South Won the Civil War
Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
by Heather Cox Richardson 2020 272 pages
4.3
5.0K ratings
History
Politics
American History
Day Of Deceit Summary
Day Of Deceit
The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor
by Robert B. Stinnett 2001 416 pages
3.68
483 ratings
History
World War II
War
The Origins of the Urban Crisis Summary
The Origins of the Urban Crisis
Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
by Thomas J. Sugrue 2005 416 pages
4.24
2.2K ratings
History
Race
Politics
Spin Dictators Summary
Spin Dictators
The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
by Sergei Guriev 2022 360 pages
3.95
1.2K ratings
Politics
History
Political Science
inside tagesschau Summary
inside tagesschau
Zwischen Nachrichten und Meinungsmache
by Alexander Teske 2025 297 pages
3.6
81 ratings
Politics
The Fifth Domain Summary
The Fifth Domain
Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats
by Richard A. Clarke 2019 352 pages
4.02
809 ratings
Technology
Politics
History
American Oligarchs Summary
American Oligarchs
The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power
by Andrea Bernstein 2020 496 pages
4.22
1.3K ratings
Politics
History
Biography
History of the Peloponnesian War Summary
History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides 1972 648 pages
3.94
40.6K ratings
History
Classics
Ancient History
There Will Be Fire Summary
There Will Be Fire
Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
by Rory Carroll 2023 397 pages
4.38
11.5K ratings
History
Politics
Ireland
What Is Property? Summary
What Is Property?
by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 2006 310 pages
3.77
1.7K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Economics
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