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 Last Days of Marilyn Monroe

저자: James Patterson • 2025

A staged crime scene. A missing diary. The death of Marilyn Monroe was never a simple suicide.

3.66

6,000+

🎬 Hollywood History 🎥 Classic Cinema 🕵️ Unsolved Mystery 💊 Substance Abuse 🏛️ Political Scandal

The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe

A staged crime scene. A missing diary. The death of Marilyn Monroe was never a simple suicide.

저자: James Patterson 2025 416 페이지

3.66

6,000+ 개의 평점

🎬 Hollywood History 🎥 Classic Cinema 🕵️ Unsolved Mystery 💊 Substance Abuse 🏛️ Political Scandal

Affluence and Influence

저자: Martin Gilens • 2010

When the rich and the rest disagree, policy follows the rich. Forty years of data.

3.79

145

💰 Money In Politics 📉 Income Inequality 🏛️ Plutocracy 🗳️ Political Representation 🧠 Power Elite Theory

Affluence and Influence

When the rich and the rest disagree, policy follows the rich. Forty years of data.

저자: Martin Gilens 2010 352 페이지

3.79

145 개의 평점

💰 Money In Politics 📉 Income Inequality 🏛️ Plutocracy 🗳️ Political Representation 🧠 Power Elite Theory

Illiberal America

저자: Steven Hahn • 2024

American liberty as a tradition is a Cold War invention; illiberalism is the nation's true center.

4.16

318

🏛 Illiberal Politics ⛓ Racial Capitalism 📚 Revisionist History 🔒 Mass Incarceration 💹 Political Economy

Illiberal America

American liberty as a tradition is a Cold War invention; illiberalism is the nation's true center.

저자: Steven Hahn 2024 464 페이지

4.16

318 개의 평점

🏛 Illiberal Politics ⛓ Racial Capitalism 📚 Revisionist History 🔒 Mass Incarceration 💹 Political Economy

Spy Schools

저자: Daniel Golden • 2017

China, Cuba, and the CIA recruit on American campuses. The schools look the other way.

3.57

315

🔍 Academic Espionage 🇨🇳 Chinese Espionage 🕵️ Covert Operations 🛡️ Counterintelligence 🌐 Foreign Influence

Spy Schools

China, Cuba, and the CIA recruit on American campuses. The schools look the other way.

저자: Daniel Golden 2017 352 페이지

3.57

315 개의 평점

🔍 Academic Espionage 🇨🇳 Chinese Espionage 🕵️ Covert Operations 🛡️ Counterintelligence 🌐 Foreign Influence

The Divided Welfare State

저자: Jacob S. Hacker • 2002

America didn't skip the welfare state. It hid it in tax breaks and employer benefits.

3.70

🏛️ Welfare State 🔄 Path Dependence 🏢 Private Welfare 💰 Tax Subsidies 🏫 Historical Institutionalism

The Divided Welfare State

America didn't skip the welfare state. It hid it in tax breaks and employer benefits.

저자: Jacob S. Hacker 2002 447 페이지

3.70

60 개의 평점

🏛️ Welfare State 🔄 Path Dependence 🏢 Private Welfare 💰 Tax Subsidies 🏫 Historical Institutionalism

The Deadline

저자: Jill Lepore • 2023

The dead still run the country. A historian shows how, from the Constitution to the smartphone.

4.31

500+

🏛️ Cultural History 📚 Essay Collections 📰 Media Criticism 🇺🇸 American Democracy ⚖️ Constitutional Law

The Deadline

The dead still run the country. A historian shows how, from the Constitution to the smartphone.

저자: Jill Lepore 2023 622 페이지

4.31

500+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Cultural History 📚 Essay Collections 📰 Media Criticism 🇺🇸 American Democracy ⚖️ Constitutional Law

Our Palestine Question

저자: Geoffrey Phillip Levin • 2023

Declassified files expose Israel's covert campaign to suppress American Jewish dissent on Palestine.

4.17

📜 American Jewish History 🕊️ Israel-Palestine Conflict 🌐 Diaspora Politics 📢 Jewish Anti-Zionism ⚖️ Palestinian Rights

Our Palestine Question

Declassified files expose Israel's covert campaign to suppress American Jewish dissent on Palestine.

저자: Geoffrey Phillip Levin 2023 320 페이지

4.17

99 개의 평점

📜 American Jewish History 🕊️ Israel-Palestine Conflict 🌐 Diaspora Politics 📢 Jewish Anti-Zionism ⚖️ Palestinian Rights

Lions and Scavengers

저자: Ben Shapiro • 2025

Two spirits fight for America: one builds civilization, the other feeds on its carcass.

4.17

1,000+

🏛️ Western Civilization 📜 Political Philosophy 🐘 American Conservatism 📉 Civilizational Decline 🌱 Cultural Renewal

Lions and Scavengers

Two spirits fight for America: one builds civilization, the other feeds on its carcass.

저자: Ben Shapiro 2025 256 페이지

4.17

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Western Civilization 📜 Political Philosophy 🐘 American Conservatism 📉 Civilizational Decline 🌱 Cultural Renewal

When We Were the Kennedys

저자: Monica Wood • 2012

A girl loses her father. Then JFK is shot, and private grief finds a national mirror.

3.93

7,000+

🧒 Childhood Memoir 🕊️ Parental Loss ☮️ 1960s America 🔧 Working Class Life ✝️ Catholic Family Life

When We Were the Kennedys

A girl loses her father. Then JFK is shot, and private grief finds a national mirror.

저자: Monica Wood 2012 235 페이지

3.93

7,000+ 개의 평점

🧒 Childhood Memoir 🕊️ Parental Loss ☮️ 1960s America 🔧 Working Class Life ✝️ Catholic Family Life

What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

저자: Elizabeth Catte • 2018

Appalachia's story isn't moral failure. It's extraction, and resistance is the real tradition.

4.01

4,000+

🌄 Appalachian Studies 🏘️ Rural America 🔍 Debunking Myths ⛏️ Economic Exploitation ⚒️ Labor History

What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

Appalachia's story isn't moral failure. It's extraction, and resistance is the real tradition.

저자: Elizabeth Catte 2018 200 페이지

4.01

4,000+ 개의 평점

🌄 Appalachian Studies 🏘️ Rural America 🔍 Debunking Myths ⛏️ Economic Exploitation ⚒️ Labor History

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806

저자: Meriwether Lewis • 2005

Starvation, rapids, and tribal diplomacy: the raw journal that built an American myth.

3.93

381

🏞️ Westward Expansion 🗄️ Primary Source Journal 🧭 Exploration Narratives 🌿 Natural History 🤝 Native Diplomacy

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806

Starvation, rapids, and tribal diplomacy: the raw journal that built an American myth.

저자: Meriwether Lewis 2005 588 페이지

3.93

381 개의 평점

🏞️ Westward Expansion 🗄️ Primary Source Journal 🧭 Exploration Narratives 🌿 Natural History 🤝 Native Diplomacy

The Day Freedom Died

저자: Charles Lane • 2008

The Easter Sunday slaughter that gave white supremacy a legal shield for a century.

4.08

447

🏛️ Reconstruction Era ⚖️ Constitutional Law ☠️ White Supremacy 🩸 Racial Violence 📜 Constitutional Crisis

The Day Freedom Died

The Easter Sunday slaughter that gave white supremacy a legal shield for a century.

저자: Charles Lane 2008 352 페이지

4.08

447 개의 평점

🏛️ Reconstruction Era ⚖️ Constitutional Law ☠️ White Supremacy 🩸 Racial Violence 📜 Constitutional Crisis

Furious Minds

저자: Laura K. Field • 2025

A network of philosophers, lawyers, and clerics built MAGA's ideas. Their goal: an illiberal state.

4.09

500+

🇺🇸 American Conservatism ⚠️ Far-Right Movements ⚔️ Culture Wars 🏛️ Illiberal Politics ✝️ Christian Nationalism

Furious Minds

A network of philosophers, lawyers, and clerics built MAGA's ideas. Their goal: an illiberal state.

저자: Laura K. Field 2025 432 페이지

4.09

500+ 개의 평점

🇺🇸 American Conservatism ⚠️ Far-Right Movements ⚔️ Culture Wars 🏛️ Illiberal Politics ✝️ Christian Nationalism

The Appeal

저자: John Grisham • 2008

Their client won in court. Now a billionaire is buying the judges who can reverse it.

3.65

63,000+

🏛️ Legal Thriller ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 🪨 David Vs Goliath ☣️ Environmental Disaster 📜 Legal Ethics

The Appeal

Their client won in court. Now a billionaire is buying the judges who can reverse it.

저자: John Grisham 2008 358 페이지

3.65

63,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Legal Thriller ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 🪨 David Vs Goliath ☣️ Environmental Disaster 📜 Legal Ethics

The Populist Moment

저자: Lawrence Goodwyn • 1978

A democratic mass movement rose among farmers, until a hollow silver crusade stole its platform.

3.80

335

🌾 Agrarian Movements 🗳️ American Populism 🏛️ Gilded Age Politics 🤝 Cooperative Economics 💵 Monetary Reform

The Populist Moment

A democratic mass movement rose among farmers, until a hollow silver crusade stole its platform.

저자: Lawrence Goodwyn 1978 384 페이지

3.80

335 개의 평점

🌾 Agrarian Movements 🗳️ American Populism 🏛️ Gilded Age Politics 🤝 Cooperative Economics 💵 Monetary Reform

American Therapy

저자: Jonathan Engel • 2008

America's century in therapy: why the couch lost to the pill, the clipboard, and the meeting.

3.39

🛋️ Psychotherapy History 🇺🇸 American Cultural History 🗣️ Talk Therapy 🧠 Biological Psychiatry ✊ Anti-Psychiatry

American Therapy

America's century in therapy: why the couch lost to the pill, the clipboard, and the meeting.

저자: Jonathan Engel 2008 368 페이지

3.39

70 개의 평점

🛋️ Psychotherapy History 🇺🇸 American Cultural History 🗣️ Talk Therapy 🧠 Biological Psychiatry ✊ Anti-Psychiatry

The Case Against Socialism

저자: Rand Paul • 2019

Why socialism always ends in bread lines and body counts, from Venezuela to Mao's China.

4.18

1,000+

🚫 Anti-Socialism 📈 Free Market Economics 💰 Kleptocracy 👁️ Surveillance State 💀 State Violence

The Case Against Socialism

Why socialism always ends in bread lines and body counts, from Venezuela to Mao's China.

저자: Rand Paul 2019 373 페이지

4.18

1,000+ 개의 평점

🚫 Anti-Socialism 📈 Free Market Economics 💰 Kleptocracy 👁️ Surveillance State 💀 State Violence

The Bartender's Tale

저자: Ivan Doig • 2012

A bartender raises his son in a Montana saloon where stories matter more than whiskey.

4.07

10,000+

🍺 Saloon Life 🏘️ Eccentric Small Town 💔 Absent Mother 👨‍👦 Father-Son Bond 🎙️ Oral History

The Bartender's Tale

A bartender raises his son in a Montana saloon where stories matter more than whiskey.

저자: Ivan Doig 2012 387 페이지

4.07

10,000+ 개의 평점

🍺 Saloon Life 🏘️ Eccentric Small Town 💔 Absent Mother 👨‍👦 Father-Son Bond 🎙️ Oral History

The Crusader

저자: Paul Kengor • 2006

The Cold War didn't end by accident. Reagan spent six decades preparing to win it.

4.33

387

❄️ Cold War History 🏛️ Presidential Biography 💰 Economic Warfare 🚀 Arms Race 🕵️ Covert Operations

The Crusader

The Cold War didn't end by accident. Reagan spent six decades preparing to win it.

저자: Paul Kengor 2006 432 페이지

4.33

387 개의 평점

❄️ Cold War History 🏛️ Presidential Biography 💰 Economic Warfare 🚀 Arms Race 🕵️ Covert Operations

The Texan's Wager

저자: Jodi Thomas • 2002

Banished women enter a frontier wife lottery. Bailee draws a silent farmer who speaks in sign.

3.88

7,000+

🤠 Western Romance 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🤫 Silent Hero 🔥 Slow Burn 🏠 Found Family

The Texan's Wager

Banished women enter a frontier wife lottery. Bailee draws a silent farmer who speaks in sign.

저자: Jodi Thomas 2002 336 페이지

3.88

7,000+ 개의 평점

🤠 Western Romance 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🤫 Silent Hero 🔥 Slow Burn 🏠 Found Family

The Rise and Fall of American Growth

저자: Robert J. Gordon • 2016

Indoor plumbing, electricity, and the car transformed daily life in ways the internet never will.

4.18

2,000+

🏛️ Economic History 🇺🇸 American Economy ⚙️ Technological Change 🏠 Standard Of Living 🏭 Industrial Revolutions

The Rise and Fall of American Growth

Indoor plumbing, electricity, and the car transformed daily life in ways the internet never will.

저자: Robert J. Gordon 2016 784 페이지

4.18

2,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Economic History 🇺🇸 American Economy ⚙️ Technological Change 🏠 Standard Of Living 🏭 Industrial Revolutions

Reveille for Radicals

저자: Saul D. Alinsky • 1946

Democracy requires organized conflict and leaders from the bottom. A 1946 manual, still unheeded.

3.84

500+

🤝 Community Organizing 🌱 Grassroots Democracy 👥 Indigenous Leadership 🎯 Self-Interest Politics ⚔️ Conflict As Catalyst

Reveille for Radicals

Democracy requires organized conflict and leaders from the bottom. A 1946 manual, still unheeded.

저자: Saul D. Alinsky 1946 256 페이지

3.84

500+ 개의 평점

🤝 Community Organizing 🌱 Grassroots Democracy 👥 Indigenous Leadership 🎯 Self-Interest Politics ⚔️ Conflict As Catalyst

Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights

저자: Stella Adler • 2012

Stella Adler's standard for American drama: why the play's world matters more than your feelings.

4.47

111

🎬 Acting Technique 📚 Dramatic Literature 🇺🇸 American Theatre 🔍 Play Analysis 🎓 Acting Pedagogy

Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights

Stella Adler's standard for American drama: why the play's world matters more than your feelings.

저자: Stella Adler 2012 400 페이지

4.47

111 개의 평점

🎬 Acting Technique 📚 Dramatic Literature 🇺🇸 American Theatre 🔍 Play Analysis 🎓 Acting Pedagogy

Politics by Other Means

저자: Professor of Political Science Benjamin Ginsberg • 1990

When elections can't resolve political conflict, investigations, prosecutions, and press warfare do.

3.29

🏛️ Political Institutions ⚖️ Divided Government 📜 American Political Development 🔍 Political Scandal ⚔️ Institutional Conflict

Politics by Other Means

When elections can't resolve political conflict, investigations, prosecutions, and press warfare do.

저자: Professor of Political Science Benjamin Ginsberg 1990 268 페이지

3.29

38 개의 평점

🏛️ Political Institutions ⚖️ Divided Government 📜 American Political Development 🔍 Political Scandal ⚔️ Institutional Conflict

The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City

저자: Alan Ehrenhalt • 2012

American metros are inverting: affluence returns downtown, immigrants settle the suburbs.

3.77

500+

📊 Demographic Shifts 🏘️ Suburban Transformation 🏗️ Gentrification ☀️ Sun Belt Cities 🏙️ Density And Sprawl

The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City

American metros are inverting: affluence returns downtown, immigrants settle the suburbs.

저자: Alan Ehrenhalt 2012 288 페이지

3.77

500+ 개의 평점

📊 Demographic Shifts 🏘️ Suburban Transformation 🏗️ Gentrification ☀️ Sun Belt Cities 🏙️ Density And Sprawl

The Wright Brothers

저자: David McCullough • 2015

No college, no funding, a bicycle shop: two brothers who beat the world to powered flight.

4.18

99,000+

🛩️ Aviation History 🛠️ Inventor Biographies 👥 Brother Partnerships 🏛️ Early 1900s America 🔧 Self-Taught Engineers

The Wright Brothers

No college, no funding, a bicycle shop: two brothers who beat the world to powered flight.

저자: David McCullough 2015 320 페이지

4.18

99,000+ 개의 평점

🛩️ Aviation History 🛠️ Inventor Biographies 👥 Brother Partnerships 🏛️ Early 1900s America 🔧 Self-Taught Engineers

유리 동물원

저자: 테네시 윌리엄스 • 1945

When a gentleman caller arrives for dinner, a family's fragile hopes hang on one evening.

3.74

100,000+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🎭 Domestic Tragedy 👒 Faded Southern Belle 🧠 Unreliable Memory 💔 Familial Obligation

유리 동물원

When a gentleman caller arrives for dinner, a family's fragile hopes hang on one evening.

저자: 테네시 윌리엄스 1945 104 페이지

3.74

100,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🎭 Domestic Tragedy 👒 Faded Southern Belle 🧠 Unreliable Memory 💔 Familial Obligation

McNamara at War

저자: Philip Taubman • 2025

By 1965, McNamara's data proved Vietnam unwinnable. Why he kept fighting for three more years.

4.18

500+

🇻🇳 Vietnam War 🥶 Cold War History 🧮 Technocratic Hubris 🌐 American Foreign Policy 📊 Quantitative Management

McNamara at War

By 1965, McNamara's data proved Vietnam unwinnable. Why he kept fighting for three more years.

저자: Philip Taubman 2025 512 페이지

4.18

500+ 개의 평점

🇻🇳 Vietnam War 🥶 Cold War History 🧮 Technocratic Hubris 🌐 American Foreign Policy 📊 Quantitative Management

The White Hot

저자: Quiara Alegría Hudes • 2025

Eight years after vanishing, a mother writes her daughter a letter explaining why she had to leave.

3.72

3,000+

🔥 Inherited Rage 👩‍👧 Disappearing Mother 🩸 Generational Trauma 🌺 Latinx Family Saga ✉️ Epistolary Novel

The White Hot

Eight years after vanishing, a mother writes her daughter a letter explaining why she had to leave.

저자: Quiara Alegría Hudes 2025 176 페이지

3.72

3,000+ 개의 평점

🔥 Inherited Rage 👩‍👧 Disappearing Mother 🩸 Generational Trauma 🌺 Latinx Family Saga ✉️ Epistolary Novel

When Race Trumps Merit

저자: Heather Mac Donald • 2023

When racial equity demands lowering standards, medicine suffers, art crumbles, and crime surges.

4.36

500+

🏛️ Affirmative Action 📊 Racial Disparities ⚖️ Diversity Debate 🚔 Race And Policing 🔥 Culture War

When Race Trumps Merit

When racial equity demands lowering standards, medicine suffers, art crumbles, and crime surges.

저자: Heather Mac Donald 2023 320 페이지

4.36

500+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Affirmative Action 📊 Racial Disparities ⚖️ Diversity Debate 🚔 Race And Policing 🔥 Culture War

His Very Best

저자: Jonathan Alter • 2020

The one-term president who redefined what a former president can do.

4.35

2,000+

🏛️ Presidential Biography 🚪 Outsider Politics 🕊️ Human Rights Diplomacy 📫 Post-Presidential Service 🤝 Conflict Resolution

His Very Best

The one-term president who redefined what a former president can do.

저자: Jonathan Alter 2020 800 페이지

4.35

2,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Presidential Biography 🚪 Outsider Politics 🕊️ Human Rights Diplomacy 📫 Post-Presidential Service 🤝 Conflict Resolution

White Identity Politics

저자: Ashley Jardina • 2019

One in three white Americans now see their race as politically meaningful. That changes everything.

3.90

208

🦅 American Politics ✊ Racial Politics 🪞 Whiteness Studies 🧠 Political Psychology 📊 Racial Attitudes

White Identity Politics

One in three white Americans now see their race as politically meaningful. That changes everything.

저자: Ashley Jardina 2019

3.90

208 개의 평점

🦅 American Politics ✊ Racial Politics 🪞 Whiteness Studies 🧠 Political Psychology 📊 Racial Attitudes

Anatomy of a Murder

저자: Robert Traver • 1958

When a soldier kills his wife's accused rapist, a small-town lawyer must prove he was insane.

4.05

3,000+

🏛️ Legal Thriller ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 👤 Lawyer Protagonist 🧠 Insanity Defense 🤥 Unreliable Witnesses

Anatomy of a Murder

When a soldier kills his wife's accused rapist, a small-town lawyer must prove he was insane.

저자: Robert Traver 1958 437 페이지

4.05

3,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Legal Thriller ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 👤 Lawyer Protagonist 🧠 Insanity Defense 🤥 Unreliable Witnesses

The Sisterhood

저자: Liza Mundy • 2023

The CIA's essential women were kept off the books. They sued, won, and hunted bin Laden.

4.19

5,000+

🕵️ Intelligence Agencies 👤 Women In Espionage ⚖️ Systemic Sexism 🏛️ Class Action Lawsuits 📋 Unpaid Labor

The Sisterhood

The CIA's essential women were kept off the books. They sued, won, and hunted bin Laden.

저자: Liza Mundy 2023 400 페이지

4.19

5,000+ 개의 평점

🕵️ Intelligence Agencies 👤 Women In Espionage ⚖️ Systemic Sexism 🏛️ Class Action Lawsuits 📋 Unpaid Labor

The Plot to Seize the White House

저자: Jules Archer • 1973

Wall Street plotted a fascist coup against FDR. The general they recruited was the wrong man.

4.03

500+

🏛️ American Politics 🕰️ 1930s America ⚠️ Fascism In America 💼 Corporate Power ⚡ Democracy Under Threat

The Plot to Seize the White House

Wall Street plotted a fascist coup against FDR. The general they recruited was the wrong man.

저자: Jules Archer 1973 290 페이지

4.03

500+ 개의 평점

🏛️ American Politics 🕰️ 1930s America ⚠️ Fascism In America 💼 Corporate Power ⚡ Democracy Under Threat

Rural Versus Urban

저자: Suzanne Mettler • 2025

The real divide isn't ideology: it's rural versus urban, and it's endangering American democracy.

4.19

🌾 Rural Politics 🏙️ Urban-Rural Divide 💔 Affective Polarization 🏛️ Democratic Erosion 📉 Place-Based Inequality

Rural Versus Urban

The real divide isn't ideology: it's rural versus urban, and it's endangering American democracy.

저자: Suzanne Mettler 2025 310 페이지

4.19

62 개의 평점

🌾 Rural Politics 🏙️ Urban-Rural Divide 💔 Affective Polarization 🏛️ Democratic Erosion 📉 Place-Based Inequality

Alex Haley

저자: Robert J. Norrell • 2015

Family porch tales became the Roots miniseries seen by 85% of Americans. Then came the lawsuits.

3.48

🔖 Literary Biography 📜 African American History 🗣️ Oral Tradition 🌳 Genealogical Research ⚖️ Plagiarism Controversies

Alex Haley

Family porch tales became the Roots miniseries seen by 85% of Americans. Then came the lawsuits.

저자: Robert J. Norrell 2015 272 페이지

3.48

89 개의 평점

🔖 Literary Biography 📜 African American History 🗣️ Oral Tradition 🌳 Genealogical Research ⚖️ Plagiarism Controversies

The Framers' Coup

저자: Michael J. Klarman • 2016

The U.S. Constitution was an elite power grab, anti-democratic and shaped by slavery.

4.41

422

📜 Constitutional History 🦅 Early American Republic ⛓️ Slavery Compromises ⚖️ Undemocratic Constitution 🤝 Political Compromise

The Framers' Coup

The U.S. Constitution was an elite power grab, anti-democratic and shaped by slavery.

저자: Michael J. Klarman 2016 880 페이지

4.41

422 개의 평점

📜 Constitutional History 🦅 Early American Republic ⛓️ Slavery Compromises ⚖️ Undemocratic Constitution 🤝 Political Compromise

The Island Club

저자: Nicola Harrison • 2026

Three women's secrets, scandals, and a shot at redemption collide at a 1950s island tennis club.

3.67

6,000+

🕰️ 1950s America 🌴 California Beach Town 🎾 Women's Tennis 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Strained Marriages

The Island Club

Three women's secrets, scandals, and a shot at redemption collide at a 1950s island tennis club.

저자: Nicola Harrison 2026 304 페이지

3.67

6,000+ 개의 평점

🕰️ 1950s America 🌴 California Beach Town 🎾 Women's Tennis 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Strained Marriages

Whiteness of a Different Color

저자: Matthew Frye Jacobson • 1998

The Irish, Jews, and Italians were not white until politics, law, and war made them so.

4.03

500+

🏳️ Whiteness Studies 🧳 Immigration History ⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🧬 Racial Formation 🌐 Ethnic Studies

Whiteness of a Different Color

The Irish, Jews, and Italians were not white until politics, law, and war made them so.

저자: Matthew Frye Jacobson 1998 364 페이지

4.03

500+ 개의 평점

🏳️ Whiteness Studies 🧳 Immigration History ⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🧬 Racial Formation 🌐 Ethnic Studies

Ask the Dust

저자: John Fante • 1939

An impoverished writer in 1930s Los Angeles meets a waitress whose scorn and need mirror his own.

4.10

40,000+

🏙️ 1930s Los Angeles 🎨 Starving Artist 💔 Obsessive Love 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 📉 Depression-Era America

Ask the Dust

An impoverished writer in 1930s Los Angeles meets a waitress whose scorn and need mirror his own.

저자: John Fante 1939 165 페이지

4.10

40,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ 1930s Los Angeles 🎨 Starving Artist 💔 Obsessive Love 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 📉 Depression-Era America

Fight for Liberty

저자: Mark Lasswell • 2018

Democracy is besieged by authoritarians abroad. The weakening at home is the harder fight.

3.92

🗳️ Liberal Democracy 🇺🇸 American Politics 🏛️ Democratic Institutions 💬 Free Speech ⚖️ Rule Of Law

Fight for Liberty

Democracy is besieged by authoritarians abroad. The weakening at home is the harder fight.

저자: Mark Lasswell 2018 320 페이지

3.92

50 개의 평점

🗳️ Liberal Democracy 🇺🇸 American Politics 🏛️ Democratic Institutions 💬 Free Speech ⚖️ Rule Of Law

Homegrown

저자: Jeffrey Toobin • 2023

Oklahoma City was the first shot. The war it began now claims the Capitol.

4.16

4,000+

🧨 Domestic Terrorism 🪓 Right-Wing Extremism 🏛️ Anti-Government Militias 🎯 Lone Wolf Terrorism ⚖️ High-Profile Trials

Homegrown

Oklahoma City was the first shot. The war it began now claims the Capitol.

저자: Jeffrey Toobin 2023 426 페이지

4.16

4,000+ 개의 평점

🧨 Domestic Terrorism 🪓 Right-Wing Extremism 🏛️ Anti-Government Militias 🎯 Lone Wolf Terrorism ⚖️ High-Profile Trials

America, América

저자: Greg Grandin • 2025

Spain asked if conquest was just. England called emptied land vacant. The rift defines the Americas.

4.51

1,000+

📜 Comparative History ⚖️ International Law 🏛️ Colonial Legacies 🗳️ Social Democracy 🔗 Dependency Theory

America, América

Spain asked if conquest was just. England called emptied land vacant. The rift defines the Americas.

저자: Greg Grandin 2025 768 페이지

4.51

1,000+ 개의 평점

📜 Comparative History ⚖️ International Law 🏛️ Colonial Legacies 🗳️ Social Democracy 🔗 Dependency Theory

Railroaded

저자: Richard White • 2011

Corrupt, overbuilt, taxpayer-funded: the transcontinentals failed their way into modern America.

3.63

500+

🚂 Railroad History 💰 Gilded Age 🏜️ American West 🕵️ Corporate Corruption 🏛️ Political Economy

Railroaded

Corrupt, overbuilt, taxpayer-funded: the transcontinentals failed their way into modern America.

저자: Richard White 2011 704 페이지

3.63

500+ 개의 평점

🚂 Railroad History 💰 Gilded Age 🏜️ American West 🕵️ Corporate Corruption 🏛️ Political Economy

The Price of Greatness

저자: Jay Cost • 2018

The Constitution's coauthors split over its purpose. That rift still produces American oligarchy.

3.71

245

🔔 Founding Era 📜 Constitutional Debates 💰 Hamiltonian Economics ⚖️ Madisonian Democracy 🐍 Political Corruption

The Price of Greatness

The Constitution's coauthors split over its purpose. That rift still produces American oligarchy.

저자: Jay Cost 2018 256 페이지

3.71

245 개의 평점

🔔 Founding Era 📜 Constitutional Debates 💰 Hamiltonian Economics ⚖️ Madisonian Democracy 🐍 Political Corruption

Ghost Town

저자: Tom Perrotta • 2026

A boy's summer of grief cracks open the secrets his suburban town tried to bury.

3.68

3,000+

🏘️ Suburban Coming Of Age 💔 Grief And Guilt 👻 Haunting 🌾 1970s America 🔮 Ouija Board

Ghost Town

A boy's summer of grief cracks open the secrets his suburban town tried to bury.

저자: Tom Perrotta 2026 273 페이지

3.68

3,000+ 개의 평점

🏘️ Suburban Coming Of Age 💔 Grief And Guilt 👻 Haunting 🌾 1970s America 🔮 Ouija Board

The Politics of Resentment

저자: Katherine J. Cramer • 2016

Resentment toward cities and public employees, not ideology, drives rural small-government votes.

4.01

1,000+

🌾 Rural Politics 🛣️ Urban Rural Divide 📋 Ethnography 📍 Place-Based Identity 😤 Political Resentment

The Politics of Resentment

Resentment toward cities and public employees, not ideology, drives rural small-government votes.

저자: Katherine J. Cramer 2016 225 페이지

4.01

1,000+ 개의 평점

🌾 Rural Politics 🛣️ Urban Rural Divide 📋 Ethnography 📍 Place-Based Identity 😤 Political Resentment

Lorraine Hansberry

저자: Charles J. Shields • 2022

Closeted, radical, and a slumlord's daughter: the life that produced A Raisin in the Sun.

3.78

400

🎭 Literary Biography 🖤 Black Women Writers ✊🏿 Civil Rights Era 🌈 Queer Literary Lives 🎟️ Theater History

Lorraine Hansberry

Closeted, radical, and a slumlord's daughter: the life that produced A Raisin in the Sun.

저자: Charles J. Shields 2022 384 페이지

3.78

400 개의 평점

🎭 Literary Biography 🖤 Black Women Writers ✊🏿 Civil Rights Era 🌈 Queer Literary Lives 🎟️ Theater History

Racism

저자: George M. Fredrickson • 2002

Racism isn't eternal: it was invented in the West around the 1400s, and this is its biography.

3.77

500+

🏛️ Intellectual History 🧬 Scientific Racism 🏴 White Supremacy 📜 Antisemitism History ⚖️ Comparative Racism

Racism

Racism isn't eternal: it was invented in the West around the 1400s, and this is its biography.

저자: George M. Fredrickson 2002 224 페이지

3.77

500+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Intellectual History 🧬 Scientific Racism 🏴 White Supremacy 📜 Antisemitism History ⚖️ Comparative Racism

이전 14 15 16 17 18 다음

Compare Features	Free	Pro
📖 Read Summaries Read unlimited summaries. Free users get 3 per month
🎧 Listen to Summaries Listen to unlimited summaries in 40 languages	—
❤️ Unlimited Bookmarks Free users are limited to 4	—
📜 Unlimited History Free users are limited to 4	—
📥 Unlimited Downloads Free users are limited to 1	—

People love SoBrief

Join our global community of 600,000+ readers

★★★★★

This site is a total game-changer. I've been flying through book summaries like never before. Highly, highly recommend.

— Dave G

Worth my money and time, and really well made. I've never seen this quality of summaries on other websites. Very helpful!

— Em

Highly recommended!! Fantastic service. Perfect for those that want a little more than a teaser but not all the intricate details of a full audio book.

— Greg M