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The Promised Land Summary
The Promised Land
The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
by Nicholas Lemann 1995 416 pages
4.24
797 ratings
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Race and Manifest Destiny Summary
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by Reginald Horsman 1981 380 pages
3.84
150 ratings
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The Authoritarian Personality Summary
The Authoritarian Personality
by Theodor W. Adorno 1993 976 pages
3.8
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Capital and Ideology Summary
Capital and Ideology
by Thomas Piketty 2020 1104 pages
4.28
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Audience of One Summary
Audience of One
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by James Poniewozik 2019 304 pages
4.19
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The Left Behind Summary
The Left Behind
Decline and Rage in Rural America
by Robert Wuthnow 2018 200 pages
3.58
648 ratings
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In the Shadow of the Poorhouse Summary
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse
A Social History of Welfare in America
by Michael B. Katz 1996 410 pages
3.74
137 ratings
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The Dark Side of Democracy Summary
The Dark Side of Democracy
Explaining Ethnic Cleansing
by Michael Mann 2004 592 pages
4.06
159 ratings
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Working Toward Whiteness Summary
Working Toward Whiteness
How America's Immigrants Became White: the Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
by David R. Roediger 2006 339 pages
3.83
370 ratings
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Sharing the Journey Summary
Sharing the Journey
Support Groups and the Quest for a New Community
by Robert Wuthnow 1996 480 pages
3.5
10 ratings
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Why Leaders Lie Summary
Why Leaders Lie
The Truth About Lying in International Politics
by John J. Mearsheimer 2011 160 pages
3.47
881 ratings
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The End of Power Summary
The End of Power
From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be
by MoisΓ©s NaΓ­m 2013 320 pages
3.63
3.7K ratings
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History
Ethnic Boundary Making Summary
Ethnic Boundary Making
Institutions, Power, Networks
by Andreas Wimmer 2012 304 pages
3.55
22 ratings
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In the Ruins of Neoliberalism Summary
In the Ruins of Neoliberalism
The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West
by Wendy Brown 2019 264 pages
4.11
473 ratings
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Philosophy
Race and Racism Summary
Race and Racism
A Comparative Perspective
by Pierre L. van den Berghe 1967 169 pages
4.07
15 ratings
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The Ethnic Phenomenon Summary
The Ethnic Phenomenon
by Pierre L. van den Berghe 1987 318 pages
4.34
47 ratings
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Socializing Capital Summary
Socializing Capital
by William G. Roy 1997 360 pages
3.9
21 ratings
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Waves of War Summary
Waves of War
Nationalism, State Formation, and Ethnic Exclusion in the Modern World
by Andreas Wimmer 2012 384 pages
3.48
23 ratings
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A Brief History of Equality Summary
A Brief History of Equality
by Thomas Piketty 2022 288 pages
3.97
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Us Against Them Summary
Us Against Them
Ethnocentric Foundations of American Opinion
by Donald R. Kinder 2010 354 pages
3.97
33 ratings
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The Development of the Modern State Summary
The Development of the Modern State
A Sociological Introduction
by Gianfranco Poggi 1978 191 pages
3.47
85 ratings
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It Didn't Happen Here Summary
It Didn't Happen Here
Why Socialism Failed in the United States
by Seymour Martin Lipset 2001 374 pages
3.62
104 ratings
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American History
The Mesh Summary
The Mesh
Why the Future of Business Is Sharing
by Lisa Gansky 2010 256 pages
3.66
1.1K ratings
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American Poison Summary
American Poison
How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise
by Eduardo Porter 2020 272 pages
3.91
269 ratings
Race
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Regulating the Poor Summary
Regulating the Poor
The Functions of Public Welfare
by Frances Fox Piven 1971 544 pages
4.24
321 ratings
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The Power of Market Fundamentalism Summary
The Power of Market Fundamentalism
Karl Polanyi's Critique
by Fred L. Block 2014 312 pages
4.34
67 ratings
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The Economics of Inequality Summary
The Economics of Inequality
by Thomas Piketty 2015 160 pages
3.65
1.7K ratings
Economics
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Colonialism Summary
Colonialism
A Moral Reckoning
by Nigel Biggar 2023 480 pages
3.97
782 ratings
History
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The Noodle Narratives Summary
The Noodle Narratives
The Global Rise of an Industrial Food into the Twenty-First Century
by Frederick K. Errington 2013 216 pages
3.42
78 ratings
Food
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Anthropology
Nations Apart Summary
Nations Apart
How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America
by Colin Woodard 2025 368 pages
4.08
178 ratings
History
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American History
The Good Society Summary
The Good Society
by Robert N. Bellah 1992 368 pages
3.66
105 ratings
Sociology
Philosophy
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American Exceptionalism and American Innocence Summary
American Exceptionalism and American Innocence
A People's History of Fake News―From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
by Roberto Sirvent 2019 256 pages
4.09
286 ratings
Politics
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Nationalism Summary
Nationalism
Five Roads to Modernity
by Liah Greenfeld 1993 596 pages
3.77
66 ratings
History
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Four Sociological Traditions Summary
Four Sociological Traditions
by Randall Collins 1994 336 pages
3.86
152 ratings
Sociology
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Nationalism Summary
Nationalism
by Craig J. Calhoun 1998 176 pages
3.86
58 ratings
Politics
Sociology
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