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

It Can't Happen Here

저자: Sinclair Lewis • 1935

A Vermont newspaper editor watches a demagogue win the presidency and dismantle American democracy.

3.81

25,000+

🏴 American Fascism 🎤 Rise Of A Demagogue 🏘️ Small Town Resistance 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Under Tyranny 😰 Creeping Tyranny

It Can't Happen Here

A Vermont newspaper editor watches a demagogue win the presidency and dismantle American democracy.

저자: Sinclair Lewis 1935 400 페이지

3.81

25,000+ 개의 평점

🏴 American Fascism 🎤 Rise Of A Demagogue 🏘️ Small Town Resistance 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Under Tyranny 😰 Creeping Tyranny

The Call of the Wild / White Fang

저자: Jack London • 1903

A stolen dog and a wild cub take opposite journeys across the brutal Klondike gold rush.

4.12

78,000+

🐾 Animal Protagonist 🐕 Man And Dog Bond 🌲 Tame And Wild ⛏️ Gold Rush 🏔️ Alaskan Frontier

The Call of the Wild / White Fang

A stolen dog and a wild cub take opposite journeys across the brutal Klondike gold rush.

저자: Jack London 1903 292 페이지

4.12

78,000+ 개의 평점

🐾 Animal Protagonist 🐕 Man And Dog Bond 🌲 Tame And Wild ⛏️ Gold Rush 🏔️ Alaskan Frontier

삼나무에 내리는 눈

저자: 데이비드 guterson • 1994

Amid snow and prejudice, a Japanese American's murder trial hinges on his wife's first love.

3.86

100,000+

⚖️ Courtroom Drama ⛩️ Japanese Internment 💔 Forbidden Love 🔒 Wrongfully Accused 🌲 Pacific Northwest

삼나무에 내리는 눈

Amid snow and prejudice, a Japanese American's murder trial hinges on his wife's first love.

저자: 데이비드 guterson 1994 460 페이지

3.86

100,000+ 개의 평점

⚖️ Courtroom Drama ⛩️ Japanese Internment 💔 Forbidden Love 🔒 Wrongfully Accused 🌲 Pacific Northwest

The Body Project

저자: Joan Jacobs Brumberg • 1997

How a century made American girls' bodies into a consumer project, from menarche to first diet.

3.82

3,000+

👧 Adolescent Girlhood 💄 Beauty Standards 🥗 Dieting Culture 🎯 Marketing To Girls 🕰️ Body Image History

The Body Project

How a century made American girls' bodies into a consumer project, from menarche to first diet.

저자: Joan Jacobs Brumberg 1997 214 페이지

3.82

3,000+ 개의 평점

👧 Adolescent Girlhood 💄 Beauty Standards 🥗 Dieting Culture 🎯 Marketing To Girls 🕰️ Body Image History

The Master of Disguise

저자: Antonio J. Mendez • 1999

How the CIA disguise chief spirited 150 agents out of hostile territory without a single loss.

3.85

3,000+

🕵️ Cold War Espionage 🔧 Tradecraft 🚁 Agent Exfiltration 🇺🇸 Cia History 🏛️ Agency Memoirs

The Master of Disguise

How the CIA disguise chief spirited 150 agents out of hostile territory without a single loss.

저자: Antonio J. Mendez 1999 384 페이지

3.85

3,000+ 개의 평점

🕵️ Cold War Espionage 🔧 Tradecraft 🚁 Agent Exfiltration 🇺🇸 Cia History 🏛️ Agency Memoirs

I Got Schooled

저자: M. Night Shyamalan • 2013

Five data-backed patterns that close America's education gap, from a filmmaker who hunted them down.

3.67

324

📉 Achievement Gap 🔧 Education Reform 📊 Data-Driven Instruction 🎓 Teacher Effectiveness ⚖️ Education Equity

I Got Schooled

Five data-backed patterns that close America's education gap, from a filmmaker who hunted them down.

저자: M. Night Shyamalan 2013 321 페이지

3.67

324 개의 평점

📉 Achievement Gap 🔧 Education Reform 📊 Data-Driven Instruction 🎓 Teacher Effectiveness ⚖️ Education Equity

Case Closed

저자: Gerald Posner • 1993

One mail-order rifle, three shots, and the case against conspiracy in the JFK assassination.

4.05

2,000+

🔫 Presidential Assassinations ❄️ Cold War America 🔍 Conspiracy Debunking 🕵️ Forensic History 💥 Political Violence

Case Closed

One mail-order rifle, three shots, and the case against conspiracy in the JFK assassination.

저자: Gerald Posner 1993 640 페이지

4.05

2,000+ 개의 평점

🔫 Presidential Assassinations ❄️ Cold War America 🔍 Conspiracy Debunking 🕵️ Forensic History 💥 Political Violence

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

저자: George Lipsitz • 1998

Racial inequality is the return on a system that turned whiteness into a wealth-building asset.

4.22

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⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🤍 Whiteness Studies 💰 Racial Wealth Gap 🏛️ Systemic Racism 🏠 Housing Discrimination

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

Racial inequality is the return on a system that turned whiteness into a wealth-building asset.

저자: George Lipsitz 1998 296 페이지

4.22

500+ 개의 평점

⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🤍 Whiteness Studies 💰 Racial Wealth Gap 🏛️ Systemic Racism 🏠 Housing Discrimination

The Company

저자: Stephen R. Bown • 2020

A fur company once ruled a third of North America. Its collapse created Canada.

4.13

2,000+

🦫 Fur Trade 🏢 Corporate History 🇨🇦 Canadian History 👑 Colonialism 🪶 Indigenous History

The Company

A fur company once ruled a third of North America. Its collapse created Canada.

저자: Stephen R. Bown 2020 496 페이지

4.13

2,000+ 개의 평점

🦫 Fur Trade 🏢 Corporate History 🇨🇦 Canadian History 👑 Colonialism 🪶 Indigenous History

Wireless Wars

저자: Jonathan Pelson • 2021

The West lost 5G chasing cheap Chinese labor. The answer is open standards, not sanctions.

4.10

301

🗺️ Tech Geopolitics 🇨🇳 Chinese Tech 📡 Telecom Industry 💣 Economic Warfare 🔗 Supply Chain Risk

Wireless Wars

The West lost 5G chasing cheap Chinese labor. The answer is open standards, not sanctions.

저자: Jonathan Pelson 2021 328 페이지

4.10

301 개의 평점

🗺️ Tech Geopolitics 🇨🇳 Chinese Tech 📡 Telecom Industry 💣 Economic Warfare 🔗 Supply Chain Risk

The Great Bridge

저자: David McCullough • 1972

The father died. The son collapsed. The daughter-in-law stepped in and built the Brooklyn Bridge.

4.26

18,000+

💰 Gilded Age History 🌉 Civil Engineering History 🏗️ Megaproject Narratives 👨‍👩‍👦 Family Sagas 🗳️ Political Machines

The Great Bridge

The father died. The son collapsed. The daughter-in-law stepped in and built the Brooklyn Bridge.

저자: David McCullough 1972 608 페이지

4.26

18,000+ 개의 평점

💰 Gilded Age History 🌉 Civil Engineering History 🏗️ Megaproject Narratives 👨‍👩‍👦 Family Sagas 🗳️ Political Machines

Enemy of the People

저자: Marvin Kalb • 2018

Trump's war on the press follows a 1950s script. The democracy-saving ending is not guaranteed.

4.13

137

🇺🇸 American Democracy 📰 Press Freedom 🕵️ Mccarthyism 📡 Media Manipulation 🧠 Disinformation

Enemy of the People

Trump's war on the press follows a 1950s script. The democracy-saving ending is not guaranteed.

저자: Marvin Kalb 2018 200 페이지

4.13

137 개의 평점

🇺🇸 American Democracy 📰 Press Freedom 🕵️ Mccarthyism 📡 Media Manipulation 🧠 Disinformation

Realpolitik

저자: John Bew • 2015

Realpolitik was a liberal reformer's idea before Bismarck hijacked it. What was lost.

3.94

161

🏛️ Political Realism 📚 Intellectual History ♟️ Statecraft And Strategy 🌍 Geopolitical Thought 🇩🇪 German Political Thought

Realpolitik

Realpolitik was a liberal reformer's idea before Bismarck hijacked it. What was lost.

저자: John Bew 2015 408 페이지

3.94

161 개의 평점

🏛️ Political Realism 📚 Intellectual History ♟️ Statecraft And Strategy 🌍 Geopolitical Thought 🇩🇪 German Political Thought

브루클린에서 자라는 나무

저자: 베티 스미스 • 1943

A bookish tenement girl clings to reading while her charming father drinks and her mother scrubs.

4.30

500,000+

🗽 Immigrant Family Saga 🍺 Alcoholic Father 📚 Bookish Heroine 💪 Resilient Mother 💔 First Heartbreak

브루클린에서 자라는 나무

A bookish tenement girl clings to reading while her charming father drinks and her mother scrubs.

저자: 베티 스미스 1943 496 페이지

4.30

500,000+ 개의 평점

🗽 Immigrant Family Saga 🍺 Alcoholic Father 📚 Bookish Heroine 💪 Resilient Mother 💔 First Heartbreak

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

저자: Howard Zinn • 1994

Shipyards, bombers, protest lines: a historian argues that sitting still picks a side.

4.34

3,000+

✊ Activist Memoir 🕊️ Civil Disobedience ☮️ Antiwar Movements 📜 History From Below 🔍 Critical History

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

Shipyards, bombers, protest lines: a historian argues that sitting still picks a side.

저자: Howard Zinn 1994 214 페이지

4.34

3,000+ 개의 평점

✊ Activist Memoir 🕊️ Civil Disobedience ☮️ Antiwar Movements 📜 History From Below 🔍 Critical History

Why We Can't Wait

저자: Martin Luther King Jr. • 1964

From Birmingham to Washington: how nonviolence won, and why the next battle is economic.

4.55

9,000+

✊ Civil Rights Movement ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance 💰 Economic Justice 📢 Protest Movements ✝️ Christian Ethics

Why We Can't Wait

From Birmingham to Washington: how nonviolence won, and why the next battle is economic.

저자: Martin Luther King Jr. 1964 223 페이지

4.55

9,000+ 개의 평점

✊ Civil Rights Movement ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance 💰 Economic Justice 📢 Protest Movements ✝️ Christian Ethics

Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar

저자: Katie Yee • 2025

A mother's marriage implodes, then her body rebels. She names the tumor after the other woman.

3.34

17,000+

📖 Literary Autofiction 💔 Marriage In Crisis 👤 The Other Woman 😐 Deadpan Narrator 🧧 Immigrant Daughter

Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar

A mother's marriage implodes, then her body rebels. She names the tumor after the other woman.

저자: Katie Yee 2025 200 페이지

3.34

17,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Literary Autofiction 💔 Marriage In Crisis 👤 The Other Woman 😐 Deadpan Narrator 🧧 Immigrant Daughter

Our Time Is Now

저자: Stacey Abrams • 2020

The machinery of voter suppression: purged rolls, gerrymandered maps, and a census that undercounts.

4.41

8,000+

🗳️ Voting Rights 🏛️ Electoral Reform 🪪 Identity Politics 🌱 Grassroots Organizing ⚠️ Authoritarian Populism

Our Time Is Now

The machinery of voter suppression: purged rolls, gerrymandered maps, and a census that undercounts.

저자: Stacey Abrams 2020 304 페이지

4.41

8,000+ 개의 평점

🗳️ Voting Rights 🏛️ Electoral Reform 🪪 Identity Politics 🌱 Grassroots Organizing ⚠️ Authoritarian Populism

Navajos Wear Nikes

저자: Jim Kristofic • 2011

The only white kid on the Rez: learning Navajo, herding sheep, earning what belonging costs.

4.08

500+

🏜️ Reservation Life 🌐 Cultural Identity 👁️ Outsider Perspective 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoir 🪶 Indigenous Traditions

Navajos Wear Nikes

The only white kid on the Rez: learning Navajo, herding sheep, earning what belonging costs.

저자: Jim Kristofic 2011 230 페이지

4.08

500+ 개의 평점

🏜️ Reservation Life 🌐 Cultural Identity 👁️ Outsider Perspective 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoir 🪶 Indigenous Traditions

The Beautiful and Damned

저자: F. Scott Fitzgerald • 1922

Parties, gin, and the long wait for an inheritance hollow out a golden Jazz Age couple.

3.73

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🗽 Jazz Age Novel 💔 Doomed Love 💰 Idle Rich 🥀 Fading Beauty ⚖️ Inheritance Plot

The Beautiful and Damned

Parties, gin, and the long wait for an inheritance hollow out a golden Jazz Age couple.

저자: F. Scott Fitzgerald 1922 422 페이지

3.73

65,000+ 개의 평점

🗽 Jazz Age Novel 💔 Doomed Love 💰 Idle Rich 🥀 Fading Beauty ⚖️ Inheritance Plot

Deliver Me from Nowhere

저자: Warren Zanes • 2023

Why Bruce Springsteen's darkest album was a home demo he never meant to release.

4.33

4,000+

🎧 Album Making-Of 🏠 Home Recording 🧠 Creative Struggle 🌾 Dark Americana 🔧 Working Class Stories

Deliver Me from Nowhere

Why Bruce Springsteen's darkest album was a home demo he never meant to release.

저자: Warren Zanes 2023 320 페이지

4.33

4,000+ 개의 평점

🎧 Album Making-Of 🏠 Home Recording 🧠 Creative Struggle 🌾 Dark Americana 🔧 Working Class Stories

Goliath

저자: Matt Stoller • 2019

A century ago, America broke the trusts. An intellectual counterrevolution brought them back.

4.23

1,000+

⚖️ Antitrust Policy 🏢 Corporate Power 🔄 Neoliberalism 📜 New Deal Economics 🎓 Chicago School Economics

Goliath

A century ago, America broke the trusts. An intellectual counterrevolution brought them back.

저자: Matt Stoller 2019 605 페이지

4.23

1,000+ 개의 평점

⚖️ Antitrust Policy 🏢 Corporate Power 🔄 Neoliberalism 📜 New Deal Economics 🎓 Chicago School Economics

Rogue State

저자: William Blum • 2000

The world's leading democracy has overthrown forty governments since 1945, calling it freedom.

3.97

500+

🏛️ U.S. Foreign Policy 🦅 American Imperialism 🕵️ Covert Operations 📢 Propaganda Critique 💣 Military Intervention

Rogue State

The world's leading democracy has overthrown forty governments since 1945, calling it freedom.

저자: William Blum 2000 393 페이지

3.97

500+ 개의 평점

🏛️ U.S. Foreign Policy 🦅 American Imperialism 🕵️ Covert Operations 📢 Propaganda Critique 💣 Military Intervention

The New Lombard Street

저자: Perry G. Mehrling • 2010

The Fed's 1873 playbook broke in 2008. The new role: dealer of last resort.

4.26

274

🏦 Central Banking 📜 Monetary History 🔧 Financial Plumbing 🔄 Credit Cycles 🕶️ Shadow Banking

The New Lombard Street

The Fed's 1873 playbook broke in 2008. The new role: dealer of last resort.

저자: Perry G. Mehrling 2010 192 페이지

4.26

274 개의 평점

🏦 Central Banking 📜 Monetary History 🔧 Financial Plumbing 🔄 Credit Cycles 🕶️ Shadow Banking

Paper Soldiers

저자: Saleha Mohsin • 2024

Treasury secretaries turned the dollar into a weapon. Now the world is engineering its replacement.

3.68

256

🏛️ Financial History 💵 Reserve Currency ⚔️ Economic Warfare 🇺🇸 American Hegemony 🌐 Political Economy

Paper Soldiers

Treasury secretaries turned the dollar into a weapon. Now the world is engineering its replacement.

저자: Saleha Mohsin 2024 304 페이지

3.68

256 개의 평점

🏛️ Financial History 💵 Reserve Currency ⚔️ Economic Warfare 🇺🇸 American Hegemony 🌐 Political Economy

Bobos in Paradise

저자: David Brooks • 2000

Why the new elite spends fortunes on kitchen stoves but despises luxury cars.

3.62

4,000+

🏛️ American Elites 📊 Class Analysis 🎭 Cultural Capital 📡 Status Signaling 🏢 Information Economy

Bobos in Paradise

Why the new elite spends fortunes on kitchen stoves but despises luxury cars.

저자: David Brooks 2000 284 페이지

3.62

4,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ American Elites 📊 Class Analysis 🎭 Cultural Capital 📡 Status Signaling 🏢 Information Economy

갈까마귀

저자: 에드거 앨런 포 • 1845

In a shadowy chamber, a scholar's grief summons a raven whose sole reply damns him to despair.

4.29

100,000+

🖤 Gothic Poetry 👻 Haunted By Grief 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🐦‍⬛ Ominous Bird 🥀 Unreliable Narrator

갈까마귀

In a shadowy chamber, a scholar's grief summons a raven whose sole reply damns him to despair.

저자: 에드거 앨런 포 1845 64 페이지

4.29

100,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Gothic Poetry 👻 Haunted By Grief 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🐦‍⬛ Ominous Bird 🥀 Unreliable Narrator

Fighter Pilot

저자: Robin Olds • 2010

Married a Hollywood actress, then declared war on the U.S. Air Force’s bomber generals.

4.49

3,000+

🛩️ Fighter Pilot Memoirs ✈️ Military Aviation 🫡 Air Force Leadership 💥 Aerial Combat 🧑‍✈️ Fighter Pilot Ethos

Fighter Pilot

Married a Hollywood actress, then declared war on the U.S. Air Force’s bomber generals.

저자: Robin Olds 2010 416 페이지

4.49

3,000+ 개의 평점

🛩️ Fighter Pilot Memoirs ✈️ Military Aviation 🫡 Air Force Leadership 💥 Aerial Combat 🧑‍✈️ Fighter Pilot Ethos

The Killing Zone

저자: Frederick Downs Jr. • 1978

A 23-year-old lieutenant lands in Vietnam. A mine takes his arm. The months between.

4.08

2,000+

🪖 Vietnam War 📖 War Memoirs 🫡 Platoon Leadership 🧠 Psychological Trauma 🥾 Infantry

The Killing Zone

A 23-year-old lieutenant lands in Vietnam. A mine takes his arm. The months between.

저자: Frederick Downs Jr. 1978 240 페이지

4.08

2,000+ 개의 평점

🪖 Vietnam War 📖 War Memoirs 🫡 Platoon Leadership 🧠 Psychological Trauma 🥾 Infantry

The Great Reset

저자: Richard Florida • 2010

Crashes rebuild how we live. Two gave us factories and suburbs. The third is remaking cities.

3.59

500+

🏙️ Urban Economics 🗺️ Economic Geography 🏗️ Infrastructure 💡 Creative Economy 🔄 Post-Industrial Society

The Great Reset

Crashes rebuild how we live. Two gave us factories and suburbs. The third is remaking cities.

저자: Richard Florida 2010 240 페이지

3.59

500+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Urban Economics 🗺️ Economic Geography 🏗️ Infrastructure 💡 Creative Economy 🔄 Post-Industrial Society

What You Should Know About Politics . . . But Don't

저자: Jessamyn Conrad • 2008

What every voter should know about the issues, explained without the partisan spin.

3.94

1,000+

🦅 American Politics 📋 Public Policy 📚 Civic Education ⚡ Political Polarization 🔥 Culture Wars

What You Should Know About Politics . . . But Don't

What every voter should know about the issues, explained without the partisan spin.

저자: Jessamyn Conrad 2008 400 페이지

3.94

1,000+ 개의 평점

🦅 American Politics 📋 Public Policy 📚 Civic Education ⚡ Political Polarization 🔥 Culture Wars

블랙버드 연못의 마녀

저자: 엘리자베스 조지 스피어 • 1958

An orphan from Barbados lands in Puritan Connecticut, where independence is mistaken for witchcraft.

4.03

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🔥 Puritan Witch Trial 🌾 Colonial New England 🐠 Fish Out Of Water 🏠 Found Family 👀 Small Town Fear

블랙버드 연못의 마녀

An orphan from Barbados lands in Puritan Connecticut, where independence is mistaken for witchcraft.

저자: 엘리자베스 조지 스피어 1958 256 페이지

4.03

100,000+ 개의 평점

🔥 Puritan Witch Trial 🌾 Colonial New England 🐠 Fish Out Of Water 🏠 Found Family 👀 Small Town Fear

Washington's Spies

저자: Alexander Rose • 2006

Washington's spies weren't professionals. They were neighbors who took their secret to the grave.

3.82

6,000+

🦅 American Revolution 🕵️ Espionage History 🎖️ Military Intelligence 🔐 Spycraft 🔢 Secret Codes

Washington's Spies

Washington's spies weren't professionals. They were neighbors who took their secret to the grave.

저자: Alexander Rose 2006 384 페이지

3.82

6,000+ 개의 평점

🦅 American Revolution 🕵️ Espionage History 🎖️ Military Intelligence 🔐 Spycraft 🔢 Secret Codes

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

저자: Bill Bryson • 2006

His superpower was vaporizing teachers. The decade was 1950s America at its richest, weirdest peak.

3.94

68,000+

🏛️ Mid-Century America 🧒 Childhood Memoir 😂 Humorous Memoir 💰 Postwar Prosperity 🏘️ Small-Town Life

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

His superpower was vaporizing teachers. The decade was 1950s America at its richest, weirdest peak.

저자: Bill Bryson 2006 288 페이지

3.94

68,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Mid-Century America 🧒 Childhood Memoir 😂 Humorous Memoir 💰 Postwar Prosperity 🏘️ Small-Town Life

Mark Twain

저자: Ron Chernow • 2025

America's greatest humorist was a grief-haunted gambler who saved his darkest truths for the grave.

4.18

7,000+

📖 Literary Biography 🏛️ Gilded Age America 💔 Grief And Loss 🎭 Public Persona 💸 Business Failure

Mark Twain

America's greatest humorist was a grief-haunted gambler who saved his darkest truths for the grave.

저자: Ron Chernow 2025 1200 페이지

4.18

7,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Literary Biography 🏛️ Gilded Age America 💔 Grief And Loss 🎭 Public Persona 💸 Business Failure

Big Brother

저자: Lionel Shriver • 2013

A woman wagers her marriage to rescue her brilliant brother from the grip of catastrophic obesity.

3.47

14,000+

🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🍔 Food Addiction 👫 Sibling Loyalty 🏚️ Family Dysfunction 🖤 Dark Comedy

Big Brother

A woman wagers her marriage to rescue her brilliant brother from the grip of catastrophic obesity.

저자: Lionel Shriver 2013 384 페이지

3.47

14,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🍔 Food Addiction 👫 Sibling Loyalty 🏚️ Family Dysfunction 🖤 Dark Comedy

In Our Hands

저자: Charles Murray • 2006

Eliminate every welfare program. Send every adult one check. It costs less and ends poverty.

3.74

290

🏦 Universal Basic Income 📋 Welfare Reform 🏘️ Civil Society 🗽 Libertarian Economics 🛡️ Social Insurance

In Our Hands

Eliminate every welfare program. Send every adult one check. It costs less and ends poverty.

저자: Charles Murray 2006 152 페이지

3.74

290 개의 평점

🏦 Universal Basic Income 📋 Welfare Reform 🏘️ Civil Society 🗽 Libertarian Economics 🛡️ Social Insurance

Orphan Bachelors

저자: Fae Myenne Ng • 2023

One family, one false name, and the century of silence the Chinese Exclusion Act demanded.

3.91

238

🧧 Immigration Memoir 🏮 Chinese American History 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Immigrant Families 🖋️ Asian American Literature

Orphan Bachelors

One family, one false name, and the century of silence the Chinese Exclusion Act demanded.

저자: Fae Myenne Ng 2023 256 페이지

3.91

238 개의 평점

🧧 Immigration Memoir 🏮 Chinese American History 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Immigrant Families 🖋️ Asian American Literature

The End of Wall Street

저자: Roger Lowenstein • 2010

Wall Street's smartest minds bet the global economy on home loans that were designed to fail.

3.91

2,000+

🏦 Financial Crises 🏢 Wall Street 🏠 Housing Bubble 🔗 Systemic Risk 🧿 Moral Hazard

The End of Wall Street

Wall Street's smartest minds bet the global economy on home loans that were designed to fail.

저자: Roger Lowenstein 2010 368 페이지

3.91

2,000+ 개의 평점

🏦 Financial Crises 🏢 Wall Street 🏠 Housing Bubble 🔗 Systemic Risk 🧿 Moral Hazard

Grant

저자: Ron Chernow • 2017

Failed farmer, rumored drunk. How Ulysses Grant won the Civil War and fought the Klan as president.

4.50

44,000+

📖 Civil War History 🏛️ Presidential Biography 📜 Military Strategy 🔄 Revisionist History 🔗 Emancipation

Grant

Failed farmer, rumored drunk. How Ulysses Grant won the Civil War and fought the Klan as president.

저자: Ron Chernow 2017 1104 페이지

4.50

44,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Civil War History 🏛️ Presidential Biography 📜 Military Strategy 🔄 Revisionist History 🔗 Emancipation

Public Enemies

저자: Bryan Burrough • 2004

The FBI built its legend chasing petty killers, beating suspects, and inventing the Ma Barker myth.

3.98

6,000+

🏚️ Great Depression Era 🕵️ Fbi History 🔨 Myth Debunking 📖 Revisionist History 📰 Media And Crime

Public Enemies

The FBI built its legend chasing petty killers, beating suspects, and inventing the Ma Barker myth.

저자: Bryan Burrough 2004 640 페이지

3.98

6,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Great Depression Era 🕵️ Fbi History 🔨 Myth Debunking 📖 Revisionist History 📰 Media And Crime

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

저자: Edgar Allan Poe • 1999

A boy stows away, survives mutiny and cannibalism, then sails into a white Antarctic void.

3.5

15,000+

🪐 Cosmic Horror 🚢 Gothic Seafaring ⚓ Mutiny At Sea 🍖 Survival Cannibalism 🎭 Unreliable Narrator

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

A boy stows away, survives mutiny and cannibalism, then sails into a white Antarctic void.

저자: Edgar Allan Poe 1999 288 페이지

3.5

15,000+ 개의 평점

🪐 Cosmic Horror 🚢 Gothic Seafaring ⚓ Mutiny At Sea 🍖 Survival Cannibalism 🎭 Unreliable Narrator

God Hates Us All

저자: Hank Moody • 2009

A cynical young man deals pot from the Chelsea Hotel, chasing love while avoiding adulthood.

3.46

4,000+

🗽 Bohemian New York 💔 Toxic Love 😈 Dark Comedy 🌱 Coming Of Age 💊 Drug Dealing

God Hates Us All

A cynical young man deals pot from the Chelsea Hotel, chasing love while avoiding adulthood.

저자: Hank Moody 2009 200 페이지

3.46

4,000+ 개의 평점

🗽 Bohemian New York 💔 Toxic Love 😈 Dark Comedy 🌱 Coming Of Age 💊 Drug Dealing

To Build a Fire

저자: Jack London • 2003

Crossing the frozen Yukon, a man trusts his own judgment while his dog knows better.

3.99

27,000+

🏔️ Naturalist Fiction 🏕️ Wilderness Survival 🌊 Man Vs Nature ⚡ Tragic Hubris 🐺 Instinct Vs Reason

To Build a Fire

Crossing the frozen Yukon, a man trusts his own judgment while his dog knows better.

저자: Jack London 2003 32 페이지

3.99

27,000+ 개의 평점

🏔️ Naturalist Fiction 🏕️ Wilderness Survival 🌊 Man Vs Nature ⚡ Tragic Hubris 🐺 Instinct Vs Reason

Blind Ambition

저자: John W. Dean • 1976

At 31, Nixon's counsel ran the Watergate cover-up. Then he told prosecutors everything.

4.04

1,000+

🏛️ Presidential Scandals 🤐 Political Cover-Ups 📢 Whistleblowers 📖 White House Memoirs 🇺🇸 Nixon Era

Blind Ambition

At 31, Nixon's counsel ran the Watergate cover-up. Then he told prosecutors everything.

저자: John W. Dean 1976 614 페이지

4.04

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Presidential Scandals 🤐 Political Cover-Ups 📢 Whistleblowers 📖 White House Memoirs 🇺🇸 Nixon Era

The Founding Fathers on Leadership

저자: Donald T. Phillips • 1997

Beat an empire with better teamwork: the leadership manual hidden in the American Revolution.

3.87

298

📚 Applied History 🤝 Team Building ⚡ Crisis Leadership 🔭 Visionary Leadership ♟️ Strategic Thinking

The Founding Fathers on Leadership

Beat an empire with better teamwork: the leadership manual hidden in the American Revolution.

저자: Donald T. Phillips 1997 274 페이지

3.87

298 개의 평점

📚 Applied History 🤝 Team Building ⚡ Crisis Leadership 🔭 Visionary Leadership ♟️ Strategic Thinking

All Souls

저자: Michael Patrick MacDonald • 1999

His mother buried four sons. Southie's code demanded no one ask why.

4.09

13,000+

🏙️ Urban Poverty 🏛️ Boston History 🍀 Irish American 🚌 Busing Crisis 🤫 Code Of Silence

All Souls

His mother buried four sons. Southie's code demanded no one ask why.

저자: Michael Patrick MacDonald 1999 263 페이지

4.09

13,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Urban Poverty 🏛️ Boston History 🍀 Irish American 🚌 Busing Crisis 🤫 Code Of Silence

I'm a Stranger Here Myself

저자: Bill Bryson • 1998

After twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson came home to an America he no longer understood.

3.90

69,000+

🌀 Reverse Culture Shock 👀 Observational Humor 🛒 Consumer Culture 🇺🇸 Everyday Americana ✈️ Armchair Travel

I'm a Stranger Here Myself

After twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson came home to an America he no longer understood.

저자: Bill Bryson 1998 304 페이지

3.90

69,000+ 개의 평점

🌀 Reverse Culture Shock 👀 Observational Humor 🛒 Consumer Culture 🇺🇸 Everyday Americana ✈️ Armchair Travel

A Higher Loyalty

저자: James B. Comey • 2018

The president wanted a loyalty oath; the FBI director wrote memos instead. A front-row account.

4.09

49,000+

📖 Political Memoir 🤝 Ethical Leadership 🏢 Institutional Integrity 🏛️ Presidential Accountability ⚖️ Rule Of Law

A Higher Loyalty

The president wanted a loyalty oath; the FBI director wrote memos instead. A front-row account.

저자: James B. Comey 2018 290 페이지

4.09

49,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Political Memoir 🤝 Ethical Leadership 🏢 Institutional Integrity 🏛️ Presidential Accountability ⚖️ Rule Of Law

Blood and Thunder

저자: Hampton Sides • 2006

To conquer the Southwest, America sent an illiterate tracker who became both a hero and a butcher.

4.30

20,000+

🗺️ Manifest Destiny 🏜️ Navajo History 💔 Forced Relocation 🚂 Westward Expansion ✊ Indigenous Resistance

Blood and Thunder

To conquer the Southwest, America sent an illiterate tracker who became both a hero and a butcher.

저자: Hampton Sides 2006 460 페이지

4.30

20,000+ 개의 평점

🗺️ Manifest Destiny 🏜️ Navajo History 💔 Forced Relocation 🚂 Westward Expansion ✊ Indigenous Resistance

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