미국

미국의 경험은 국가의 이상, 제도, 그리고 끊임없이 변화하는 정체성에 의문을 제기하고, 찬양하며, 씨름하는 목소리들을 통해 펼쳐집니다. 이 작품들은 정치적 선언문과 문화 평론에서부터 개인 수필과 지역 이야기에 이르기까지, 미국 역사의 거대한 흐름과 그 사람들의 내밀한 이야기를 모두 담아냅니다.

미국 도서 요약

The Devil's Chessboard

저자: David Talbot • 2015

He built the CIA. Kennedy fired him. Then he led the cover-up of Kennedy's murder.

4.35

8,000+

🕵️ Intelligence Agencies 🥶 Cold War Politics 🕶️ Covert Operations 💥 Regime Change 🧠 Mind Control Experiments

The Devil's Chessboard

He built the CIA. Kennedy fired him. Then he led the cover-up of Kennedy's murder.

저자: David Talbot 2015 704 페이지

4.35

8,000+ 개의 평점

🕵️ Intelligence Agencies 🥶 Cold War Politics 🕶️ Covert Operations 💥 Regime Change 🧠 Mind Control Experiments

The Acid Queen

저자: Susannah Cahalan • 2025

Two hundred acid trips, one prison escape, 24 years underground: the woman behind Timothy Leary.

3.78

1,000+

🧪 Psychedelic History 👩‍🎤 Women's Biography 🕵️‍♀️ Fugitive Lives 🦋 Identity Reinvention 🎷 Beat Generation

The Acid Queen

Two hundred acid trips, one prison escape, 24 years underground: the woman behind Timothy Leary.

저자: Susannah Cahalan 2025 384 페이지

3.78

1,000+ 개의 평점

🧪 Psychedelic History 👩‍🎤 Women's Biography 🕵️‍♀️ Fugitive Lives 🦋 Identity Reinvention 🎷 Beat Generation

The Great Contradiction

저자: Joseph J. Ellis • 2025

To create a nation, the founders protected slavery. Indian removal was the other price of union.

4.20

1,000+

🏛️ Founding Era 📜 Constitutional History ⛓️ Slavery And The Founders 🪶 Indian Removal ⚖️ Liberty And Slavery

The Great Contradiction

To create a nation, the founders protected slavery. Indian removal was the other price of union.

저자: Joseph J. Ellis 2025 240 페이지

4.20

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Founding Era 📜 Constitutional History ⛓️ Slavery And The Founders 🪶 Indian Removal ⚖️ Liberty And Slavery

The Lost Order

저자: Steve Berry • 2017

A rare book dealer follows his ancestor's coded clues to a secret society's lost Confederate vault.

4.09

11,000+

🕵️ Conspiracy Thriller 🗺️ Treasure Hunt 🕯️ Secret Society 📜 Family Legacy ⏳ Dual Timeline

The Lost Order

A rare book dealer follows his ancestor's coded clues to a secret society's lost Confederate vault.

저자: Steve Berry 2017 493 페이지

4.09

11,000+ 개의 평점

🕵️ Conspiracy Thriller 🗺️ Treasure Hunt 🕯️ Secret Society 📜 Family Legacy ⏳ Dual Timeline

Unworthy Republic

저자: Claudio Saunt • 2020

Eighty thousand deported. A ledger-obsessed bureaucracy. The hidden cost behind the Trail of Tears.

4.22

1,000+

🎩 Jacksonian America 🏚️ Settler Colonialism ⛓️ Antebellum South 🧳 Forced Migration 🏞️ Land Dispossession

Unworthy Republic

Eighty thousand deported. A ledger-obsessed bureaucracy. The hidden cost behind the Trail of Tears.

저자: Claudio Saunt 2020 396 페이지

4.22

1,000+ 개의 평점

🎩 Jacksonian America 🏚️ Settler Colonialism ⛓️ Antebellum South 🧳 Forced Migration 🏞️ Land Dispossession

Not Working

저자: D.W. Gibson • 2012

What a paycheck conceals: Americans on the identity, health, and dignity that left with the job.

3.68

🎙️ Oral History 💸 Economic Precarity 🔨 Work And Identity 📉 Great Recession 🔄 Career Transitions

Not Working

What a paycheck conceals: Americans on the identity, health, and dignity that left with the job.

저자: D.W. Gibson 2012 479 페이지

3.68

60 개의 평점

🎙️ Oral History 💸 Economic Precarity 🔨 Work And Identity 📉 Great Recession 🔄 Career Transitions

Nonconformity

저자: Nelson Algren • 1996

Real writing means siding with the damned, risking obsession, and refusing to comfort.

4.07

268

✍️ The Writing Life 🎯 Artistic Integrity 🔍 Social Criticism 🏭 Literary Naturalism 🚪 Literary Outsiders

Nonconformity

Real writing means siding with the damned, risking obsession, and refusing to comfort.

저자: Nelson Algren 1996 144 페이지

4.07

268 개의 평점

✍️ The Writing Life 🎯 Artistic Integrity 🔍 Social Criticism 🏭 Literary Naturalism 🚪 Literary Outsiders

The Violent Take It by Force

저자: Matthew D. Taylor • 2024

Behind January 6th was a charismatic Christian movement most Americans have never heard of.

4.36

500+

🕊️ Charismatic Movement 👑 Dominion Theology ⚔️ Spiritual Warfare 🇺🇸 Christian Nationalism ⚠️ Religious Extremism

The Violent Take It by Force

Behind January 6th was a charismatic Christian movement most Americans have never heard of.

저자: Matthew D. Taylor 2024 292 페이지

4.36

500+ 개의 평점

🕊️ Charismatic Movement 👑 Dominion Theology ⚔️ Spiritual Warfare 🇺🇸 Christian Nationalism ⚠️ Religious Extremism

Football for Dummies

저자: Howie Long • 1998

How to watch football and actually know what's happening: rules, positions, strategy explained.

3.69

500+

🏈 American Football 📚 Sports Reference 📖 Beginner's Guides 📋 Game Rules 📣 Fan Culture

Football for Dummies

How to watch football and actually know what's happening: rules, positions, strategy explained.

저자: Howie Long 1998 414 페이지

3.69

500+ 개의 평점

🏈 American Football 📚 Sports Reference 📖 Beginner's Guides 📋 Game Rules 📣 Fan Culture

Summer and Smoke

저자: Tennessee Williams • 1948

From her rectory window, she watches the doctor's son chase everything she cannot give him.

3.99

3,000+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 💔 Unrequited Love 🔥 Repressed Desire ⏳ Missed Connection 🪞 Divided Self

Summer and Smoke

From her rectory window, she watches the doctor's son chase everything she cannot give him.

저자: Tennessee Williams 1948 72 페이지

3.99

3,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Southern Gothic 💔 Unrequited Love 🔥 Repressed Desire ⏳ Missed Connection 🪞 Divided Self

How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps

저자: Ben Shapiro • 2020

Three principles made America. A rival philosophy now insists all three were the problem all along.

4.06

5,000+

🇺🇸 American Identity 📜 Classical Liberalism ⚖️ Natural Rights 🏛️ Limited Government 🎯 Cancel Culture

How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps

Three principles made America. A rival philosophy now insists all three were the problem all along.

저자: Ben Shapiro 2020 288 페이지

4.06

5,000+ 개의 평점

🇺🇸 American Identity 📜 Classical Liberalism ⚖️ Natural Rights 🏛️ Limited Government 🎯 Cancel Culture

Cash

저자: Johnny Cash • 1997

He crawled into a cave to die and came out ready to play Folsom Prison.

4.01

25,000+

🎸 Music Memoirs 🕶️ Outlaw Country 💊 Addiction Recovery ✝️ Faith Journeys 🕊️ Redemption Stories

Cash

He crawled into a cave to die and came out ready to play Folsom Prison.

저자: Johnny Cash 1997 310 페이지

4.01

25,000+ 개의 평점

🎸 Music Memoirs 🕶️ Outlaw Country 💊 Addiction Recovery ✝️ Faith Journeys 🕊️ Redemption Stories

Dancing on Coals

저자: Ellen O'Connell • 2011

An Apache warrior hates the white heiress he is sworn to protect. Survival demands more.

4.15

5,000+

🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🏕️ Forced Proximity 🌍 Cross-Cultural Romance ⏳ Slow Burn Romance 🏜️ American West

Dancing on Coals

An Apache warrior hates the white heiress he is sworn to protect. Survival demands more.

저자: Ellen O'Connell 2011 320 페이지

4.15

5,000+ 개의 평점

🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🏕️ Forced Proximity 🌍 Cross-Cultural Romance ⏳ Slow Burn Romance 🏜️ American West

Legacy of Ashes

저자: Tim Weiner • 2007

Born to inform presidents, the CIA chose covert action instead, and its failures are fatal.

3.96

15,000+

🕵️ Intelligence Agencies 🕶️ Covert Operations 🚨 Institutional Failure 🧠 Intelligence Failures ❄️ Cold War History

Legacy of Ashes

Born to inform presidents, the CIA chose covert action instead, and its failures are fatal.

저자: Tim Weiner 2007 514 페이지

3.96

15,000+ 개의 평점

🕵️ Intelligence Agencies 🕶️ Covert Operations 🚨 Institutional Failure 🧠 Intelligence Failures ❄️ Cold War History

The Patriot Threat

저자: Steve Berry • 2015

Ambushed in Venice, Cotton Malone hunts documents proving the American income tax was never legal.

3.98

11,000+

🕵️ Conspiracy Thriller 🔐 Codebreaking 🏛️ Government Cover-Up 😮‍💨 Reluctant Operative 💀 Revenge Plot

The Patriot Threat

Ambushed in Venice, Cotton Malone hunts documents proving the American income tax was never legal.

저자: Steve Berry 2015 386 페이지

3.98

11,000+ 개의 평점

🕵️ Conspiracy Thriller 🔐 Codebreaking 🏛️ Government Cover-Up 😮‍💨 Reluctant Operative 💀 Revenge Plot

The South Was Right!

저자: James Ronald Kennedy • 1991

The South legally seceded. The North invaded for economic gain. The rest is propaganda.

3.93

482

🏴 Lost Cause 🏡 Southern Identity 📜 Historical Revisionism 🏛️ State Sovereignty ✂️ Secession

The South Was Right!

The South legally seceded. The North invaded for economic gain. The rest is propaganda.

저자: James Ronald Kennedy 1991 431 페이지

3.93

482 개의 평점

🏴 Lost Cause 🏡 Southern Identity 📜 Historical Revisionism 🏛️ State Sovereignty ✂️ Secession

Men and Rubber

저자: Harvey S. Firestone • 1926

Think deeply, save a surplus, never cut quality: a tire titan's rules for surviving any crisis.

4.25

253

🏗️ Company Building 🏭 Early Industrialists 💰 Financial Prudence ⚙️ Operational Excellence 🔗 Vertical Integration

Men and Rubber

Think deeply, save a surplus, never cut quality: a tire titan's rules for surviving any crisis.

저자: Harvey S. Firestone 1926 288 페이지

4.25

253 개의 평점

🏗️ Company Building 🏭 Early Industrialists 💰 Financial Prudence ⚙️ Operational Excellence 🔗 Vertical Integration

The Imagineers of War

저자: Sharon Weinberger • 2017

DARPA gave us the Internet and lost Vietnam. The same faith in technology drove both.

3.69

500+

🛰️ Cold War Science 🔬 Defense Research 🏛️ Institutional History 🌍 Counterinsurgency 🛸 Drone Warfare

The Imagineers of War

DARPA gave us the Internet and lost Vietnam. The same faith in technology drove both.

저자: Sharon Weinberger 2017 496 페이지

3.69

500+ 개의 평점

🛰️ Cold War Science 🔬 Defense Research 🏛️ Institutional History 🌍 Counterinsurgency 🛸 Drone Warfare

The Big Sort

저자: Bill Bishop • 2008

Landslide counties doubled because Americans moved to live near people who think just like them.

3.84

2,000+

🏛️ Political Polarization 🏘️ Lifestyle Segregation 📣 Echo Chambers 👥 Group Polarization 🧩 Social Fragmentation

The Big Sort

Landslide counties doubled because Americans moved to live near people who think just like them.

저자: Bill Bishop 2008 370 페이지

3.84

2,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Political Polarization 🏘️ Lifestyle Segregation 📣 Echo Chambers 👥 Group Polarization 🧩 Social Fragmentation

Fifty Sides of the Beach Boys

저자: Mark Dillon • 2012

Fifty songs that built and nearly destroyed a California garage band turned icon.

3.92

128

🎵 Song By Song Biography 🎸 1960s Rock 🎛️ Studio Innovation 🌊 California Sound ⚡ Band Dynamics

Fifty Sides of the Beach Boys

Fifty songs that built and nearly destroyed a California garage band turned icon.

저자: Mark Dillon 2012 336 페이지

3.92

128 개의 평점

🎵 Song By Song Biography 🎸 1960s Rock 🎛️ Studio Innovation 🌊 California Sound ⚡ Band Dynamics

Madam Ambassador

저자: Eleni Kounalakis • 2015

Orbán's supermajority could rewrite Hungary. She was the American ambassador inside the room.

3.77

110

🏛️ Diplomatic Memoir 👩‍💼 Women In Diplomacy 📉 Democratic Backsliding 🏚️ Post-Communist Europe 📜 Historical Reckoning

Madam Ambassador

Orbán's supermajority could rewrite Hungary. She was the American ambassador inside the room.

저자: Eleni Kounalakis 2015 320 페이지

3.77

110 개의 평점

🏛️ Diplomatic Memoir 👩‍💼 Women In Diplomacy 📉 Democratic Backsliding 🏚️ Post-Communist Europe 📜 Historical Reckoning

North Woods

저자: Daniel Mason • 2023

A Massachusetts house holds three centuries of longing: the dead stay, the forest reclaims all.

4.10

100,000+

📖 Polyphonic Novel 🏠 Place As Protagonist 👻 Haunted House 👯 Twin Sisters 🌳 Family Legacy

North Woods

A Massachusetts house holds three centuries of longing: the dead stay, the forest reclaims all.

저자: Daniel Mason 2023 372 페이지

4.10

100,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Polyphonic Novel 🏠 Place As Protagonist 👻 Haunted House 👯 Twin Sisters 🌳 Family Legacy

The Last Stand

저자: Nathaniel Philbrick • 2010

Custer chased glory; Sitting Bull saw it coming. The collision and the myth it made.

4.05

12,000+

🪖 Military History 🏞️ American Frontier 🏹 Native American History 🛡️ Indian Wars 🎖️ Military Leadership

The Last Stand

Custer chased glory; Sitting Bull saw it coming. The collision and the myth it made.

저자: Nathaniel Philbrick 2010 466 페이지

4.05

12,000+ 개의 평점

🪖 Military History 🏞️ American Frontier 🏹 Native American History 🛡️ Indian Wars 🎖️ Military Leadership

The Bonfire of the Vanities

저자: Tom Wolfe • 1987

A bond trader's wrong turn into the Bronx hands a city its next public enemy.

3.93

87,000+

🎭 Social Satire 📜 Literary Tragedy 📉 Fall From Grace 📺 Media Circus ⚖️ Legal Nightmare

The Bonfire of the Vanities

A bond trader's wrong turn into the Bronx hands a city its next public enemy.

저자: Tom Wolfe 1987 690 페이지

3.93

87,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Social Satire 📜 Literary Tragedy 📉 Fall From Grace 📺 Media Circus ⚖️ Legal Nightmare

The Wages of Whiteness

저자: David R. Roediger • 1991

The white working class took racial status as partial payment. The bargain was a trap.

3.99

2,000+

🔨 Labor History 👤 Whiteness Studies 🧬 Racial Identity 💰 Racial Capitalism 🏛️ Antebellum America

The Wages of Whiteness

The white working class took racial status as partial payment. The bargain was a trap.

저자: David R. Roediger 1991 197 페이지

3.99

2,000+ 개의 평점

🔨 Labor History 👤 Whiteness Studies 🧬 Racial Identity 💰 Racial Capitalism 🏛️ Antebellum America

The Strange Career of Jim Crow

저자: C. Vann Woodward • 1955

Jim Crow: a system built in the 1890s, started in the North, and never inevitable.

4.14

3,000+

🏗️ Reconstruction Era 🚂 Jim Crow Era 🏚️ Southern History ⚖️ Race And Law 📜 Revisionist History

The Strange Career of Jim Crow

Jim Crow: a system built in the 1890s, started in the North, and never inevitable.

저자: C. Vann Woodward 1955 245 페이지

4.14

3,000+ 개의 평점

🏗️ Reconstruction Era 🚂 Jim Crow Era 🏚️ Southern History ⚖️ Race And Law 📜 Revisionist History

A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1

저자: Allan H. Meltzer • 2003

The Federal Reserve's founding doctrines caused the Great Depression and the 1937 recession.

4.04

🏦 Federal Reserve History 💰 Monetary Policy 📉 Great Depression 🥇 Gold Standard 📚 Institutional History

A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1

The Federal Reserve's founding doctrines caused the Great Depression and the 1937 recession.

저자: Allan H. Meltzer 2003 808 페이지

4.04

53 개의 평점

🏦 Federal Reserve History 💰 Monetary Policy 📉 Great Depression 🥇 Gold Standard 📚 Institutional History

Booth

저자: Karen Joy Fowler • 2022

Six Booth siblings grow up among Shakespeare, scandal, and ghosts. One will assassinate a president.

3.82

15,000+

🎭 Family Saga 🎪 Theater Family 🏛️ Antebellum America 👻 Haunted By The Past ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry

Booth

Six Booth siblings grow up among Shakespeare, scandal, and ghosts. One will assassinate a president.

저자: Karen Joy Fowler 2022 470 페이지

3.82

15,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Family Saga 🎪 Theater Family 🏛️ Antebellum America 👻 Haunted By The Past ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry

Nature's Metropolis

저자: William Cronon • 1991

The grain and hogs flowing through Chicago didn't just feed the nation, they rewired the continent.

4.26

3,000+

🌿 Environmental History 🗺️ Economic Geography 🏙️ Urban Systems 📦 Commodity History 🏭 Industrial Food

Nature's Metropolis

The grain and hogs flowing through Chicago didn't just feed the nation, they rewired the continent.

저자: William Cronon 1991 592 페이지

4.26

3,000+ 개의 평점

🌿 Environmental History 🗺️ Economic Geography 🏙️ Urban Systems 📦 Commodity History 🏭 Industrial Food

The Big Myth

저자: Naomi Oreskes • 2023

Free market worship was never ancient wisdom. It was a business propaganda campaign.

4.36

500+

📉 Economic Myths 🏢 Corporate Lobbying 📢 Propaganda History 🌪️ Deregulation Disasters ⛓️‍💥 Free Market Critique

The Big Myth

Free market worship was never ancient wisdom. It was a business propaganda campaign.

저자: Naomi Oreskes 2023 576 페이지

4.36

500+ 개의 평점

📉 Economic Myths 🏢 Corporate Lobbying 📢 Propaganda History 🌪️ Deregulation Disasters ⛓️‍💥 Free Market Critique

Founding Faith

저자: Steven Waldman • 2008

The founders wanted religious freedom not despite their faith, but because of it.

4.07

500+

🕊️ Religious Freedom ⛪ Church And State 🎩 Founding Fathers ⚖️ Constitutional Law 1️⃣ First Amendment

Founding Faith

The founders wanted religious freedom not despite their faith, but because of it.

저자: Steven Waldman 2008 304 페이지

4.07

500+ 개의 평점

🕊️ Religious Freedom ⛪ Church And State 🎩 Founding Fathers ⚖️ Constitutional Law 1️⃣ First Amendment

Arts & Entertainments

저자: Christopher R. Beha • 2014

His sex tape with a celebrity ex leaks; a reality show devours his family and future.

3.20

500+

📰 Media Satire 📺 Reality Television 🤰 Fertility Struggles 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Staged Romance

Arts & Entertainments

His sex tape with a celebrity ex leaks; a reality show devours his family and future.

저자: Christopher R. Beha 2014 269 페이지

3.20

500+ 개의 평점

📰 Media Satire 📺 Reality Television 🤰 Fertility Struggles 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Staged Romance

The Second Mrs. Astor

저자: Shana Abe • 2021

A teenager marries America's richest man, and a scandalized society drives them onto the Titanic.

3.96

74,000+

🏛️ Gilded Age 💐 Age Gap Romance 🖤 Doomed Love 🌊 Survivor's Guilt 🕰️ Edwardian

The Second Mrs. Astor

A teenager marries America's richest man, and a scandalized society drives them onto the Titanic.

저자: Shana Abe 2021 323 페이지

3.96

74,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Gilded Age 💐 Age Gap Romance 🖤 Doomed Love 🌊 Survivor's Guilt 🕰️ Edwardian

The Indispensable Right

저자: Jonathan Turley • 2024

Free speech was America's founding promise and its first betrayal. The pattern is repeating now.

4.36

414

📜 Free Speech History ⚖️ Constitutional Law 🚫 Cancel Culture 🎓 Academic Freedom 🏛️ Government Censorship

The Indispensable Right

Free speech was America's founding promise and its first betrayal. The pattern is repeating now.

저자: Jonathan Turley 2024 432 페이지

4.36

414 개의 평점

📜 Free Speech History ⚖️ Constitutional Law 🚫 Cancel Culture 🎓 Academic Freedom 🏛️ Government Censorship

The Pleasing Hour

저자: Lily King • 1999

An American au pair arrives in Paris carrying one secret: the baby she gave her sister.

3.54

5,000+

🇫🇷 American In Paris 🤱 Maternal Sacrifice 💋 Forbidden Affair 🗣️ Language Barrier 💔 Mother-Daughter Wounds

The Pleasing Hour

An American au pair arrives in Paris carrying one secret: the baby she gave her sister.

저자: Lily King 1999 256 페이지

3.54

5,000+ 개의 평점

🇫🇷 American In Paris 🤱 Maternal Sacrifice 💋 Forbidden Affair 🗣️ Language Barrier 💔 Mother-Daughter Wounds

저자: Thomas Pynchon • 1963

One man chases a woman who keeps appearing across history, each time less human than before.

3.97

25,000+

🔍 Conspiracy Quest 🎭 Identity As Performance 🧿 Object Fetishism 🌍 Colonial Africa 🗽 Bohemian New York

One man chases a woman who keeps appearing across history, each time less human than before.

저자: Thomas Pynchon 1963 640 페이지

3.97

25,000+ 개의 평점

🔍 Conspiracy Quest 🎭 Identity As Performance 🧿 Object Fetishism 🌍 Colonial Africa 🗽 Bohemian New York

American Crucible

저자: Gary Gerstle • 2001

Equal rights versus white identity: how America's two nationalisms have warred for a century.

3.82

246

🏛️ American Nationalism 📅 20th Century America ⚖️ Civic Nationalism 🧬 Racial Nationalism 🚪 Immigration Restriction

American Crucible

Equal rights versus white identity: how America's two nationalisms have warred for a century.

저자: Gary Gerstle 2001 472 페이지

3.82

246 개의 평점

🏛️ American Nationalism 📅 20th Century America ⚖️ Civic Nationalism 🧬 Racial Nationalism 🚪 Immigration Restriction

The Business of America is Lobbying

저자: Lee Drutman • 2015

Once corporations hire lobbyists, they rarely leave. The feedback loop that keeps them spending.

3.79

🏢 Corporate Lobbying 📊 Political Economy 💼 Corporate Influence 🔒 Regulatory Capture ⚠️ Democratic Erosion

The Business of America is Lobbying

Once corporations hire lobbyists, they rarely leave. The feedback loop that keeps them spending.

저자: Lee Drutman 2015 269 페이지

3.79

67 개의 평점

🏢 Corporate Lobbying 📊 Political Economy 💼 Corporate Influence 🔒 Regulatory Capture ⚠️ Democratic Erosion

American Slavery, American Freedom

저자: Edmund S. Morgan • 1975

American liberty and American slavery grew from the same soil, and each strengthened the other.

4.12

3,000+

🏛️ Colonial America 🌿 Virginia History ⛓️ Origins Of Slavery 🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏼 Race And Class 🔨 Labor History

American Slavery, American Freedom

American liberty and American slavery grew from the same soil, and each strengthened the other.

저자: Edmund S. Morgan 1975 464 페이지

4.12

3,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Colonial America 🌿 Virginia History ⛓️ Origins Of Slavery 🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏼 Race And Class 🔨 Labor History

Hocus Pocus

저자: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. • 1990

Writing on scraps in a library turned prison, he counts his kills and his lovers.

3.83

36,000+

🎭 Political Satire 📝 Fictional Memoir 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🖤 Dark Comedy 🔒 Prison Narrative

Hocus Pocus

Writing on scraps in a library turned prison, he counts his kills and his lovers.

저자: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1990 322 페이지

3.83

36,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Political Satire 📝 Fictional Memoir 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🖤 Dark Comedy 🔒 Prison Narrative

Abraham Lincoln, Philosopher Statesman

저자: Joseph R. Fornieri • 2013

Lincoln's secret: he wrestled with eternal principles before he ever grasped for power.

4.67

🏛️ Statesmanship ⚔️ Civil War Era 🦉 Practical Wisdom ⚖️ Moral Leadership 🗣️ Rhetoric And Persuasion

Abraham Lincoln, Philosopher Statesman

Lincoln's secret: he wrestled with eternal principles before he ever grasped for power.

저자: Joseph R. Fornieri 2013 249 페이지

4.67

6 개의 평점

🏛️ Statesmanship ⚔️ Civil War Era 🦉 Practical Wisdom ⚖️ Moral Leadership 🗣️ Rhetoric And Persuasion

You Can’t Be Serious

저자: Kal Penn • 2021

His first day in Hollywood, his back was on fire. His next job, he served President Obama.

4.20

10,000+

🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🌍 Immigrant Experience 🧧 Asian American Identity 🗣️ Code-Switching 🔄 Career Pivots

You Can’t Be Serious

His first day in Hollywood, his back was on fire. His next job, he served President Obama.

저자: Kal Penn 2021 368 페이지

4.20

10,000+ 개의 평점

🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🌍 Immigrant Experience 🧧 Asian American Identity 🗣️ Code-Switching 🔄 Career Pivots

White Backlash

저자: Marisa Abrajano • 2015

The data is clear: anti-Latino sentiment, not economic anxiety, has redrawn America's political map.

3.65

✈️ Immigration Politics 🌎 Latino Politics 🗳️ Voting Behavior 📺 Media Effects 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Racial Attitudes

White Backlash

The data is clear: anti-Latino sentiment, not economic anxiety, has redrawn America's political map.

저자: Marisa Abrajano 2015 256 페이지

3.65

49 개의 평점

✈️ Immigration Politics 🌎 Latino Politics 🗳️ Voting Behavior 📺 Media Effects 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Racial Attitudes

Jesus and John Wayne

저자: Kristin Kobes Du Mez • 2020

A history of how white evangelicals swapped a gentle gospel for a militant, iron-fisted patriarch.

4.25

42,000+

🇺🇸 Christian Nationalism 🐘 Religious Right ⛪ White Evangelicalism 💪 Militant Masculinity 🏛️ Patriarchal Culture

Jesus and John Wayne

A history of how white evangelicals swapped a gentle gospel for a militant, iron-fisted patriarch.

저자: Kristin Kobes Du Mez 2020 356 페이지

4.25

42,000+ 개의 평점

🇺🇸 Christian Nationalism 🐘 Religious Right ⛪ White Evangelicalism 💪 Militant Masculinity 🏛️ Patriarchal Culture

Blowback

저자: Chalmers Johnson • 2000

Covert empire: why policies hidden from the American public keep producing violent retaliation.

4.06

2,000+

🏛️ Foreign Policy 🇺🇸 American Empire 🕵️ Covert Operations 📉 Imperial Overreach 💰 Economic Hegemony

Blowback

Covert empire: why policies hidden from the American public keep producing violent retaliation.

저자: Chalmers Johnson 2000 268 페이지

4.06

2,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Foreign Policy 🇺🇸 American Empire 🕵️ Covert Operations 📉 Imperial Overreach 💰 Economic Hegemony

The Natural

저자: Bernard Malamud • 1952

A baseball prodigy returns at 34, but a cold woman and a bookie's fix threaten his last shot.

3.61

12,000+

🖤 Literary Baseball 🦅 American Myth 💋 Femme Fatale 🎭 Tragic Hero 💪 Sports Comeback

The Natural

A baseball prodigy returns at 34, but a cold woman and a bookie's fix threaten his last shot.

저자: Bernard Malamud 1952 231 페이지

3.61

12,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Literary Baseball 🦅 American Myth 💋 Femme Fatale 🎭 Tragic Hero 💪 Sports Comeback

The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One

저자: William K. Black • 1995

Bank CEOs were the biggest bank robbers, using deregulation to loot their own institutions.

4.06

185

🏦 Financial Fraud 🏛️ Regulatory Capture 📊 Accounting Fraud ⚠️ Systemic Risk 🎲 Moral Hazard

The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One

Bank CEOs were the biggest bank robbers, using deregulation to loot their own institutions.

저자: William K. Black 1995 352 페이지

4.06

185 개의 평점

🏦 Financial Fraud 🏛️ Regulatory Capture 📊 Accounting Fraud ⚠️ Systemic Risk 🎲 Moral Hazard

The Lioness of Boston

저자: Emily Franklin • 2023

A New York heiress marries into Boston society and discovers every door is bolted shut.

3.64

10,000+

🏛️ Gilded Age Boston 🚪 Outsider In Society 🏗️ Woman Builds Legacy 🎨 Grief Into Art 👥 Chosen Family

The Lioness of Boston

A New York heiress marries into Boston society and discovers every door is bolted shut.

저자: Emily Franklin 2023 356 페이지

3.64

10,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Gilded Age Boston 🚪 Outsider In Society 🏗️ Woman Builds Legacy 🎨 Grief Into Art 👥 Chosen Family

Grandma Gatewood's Walk

저자: Ben Montgomery • 2014

A denim sack, Keds, a shower curtain: a 67-year-old grandma walked the Appalachian Trail alone.

4.11

31,000+

🥾 Thru Hiking 🏔️ Appalachian Trail 👩‍🦳 Women In History 💜 Domestic Abuse Survivors 🌳 Healing In Nature

Grandma Gatewood's Walk

A denim sack, Keds, a shower curtain: a 67-year-old grandma walked the Appalachian Trail alone.

저자: Ben Montgomery 2014 277 페이지

4.11

31,000+ 개의 평점

🥾 Thru Hiking 🏔️ Appalachian Trail 👩‍🦳 Women In History 💜 Domestic Abuse Survivors 🌳 Healing In Nature

도서관의 책

저자: 수전 올리언 • 2018

A seven-hour fire, 400,000 lost books, and one aspiring actor whose story kept changing.

3.88

100,000+

📚 Library History 🏛️ Public Libraries ✍️ Narrative Journalism 🔍 Arson Investigation 🔥 Book Burning

도서관의 책

A seven-hour fire, 400,000 lost books, and one aspiring actor whose story kept changing.

저자: 수전 올리언 2018 317 페이지

3.88

100,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Library History 🏛️ Public Libraries ✍️ Narrative Journalism 🔍 Arson Investigation 🔥 Book Burning

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