미국 역사

미국의 이야기는 혁명 스파이와 남북전쟁 지휘관에서부터 현대 대통령과 문화적 변혁에 이르기까지, 국가를 형성한 중대한 순간들, 전설적인 인물들, 그리고 복잡한 힘들을 통해 펼쳐집니다. 이 매혹적인 이야기들은 승리와 투쟁, 그리고 시간 속에 울려 퍼지는 결정들을 밝히며, 결연한 개인들과 강력한 사상들이 미국 실험을 이끌어 왔음을 보여줍니다.

미국 역사 도서 요약

Becoming Madam Secretary

저자: Stephanie Dray

After a factory fire kills 146 workers, one woman must convince a nation to protect its own.

4.45

28,000+

📖 Biographical Fiction 🚪 Trailblazing Women 🏛️ Progressive Era 📜 New Deal 🗳️ Woman In Politics

몰입형

Becoming Madam Secretary

After a factory fire kills 146 workers, one woman must convince a nation to protect its own.

저자: Stephanie Dray 2024 528 페이지

4.45

28,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Biographical Fiction 🚪 Trailblazing Women 🏛️ Progressive Era 📜 New Deal 🗳️ Woman In Politics

The Jakarta Method

저자: Vincent Bevins • 2020

Washington's greatest Cold War win killed a million Indonesians. Then the method went global.

4.61

18,000+

📚 Cold War History 🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🔴 Anticommunism ⚡ State Violence 🕵️ Covert Operations

몰입형

The Jakarta Method

Washington's greatest Cold War win killed a million Indonesians. Then the method went global.

저자: Vincent Bevins 2020 320 페이지

4.61

18,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Cold War History 🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🔴 Anticommunism ⚡ State Violence 🕵️ Covert Operations

The Demon of Unrest

저자: Erik Larson • 2024

A dueling code, a hunger for fame, and the 113 days that ignited America's deadliest war.

4.17

61,000+

🏛️ Civil War Origins ⛓️ American Slavery ⚔️ Honor Culture 📉 Political Failure 🔴 Presidential Crisis

몰입형

The Demon of Unrest

A dueling code, a hunger for fame, and the 113 days that ignited America's deadliest war.

저자: Erik Larson 2024 592 페이지

4.17

61,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Civil War Origins ⛓️ American Slavery ⚔️ Honor Culture 📉 Political Failure 🔴 Presidential Crisis

An Empire of Wealth

저자: John Steele Gordon • 2004

6% of the people, 30% of GDP: the institutional inheritance behind American wealth.

4.10

1,000+

🕰️ Economic History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 🏛️ Institutional Economics 📉 Financial Crises ⚡ Creative Destruction

몰입형

An Empire of Wealth

6% of the people, 30% of GDP: the institutional inheritance behind American wealth.

저자: John Steele Gordon 2004 460 페이지

4.10

1,000+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Economic History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 🏛️ Institutional Economics 📉 Financial Crises ⚡ Creative Destruction

The Frontiersmen

저자: Allan W. Eckert • 1967

The earth shook, the Mississippi reversed, and scattered warriors rode to one man's war.

4.46

4,000+

🏞️ Frontier History 🪶 Native American History 🔗 Pan-Indian Resistance ⚔️ Frontier Warfare 📜 Broken Treaties

몰입형

The Frontiersmen

The earth shook, the Mississippi reversed, and scattered warriors rode to one man's war.

저자: Allan W. Eckert 1967 652 페이지

4.46

4,000+ 개의 평점

🏞️ Frontier History 🪶 Native American History 🔗 Pan-Indian Resistance ⚔️ Frontier Warfare 📜 Broken Treaties

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

저자: Dee Brown • 1970

Broken treaties, forced marches, and buffalo slaughter: the American West from the losing side.

4.26

100,000+

🏹 Plains Indian Wars 📜 Broken Treaties 🗺️ Forced Relocation 🏞️ Westward Expansion ⚔️ Settler Colonialism

몰입형

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Broken treaties, forced marches, and buffalo slaughter: the American West from the losing side.

저자: Dee Brown 1970 509 페이지

4.26

100,000+ 개의 평점

🏹 Plains Indian Wars 📜 Broken Treaties 🗺️ Forced Relocation 🏞️ Westward Expansion ⚔️ Settler Colonialism

The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution

저자: Mark Peterson • 2026

The U.S. Constitution was built to seize a continent. What happens when the land runs out?

4.09

🏛️ Constitutional History 🌎 American Expansion ⚡ Settler Colonialism 💰 Political Economy ⚖️ Minority Rule

The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution 요약

몰입형

The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution

The U.S. Constitution was built to seize a continent. What happens when the land runs out?

저자: Mark Peterson 2026 390 페이지

4.09

22 개의 평점

🏛️ Constitutional History 🌎 American Expansion ⚡ Settler Colonialism 💰 Political Economy ⚖️ Minority Rule

One Nation Under Blackmail

저자: Whitney Alyse Webb • 2022

Seventeen White House visits. The blackmail machine that protected Jeffrey Epstein for decades.

4.42

500+

🏛️ Political Corruption 🕵️ Intelligence History 🔫 Organized Crime 📹 Surveillance State 🕶️ Modern Espionage

One Nation Under Blackmail

Seventeen White House visits. The blackmail machine that protected Jeffrey Epstein for decades.

저자: Whitney Alyse Webb 2022 432 페이지

4.42

500+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Political Corruption 🕵️ Intelligence History 🔫 Organized Crime 📹 Surveillance State 🕶️ Modern Espionage

The Cold War

저자: John Lewis Gaddis • 2005

Two empires, opposite ideologies, enough bombs to end everything. Why the Cold War stayed cold.

3.95

8,000+

🧊 Cold War History 🪆 Soviet Union 🦅 American Foreign Policy ☢️ Nuclear Deterrence ⚔️ Ideological Conflict

The Cold War

Two empires, opposite ideologies, enough bombs to end everything. Why the Cold War stayed cold.

저자: John Lewis Gaddis 2005 352 페이지

3.95

8,000+ 개의 평점

🧊 Cold War History 🪆 Soviet Union 🦅 American Foreign Policy ☢️ Nuclear Deterrence ⚔️ Ideological Conflict

벤저민 프랭클린

저자: 월터 아이작슨 • 2003

A runaway apprentice who tamed lightning, charmed Paris, and lost a son to the crown.

4.05

100,000+

🏛️ Founding Fathers ⚔️ American Revolution 🧠 Polymath Biography 💡 Enlightenment Era 🔨 Self-Made Lives

벤저민 프랭클린

A runaway apprentice who tamed lightning, charmed Paris, and lost a son to the crown.

저자: 월터 아이작슨 2003 586 페이지

4.05

100,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Founding Fathers ⚔️ American Revolution 🧠 Polymath Biography 💡 Enlightenment Era 🔨 Self-Made Lives

권력의 조건

저자: 도리스 컨스 굿윈 • 2005

Lincoln beat three famous rivals for president. Then he hired every last one of them.

4.29

200,000+

👤 Presidential Biography 🏛️ Political Leadership ⚔️ Civil War Era 📋 Cabinet Politics 🤝 Political Rivalry

권력의 조건

Lincoln beat three famous rivals for president. Then he hired every last one of them.

저자: 도리스 컨스 굿윈 2005 916 페이지

4.29

200,000+ 개의 평점

👤 Presidential Biography 🏛️ Political Leadership ⚔️ Civil War Era 📋 Cabinet Politics 🤝 Political Rivalry

Titan

저자: Ron Chernow • 1998

A pious Baptist created the Standard Oil octopus, gave away millions to be remembered as a saint.

4.15

38,000+

🛢️ Oil Industry History 💰 Robber Barons 🏗️ Corporate Consolidation ✝️ Protestant Ethic 🎁 Mega Philanthropy

Titan

A pious Baptist created the Standard Oil octopus, gave away millions to be remembered as a saint.

저자: Ron Chernow 1998 832 페이지

4.15

38,000+ 개의 평점

🛢️ Oil Industry History 💰 Robber Barons 🏗️ Corporate Consolidation ✝️ Protestant Ethic 🎁 Mega Philanthropy

애피타이트 포 아메리카

저자: 스티븐 프리드 • 2010

A railroad restaurant empire that civilized the West and launched America's first female workforce.

4.21

1,000+

🚂 Railroad History 🏨 Hospitality Industry 💼 Gilded Age Business 🏜️ Frontier Settlement 👩‍💼 Women's Labor History

애피타이트 포 아메리카

A railroad restaurant empire that civilized the West and launched America's first female workforce.

저자: 스티븐 프리드 2010 751 페이지

4.21

1,000+ 개의 평점

🚂 Railroad History 🏨 Hospitality Industry 💼 Gilded Age Business 🏜️ Frontier Settlement 👩‍💼 Women's Labor History

Albion's Seed

저자: David Hackett Fischer • 1989

Four British migrations planted rival cultures in America, each with its own definition of freedom.

4.38

3,000+

🏛️ Colonial America 📖 Cultural History 🗺️ Regional Cultures 🧳 Migration Patterns ⚖️ Comparative History

Albion's Seed

Four British migrations planted rival cultures in America, each with its own definition of freedom.

저자: David Hackett Fischer 1989 946 페이지

4.38

3,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Colonial America 📖 Cultural History 🗺️ Regional Cultures 🧳 Migration Patterns ⚖️ Comparative History

The House of Morgan

저자: Ron Chernow • 1990

Before the Federal Reserve, a single private bank rescued Wall Street and answered to no one.

3.96

12,000+

🏛️ Banking History 👑 Financial Dynasties 📈 Wall Street History 🎩 Gilded Age ⚖️ Financial Regulation

The House of Morgan

Before the Federal Reserve, a single private bank rescued Wall Street and answered to no one.

저자: Ron Chernow 1990 812 페이지

3.96

12,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Banking History 👑 Financial Dynasties 📈 Wall Street History 🎩 Gilded Age ⚖️ Financial Regulation

1491

저자: Charles C. Mann • 2005

A hemisphere of cities, empires, and millions, emptied by smallpox before colonists arrived.

4.05

96,000+

🏛️ Pre-Columbian History 🗿 Indigenous Civilizations 📖 Revisionist History 🌍 Columbian Exchange 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge

1491

A hemisphere of cities, empires, and millions, emptied by smallpox before colonists arrived.

저자: Charles C. Mann 2005 563 페이지

4.05

96,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Pre-Columbian History 🗿 Indigenous Civilizations 📖 Revisionist History 🌍 Columbian Exchange 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge

A People’s History of the United States

저자: Howard Zinn • 1980

The history you learned in school is a cover story for class war, genocide, and slave revolts.

4.09

200,000+

📖 Revisionist History 🔍 History From Below 🦅 American Empire 🏚️ Settler Colonialism ✊ Class Struggle

A People’s History of the United States

The history you learned in school is a cover story for class war, genocide, and slave revolts.

저자: Howard Zinn 1980 729 페이지

4.09

200,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Revisionist History 🔍 History From Below 🦅 American Empire 🏚️ Settler Colonialism ✊ Class Struggle

Alexander Hamilton

저자: Ron Chernow • 2004

From Caribbean orphan to architect of American capitalism: the scandal and duel that ended him.

4.22

200,000+

🏛️ American Revolution 🇺🇸 Founding Fathers 📜 Political Biography 💰 Financial Systems 🏗️ Self-Made Man

Alexander Hamilton

From Caribbean orphan to architect of American capitalism: the scandal and duel that ended him.

저자: Ron Chernow 2004 818 페이지

4.22

200,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ American Revolution 🇺🇸 Founding Fathers 📜 Political Biography 💰 Financial Systems 🏗️ Self-Made Man

From Poor Law to Welfare State

저자: Walter I. Trattner • 1974

How America turned helping the poor from an act of justice into a judgment on character.

3.69

318

🏛️ Social Welfare History 🇺🇸 American Social Policy ⚖️ Poverty And Morality 🏥 Institutional Care ⛪ Religious Charity

From Poor Law to Welfare State

How America turned helping the poor from an act of justice into a judgment on character.

저자: Walter I. Trattner 1974 464 페이지

3.69

318 개의 평점

🏛️ Social Welfare History 🇺🇸 American Social Policy ⚖️ Poverty And Morality 🏥 Institutional Care ⛪ Religious Charity

전쟁의 시험

저자: 제임스 M. 맥퍼슨 • 2008

How a lawyer with zero military training became the most hands-on commander in chief.

4.09

5,000+

🎖️ Civil War History 🏛️ Presidential Leadership ⚔️ Military Command 📜 War Powers ⛓️‍💥 Emancipation

전쟁의 시험

How a lawyer with zero military training became the most hands-on commander in chief.

저자: 제임스 M. 맥퍼슨 2008 329 페이지

4.09

5,000+ 개의 평점

🎖️ Civil War History 🏛️ Presidential Leadership ⚔️ Military Command 📜 War Powers ⛓️‍💥 Emancipation

Killing Hope

저자: William Blum • 1995

For forty years, the CIA overthrew governments across the globe. The full ledger is in one book.

4.27

2,000+

❄️ Cold War Politics 🕵️ Covert Operations 🌎 American Empire 🏛️ Regime Change 💰 Corporate Imperialism

Killing Hope

For forty years, the CIA overthrew governments across the globe. The full ledger is in one book.

저자: William Blum 1995 469 페이지

4.27

2,000+ 개의 평점

❄️ Cold War Politics 🕵️ Covert Operations 🌎 American Empire 🏛️ Regime Change 💰 Corporate Imperialism

1493

저자: Charles C. Mann • 2011

Potatoes east, mosquitoes west: the biological upheaval set off by 1492 that still runs the world.

4.12

21,000+

🌿 Environmental History 🦟 Disease And Empire 🌽 Agricultural Revolution 🦠 Ecological Exchange 🧬 Big History

1493

Potatoes east, mosquitoes west: the biological upheaval set off by 1492 that still runs the world.

저자: Charles C. Mann 2011 836 페이지

4.12

21,000+ 개의 평점

🌿 Environmental History 🦟 Disease And Empire 🌽 Agricultural Revolution 🦠 Ecological Exchange 🧬 Big History

Tyranny of the Minority

저자: Steven Levitsky • 2023

The party fewer voters chose governs, and the rulebook was written to let them.

4.39

4,000+

🗳️ Electoral Reform 📉 Democratic Backsliding 🚫 Voter Suppression 🗺️ Gerrymandering 🌐 Comparative Politics

Tyranny of the Minority

The party fewer voters chose governs, and the rulebook was written to let them.

저자: Steven Levitsky 2023 368 페이지

4.39

4,000+ 개의 평점

🗳️ Electoral Reform 📉 Democratic Backsliding 🚫 Voter Suppression 🗺️ Gerrymandering 🌐 Comparative Politics

리더십

저자: 도리스 컨스 굿윈 • 2018

Before they transformed the nation, they were broken by life. Four presidents, one pattern.

4.40

16,000+

🏛️ Presidential History 🗳️ Political Leadership 📖 Biographical Leadership ⚡ Crisis Decision Making 🧠 Cognitive Diversity

리더십

Before they transformed the nation, they were broken by life. Four presidents, one pattern.

저자: 도리스 컨스 굿윈 2018 18 페이지

4.40

16,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Presidential History 🗳️ Political Leadership 📖 Biographical Leadership ⚡ Crisis Decision Making 🧠 Cognitive Diversity

The Storm Before the Calm

저자: George Friedman • 2020

Every eighty years America's government breaks; every fifty, its economy. Now both arrive at once.

4.05

2,000+

🏛️ American Political History 🔄 Cyclical History 🌪️ Crisis And Renewal 👥 Demographic Shifts 💾 Technology And Society

The Storm Before the Calm

Every eighty years America's government breaks; every fifty, its economy. Now both arrive at once.

저자: George Friedman 2020 256 페이지

4.05

2,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ American Political History 🔄 Cyclical History 🌪️ Crisis And Renewal 👥 Demographic Shifts 💾 Technology And Society

Hitler's American Model

저자: James Q. Whitman • 2017

The Nuremberg Laws had an American blueprint. Nazi lawyers studied Jim Crow and found their model.

3.91

1,000+

📜 Legal History ⚖️ Race And Law 🏛️ Institutional Racism 🔬 Racial Classification 🏚️ Jim Crow Era

Hitler's American Model

The Nuremberg Laws had an American blueprint. Nazi lawyers studied Jim Crow and found their model.

저자: James Q. Whitman 2017 208 페이지

3.91

1,000+ 개의 평점

📜 Legal History ⚖️ Race And Law 🏛️ Institutional Racism 🔬 Racial Classification 🏚️ Jim Crow Era

Lincoln on Leadership

저자: Donald T. Phillips • 1993

He filled his cabinet with rivals and still won the war. Lincoln's playbook for tough times.

4.16

7,000+

🏛️ Historical Leadership 💼 Executive Leadership 🚨 Crisis Management ⚔️ Civil War History 📣 Communication Strategy

Lincoln on Leadership

He filled his cabinet with rivals and still won the war. Lincoln's playbook for tough times.

저자: Donald T. Phillips 1993 193 페이지

4.16

7,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Historical Leadership 💼 Executive Leadership 🚨 Crisis Management ⚔️ Civil War History 📣 Communication Strategy

How the Word Is Passed

저자: Clint Smith • 2021

From Monticello to Angola Prison, nine American sites where slavery's past has never really ended.

4.70

40,000+

📜 American Slavery 🏛️ Public History 🧠 Collective Memory ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🏚️ Lost Cause Mythology

How the Word Is Passed

From Monticello to Angola Prison, nine American sites where slavery's past has never really ended.

저자: Clint Smith 2021 336 페이지

4.70

40,000+ 개의 평점

📜 American Slavery 🏛️ Public History 🧠 Collective Memory ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🏚️ Lost Cause Mythology

Five Families

저자: Selwyn Raab • 2005

Sicilian immigrants built a shadow government Prohibition made rich, and the laws that broke it.

4.15

6,000+

🕴️ Mafia History 🗽 American Underworld 🌍 Sicilian Diaspora 🍸 Prohibition Era 💼 Racketeering

Five Families

Sicilian immigrants built a shadow government Prohibition made rich, and the laws that broke it.

저자: Selwyn Raab 2005 784 페이지

4.15

6,000+ 개의 평점

🕴️ Mafia History 🗽 American Underworld 🌍 Sicilian Diaspora 🍸 Prohibition Era 💼 Racketeering

Fight

저자: Jonathan Allen • 2025

Inside the Democratic implosion: a debate disaster, a party revolt, and the scramble that failed.

3.93

4,000+

🗳️ Presidential Campaigns 🐴 Democratic Party 🏛️ Insider Politics 📉 Campaign Disasters 🎭 Political Polarization

Fight

Inside the Democratic implosion: a debate disaster, a party revolt, and the scramble that failed.

저자: Jonathan Allen 2025 352 페이지

3.93

4,000+ 개의 평점

🗳️ Presidential Campaigns 🐴 Democratic Party 🏛️ Insider Politics 📉 Campaign Disasters 🎭 Political Polarization

Common Sense

저자: Thomas Paine • 1776

A plain argument that kings and birthright are frauds, and America must walk away now.

4.00

39,000+

🇺🇸 American Revolution 🏛️ Political Philosophy 🗳️ Republicanism 👑 Anti-Monarchism 💡 Enlightenment Politics

Common Sense

A plain argument that kings and birthright are frauds, and America must walk away now.

저자: Thomas Paine 1776 104 페이지

4.00

39,000+ 개의 평점

🇺🇸 American Revolution 🏛️ Political Philosophy 🗳️ Republicanism 👑 Anti-Monarchism 💡 Enlightenment Politics

브리지

저자: 데이비드 렘닉 • 2010

Community organizer. Harvard Law. A blowout loss. The political apprenticeship of Barack Obama.

4.10

4,000+

📖 Political Biographies 🗳️ Race And Politics 🏙️ Chicago Politics 🧬 Biracial Experience 🤝 Political Pragmatism

브리지

Community organizer. Harvard Law. A blowout loss. The political apprenticeship of Barack Obama.

저자: 데이비드 렘닉 2010 672 페이지

4.10

4,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Political Biographies 🗳️ Race And Politics 🏙️ Chicago Politics 🧬 Biracial Experience 🤝 Political Pragmatism

Capitalism in America

저자: Alan Greenspan • 2018

America's 400-year economic experiment: why each era's solution becomes the next era's problem.

4.06

2,000+

🏛️ Economic History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 🏢 Business History 💵 Monetary History ⚖️ Government And Markets

Capitalism in America

America's 400-year economic experiment: why each era's solution becomes the next era's problem.

저자: Alan Greenspan 2018 496 페이지

4.06

2,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Economic History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 🏢 Business History 💵 Monetary History ⚖️ Government And Markets

Destiny of the Republic

저자: Candice Millard • 2011

Survivable gunshot, deadly cure: a madman, a president, and the medical failure that finished him.

4.24

86,000+

🗳️ Gilded Age Politics ⚕️ Medical History 🏛️ Presidential Biography 🔫 Political Assassination 🧠 Criminal Insanity

Destiny of the Republic

Survivable gunshot, deadly cure: a madman, a president, and the medical failure that finished him.

저자: Candice Millard 2011 339 페이지

4.24

86,000+ 개의 평점

🗳️ Gilded Age Politics ⚕️ Medical History 🏛️ Presidential Biography 🔫 Political Assassination 🧠 Criminal Insanity

The Second Founding

저자: Eric Foner • 2019

Reconstruction gave birth to a new Constitution. The Supreme Court spent a century erasing it.

4.23

2,000+

📜 Constitutional History 🏛️ Reconstruction Era 🗳️ Voting Rights ⚖️ Equal Protection 🛑 Racial Inequality

The Second Founding

Reconstruction gave birth to a new Constitution. The Supreme Court spent a century erasing it.

저자: Eric Foner 2019 224 페이지

4.23

2,000+ 개의 평점

📜 Constitutional History 🏛️ Reconstruction Era 🗳️ Voting Rights ⚖️ Equal Protection 🛑 Racial Inequality

The Warmth of Other Suns

저자: Isabel Wilkerson • 2010

Three lives: a sharecropper, a picker, a surgeon. Their flight from the South rewired America.

4.48

100,000+

🚂 Great Migration ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🏙️ Urban History 🗣️ Oral History 🏠 Housing Discrimination

The Warmth of Other Suns

Three lives: a sharecropper, a picker, a surgeon. Their flight from the South rewired America.

저자: Isabel Wilkerson 2010 622 페이지

4.48

100,000+ 개의 평점

🚂 Great Migration ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🏙️ Urban History 🗣️ Oral History 🏠 Housing Discrimination

The Best and the Brightest

저자: David Halberstam • 1969

How Washington's most brilliant men led America into Vietnam, and could not stop themselves.

4.27

12,000+

🥶 Cold War History 🇻🇳 Vietnam War 🎭 Political Hubris 🏛️ American Foreign Policy 🏠 Presidential History

The Best and the Brightest

How Washington's most brilliant men led America into Vietnam, and could not stop themselves.

저자: David Halberstam 1969 720 페이지

4.27

12,000+ 개의 평점

🥶 Cold War History 🇻🇳 Vietnam War 🎭 Political Hubris 🏛️ American Foreign Policy 🏠 Presidential History

The Tycoons

저자: Charles R. Morris • 2005

Four rival industrialists, four methods, one generation: how America became the world's factory.

3.74

2,000+

🏛️ Gilded Age 🚂 Railroads 💰 Robber Barons 🏭 Industrial Revolution 📊 Corporate Consolidation

The Tycoons

Four rival industrialists, four methods, one generation: how America became the world's factory.

저자: Charles R. Morris 2005 400 페이지

3.74

2,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Gilded Age 🚂 Railroads 💰 Robber Barons 🏭 Industrial Revolution 📊 Corporate Consolidation

Modern Times

저자: Paul Johnson • 1983

Einstein and Freud dismantled the old moral universe. Into the void stepped the totalitarians.

4.29

2,000+

📅 Modern History 💡 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political History ⚖️ Moral Relativism 🚫 Totalitarianism

Modern Times

Einstein and Freud dismantled the old moral universe. Into the void stepped the totalitarians.

저자: Paul Johnson 1983 880 페이지

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📅 Modern History 💡 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political History ⚖️ Moral Relativism 🚫 Totalitarianism

The Great Crash 1929

저자: John Kenneth Galbraith • 1955

Authorities knew a crash was coming; five structural flaws ensured it became the Great Depression.

3.92

6,000+

📜 Financial History 📉 Stock Market Crashes 🫧 Speculative Bubbles 🧠 Market Psychology 🏛️ Institutional Economics

The Great Crash 1929

Authorities knew a crash was coming; five structural flaws ensured it became the Great Depression.

저자: John Kenneth Galbraith 1955 206 페이지

3.92

6,000+ 개의 평점

📜 Financial History 📉 Stock Market Crashes 🫧 Speculative Bubbles 🧠 Market Psychology 🏛️ Institutional Economics

Democracy in America

저자: Alexis de Tocqueville • 1835

Equality built American democracy—and made majority rule the new despotism.

4.05

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🏛️ Democratic Theory 🌍 Comparative Politics ⚖️ Social Equality ⚠️ Democratic Pathologies ✝️ Faith And Freedom

Democracy in America

Equality built American democracy—and made majority rule the new despotism.

저자: Alexis de Tocqueville 1835 983 페이지

4.05

27,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Democratic Theory 🌍 Comparative Politics ⚖️ Social Equality ⚠️ Democratic Pathologies ✝️ Faith And Freedom

1776

저자: 데이비드 매컬러 • 2005

How a year of defeats and desertions almost ended the American Revolution before it began.

4.10

200,000+

🦅 American Revolution ⚔️ Military History 🏰 18th Century Warfare 📖 Narrative History 📚 Popular History

1776

How a year of defeats and desertions almost ended the American Revolution before it began.

저자: 데이비드 매컬러 2005 386 페이지

4.10

200,000+ 개의 평점

🦅 American Revolution ⚔️ Military History 🏰 18th Century Warfare 📖 Narrative History 📚 Popular History

Empire of the Summer Moon

저자: S.C. Gwynne • 2010

An empire on horseback ruled the plains for two centuries. Then the six-shooter arrived.

4.25

70,000+

🪶 Plains Indians 🏜️ American Frontier 🐎 Horse Cultures ⚔️ Guerrilla Warfare ✊ Indigenous Resistance

Empire of the Summer Moon

An empire on horseback ruled the plains for two centuries. Then the six-shooter arrived.

저자: S.C. Gwynne 2010 371 페이지

4.25

70,000+ 개의 평점

🪶 Plains Indians 🏜️ American Frontier 🐎 Horse Cultures ⚔️ Guerrilla Warfare ✊ Indigenous Resistance

The Situation Room

저자: George Stephanopoulos • 2024

Twelve presidents. One basement room. The crises that revealed who they really were.

4.33

11,000+

🏛️ Presidential History 🏠 White House History ⚡ Crisis Decision Making 🌍 American Foreign Policy 🔒 National Security

The Situation Room

Twelve presidents. One basement room. The crises that revealed who they really were.

저자: George Stephanopoulos 2024 466 페이지

4.33

11,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Presidential History 🏠 White House History ⚡ Crisis Decision Making 🌍 American Foreign Policy 🔒 National Security

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young

저자: Harold G. Moore • 1991

The first helicopter assault of the Vietnam War became the template for every battle that followed.

4.34

33,000+

🇻🇳 Vietnam War 🏛️ Military History ⚔️ Battle Narratives 🥾 Infantry Combat 🔫 Close-Quarters Battle

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young

The first helicopter assault of the Vietnam War became the template for every battle that followed.

저자: Harold G. Moore 1991 480 페이지

4.34

33,000+ 개의 평점

🇻🇳 Vietnam War 🏛️ Military History ⚔️ Battle Narratives 🥾 Infantry Combat 🔫 Close-Quarters Battle

When the Clock Broke

저자: John Ganz • 2024

David Duke, Ross Perot, and the early 1990s road from the Cold War to Trump.

4.07

4,000+

🏛️ Political History 🐘 Right-Wing Movements ⚔️ Culture Wars 💸 Economic Anxiety 📻 Media Fragmentation

When the Clock Broke

David Duke, Ross Perot, and the early 1990s road from the Cold War to Trump.

저자: John Ganz 2024 420 페이지

4.07

4,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Political History 🐘 Right-Wing Movements ⚔️ Culture Wars 💸 Economic Anxiety 📻 Media Fragmentation

Suicide of a Superpower

저자: Patrick J. Buchanan • 2011

America didn't fall; it jumped. The ideas shredding it are its own choices, not enemy blows.

4.05

500+

📉 American Decline 🏛️ Paleoconservatism 🏭 Economic Nationalism 🌍 Imperial Overreach ⛪ Secularization Thesis

Suicide of a Superpower

America didn't fall; it jumped. The ideas shredding it are its own choices, not enemy blows.

저자: Patrick J. Buchanan 2011 496 페이지

4.05

500+ 개의 평점

📉 American Decline 🏛️ Paleoconservatism 🏭 Economic Nationalism 🌍 Imperial Overreach ⛪ Secularization Thesis

The Power Broker

저자: Robert A. Caro • 1974

How one unelected man built New York, bulldozed entire communities, and answered to no one.

4.53

29,000+

🏙️ Urban Planning 📋 Political Biography ⚡ Power And Democracy 🏚️ Displacement And Communities 🔄 Urban Renewal

The Power Broker

How one unelected man built New York, bulldozed entire communities, and answered to no one.

저자: Robert A. Caro 1974 1246 페이지

4.53

29,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Urban Planning 📋 Political Biography ⚡ Power And Democracy 🏚️ Displacement And Communities 🔄 Urban Renewal

The Bill of Obligations

저자: Richard N. Haass • 2023

Rights are half the contract. Democracy's survival depends on ten duties Americans have forgotten.

4.12

1,000+

🇺🇸 American Politics 📜 Civic Duty ⚡ Political Polarization 🤝 Political Compromise 🕳️ Democratic Erosion

The Bill of Obligations

Rights are half the contract. Democracy's survival depends on ten duties Americans have forgotten.

저자: Richard N. Haass 2023 240 페이지

4.12

1,000+ 개의 평점

🇺🇸 American Politics 📜 Civic Duty ⚡ Political Polarization 🤝 Political Compromise 🕳️ Democratic Erosion

The Robber Barons

저자: Matthew Josephson • 1934

A handful of men seized America's railroads, oil, and steel; government helped them do it.

3.73

429

💰 Gilded Age 🏭 Captains Of Industry 🎩 Monopoly And Trusts 🚂 Railroad Empires 🏛️ Political Corruption

The Robber Barons

A handful of men seized America's railroads, oil, and steel; government helped them do it.

저자: Matthew Josephson 1934 496 페이지

3.73

429 개의 평점

💰 Gilded Age 🏭 Captains Of Industry 🎩 Monopoly And Trusts 🚂 Railroad Empires 🏛️ Political Corruption

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