American

Experiența americană se desfășoară prin voci care chestionează, celebrează și se confruntă cu idealurile, instituțiile și identitatea mereu în schimbare a națiunii. Aceste opere surprind atât arcul amplu al istoriei americane, cât și poveștile intime ale oamenilor săi, de la manifeste politice și comentarii culturale la eseuri personale și povestiri regionale.

American Rezumate de cărți

William Faulkner

de André Bleikasten • 2017

His family, his affair, his South, his demons: Faulkner's novels were his life recast as myth.

4.23

📖 Literary Biography 🌳 Southern Literature 🌀 Stream Of Consciousness 🔧 Narrative Technique 🦇 Southern Gothic

William Faulkner

His family, his affair, his South, his demons: Faulkner's novels were his life recast as myth.

de André Bleikasten 2017 552 pagini

4.23

13 evaluări

📖 Literary Biography 🌳 Southern Literature 🌀 Stream Of Consciousness 🔧 Narrative Technique 🦇 Southern Gothic

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

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

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

The Buccaneers

de Edith Wharton • 1938

Snubbed by New York, Nan St George sails to England to hunt a title, whatever the price.

3.85

8.000+

🏙️ Gilded Age 🎭 Social Satire 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 💔 Forbidden Love 🏰 Gilded Cage

The Buccaneers

Snubbed by New York, Nan St George sails to England to hunt a title, whatever the price.

de Edith Wharton 1938 406 pagini

3.85

8.000+ evaluări

🏙️ Gilded Age 🎭 Social Satire 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 💔 Forbidden Love 🏰 Gilded Cage

Miss May Does Not Exist

de Carrie Courogen • 2024

Forty dollars, one audition: American comedy changed forever. Then Elaine May decided to disappear.

3.83

500+

🎬 Hollywood History 🎭 Comedy History 🎥 Women Directors 🎪 Improvisation 🤝 Creative Partnerships

Miss May Does Not Exist

Forty dollars, one audition: American comedy changed forever. Then Elaine May decided to disappear.

de Carrie Courogen 2024 400 pagini

3.83

500+ evaluări

🎬 Hollywood History 🎭 Comedy History 🎥 Women Directors 🎪 Improvisation 🤝 Creative Partnerships

Whatever Happened to the Metric System?

de John Bemelmans Marciano • 2013

A tale of revolutions, divine measures, and why a global standard stopped at America's shores.

3.62

321

🔬 History Of Science 📏 History Of Measurement 🛡️ Cultural Resistance 🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 💡 Enlightenment Rationalism

Whatever Happened to the Metric System?

A tale of revolutions, divine measures, and why a global standard stopped at America's shores.

de John Bemelmans Marciano 2013 320 pagini

3.62

321 evaluări

🔬 History Of Science 📏 History Of Measurement 🛡️ Cultural Resistance 🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 💡 Enlightenment Rationalism

Yes We (Still) Can

de Dan Pfeiffer • 2018

Obama pioneered a new political playbook. Then Fox News, Twitter, and Trump shredded it. Now what?

4.16

7.000+

🗣️ Political Communication 🗳️ Election Campaigns 🌐 Internet Politics 🔊 Media Echo Chambers 🚫 Misinformation Warfare

Yes We (Still) Can

Obama pioneered a new political playbook. Then Fox News, Twitter, and Trump shredded it. Now what?

de Dan Pfeiffer 2018 304 pagini

4.16

7.000+ evaluări

🗣️ Political Communication 🗳️ Election Campaigns 🌐 Internet Politics 🔊 Media Echo Chambers 🚫 Misinformation Warfare

White Rage

de Carol Anderson • 2016

Every time Black Americans advance, a calculated policy backlash rolls it back.

4.46

14.000+

🌍 African American History 🔥 Racial Backlash 🏗️ Reconstruction 🚫 Jim Crow 🗳️ Voter Suppression

White Rage

Every time Black Americans advance, a calculated policy backlash rolls it back.

de Carol Anderson 2016 246 pagini

4.46

14.000+ evaluări

🌍 African American History 🔥 Racial Backlash 🏗️ Reconstruction 🚫 Jim Crow 🗳️ Voter Suppression

The Human Cost of Welfare

de Phil Harvey • 2016

Welfare was built to end poverty. Its rules punish work, marriage, and saving instead.

4.45

🏛️ Welfare Reform 📉 Anti-Poverty Policy 💼 Work Incentives 🔗 Welfare Dependency 🪢 Social Safety Net

The Human Cost of Welfare

Welfare was built to end poverty. Its rules punish work, marriage, and saving instead.

de Phil Harvey 2016 206 pagini

4.45

20 evaluări

🏛️ Welfare Reform 📉 Anti-Poverty Policy 💼 Work Incentives 🔗 Welfare Dependency 🪢 Social Safety Net

White Ivy

de Susie Yang • 2020

An immigrant's daughter schemes into Boston high society, until her past lover demands she confess.

3.55

34.000+

🖤 Psychological Suspense 📚 Literary Crime 💎 Social Climbing 🌏 Immigrant Ambition 😰 Woman On The Edge

White Ivy

An immigrant's daughter schemes into Boston high society, until her past lover demands she confess.

de Susie Yang 2020 354 pagini

3.55

34.000+ evaluări

🖤 Psychological Suspense 📚 Literary Crime 💎 Social Climbing 🌏 Immigrant Ambition 😰 Woman On The Edge

The Truce

de Hunter Walker • 2024

Democrats won in 2020 but never settled their internal war. The reckoning still waits.

3.91

114

🏛️ Democratic Party 🗳️ Electoral Politics ⚔️ Party Infighting ✊ Political Movements 🌹 Democratic Socialism

The Truce

Democrats won in 2020 but never settled their internal war. The reckoning still waits.

de Hunter Walker 2024 320 pagini

3.91

114 evaluări

🏛️ Democratic Party 🗳️ Electoral Politics ⚔️ Party Infighting ✊ Political Movements 🌹 Democratic Socialism

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

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

These Truths

de Jill Lepore • 2018

American politics is a 500-year argument over who counts as a person and whose truth prevails.

4.40

13.000+

🇺🇸 American Paradox 📜 National Founding Myths 🔍 Truth In Politics 📰 Media And Democracy ⛓️ Slavery And Freedom

These Truths

American politics is a 500-year argument over who counts as a person and whose truth prevails.

de Jill Lepore 2018 960 pagini

4.40

13.000+ evaluări

🇺🇸 American Paradox 📜 National Founding Myths 🔍 Truth In Politics 📰 Media And Democracy ⛓️ Slavery And Freedom

The Plague Year

de Lawrence Wright • 2020

American exceptionalism met a virus that didn't care. How the most prepared nation on earth lost.

4.12

2.000+

🦠 Covid-19 😷 Pandemic Response 🏛️ Institutional Failure 💉 Vaccine Development ⚖️ Racial Inequity

The Plague Year

American exceptionalism met a virus that didn't care. How the most prepared nation on earth lost.

de Lawrence Wright 2020 336 pagini

4.12

2.000+ evaluări

🦠 Covid-19 😷 Pandemic Response 🏛️ Institutional Failure 💉 Vaccine Development ⚖️ Racial Inequity

Privacy in the Age of Big Data

de Theresa Payton • 2014

Your devices watch everything you do. Here is what they collect and how to stop it.

3.56

112

🔒 Digital Privacy 👁️ Data Surveillance 📊 Personal Data 🏢 Corporate Surveillance 🕵️ Surveillance State

Privacy in the Age of Big Data

Your devices watch everything you do. Here is what they collect and how to stop it.

de Theresa Payton 2014 328 pagini

3.56

112 evaluări

🔒 Digital Privacy 👁️ Data Surveillance 📊 Personal Data 🏢 Corporate Surveillance 🕵️ Surveillance State

The Wrath of Cochise

de Terry Mort • 2013

One bungled arrest, five executed hostages, and the single spark that ignited a decade of war.

3.73

217

🏹 Apache History 🪶 American Indian Wars 🌵 Southwest Frontier 🎖️ Counterinsurgency 🗣️ Cultural Ignorance

The Wrath of Cochise

One bungled arrest, five executed hostages, and the single spark that ignited a decade of war.

de Terry Mort 2013 400 pagini

3.73

217 evaluări

🏹 Apache History 🪶 American Indian Wars 🌵 Southwest Frontier 🎖️ Counterinsurgency 🗣️ Cultural Ignorance

American Brutus

de Michael W. Kauffman • 2004

An actor shot Lincoln on Good Friday and vanished. What followed was history's most bungled manhunt.

4.16

2.000+

🔪 Assassination Plots 🏛️ Civil War America 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories 🔍 Flawed Investigations 🎭 Celebrity Criminals

American Brutus

An actor shot Lincoln on Good Friday and vanished. What followed was history's most bungled manhunt.

de Michael W. Kauffman 2004 544 pagini

4.16

2.000+ evaluări

🔪 Assassination Plots 🏛️ Civil War America 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories 🔍 Flawed Investigations 🎭 Celebrity Criminals

Sisters in Law

de Linda R. Hirshman • 2015

A Republican rancher and a liberal litigator: the two firsts who together reshaped women's rights.

3.84

5.000+

🏛️ Supreme Court ⚖️ Constitutional Law 👩‍⚖️ Women In Law 📖 Judicial Biography 🚺 Gender Discrimination

Sisters in Law

A Republican rancher and a liberal litigator: the two firsts who together reshaped women's rights.

de Linda R. Hirshman 2015 432 pagini

3.84

5.000+ evaluări

🏛️ Supreme Court ⚖️ Constitutional Law 👩‍⚖️ Women In Law 📖 Judicial Biography 🚺 Gender Discrimination

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

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

Fifth Sun

de Camilla Townsend • 2019

They saw steel, horses, and smallpox, not gods. The Aztec annals rewrite their own conquest.

4.08

5.000+

🏺 Mesoamerican History 🌎 Colonial Latin America 🌞 Aztec Civilization 🪶 Indigenous Histories ❓ Conquest Revisionism

Fifth Sun

They saw steel, horses, and smallpox, not gods. The Aztec annals rewrite their own conquest.

de Camilla Townsend 2019 336 pagini

4.08

5.000+ evaluări

🏺 Mesoamerican History 🌎 Colonial Latin America 🌞 Aztec Civilization 🪶 Indigenous Histories ❓ Conquest Revisionism

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

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

Hidden Order

de Brad Thor • 2013

Scot Harvath tracks a killer staging Federal Reserve murders as scenes from the American Revolution.

4.17

18.000+

🕵️ Espionage Thriller 🏛️ Political Conspiracy 🕶️ Rogue Intelligence 📜 Historical Conspiracy 🪶 Historical Murders

Hidden Order

Scot Harvath tracks a killer staging Federal Reserve murders as scenes from the American Revolution.

de Brad Thor 2013 377 pagini

4.17

18.000+ evaluări

🕵️ Espionage Thriller 🏛️ Political Conspiracy 🕶️ Rogue Intelligence 📜 Historical Conspiracy 🪶 Historical Murders

Promise Me, Dad

de Joe Biden • 2017

A vice president's son is dying of cancer. Foreign crises don't pause for grief.

4.14

24.000+

🏛️ White House Memoirs 🕯️ Parental Grief 🎗️ Cancer Memoir 👨‍👦 Fathers And Sons ⛪ Catholic Faith

Promise Me, Dad

A vice president's son is dying of cancer. Foreign crises don't pause for grief.

de Joe Biden 2017 272 pagini

4.14

24.000+ evaluări

🏛️ White House Memoirs 🕯️ Parental Grief 🎗️ Cancer Memoir 👨‍👦 Fathers And Sons ⛪ Catholic Faith

Broke

de Glenn Beck • 2010

America's real debt tops $64 trillion. Rome and Spain collapsed the same way.

4.01

2.000+

💸 National Debt 🪙 Fiscal Conservatism 🏛️ Limited Government 📈 Austrian Economics 🗽 Federalism

Broke

America's real debt tops $64 trillion. Rome and Spain collapsed the same way.

de Glenn Beck 2010 406 pagini

4.01

2.000+ evaluări

💸 National Debt 🪙 Fiscal Conservatism 🏛️ Limited Government 📈 Austrian Economics 🗽 Federalism

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

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 Ones We've Been Waiting for

de Charlotte Alter • 2020

Shaped by 9/11, debt, and recession, a generation enters power with clashing visions for America.

4.20

500+

🗳️ Generational Politics 🇺🇸 American Politics 🌱 Political Coming Of Age 🎓 Student Debt Crisis 📱 Digital Activism

The Ones We've Been Waiting for

Shaped by 9/11, debt, and recession, a generation enters power with clashing visions for America.

de Charlotte Alter 2020 368 pagini

4.20

500+ evaluări

🗳️ Generational Politics 🇺🇸 American Politics 🌱 Political Coming Of Age 🎓 Student Debt Crisis 📱 Digital Activism

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

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

Lucky

de Jonathan Allen • 2021

How Biden really won: not strategy, but opponent blunders, a pandemic, and one endorsement.

3.87

1.000+

🗳️ Presidential Campaigns 🏛️ Democratic Party ⚔️ Primary Battles 🎙️ Campaign Journalism 🔄 Political Comebacks

Lucky

How Biden really won: not strategy, but opponent blunders, a pandemic, and one endorsement.

de Jonathan Allen 2021 17 pagini

3.87

1.000+ evaluări

🗳️ Presidential Campaigns 🏛️ Democratic Party ⚔️ Primary Battles 🎙️ Campaign Journalism 🔄 Political Comebacks

Best American Essays 2018

de Hilton Als • 2018

The essay as weapon and refuge: twenty-seven writers on race, memory, and a nation on edge.

3.53

350

✍️ The Essay Form 🖋️ Personal Essays 💬 Cultural Criticism 🖤 Race In America 📰 Literary Journalism

Best American Essays 2018

The essay as weapon and refuge: twenty-seven writers on race, memory, and a nation on edge.

de Hilton Als 2018 336 pagini

3.53

350 evaluări

✍️ The Essay Form 🖋️ Personal Essays 💬 Cultural Criticism 🖤 Race In America 📰 Literary Journalism

The Option of Urbanism

de Christopher B. Leinberger • 2007

America's car suburbs were built by policy, not consumer choice. The market now wants the opposite.

3.89

185

🏙️ Urban Planning 🏘️ Sprawl 🏗️ New Urbanism 🚶 Walkable Cities 🏚️ Gentrification

The Option of Urbanism

America's car suburbs were built by policy, not consumer choice. The market now wants the opposite.

de Christopher B. Leinberger 2007 224 pagini

3.89

185 evaluări

🏙️ Urban Planning 🏘️ Sprawl 🏗️ New Urbanism 🚶 Walkable Cities 🏚️ Gentrification

Football Done Right

de Michael Lombardi • 2023

Five coaches built the modern NFL. A former GM names them, then ranks everyone else.

3.59

370

🏈 Nfl History 📋 Football Coaching 🔍 Talent Evaluation 🏆 Player Rankings ♟️ Football Strategy

Football Done Right

Five coaches built the modern NFL. A former GM names them, then ranks everyone else.

de Michael Lombardi 2023 305 pagini

3.59

370 evaluări

🏈 Nfl History 📋 Football Coaching 🔍 Talent Evaluation 🏆 Player Rankings ♟️ Football Strategy

Benjamin Franklin

de Hourly History • 2016

Ran away at 17 with empty pockets; by 70, he charmed France into bankrolling America.

4.18

500+

📜 Founding Fathers 🏛️ Colonial America 💡 American Enlightenment 🧱 Self Made Lives 🏙️ Civic Innovation

Benjamin Franklin

Ran away at 17 with empty pockets; by 70, he charmed France into bankrolling America.

de Hourly History 2016 43 pagini

4.18

500+ evaluări

📜 Founding Fathers 🏛️ Colonial America 💡 American Enlightenment 🧱 Self Made Lives 🏙️ Civic Innovation

Front Row at the Trump Show

de Jonathan Karl • 2020

How a presidency became a TV show, and the press became the supporting cast.

4.27

4.000+

🇺🇸 Trump Presidency 🎤 White House Press Corps 📰 Political Journalism 🎭 Media Manipulation 🤥 Post-Truth Politics

Front Row at the Trump Show

How a presidency became a TV show, and the press became the supporting cast.

de Jonathan Karl 2020 368 pagini

4.27

4.000+ evaluări

🇺🇸 Trump Presidency 🎤 White House Press Corps 📰 Political Journalism 🎭 Media Manipulation 🤥 Post-Truth Politics

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

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

Reckless Endangerment

de Gretchen Morgenson • 2011

Good intentions met Wall Street greed and captured regulators. The crisis was built to order.

3.96

1.000+

🏦 Financial Crises ⚖️ Regulatory Failure 🏚️ Subprime Lending 💰 Wall Street Excess 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Reckless Endangerment

Good intentions met Wall Street greed and captured regulators. The crisis was built to order.

de Gretchen Morgenson 2011 331 pagini

3.96

1.000+ evaluări

🏦 Financial Crises ⚖️ Regulatory Failure 🏚️ Subprime Lending 💰 Wall Street Excess 🔍 Investigative Journalism

A Simple Government

de Mike Huckabee • 2011

A former governor's plan for a government that does less, costs less, and meddles less.

3.73

302

🐘 American Conservatism 🏛️ Federalism 💰 Fiscal Conservatism 🧾 Tax Reform 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Social Conservatism

A Simple Government

A former governor's plan for a government that does less, costs less, and meddles less.

de Mike Huckabee 2011 208 pagini

3.73

302 evaluări

🐘 American Conservatism 🏛️ Federalism 💰 Fiscal Conservatism 🧾 Tax Reform 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Social Conservatism

Writings of Abraham Lincoln

de Abraham Lincoln • 1953

The man who saved the Union, in his own words: the speeches and letters behind the legend.

4.13

313

🏛️ Presidential Biography ⚔️ Civil War History ⛓️ Antislavery Thought ⚖️ Moral Leadership 📜 Primary Sources

Writings of Abraham Lincoln

The man who saved the Union, in his own words: the speeches and letters behind the legend.

de Abraham Lincoln 1953

4.13

313 evaluări

🏛️ Presidential Biography ⚔️ Civil War History ⛓️ Antislavery Thought ⚖️ Moral Leadership 📜 Primary Sources

The Pioneers

de David McCullough • 2019

Before the Constitution, one land deal doubled the country and banned slavery in every future state.

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28.000+

🇺🇸 Early American Republic 🪓 Frontier Settlement 🌄 Westward Expansion 🏛️ Nation Building 🏕️ Frontier Life

The Pioneers

Before the Constitution, one land deal doubled the country and banned slavery in every future state.

de David McCullough 2019 330 pagini

3.82

28.000+ evaluări

🇺🇸 Early American Republic 🪓 Frontier Settlement 🌄 Westward Expansion 🏛️ Nation Building 🏕️ Frontier Life

A Girl Called Samson

de Amy Harmon • 2023

A servant disguises herself as a man to join the Revolution, then falls for her commander.

4.46

58.000+

🎭 Woman Disguised As Man 💕 Wartime Romance 📜 Biographical Fiction 🇺🇸 Revolutionary America 🏠 Found Family

A Girl Called Samson

A servant disguises herself as a man to join the Revolution, then falls for her commander.

de Amy Harmon 2023 405 pagini

4.46

58.000+ evaluări

🎭 Woman Disguised As Man 💕 Wartime Romance 📜 Biographical Fiction 🇺🇸 Revolutionary America 🏠 Found Family

Truth in Our Times

de David E. McCraw • 2019

A newspaper lawyer versus a president who called the press the enemy. The inside story.

4.14

500+

🗽 Press Freedom ⚖️ First Amendment 🔒 Government Secrecy 📜 Media Law 📢 Whistleblowing

Truth in Our Times

A newspaper lawyer versus a president who called the press the enemy. The inside story.

de David E. McCraw 2019 304 pagini

4.14

500+ evaluări

🗽 Press Freedom ⚖️ First Amendment 🔒 Government Secrecy 📜 Media Law 📢 Whistleblowing

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

de Clay McLeod Chapman • 2025

A liberal New Yorker races south as a viral possession consumes his parents through their screens.

3.27

14.000+

🎭 Social Horror 📺 Media Possession 🦠 Memetic Virus 🏚️ Family Collapse ✝️ Failed Exorcism

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

A liberal New Yorker races south as a viral possession consumes his parents through their screens.

de Clay McLeod Chapman 2025 384 pagini

3.27

14.000+ evaluări

🎭 Social Horror 📺 Media Possession 🦠 Memetic Virus 🏚️ Family Collapse ✝️ Failed Exorcism

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

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

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

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

BOOM

de Tony Horwitz • 2014

From oil sands to Gulf Coast: a pipeline route where roughnecks, strippers, and ranchers collide.

3.89

500+

🛢️ Energy Politics 🏭 Oil Industry 📰 Narrative Journalism 🗺️ Travelogue 🌍 Environmental Justice

BOOM

From oil sands to Gulf Coast: a pipeline route where roughnecks, strippers, and ranchers collide.

de Tony Horwitz 2014 116 pagini

3.89

500+ evaluări

🛢️ Energy Politics 🏭 Oil Industry 📰 Narrative Journalism 🗺️ Travelogue 🌍 Environmental Justice

Newton's Football

de Allen St. John • 2013

Football as science: unpredictable bounces, strategic arms races, and the physics of brain injury.

3.84

185

🏈 Football Strategy ⚛️ Physics Of Sport 🧠 Concussion Crisis 📋 Coaching Philosophy 📜 Sports History

Newton's Football

Football as science: unpredictable bounces, strategic arms races, and the physics of brain injury.

de Allen St. John 2013 272 pagini

3.84

185 evaluări

🏈 Football Strategy ⚛️ Physics Of Sport 🧠 Concussion Crisis 📋 Coaching Philosophy 📜 Sports History

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

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 House of the Seven Gables

de Nathaniel Hawthorne • 1851

A spinster shields her freed brother from a scheming cousin inside their cursed New England mansion.

3.45

43.000+

🏚️ Gothic Mansion 🩸 Ancestral Curse ⛪ Puritan New England 🔗 Wrongful Imprisonment 🏡 Found Family

The House of the Seven Gables

A spinster shields her freed brother from a scheming cousin inside their cursed New England mansion.

de Nathaniel Hawthorne 1851 225 pagini

3.45

43.000+ evaluări

🏚️ Gothic Mansion 🩸 Ancestral Curse ⛪ Puritan New England 🔗 Wrongful Imprisonment 🏡 Found Family

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

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

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

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

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

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

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