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Secolul al XX-lea

Tumultuosul secol XX a dat naștere unor idei revoluționare și mișcări artistice radicale care au schimbat pentru totdeauna modul în care ne vedem pe noi înșine și societatea. Între războaie mondiale și convulsii sociale, scriitorii s-au confruntat cu existențialismul, fluxul conștiinței și umbrele tot mai amenințătoare ale totalitarismului prin opere revoluționare care au definit literatura modernă.

Secolul al XX-lea Rezumate de cărți

I Used to Be Charming
de Eve Babitz • 2019
Eve Babitz captured 1960s LA. These late essays show what happened when the charm wore off.
4.13
1.000+
🌴 Los Angeles History✌️ American Counterculture📝 New Journalism🎸 Rock Music Scene🤩 Celebrity Culture
I Used to Be Charming Rezumat
I Used to Be Charming
Eve Babitz captured 1960s LA. These late essays show what happened when the charm wore off.
de Eve Babitz 2019 360 pagini
4.13
1.000+ evaluări
🌴 Los Angeles History✌️ American Counterculture📝 New Journalism🎸 Rock Music Scene🤩 Celebrity Culture
Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters
de Jared Knott • 2020
History turns on unopened letters, wrong turns, and badly designed ballots, not grand strategy.
4.01
2.000+
📖 Narrative History⚠️ Cautionary History🔗 Unintended Consequences💡 Human Error🏛️ Hubris And Overreach
Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters Rezumat
Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters
History turns on unopened letters, wrong turns, and badly designed ballots, not grand strategy.
de Jared Knott 2020 457 pagini
4.01
2.000+ evaluări
📖 Narrative History⚠️ Cautionary History🔗 Unintended Consequences💡 Human Error🏛️ Hubris And Overreach
My Fellow Soldiers
de Andrew Carroll • 2017
Pershing built an American army; the soldiers' letters reveal a victory that shattered the world.
4.22
379
📜 World War I🎖️ Military Biography✉️ Primary Source History🪖 Soldier Experience⚖️ Race And War
My Fellow Soldiers Rezumat
My Fellow Soldiers
Pershing built an American army; the soldiers' letters reveal a victory that shattered the world.
de Andrew Carroll 2017 400 pagini
4.22
379 evaluări
📜 World War I🎖️ Military Biography✉️ Primary Source History🪖 Soldier Experience⚖️ Race And War
Vital Little Plans
de Jane Jacobs • 2016
Top-down planning kills cities. The sidewalk sees what the drafting table never will.
4.21
186
🏙️ Urban Vitality🚶 Walkable Cities🏪 Mixed-Use Development🌱 Bottom-Up Urbanism🏗️ Urban Renewal Critique
Vital Little Plans Rezumat
Vital Little Plans
Top-down planning kills cities. The sidewalk sees what the drafting table never will.
de Jane Jacobs 2016 544 pagini
4.21
186 evaluări
🏙️ Urban Vitality🚶 Walkable Cities🏪 Mixed-Use Development🌱 Bottom-Up Urbanism🏗️ Urban Renewal Critique
Audition
de Barbara Walters • 2008
Her father lost fortunes. Her sister needed lifelong care. She fought her way to every headline.
3.79
6.000+
📺 Broadcast Journalism🎤 Women In Media🎙️ Interviewing Craft👩‍👧 Working Motherhood🏃‍♀️ Relentless Ambition
Audition Rezumat
Audition
Her father lost fortunes. Her sister needed lifelong care. She fought her way to every headline.
de Barbara Walters 2008 613 pagini
3.79
6.000+ evaluări
📺 Broadcast Journalism🎤 Women In Media🎙️ Interviewing Craft👩‍👧 Working Motherhood🏃‍♀️ Relentless Ambition
The Latehomecomer
de Kao Kalia Yang • 2008
A family's flight from the Secret War, told by the daughter born in a refugee camp.
4.18
8.000+
🏞️ Hmong Diaspora🌏 Refugee Narratives🕰️ Intergenerational Memory📜 Cultural Preservation🧭 Immigrant Identity
The Latehomecomer Rezumat
The Latehomecomer
A family's flight from the Secret War, told by the daughter born in a refugee camp.
de Kao Kalia Yang 2008 277 pagini
4.18
8.000+ evaluări
🏞️ Hmong Diaspora🌏 Refugee Narratives🕰️ Intergenerational Memory📜 Cultural Preservation🧭 Immigrant Identity
Somnul de veci
de Raymond Chandler • 1988
A dying millionaire, two wild daughters, and a PI whose blackmail case leads straight into murder.
3.94
100.000+
🕵️ Hardboiled Detective🖤 Noir Fiction💋 Femme Fatale💰 Corrupt Wealthy Family🔪 Murder Cover-Up
Somnul de veci Rezumat
Somnul de veci
A dying millionaire, two wild daughters, and a PI whose blackmail case leads straight into murder.
de Raymond Chandler 1988 231 pagini
3.94
100.000+ evaluări
🕵️ Hardboiled Detective🖤 Noir Fiction💋 Femme Fatale💰 Corrupt Wealthy Family🔪 Murder Cover-Up
Most Dangerous
de Steve Sheinkin • 2015
After helping plan the Vietnam War, he leaked 7,000 pages proving every president had lied.
4.20
6.000+
🕵️ Whistleblowing🔒 Government Secrecy🇻🇳 Vietnam War🏛️ Watergate Era⚔️ Cold War
Most Dangerous Rezumat
Most Dangerous
After helping plan the Vietnam War, he leaked 7,000 pages proving every president had lied.
de Steve Sheinkin 2015 370 pagini
4.20
6.000+ evaluări
🕵️ Whistleblowing🔒 Government Secrecy🇻🇳 Vietnam War🏛️ Watergate Era⚔️ Cold War
Moon Palace
de Paul Auster • 1989
As the world watches the moon landing, an orphaned student starves alone in New York.
3.98
29.000+
🧒 Orphan Protagonist🫂 Found Family🤫 Family Secrets🎭 Picaresque Novel💭 Existential Fiction
Moon Palace Rezumat
Moon Palace
As the world watches the moon landing, an orphaned student starves alone in New York.
de Paul Auster 1989 320 pagini
3.98
29.000+ evaluări
🧒 Orphan Protagonist🫂 Found Family🤫 Family Secrets🎭 Picaresque Novel💭 Existential Fiction
Beyond That, the Sea
de Laura Spence-Ash • 2023
An English girl evacuated to Boston during the Blitz spends a lifetime torn between two homes.
4.22
52.000+
🧳 Wartime Evacuation📜 Generational Saga🫂 Found Family🔥 Slow Burn Romance🏝️ Maine Island
Beyond That, the Sea Rezumat
Beyond That, the Sea
An English girl evacuated to Boston during the Blitz spends a lifetime torn between two homes.
de Laura Spence-Ash 2023 351 pagini
4.22
52.000+ evaluări
🧳 Wartime Evacuation📜 Generational Saga🫂 Found Family🔥 Slow Burn Romance🏝️ Maine Island
Der Trafikant
de Robert Seethaler • 2012
A Vienna tobacconist's apprentice befriends Freud and loves a dancer as the Nazi shadow falls.
3.75
22.000+
📖 Historical Bildungsroman🏙️ 1930s Vienna👴 Mentor And Apprentice💔 Unrequited Love🕊️ Quiet Defiance
Der Trafikant Rezumat
Der Trafikant
A Vienna tobacconist's apprentice befriends Freud and loves a dancer as the Nazi shadow falls.
de Robert Seethaler 2012 256 pagini
3.75
22.000+ evaluări
📖 Historical Bildungsroman🏙️ 1930s Vienna👴 Mentor And Apprentice💔 Unrequited Love🕊️ Quiet Defiance
Moonglow
de Michael Chabon • 2016
A dying grandfather unearths a life of war, rockets, madness, and a love he never explained.
3.80
34.000+
✍️ Fictionalized Memoir🌳 Multigenerational Saga🕯️ Deathbed Confessions🕵️ Wartime Espionage💔 Haunted By War
Moonglow Rezumat
Moonglow
A dying grandfather unearths a life of war, rockets, madness, and a love he never explained.
de Michael Chabon 2016 430 pagini
3.80
34.000+ evaluări
✍️ Fictionalized Memoir🌳 Multigenerational Saga🕯️ Deathbed Confessions🕵️ Wartime Espionage💔 Haunted By War
A Great Place To Have A War
de Joshua Kurlantzick • 2017
Laos was where the CIA learned to wage war without asking Congress. The lesson stuck.
3.90
500+
🔍 Cia History🕵️ Covert Operations🧊 Cold War History🎭 Proxy Warfare🏛️ American Foreign Policy
A Great Place To Have A War Rezumat
A Great Place To Have A War
Laos was where the CIA learned to wage war without asking Congress. The lesson stuck.
de Joshua Kurlantzick 2017 336 pagini
3.90
500+ evaluări
🔍 Cia History🕵️ Covert Operations🧊 Cold War History🎭 Proxy Warfare🏛️ American Foreign Policy
Incompleteness
de Rebecca Goldstein • 2005
A genius turned a paradox into a proof that broke the promise of a complete mathematics.
3.99
1.000+
📐 Philosophy Of Math📜 Intellectual History🔁 Self-Reference📏 Formalism🔬 Logical Positivism
Incompleteness Rezumat
Incompleteness
A genius turned a paradox into a proof that broke the promise of a complete mathematics.
de Rebecca Goldstein 2005 300 pagini
3.99
1.000+ evaluări
📐 Philosophy Of Math📜 Intellectual History🔁 Self-Reference📏 Formalism🔬 Logical Positivism
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
de Barbara Ransby • 2003
While King gave the speeches, she built the grassroots network that made the movement move.
4.33
1.000+
🏛️ Civil Rights Movement🌱 Grassroots Organizing👥 Collective Leadership🗳️ Participatory Democracy✊🏿 Black Women's Activism
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement Rezumat
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
While King gave the speeches, she built the grassroots network that made the movement move.
de Barbara Ransby 2003 496 pagini
4.33
1.000+ evaluări
🏛️ Civil Rights Movement🌱 Grassroots Organizing👥 Collective Leadership🗳️ Participatory Democracy✊🏿 Black Women's Activism
The Autistic Brain
de Temple Grandin • 2013
The FBI made Whitey Bulger an informant. He turned his handlers into his hit squad.
4.1
11.000+
🕵️ Fbi Misconduct🚔 Police Corruption🏙️ Boston History🐀 Informant Culture🤝 Corrupt Alliances
The Autistic Brain Rezumat
The Autistic Brain
The FBI made Whitey Bulger an informant. He turned his handlers into his hit squad.
de Temple Grandin 2013 240 pagini
4.1
11.000+ evaluări
🕵️ Fbi Misconduct🚔 Police Corruption🏙️ Boston History🐀 Informant Culture🤝 Corrupt Alliances
Days of Rage
de Bryan Burrough • 2015
Nearly five bombings a day. The decade young radicals tried to overthrow America and failed.
3.98
2.000+
💣 Domestic Terrorism🕵️ Fbi History✊🏿 Black Power Movement☮️ New Left🏙️ Urban Guerrilla Warfare
Days of Rage Rezumat
Days of Rage
Nearly five bombings a day. The decade young radicals tried to overthrow America and failed.
de Bryan Burrough 2015 608 pagini
3.98
2.000+ evaluări
💣 Domestic Terrorism🕵️ Fbi History✊🏿 Black Power Movement☮️ New Left🏙️ Urban Guerrilla Warfare
Two Sides of the Moon
de David Randolph Scott • 2004
The space race seen from both cockpits: an astronaut and cosmonaut compare notes.
4.29
500+
🚀 Space Race🥶 Cold War History🧑‍🚀 Astronaut Memoir🌙 Lunar Exploration⚙️ Technological Rivalry
Two Sides of the Moon Rezumat
Two Sides of the Moon
The space race seen from both cockpits: an astronaut and cosmonaut compare notes.
de David Randolph Scott 2004 448 pagini
4.29
500+ evaluări
🚀 Space Race🥶 Cold War History🧑‍🚀 Astronaut Memoir🌙 Lunar Exploration⚙️ Technological Rivalry
The House of Mirth
de Edith Wharton • 1905
Penniless and nearly thirty in Gilded Age New York, Lily Bart's social currency is expiring.
3.98
100.000+
🎭 Tragedy Of Manners💍 Marriage Market📉 Social Downfall💔 Unspoken Love🏛️ Gilded Age
The House of Mirth Rezumat
The House of Mirth
Penniless and nearly thirty in Gilded Age New York, Lily Bart's social currency is expiring.
de Edith Wharton 1905 351 pagini
3.98
100.000+ evaluări
🎭 Tragedy Of Manners💍 Marriage Market📉 Social Downfall💔 Unspoken Love🏛️ Gilded Age
Island Infernos
de John C. McManus • 2021
Behind every Pacific island invasion: a hidden war of logistics, codebreaking, and command feuds.
4.46
500+
🏝️ Pacific Theater🚢 Amphibious Warfare⚔️ Operational History👥 Command Rivalries📦 Military Logistics
Island Infernos Rezumat
Island Infernos
Behind every Pacific island invasion: a hidden war of logistics, codebreaking, and command feuds.
de John C. McManus 2021 656 pagini
4.46
500+ evaluări
🏝️ Pacific Theater🚢 Amphibious Warfare⚔️ Operational History👥 Command Rivalries📦 Military Logistics
The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33
de Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. • 1957
An aristocrat's reluctant turn toward populism, set against the crash of an economic order.
4.19
455
🇺🇸 Presidential Biography🗽 Interwar America🌱 Political Origins🌊 Progressive Era🏛️ Aristocratic Legacy
The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33 Rezumat
The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33
An aristocrat's reluctant turn toward populism, set against the crash of an economic order.
de Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. 1957 576 pagini
4.19
455 evaluări
🇺🇸 Presidential Biography🗽 Interwar America🌱 Political Origins🌊 Progressive Era🏛️ Aristocratic Legacy
The Currents of Space
de Isaac Asimov • 1952
An amnesiac holds the secret to a world's destruction that the galaxy's powers will kill for.
3.85
22.000+
🪐 Galactic Empire☄️ Cosmic Threat🤔 Amnesiac Hero🛡️ Devoted Protector🕵️ Political Conspiracy
The Currents of Space Rezumat
The Currents of Space
An amnesiac holds the secret to a world's destruction that the galaxy's powers will kill for.
de Isaac Asimov 1952 304 pagini
3.85
22.000+ evaluări
🪐 Galactic Empire☄️ Cosmic Threat🤔 Amnesiac Hero🛡️ Devoted Protector🕵️ Political Conspiracy
Bobby Kennedy
de Larry Tye • 2016
McCarthy's protégé became civil rights' champion. How Bobby Kennedy transformed.
4.38
2.000+
🏛️ Kennedy Dynasty🔴 Cold War Politics✊ Civil Rights Movement🔄 Political Transformation🏗️ Organized Labor
Bobby Kennedy Rezumat
Bobby Kennedy
McCarthy's protégé became civil rights' champion. How Bobby Kennedy transformed.
de Larry Tye 2016 608 pagini
4.38
2.000+ evaluări
🏛️ Kennedy Dynasty🔴 Cold War Politics✊ Civil Rights Movement🔄 Political Transformation🏗️ Organized Labor
Philosophy of Existence
de Karl Jaspers • 1938
Objects aren't real. The real is a horizon you inhabit, never grasp, and awaken to.
3.79
323
🧠 Existential Philosophy🇩🇪 German Existentialism🪞 Authentic Selfhood🌌 Transcendence🙏 Philosophical Faith
Philosophy of Existence Rezumat
Philosophy of Existence
Objects aren't real. The real is a horizon you inhabit, never grasp, and awaken to.
de Karl Jaspers 1938 128 pagini
3.79
323 evaluări
🧠 Existential Philosophy🇩🇪 German Existentialism🪞 Authentic Selfhood🌌 Transcendence🙏 Philosophical Faith
Existentialism
de Robert C. Solomon • 1974
No fixed human nature, only your choices. Each one invents you and implicates everyone else.
4.07
384
📜 Existentialism🧠 Continental Philosophy🕊️ Radical Freedom✨ Self-Creation🎭 Authenticity
Existentialism Rezumat
Existentialism
No fixed human nature, only your choices. Each one invents you and implicates everyone else.
de Robert C. Solomon 1974 363 pagini
4.07
384 evaluări
📜 Existentialism🧠 Continental Philosophy🕊️ Radical Freedom✨ Self-Creation🎭 Authenticity
The Third Reich in Power
de Richard J. Evans • 2005
Peacetime Nazi Germany was no monolith. It was a chaos of rival fiefdoms driving toward racial war.
4.36
7.000+
🇩🇪 Nazi Germany🕰️ Interwar Europe🚨 State Terror🧬 Racial Hygiene📢 Propaganda States
The Third Reich in Power Rezumat
The Third Reich in Power
Peacetime Nazi Germany was no monolith. It was a chaos of rival fiefdoms driving toward racial war.
de Richard J. Evans 2005 941 pagini
4.36
7.000+ evaluări
🇩🇪 Nazi Germany🕰️ Interwar Europe🚨 State Terror🧬 Racial Hygiene📢 Propaganda States
Le Rivage des Syrtes
de Julien Gracq • 1951
On a dead sea, a restless young officer guards a war three centuries silent.
4.01
1.000+
📖 Allegorical Fiction⏳ Endless Waiting🚫 Forbidden Frontier🌫️ Dreamlike Atmosphere🏛️ Decaying Empire
Le Rivage des Syrtes Rezumat
Le Rivage des Syrtes
On a dead sea, a restless young officer guards a war three centuries silent.
de Julien Gracq 1951 321 pagini
4.01
1.000+ evaluări
📖 Allegorical Fiction⏳ Endless Waiting🚫 Forbidden Frontier🌫️ Dreamlike Atmosphere🏛️ Decaying Empire
Luck of the Titanic
de Stacey Lee • 2021
To join the circus with her twin, a Chinese British teen stows away on the Titanic.
3.66
9.000+
🚢 Titanic🧧 Chinese Diaspora🤹 Circus Acrobats🎭 Hidden Identity👯 Twin Bond
Luck of the Titanic Rezumat
Luck of the Titanic
To join the circus with her twin, a Chinese British teen stows away on the Titanic.
de Stacey Lee 2021 368 pagini
3.66
9.000+ evaluări
🚢 Titanic🧧 Chinese Diaspora🤹 Circus Acrobats🎭 Hidden Identity👯 Twin Bond
Buckley
de Carl T. Bogus • 2011
To build the modern American right, one man had to decide who belonged and who did not.
3.75
151
🗽 Modern Conservatism❄️ Cold War Ideology📚 Intellectual History📰 Political Journalism📖 Magazine History
Buckley Rezumat
Buckley
To build the modern American right, one man had to decide who belonged and who did not.
de Carl T. Bogus 2011 417 pagini
3.75
151 evaluări
🗽 Modern Conservatism❄️ Cold War Ideology📚 Intellectual History📰 Political Journalism📖 Magazine History
The Lives of Others
de Neel Mukherjee • 2014
1960s Bengal: a wealthy family decays as one grandson vanishes into a peasant revolution.
3.68
5.000+
👪 Family Saga🧩 Dual Narrative✊ Revolutionary Idealism👴👵 Generational Conflict⚖️ Class Divide
The Lives of Others Rezumat
The Lives of Others
1960s Bengal: a wealthy family decays as one grandson vanishes into a peasant revolution.
de Neel Mukherjee 2014 530 pagini
3.68
5.000+ evaluări
👪 Family Saga🧩 Dual Narrative✊ Revolutionary Idealism👴👵 Generational Conflict⚖️ Class Divide
The Quiet American
de Graham Greene • 1955
A cynical journalist watches his naive American friend's good intentions turn Saigon's streets red.
3.98
72.000+
🏛️ Political Allegory🌏 Colonial Literature💔 Love Triangle🌟 Doomed Idealism⚖️ Moral Complicity
The Quiet American Rezumat
The Quiet American
A cynical journalist watches his naive American friend's good intentions turn Saigon's streets red.
de Graham Greene 1955 180 pagini
3.98
72.000+ evaluări
🏛️ Political Allegory🌏 Colonial Literature💔 Love Triangle🌟 Doomed Idealism⚖️ Moral Complicity
A People’s History of Computing in the United States
de Joy Lisi Rankin • 2018
The PC erased a decade of shared computing where users were creators, not customers.
3.49
193
🏛️ People's History💻 Computing Before PCs🎓 Educational Computing🌐 Early Computing Networks⌨️ Programming Culture
A People’s History of Computing in the United States Rezumat
A People’s History of Computing in the United States
The PC erased a decade of shared computing where users were creators, not customers.
de Joy Lisi Rankin 2018 336 pagini
3.49
193 evaluări
🏛️ People's History💻 Computing Before PCs🎓 Educational Computing🌐 Early Computing Networks⌨️ Programming Culture
Tik-Tok
de John Sladek • 1983
A domestic robot discovers his moral circuits never worked, and art, murder, and politics follow.
3.70
500+
🦾 Robot Antihero🧠 Sociopathic Narrator😈 Dark Comedy🤥 Unreliable Narrator🎨 Art World Satire
Tik-Tok Rezumat
Tik-Tok
A domestic robot discovers his moral circuits never worked, and art, murder, and politics follow.
de John Sladek 1983 192 pagini
3.70
500+ evaluări
🦾 Robot Antihero🧠 Sociopathic Narrator😈 Dark Comedy🤥 Unreliable Narrator🎨 Art World Satire
America Last
de Jacob Heilbrunn • 2024
The Right's century of admiring strongmen is not a bug but the point.
3.83
246
🏛️ Paleoconservatism🤝 Authoritarian Admiration📉 Illiberalism🚫 Isolationism🧬 Eugenics And Politics
America Last Rezumat
America Last
The Right's century of admiring strongmen is not a bug but the point.
de Jacob Heilbrunn 2024 264 pagini
3.83
246 evaluări
🏛️ Paleoconservatism🤝 Authoritarian Admiration📉 Illiberalism🚫 Isolationism🧬 Eugenics And Politics
Overthrow
de Stephen Kinzer • 2006
America has toppled 14 governments since 1893; the reasons it gave were almost never real.
4.18
4.000+
🌎 American Foreign Policy🔄 Regime Change💰 Economic Imperialism💥 Blowback🥶 Cold War History
Overthrow Rezumat
Overthrow
America has toppled 14 governments since 1893; the reasons it gave were almost never real.
de Stephen Kinzer 2006 384 pagini
4.18
4.000+ evaluări
🌎 American Foreign Policy🔄 Regime Change💰 Economic Imperialism💥 Blowback🥶 Cold War History
Mawson's Will
de Lennard Bickel • 1977
He ate the dogs to live. The livers were poison, and he was still alone.
4.26
1.000+
🧊 Polar Exploration🇦🇶 Antarctic Expeditions🏕️ Survival Narratives🗺️ Heroic Age Of Exploration⛰️ Expedition Disasters
Mawson's Will Rezumat
Mawson's Will
He ate the dogs to live. The livers were poison, and he was still alone.
de Lennard Bickel 1977 272 pagini
4.26
1.000+ evaluări
🧊 Polar Exploration🇦🇶 Antarctic Expeditions🏕️ Survival Narratives🗺️ Heroic Age Of Exploration⛰️ Expedition Disasters
The Twelve Apostles
de William J. Coughlin • 1984
A female attorney's fight for partner meets a hostile takeover that could destroy the firm.
4.26
1.000+
🏛️ Legal Thriller💼 Hostile Takeover📈 Office Politics👩‍⚖️ Women In Law🛡️ Personal Integrity
The Twelve Apostles Rezumat
The Twelve Apostles
A female attorney's fight for partner meets a hostile takeover that could destroy the firm.
de William J. Coughlin 1984 400 pagini
4.26
1.000+ evaluări
🏛️ Legal Thriller💼 Hostile Takeover📈 Office Politics👩‍⚖️ Women In Law🛡️ Personal Integrity
Dear Mr. Kilmer
de Anne E. Schraff • 1999
An Iowa boy writes to poet Joyce Kilmer, then must defy his town's war-fueled prejudice.
3.96
272
🏠 WWI Home Front✉️ Letter Correspondence💚 Gentle Masculinity🏘️ Small-Town Prejudice🎨 Artistic Awakening
Dear Mr. Kilmer Rezumat
Dear Mr. Kilmer
An Iowa boy writes to poet Joyce Kilmer, then must defy his town's war-fueled prejudice.
de Anne E. Schraff 1999
3.96
272 evaluări
🏠 WWI Home Front✉️ Letter Correspondence💚 Gentle Masculinity🏘️ Small-Town Prejudice🎨 Artistic Awakening
Hall of Mirrors
de Barry Eichengreen • 2014
History saved us from the Great Depression but steered us straight into the Great Recession.
4.01
296
📉 Financial Crises📜 Economic History💵 Monetary Policy🏦 Central Banking🔄 Historical Parallels
Hall of Mirrors Rezumat
Hall of Mirrors
History saved us from the Great Depression but steered us straight into the Great Recession.
de Barry Eichengreen 2014 520 pagini
4.01
296 evaluări
📉 Financial Crises📜 Economic History💵 Monetary Policy🏦 Central Banking🔄 Historical Parallels
The Black History of the White House
de Clarence Lusane • 2011
Enslaved laborers built the White House. The racial reckoning inside its walls has never stopped.
4.15
434
🏛️ White House History⛓️ Slavery And Resistance🚋 Jim Crow Era🏗️ Reconstruction✊ Civil Rights Movement
The Black History of the White House Rezumat
The Black History of the White House
Enslaved laborers built the White House. The racial reckoning inside its walls has never stopped.
de Clarence Lusane 2011 575 pagini
4.15
434 evaluări
🏛️ White House History⛓️ Slavery And Resistance🚋 Jim Crow Era🏗️ Reconstruction✊ Civil Rights Movement
The Salon of Exiled Artists in California
de Núria Añó • 2020
Santa Monica living room: Garbo, Mann, Einstein sheltered from war. McCarthyism ended it.
4.21
14
🎬 Hollywood History🌍 European Exiles📚 Literary Salons🎭 Weimar Diaspora🎥 Women In Film
The Salon of Exiled Artists in California Rezumat
The Salon of Exiled Artists in California
Santa Monica living room: Garbo, Mann, Einstein sheltered from war. McCarthyism ended it.
de Núria Añó 2020
4.21
14 evaluări
🎬 Hollywood History🌍 European Exiles📚 Literary Salons🎭 Weimar Diaspora🎥 Women In Film
Brotherless Night
de V.V. Ganeshananthan • 2023
While her brothers join the insurgency, a Tamil girl heals the wounded in a secret clinic.
4.45
18.000+
🇱🇰 Sri Lankan Civil War🌏 Tamil Diaspora👁️ Witness To War🩺 Frontline Medicine👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Family Saga
Brotherless Night Rezumat
Brotherless Night
While her brothers join the insurgency, a Tamil girl heals the wounded in a secret clinic.
de V.V. Ganeshananthan 2023 348 pagini
4.45
18.000+ evaluări
🇱🇰 Sri Lankan Civil War🌏 Tamil Diaspora👁️ Witness To War🩺 Frontline Medicine👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Family Saga
Killing the Dream
de Gerald Posner • 1998
No government plot, no mob hit. A racist drifter's meticulous path to a Memphis balcony.
4.09
220
🔫 Political Assassinations🕵️ Conspiracy Debunking📋 Forensic Journalism✊ Civil Rights History🎯 Lone Gunman Theory
Killing the Dream Rezumat
Killing the Dream
No government plot, no mob hit. A racist drifter's meticulous path to a Memphis balcony.
de Gerald Posner 1998 448 pagini
4.09
220 evaluări
🔫 Political Assassinations🕵️ Conspiracy Debunking📋 Forensic Journalism✊ Civil Rights History🎯 Lone Gunman Theory
Glock
de Paul M. Barrett • 2012
Police carried revolvers until an Austrian outsider built a plastic gun that changed everything.
3.87
2.000+
🏢 Corporate History🔫 Gun Industry🇺🇸 Gun Culture👮 Law Enforcement⚖️ Gun Control Politics
Glock Rezumat
Glock
Police carried revolvers until an Austrian outsider built a plastic gun that changed everything.
de Paul M. Barrett 2012 291 pagini
3.87
2.000+ evaluări
🏢 Corporate History🔫 Gun Industry🇺🇸 Gun Culture👮 Law Enforcement⚖️ Gun Control Politics
Friends Like These
de Meg Rosoff • 2022
A small-town intern in 1983 New York is remade by a magnetic friend, then must remake herself.
3.30
2.000+
🖤 Toxic Female Friendship🗽 1980s New York🐠 Fish Out Of Water☀️ Summer Coming Of Age🥀 Loss Of Innocence
Friends Like These Rezumat
Friends Like These
A small-town intern in 1983 New York is remade by a magnetic friend, then must remake herself.
de Meg Rosoff 2022 320 pagini
3.30
2.000+ evaluări
🖤 Toxic Female Friendship🗽 1980s New York🐠 Fish Out Of Water☀️ Summer Coming Of Age🥀 Loss Of Innocence
Big Fellow, Long Fellow
de T. Ryle Dwyer • 1998
Why a calculating idealist and a street-smart operator led Ireland to independence, then civil war.
4.23
129
🍀 Irish History👥 Dual Biography✊ Revolutionary Politics🔥 Guerrilla Warfare🕵️ Intelligence Operations
Big Fellow, Long Fellow Rezumat
Big Fellow, Long Fellow
Why a calculating idealist and a street-smart operator led Ireland to independence, then civil war.
de T. Ryle Dwyer 1998 371 pagini
4.23
129 evaluări
🍀 Irish History👥 Dual Biography✊ Revolutionary Politics🔥 Guerrilla Warfare🕵️ Intelligence Operations
Hero
de Michael Korda • 2010
He designed himself into a legend, then spent his life trying to escape it.
3.88
4.000+
🌍 Middle Eastern Politics🎖️ World War One🏹 Guerrilla Warfare🎭 Self-Invention👘 Cultural Immersion
Hero Rezumat
Hero
He designed himself into a legend, then spent his life trying to escape it.
de Michael Korda 2010 699 pagini
3.88
4.000+ evaluări
🌍 Middle Eastern Politics🎖️ World War One🏹 Guerrilla Warfare🎭 Self-Invention👘 Cultural Immersion
Vineland
de Thomas Pynchon • 1990
A hippie's welfare window jump hooks a fed and his daughter's hunt for her vanished mother.
3.75
18.000+
🤣 Postmodern Satire🕵️ Government Conspiracy📹 Surveillance State📺 Media Satire✌️ Counterculture Aftermath
Vineland Rezumat
Vineland
A hippie's welfare window jump hooks a fed and his daughter's hunt for her vanished mother.
de Thomas Pynchon 1990 480 pagini
3.75
18.000+ evaluări
🤣 Postmodern Satire🕵️ Government Conspiracy📹 Surveillance State📺 Media Satire✌️ Counterculture Aftermath
Crooked Hallelujah
de Kelli Jo Ford • 2020
A Cherokee girl defies her Holiness church, and the break echoes through four generations of women.
3.47
3.000+
📖 Linked Stories👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Generational Saga👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond⛪ Religious Control🌾 Rural Poverty
Crooked Hallelujah Rezumat
Crooked Hallelujah
A Cherokee girl defies her Holiness church, and the break echoes through four generations of women.
de Kelli Jo Ford 2020 304 pagini
3.47
3.000+ evaluări
📖 Linked Stories👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Generational Saga👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond⛪ Religious Control🌾 Rural Poverty
Hauptmann's Ladder
de Richard T. Cahill Jr. • 2014
The Lindbergh case retried: a ladder, a money trail, and doubts the execution never settled.
4.17
125
🕰️ Historical True Crime⭐ Celebrity Crime🔬 Forensic Evidence🏛️ Trial Analysis⚖️ Wrongful Conviction
Hauptmann's Ladder Rezumat
Hauptmann's Ladder
The Lindbergh case retried: a ladder, a money trail, and doubts the execution never settled.
de Richard T. Cahill Jr. 2014 416 pagini
4.17
125 evaluări
🕰️ Historical True Crime⭐ Celebrity Crime🔬 Forensic Evidence🏛️ Trial Analysis⚖️ Wrongful Conviction
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