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

Jefferson's Empire

저자: Peter S. Onuf • 2000

An empire built on consent that required conquest: the paradox at the core of American identity.

3.56

📚 Intellectual History 🏛️ Early American Republic 🇺🇸 Nationhood And Identity 🌎 Imperial Ideology ⚖️ Race And Citizenship

Jefferson's Empire

An empire built on consent that required conquest: the paradox at the core of American identity.

저자: Peter S. Onuf 2000 250 페이지

3.56

57 개의 평점

📚 Intellectual History 🏛️ Early American Republic 🇺🇸 Nationhood And Identity 🌎 Imperial Ideology ⚖️ Race And Citizenship

The House of Blue Leaves

저자: John Guare • 1971

In Queens, a zookeeper chases Hollywood, pushed by his mistress, as his ailing wife unravels.

3.81

2,000+

🎭 Absurdist Dark Comedy 💭 Failed American Dream ✨ Hollywood Dreams 🧠 Mental Illness 💔 Love Triangle

The House of Blue Leaves

In Queens, a zookeeper chases Hollywood, pushed by his mistress, as his ailing wife unravels.

저자: John Guare 1971 80 페이지

3.81

2,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Absurdist Dark Comedy 💭 Failed American Dream ✨ Hollywood Dreams 🧠 Mental Illness 💔 Love Triangle

The Ruling Race

저자: James Oakes • 1982

They weren't aristocrats. Restless hunger for land and slaves pushed the South to secession.

3.73

104

🏛️ Antebellum South ⛓️ American Slavery 👔 Planter Class 📊 Economic History 🚂 Westward Expansion

The Ruling Race

They weren't aristocrats. Restless hunger for land and slaves pushed the South to secession.

저자: James Oakes 1982 307 페이지

3.73

104 개의 평점

🏛️ Antebellum South ⛓️ American Slavery 👔 Planter Class 📊 Economic History 🚂 Westward Expansion

Nothing Like It in the World

저자: Stephen E. Ambrose • 2000

Shopkeepers, swindlers, and immigrant armies: the men who punched a railroad through a continent.

3.99

14,000+

🏜️ American West 💰 Gilded Age 🏗️ Infrastructure History 🚂 Railroad History ⛰️ Epic Engineering

Nothing Like It in the World

Shopkeepers, swindlers, and immigrant armies: the men who punched a railroad through a continent.

저자: Stephen E. Ambrose 2000 432 페이지

3.99

14,000+ 개의 평점

🏜️ American West 💰 Gilded Age 🏗️ Infrastructure History 🚂 Railroad History ⛰️ Epic Engineering

The Last Romantics

저자: Tara Conklin • 2019

After their father dies and their mother retreats, four siblings raise themselves in feral freedom.

3.70

48,000+

💔 Parental Neglect ⭐ Golden Boy Downfall ✍️ Writer Narrator 🤫 Family Secrets 👵 Elderly Narrator

The Last Romantics

After their father dies and their mother retreats, four siblings raise themselves in feral freedom.

저자: Tara Conklin 2019 384 페이지

3.70

48,000+ 개의 평점

💔 Parental Neglect ⭐ Golden Boy Downfall ✍️ Writer Narrator 🤫 Family Secrets 👵 Elderly Narrator

Scandal in Babylon

저자: Barbara Hambly • 2021

A British scholar in 1920s Hollywood must find the killer who framed her movie-star sister-in-law.

3.77

469

🎬 Golden Age Hollywood 🕵️ Amateur Sleuth ⚖️ Frame Up Plot 👪 Found Family 🎷 Jazz Age

Scandal in Babylon

A British scholar in 1920s Hollywood must find the killer who framed her movie-star sister-in-law.

저자: Barbara Hambly 2021 240 페이지

3.77

469 개의 평점

🎬 Golden Age Hollywood 🕵️ Amateur Sleuth ⚖️ Frame Up Plot 👪 Found Family 🎷 Jazz Age

The Black Hand

저자: Stephan Talty • 2017

One NYPD detective took on the Black Hand. His bosses barely cared if his people survived.

3.63

2,000+

🕵️ Organized Crime 🇮🇹 Early Mafia 🏙️ Gilded Age 🧳 Immigrant Experience 👮 Police History

The Black Hand

One NYPD detective took on the Black Hand. His bosses barely cared if his people survived.

저자: Stephan Talty 2017 298 페이지

3.63

2,000+ 개의 평점

🕵️ Organized Crime 🇮🇹 Early Mafia 🏙️ Gilded Age 🧳 Immigrant Experience 👮 Police History

The Ideological Origins of American Federalism

저자: Alison L. LaCroix • 2010

American federalism was born of protest, not design; courts enforce it since the convention refused.

3.52

📜 Constitutional History 🇺🇸 Early American Republic 🏛️ Legal History 🔀 Divided Sovereignty 🗽 American Political Thought

The Ideological Origins of American Federalism

American federalism was born of protest, not design; courts enforce it since the convention refused.

저자: Alison L. LaCroix 2010 320 페이지

3.52

31 개의 평점

📜 Constitutional History 🇺🇸 Early American Republic 🏛️ Legal History 🔀 Divided Sovereignty 🗽 American Political Thought

Internal Improvement

저자: John Lauritz Larson • 2001

Public works were meant to knit the early republic together. Private capital drew the map instead.

3.73

🏛️ Early American Republic 🛤️ Infrastructure Politics 🚂 Railroad Development ⚖️ Federal Vs State Power 🦅 Republican Ideology

Internal Improvement

Public works were meant to knit the early republic together. Private capital drew the map instead.

저자: John Lauritz Larson 2001 342 페이지

3.73

33 개의 평점

🏛️ Early American Republic 🛤️ Infrastructure Politics 🚂 Railroad Development ⚖️ Federal Vs State Power 🦅 Republican Ideology

The Left Behind

저자: Robert Wuthnow • 2018

Rural America's anger is grief: not for lost jobs, but for communities where belonging meant duty.

3.58

500+

🏡 Rural America 😤 Cultural Resentment 🏙️ Urban Rural Divide 📉 Moral Decline ⛪ Religion And Politics

The Left Behind

Rural America's anger is grief: not for lost jobs, but for communities where belonging meant duty.

저자: Robert Wuthnow 2018 200 페이지

3.58

500+ 개의 평점

🏡 Rural America 😤 Cultural Resentment 🏙️ Urban Rural Divide 📉 Moral Decline ⛪ Religion And Politics

The Girls Who Went Away

저자: Ann Fessler • 2006

A million and a half women surrendered babies before Roe. What we believe about them is wrong.

4.24

11,000+

🏛️ American Adoption History 🎙️ Oral History ⚖️ Adoption Ethics ✊ Women's Bodily Autonomy 🤫 Silence And Shame

The Girls Who Went Away

A million and a half women surrendered babies before Roe. What we believe about them is wrong.

저자: Ann Fessler 2006 354 페이지

4.24

11,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ American Adoption History 🎙️ Oral History ⚖️ Adoption Ethics ✊ Women's Bodily Autonomy 🤫 Silence And Shame

Kill Switch

저자: Adam Jentleson • 2021

The filibuster was born to protect slavery, not debate. That sin still decides who governs.

4.24

2,000+

🏛️ Congressional Gridlock ⏳ Filibuster History ⚖️ Minority Rule 🚧 Procedural Obstruction 🏚️ Institutional Decay

Kill Switch

The filibuster was born to protect slavery, not debate. That sin still decides who governs.

저자: Adam Jentleson 2021 352 페이지

4.24

2,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Congressional Gridlock ⏳ Filibuster History ⚖️ Minority Rule 🚧 Procedural Obstruction 🏚️ Institutional Decay

American Poison

저자: Eduardo Porter • 2020

White America starved the safety net to keep it from minorities. Then inequality came for everyone.

3.91

270

🧱 Us Race Relations 🔍 Structural Racism 🏛️ Welfare State ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🗳️ Political Polarization

American Poison

White America starved the safety net to keep it from minorities. Then inequality came for everyone.

저자: Eduardo Porter 2020 272 페이지

3.91

270 개의 평점

🧱 Us Race Relations 🔍 Structural Racism 🏛️ Welfare State ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🗳️ Political Polarization

Creating a New Racial Order

저자: Jennifer L. Hochschild • 2012

Genomics and a new generation erode racial boundaries. Poverty and prisons redraw them.

3.37

🏗️ Racial Formation 🧩 Multiracial Identity 🧬 Genomics And Race 🚧 Structural Racism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration

Creating a New Racial Order

Genomics and a new generation erode racial boundaries. Poverty and prisons redraw them.

저자: Jennifer L. Hochschild 2012 280 페이지

3.37

19 개의 평점

🏗️ Racial Formation 🧩 Multiracial Identity 🧬 Genomics And Race 🚧 Structural Racism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration

The Unexpected Diva

저자: Tiffany L. Warren • 2025

Robbed of home and protector, a Black singer in 1850s America stakes survival on her voice.

4.11

500+

📖 Biographical Novel 🏛️ Antebellum America ✊ Abolitionist Fiction 🎵 Women In Music 📜 Contested Inheritance

The Unexpected Diva

Robbed of home and protector, a Black singer in 1850s America stakes survival on her voice.

저자: Tiffany L. Warren 2025 1 페이지

4.11

500+ 개의 평점

📖 Biographical Novel 🏛️ Antebellum America ✊ Abolitionist Fiction 🎵 Women In Music 📜 Contested Inheritance

The Securitarian Personality

저자: John R. Hibbing • 2020

Trump's most loyal voters aren't authoritarians. An ancient instinct to guard their own drives them.

3.66

🧠 Political Psychology 🛡️ Threat Perception 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🏛️ American Conservatism 👥 In-Group Bias

The Securitarian Personality

Trump's most loyal voters aren't authoritarians. An ancient instinct to guard their own drives them.

저자: John R. Hibbing 2020 304 페이지

3.66

29 개의 평점

🧠 Political Psychology 🛡️ Threat Perception 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🏛️ American Conservatism 👥 In-Group Bias

Hacking the Electorate

저자: Eitan D. Hersh • 2015

Campaigns see you through public records, not profiles. State data laws decide who gets mobilized.

3.84

🗳️ Campaign Strategy 🧠 Voter Behavior 📊 Data-Driven Campaigns 🎯 Microtargeting 📢 Voter Mobilization

Hacking the Electorate

Campaigns see you through public records, not profiles. State data laws decide who gets mobilized.

저자: Eitan D. Hersh 2015 270 페이지

3.84

55 개의 평점

🗳️ Campaign Strategy 🧠 Voter Behavior 📊 Data-Driven Campaigns 🎯 Microtargeting 📢 Voter Mobilization

Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy

저자: William G. Howell • 2020

The Constitution was designed for inaction; that structural flaw now fuels populist demagogues.

3.87

🇺🇸 American Politics 📢 Populism 📜 Constitutional Reform 🏛️ Presidential Power 🏢 Congressional Dysfunction

Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy

The Constitution was designed for inaction; that structural flaw now fuels populist demagogues.

저자: William G. Howell 2020 256 페이지

3.87

82 개의 평점

🇺🇸 American Politics 📢 Populism 📜 Constitutional Reform 🏛️ Presidential Power 🏢 Congressional Dysfunction

Washington Square

저자: Henry James • 1880

A plain, shy heiress is courted by a charming man her father calls a fortune hunter.

3.71

26,000+

🧠 Psychological Realism 💰 Fortune Hunter 🌸 Quiet Heroine 🏠 Father-Daughter Conflict 😔 Melancholy

Washington Square

A plain, shy heiress is courted by a charming man her father calls a fortune hunter.

저자: Henry James 1880 240 페이지

3.71

26,000+ 개의 평점

🧠 Psychological Realism 💰 Fortune Hunter 🌸 Quiet Heroine 🏠 Father-Daughter Conflict 😔 Melancholy

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

저자: August Wilson • 1988

A haunted man and his daughter seek a lost wife in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse.

3.96

3,000+

🚂 Great Migration 🕯️ African Spirituality 🔗 Lost And Found Kin ⛓️ Legacy Of Slavery 🏠 Found Family

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

A haunted man and his daughter seek a lost wife in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse.

저자: August Wilson 1988 94 페이지

3.96

3,000+ 개의 평점

🚂 Great Migration 🕯️ African Spirituality 🔗 Lost And Found Kin ⛓️ Legacy Of Slavery 🏠 Found Family

Wise Blood

저자: Flannery O'Connor • 1952

War scarred him and God won't let go, so he founds a church that denies salvation.

3.82

38,000+

🏚️ Southern Gothic ⛪ Crisis Of Faith 😈 Religious Satire 🎭 False Prophets 🖤 Dark Comedy

Wise Blood

War scarred him and God won't let go, so he founds a church that denies salvation.

저자: Flannery O'Connor 1952 256 페이지

3.82

38,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Southern Gothic ⛪ Crisis Of Faith 😈 Religious Satire 🎭 False Prophets 🖤 Dark Comedy

About Grace

저자: Anthony Doerr • 2004

A hydrologist foresees his daughter drowning, abandons his family, and spends decades seeking home.

3.45

27,000+

🔮 Prophetic Dreams ✍️ Lyrical Prose 🚶 Absent Father 🫂 Found Family 🌫️ Melancholy Atmosphere

About Grace

A hydrologist foresees his daughter drowning, abandons his family, and spends decades seeking home.

저자: Anthony Doerr 2004 402 페이지

3.45

27,000+ 개의 평점

🔮 Prophetic Dreams ✍️ Lyrical Prose 🚶 Absent Father 🫂 Found Family 🌫️ Melancholy Atmosphere

The Girl Next Door

저자: Jack Ketchum • 1989

In 1950s suburbia, a boy watches his neighbors slowly destroy the orphan girl next door.

3.91

58,000+

🩸 Extreme Horror 🏘️ Suburban Horror 👁️ Bystander Guilt 🔒 Captive Torture 📰 Based On True Crime

The Girl Next Door

In 1950s suburbia, a boy watches his neighbors slowly destroy the orphan girl next door.

저자: Jack Ketchum 1989 370 페이지

3.91

58,000+ 개의 평점

🩸 Extreme Horror 🏘️ Suburban Horror 👁️ Bystander Guilt 🔒 Captive Torture 📰 Based On True Crime

The Broom of the System

저자: David Foster Wallace • 1987

When her great-grandmother vanishes, a phone operator discovers that words are all she is.

3.85

24,000+

🌀 Postmodern Fiction 🪞 Metafiction 🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🗣️ Language As Trap 🤡 Absurdist Humor

The Broom of the System

When her great-grandmother vanishes, a phone operator discovers that words are all she is.

저자: David Foster Wallace 1987 467 페이지

3.85

24,000+ 개의 평점

🌀 Postmodern Fiction 🪞 Metafiction 🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🗣️ Language As Trap 🤡 Absurdist Humor

The Thinkers

저자: E.J. Fagan • 2024

American polarization has a hidden engine: think tanks that supply each party with its own facts.

3.80

🧠 Think Tanks 🇺🇸 American Politics ↔️ Political Polarization 📋 Public Policy 🔬 Policy Expertise

The Thinkers

American polarization has a hidden engine: think tanks that supply each party with its own facts.

저자: E.J. Fagan 2024 216 페이지

3.80

15 개의 평점

🧠 Think Tanks 🇺🇸 American Politics ↔️ Political Polarization 📋 Public Policy 🔬 Policy Expertise

My Dear Hamilton

저자: Stephanie Dray • 2018

She survived Hamilton's scandal and his duel. His death began her fight to write history.

4.30

54,000+

🇺🇸 Revolutionary America 💍 Political Marriage 👤 Wife Behind The Legend 💔 Marriage After Betrayal 📜 Epic Historical Saga

My Dear Hamilton

She survived Hamilton's scandal and his duel. His death began her fight to write history.

저자: Stephanie Dray 2018 652 페이지

4.30

54,000+ 개의 평점

🇺🇸 Revolutionary America 💍 Political Marriage 👤 Wife Behind The Legend 💔 Marriage After Betrayal 📜 Epic Historical Saga

Lynching and Leisure

저자: Terry Anne Scott • 2022

Lynching was entertainment, complete with chartered trains, souvenir bones, and Sunday sightseers.

4.20

📜 Jim Crow Era 🩸 Racial Terror 🎪 Public Spectacle 👻 White Supremacy 🏭 Racial Capitalism

Lynching and Leisure

Lynching was entertainment, complete with chartered trains, souvenir bones, and Sunday sightseers.

저자: Terry Anne Scott 2022 394 페이지

4.20

20 개의 평점

📜 Jim Crow Era 🩸 Racial Terror 🎪 Public Spectacle 👻 White Supremacy 🏭 Racial Capitalism

The Land Breakers

저자: John Ehle • 1964

Mooney Wright and his neighbors stake everything on a wild valley. The mountain always collects.

4.28

2,000+

🪓 Frontier Settlement ⛰️ Appalachian Life 🖤 Grieving Widower 👪 Blended Family 👴 Controlling Father

The Land Breakers

Mooney Wright and his neighbors stake everything on a wild valley. The mountain always collects.

저자: John Ehle 1964 356 페이지

4.28

2,000+ 개의 평점

🪓 Frontier Settlement ⛰️ Appalachian Life 🖤 Grieving Widower 👪 Blended Family 👴 Controlling Father

The Heart of the Declaration

저자: Steve Pincus • 2016

The Declaration was not a small-government manifesto but a blueprint for a powerful, activist state.

3.64

🏛️ American Founding 💰 Political Economy 🏗️ State Formation 🌍 Imperial History 🫂 Public Welfare

The Heart of the Declaration

The Declaration was not a small-government manifesto but a blueprint for a powerful, activist state.

저자: Steve Pincus 2016 224 페이지

3.64

36 개의 평점

🏛️ American Founding 💰 Political Economy 🏗️ State Formation 🌍 Imperial History 🫂 Public Welfare

If We Can Keep It

저자: Michael Tomasky • 2019

Polarization is older than the republic; what broke is the GOP's turn into a movement.

3.96

181

🏛️ American Politics 📜 American History ↔️ Political Polarization 💸 Economic Inequality 📻 Media Echo Chambers

If We Can Keep It

Polarization is older than the republic; what broke is the GOP's turn into a movement.

저자: Michael Tomasky 2019 288 페이지

3.96

181 개의 평점

🏛️ American Politics 📜 American History ↔️ Political Polarization 💸 Economic Inequality 📻 Media Echo Chambers

Zbig

저자: Edward Luce • 2025

A Polish immigrant who taught a president, outsmarted Kissinger, and foresaw the Soviet collapse.

4.58

500+

🥶 Cold War 🌐 Foreign Policy 🔍 Sovietology ✊ Human Rights ⛓️ Totalitarianism

Zbig

A Polish immigrant who taught a president, outsmarted Kissinger, and foresaw the Soviet collapse.

저자: Edward Luce 2025 560 페이지

4.58

500+ 개의 평점

🥶 Cold War 🌐 Foreign Policy 🔍 Sovietology ✊ Human Rights ⛓️ Totalitarianism

American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion

저자: John D. Wilsey • 2015

The belief that God chose America has fueled conquest, racism, and self-delusion. An honest history.

4.17

175

🏛️ Civil Religion 🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism ✝️ Christian Nationalism ⛪ Religion And Politics 📜 Political Theology

American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion

The belief that God chose America has fueled conquest, racism, and self-delusion. An honest history.

저자: John D. Wilsey 2015 263 페이지

4.17

175 개의 평점

🏛️ Civil Religion 🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism ✝️ Christian Nationalism ⛪ Religion And Politics 📜 Political Theology

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

저자: Walker Percy • 1961

A New Orleans stockbroker drifts through pleasure and routine, searching for a life that feels true.

3.64

31,000+

🎭 Southern Gothic 🤔 Existential Novel 🎬 Disaffected Narrator 🌊 Melancholy 🏙️ Mid-Century America

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

A New Orleans stockbroker drifts through pleasure and routine, searching for a life that feels true.

저자: Walker Percy 1961

3.64

31,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Southern Gothic 🤔 Existential Novel 🎬 Disaffected Narrator 🌊 Melancholy 🏙️ Mid-Century America

The Growing Season

저자: Sarah Frey • 2020

From a melon route at seven, she built the farm empire that stocks Walmart's shelves.

4.13

1,000+

🧺 Family Farm Business ✨ Rags-To-Riches 👩‍🌾 Women In Agriculture 📖 Entrepreneurial Memoir 🚀 Bootstrapping

The Growing Season

From a melon route at seven, she built the farm empire that stocks Walmart's shelves.

저자: Sarah Frey 2020 272 페이지

4.13

1,000+ 개의 평점

🧺 Family Farm Business ✨ Rags-To-Riches 👩‍🌾 Women In Agriculture 📖 Entrepreneurial Memoir 🚀 Bootstrapping

In the Country of Last Things. by Paul Auster

저자: Paul Auster • 1987

Anna searches a nameless, crumbling city for her brother while hunger and forgetting consume all.

3.91

16,000+

✉️ Epistolary Dystopia 🏚️ Collapsing City 🤝 Found Family 💀 Death Cults 🍂 Elegiac Dystopia

In the Country of Last Things. by Paul Auster

Anna searches a nameless, crumbling city for her brother while hunger and forgetting consume all.

저자: Paul Auster 1987

3.91

16,000+ 개의 평점

✉️ Epistolary Dystopia 🏚️ Collapsing City 🤝 Found Family 💀 Death Cults 🍂 Elegiac Dystopia

Corporation Nation

저자: Charles Derber • 1998

The biggest threat to American democracy isn't in the White House. It's in the corner office.

3.74

🏢 Corporate Power 💰 Corporate Welfare 🤝 Stakeholder Capitalism 🗳️ Economic Democracy ✊ Labor Movements

Corporation Nation

The biggest threat to American democracy isn't in the White House. It's in the corner office.

저자: Charles Derber 1998 384 페이지

3.74

65 개의 평점

🏢 Corporate Power 💰 Corporate Welfare 🤝 Stakeholder Capitalism 🗳️ Economic Democracy ✊ Labor Movements

[The Music of Chance] [By

저자: Paul Auster • 1990

A poker loss traps a drifter building a stone wall to buy back his freedom.

3.93

13,000+

🖤 Existential Fiction 🏰 Kafkaesque Nightmare 🚗 Aimless Road Trip 💔 Doomed Friendship 🔒 Prison Without Bars

[The Music of Chance] [By

A poker loss traps a drifter building a stone wall to buy back his freedom.

저자: Paul Auster 1990

3.93

13,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Existential Fiction 🏰 Kafkaesque Nightmare 🚗 Aimless Road Trip 💔 Doomed Friendship 🔒 Prison Without Bars

The Republic of Violence

저자: J.D. Dickey • 2022

The abolitionists' greatest enemy wasn't slavery; it was the mob violence that met their every move.

4.03

🏛️ Antebellum America ✊ American Abolitionism 🔥 Racial Violence 🎩 Jacksonian Era ⛪ Evangelical Reform

The Republic of Violence

The abolitionists' greatest enemy wasn't slavery; it was the mob violence that met their every move.

저자: J.D. Dickey 2022 408 페이지

4.03

34 개의 평점

🏛️ Antebellum America ✊ American Abolitionism 🔥 Racial Violence 🎩 Jacksonian Era ⛪ Evangelical Reform

Sabbath's Theater

저자: Philip Roth • 1995

After a lifetime of scandal and appetite, an aging puppeteer faces what he cannot outrun: grief.

3.89

12,000+

🌑 Transgressive Fiction 👴 Aging Libertine 🖤 Dark Comedy 🔥 Sexual Transgression 🌀 Compulsive Desire

Sabbath's Theater

After a lifetime of scandal and appetite, an aging puppeteer faces what he cannot outrun: grief.

저자: Philip Roth 1995 451 페이지

3.89

12,000+ 개의 평점

🌑 Transgressive Fiction 👴 Aging Libertine 🖤 Dark Comedy 🔥 Sexual Transgression 🌀 Compulsive Desire

Age of Betrayal

저자: Jack Beatty • 2007

The Civil War freed the slaves. The next generation freed the corporations.

3.66

142

🏦 Gilded Age 💼 Corporate Power 🔨 Labor History 💰 Economic Inequality 🏛️ Corporate Personhood

Age of Betrayal

The Civil War freed the slaves. The next generation freed the corporations.

저자: Jack Beatty 2007 512 페이지

3.66

142 개의 평점

🏦 Gilded Age 💼 Corporate Power 🔨 Labor History 💰 Economic Inequality 🏛️ Corporate Personhood

Gods and Generals

저자: Jeff Shaara • 1996

Lee, Jackson, Hancock, Chamberlain: four men, one civil war, and the private agonies behind command.

4.09

37,000+

📚 Civil War Epic 💔 Divided Loyalties ⚔️ Brothers In Arms 🙏 Faith Under Fire 🎭 Tragic Inevitability

Gods and Generals

Lee, Jackson, Hancock, Chamberlain: four men, one civil war, and the private agonies behind command.

저자: Jeff Shaara 1996 498 페이지

4.09

37,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Civil War Epic 💔 Divided Loyalties ⚔️ Brothers In Arms 🙏 Faith Under Fire 🎭 Tragic Inevitability

In the Hurricane's Eye

저자: Nathaniel Philbrick • 2018

Yorktown was won not by siege but by hurricane season and a French admiral's wild gamble.

4.13

5,000+

🗽 American Revolution ⚓ Naval Warfare 🎖️ Military Leadership 🌊 Maritime History ⛓️ Slavery And Revolution

In the Hurricane's Eye

Yorktown was won not by siege but by hurricane season and a French admiral's wild gamble.

저자: Nathaniel Philbrick 2018 366 페이지

4.13

5,000+ 개의 평점

🗽 American Revolution ⚓ Naval Warfare 🎖️ Military Leadership 🌊 Maritime History ⛓️ Slavery And Revolution

Appointment in Samarra

저자: John O'Hara • 1934

One drunken insult at the country club: a Cadillac dealer learns his small town never forgets.

3.81

16,000+

🏘️ American Small Town 📋 Social Realism 📉 Downward Spiral 💰 Class Anxiety 💔 Marriage Under Strain

Appointment in Samarra

One drunken insult at the country club: a Cadillac dealer learns his small town never forgets.

저자: John O'Hara 1934 251 페이지

3.81

16,000+ 개의 평점

🏘️ American Small Town 📋 Social Realism 📉 Downward Spiral 💰 Class Anxiety 💔 Marriage Under Strain

Socializing Capital

저자: William G. Roy • 1997

Corporations dominate industry because state law and banks built a system only they could win.

3.90

🏢 Corporate History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 📚 Historical Sociology ⚡ Corporate Power 💰 Financial History

Socializing Capital

Corporations dominate industry because state law and banks built a system only they could win.

저자: William G. Roy 1997 360 페이지

3.90

21 개의 평점

🏢 Corporate History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 📚 Historical Sociology ⚡ Corporate Power 💰 Financial History

The Price of Federalism

저자: Paul E. Peterson • 1995

Washington redistributes; states compete for growth. The pattern leaves Rust Belt cities behind.

3.37

💰 Fiscal Federalism 🇺🇸 American Federalism 📊 Public Finance 🔗 Intergovernmental Relations 🏥 Welfare Policy

The Price of Federalism

Washington redistributes; states compete for growth. The pattern leaves Rust Belt cities behind.

저자: Paul E. Peterson 1995

3.37

19 개의 평점

💰 Fiscal Federalism 🇺🇸 American Federalism 📊 Public Finance 🔗 Intergovernmental Relations 🏥 Welfare Policy

Big Sur

저자: Jack Kerouac • 1962

A writer escapes his celebrity to a Big Sur cabin, where solitude unravels into madness.

3.83

38,000+

🥁 Beat Generation 📖 Autofiction 🎨 Tortured Artist 🍺 Alcoholic Spiral 🪤 Fame As Trap

Big Sur

A writer escapes his celebrity to a Big Sur cabin, where solitude unravels into madness.

저자: Jack Kerouac 1962 256 페이지

3.83

38,000+ 개의 평점

🥁 Beat Generation 📖 Autofiction 🎨 Tortured Artist 🍺 Alcoholic Spiral 🪤 Fame As Trap

A Well-Behaved Woman

저자: Therese Anne Fowler • 2018

Her family ruined, Alva Smith marries a Vanderbilt. But old New York keeps its gates shut tight.

3.96

24,000+

🏛️ Biographical Novel 🪜 Social Climbing 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🥀 Mother-Daughter Conflict 💔 Betrayed Wife

A Well-Behaved Woman

Her family ruined, Alva Smith marries a Vanderbilt. But old New York keeps its gates shut tight.

저자: Therese Anne Fowler 2018 389 페이지

3.96

24,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Biographical Novel 🪜 Social Climbing 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🥀 Mother-Daughter Conflict 💔 Betrayed Wife

All They Will Call You

저자: Tim Z. Hernandez • 2017

A 1948 plane crash kills 28 Mexican deportees. Buried nameless, forgotten... until a song remembers.

4.24

351

🌾 Bracero Program 🥬 Migrant Farmworkers 🎵 Music As Protest 🪦 Unmarked Graves 💔 Family Separation Across Borders

All They Will Call You

A 1948 plane crash kills 28 Mexican deportees. Buried nameless, forgotten... until a song remembers.

저자: Tim Z. Hernandez 2017 240 페이지

4.24

351 개의 평점

🌾 Bracero Program 🥬 Migrant Farmworkers 🎵 Music As Protest 🪦 Unmarked Graves 💔 Family Separation Across Borders

The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite

저자: Mark S. Mizruchi • 2013

The corporate elite once united to serve the nation. Winning all it wanted broke it.

3.47

🏢 Corporate Elites 🕊️ Postwar Consensus 💰 Shareholder Primacy ⚒️ Labor Relations 🔒 Political Gridlock

The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite

The corporate elite once united to serve the nation. Winning all it wanted broke it.

저자: Mark S. Mizruchi 2013 384 페이지

3.47

19 개의 평점

🏢 Corporate Elites 🕊️ Postwar Consensus 💰 Shareholder Primacy ⚒️ Labor Relations 🔒 Political Gridlock

Organizing America

저자: Charles Perrow • 2001

The corporation wasn't a business model. It was a legal weapon engineered to concentrate power.

3.91

📜 Historical Sociology 🏭 Corporate History 🏢 Organizational Theory 🚂 Railroad History ⚖️ Legal Foundations Of Capitalism

Organizing America

The corporation wasn't a business model. It was a legal weapon engineered to concentrate power.

저자: Charles Perrow 2001 272 페이지

3.91

35 개의 평점

📜 Historical Sociology 🏭 Corporate History 🏢 Organizational Theory 🚂 Railroad History ⚖️ Legal Foundations Of Capitalism

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