XX век

Бурный XX век породил революционные идеи и радикальные художественные движения, навсегда изменившие наш взгляд на самих себя и общество. Между мировыми войнами и социальными потрясениями писатели осмысляли экзистенциализм, поток сознания и нарастающую тень тоталитаризма в новаторских произведениях, определивших современную литературу.

XX век Саммари книг

I Used to Be Charming

— Eve Babitz • 2019

Eve Babitz captured 1960s LA. These late essays show what happened when the charm wore off.

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🌴 Los Angeles History ✌️ American Counterculture 📝 New Journalism 🎸 Rock Music Scene 🤩 Celebrity Culture

I Used to Be Charming

Eve Babitz captured 1960s LA. These late essays show what happened when the charm wore off.

— Eve Babitz 2019 360 стр.

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🌴 Los Angeles History ✌️ American Counterculture 📝 New Journalism 🎸 Rock Music Scene 🤩 Celebrity Culture

Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters

— Jared Knott • 2020

History turns on unopened letters, wrong turns, and badly designed ballots, not grand strategy.

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📖 Narrative History ⚠️ Cautionary History 🔗 Unintended Consequences 💡 Human Error 🏛️ Hubris And Overreach

Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters

History turns on unopened letters, wrong turns, and badly designed ballots, not grand strategy.

— Jared Knott 2020 457 стр.

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📖 Narrative History ⚠️ Cautionary History 🔗 Unintended Consequences 💡 Human Error 🏛️ Hubris And Overreach

My Fellow Soldiers

— Andrew Carroll • 2017

Pershing built an American army; the soldiers' letters reveal a victory that shattered the world.

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📜 World War I 🎖️ Military Biography ✉️ Primary Source History 🪖 Soldier Experience ⚖️ Race And War

My Fellow Soldiers

Pershing built an American army; the soldiers' letters reveal a victory that shattered the world.

— Andrew Carroll 2017 400 стр.

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📜 World War I 🎖️ Military Biography ✉️ Primary Source History 🪖 Soldier Experience ⚖️ Race And War

Vital Little Plans

— Jane Jacobs • 2016

Top-down planning kills cities. The sidewalk sees what the drafting table never will.

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🏙️ Urban Vitality 🚶 Walkable Cities 🏪 Mixed-Use Development 🌱 Bottom-Up Urbanism 🏗️ Urban Renewal Critique

Vital Little Plans

Top-down planning kills cities. The sidewalk sees what the drafting table never will.

— Jane Jacobs 2016 544 стр.

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🏙️ Urban Vitality 🚶 Walkable Cities 🏪 Mixed-Use Development 🌱 Bottom-Up Urbanism 🏗️ Urban Renewal Critique

Audition

— Barbara Walters • 2008

Her father lost fortunes. Her sister needed lifelong care. She fought her way to every headline.

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📺 Broadcast Journalism 🎤 Women In Media 🎙️ Interviewing Craft 👩‍👧 Working Motherhood 🏃‍♀️ Relentless Ambition

Audition

Her father lost fortunes. Her sister needed lifelong care. She fought her way to every headline.

— Barbara Walters 2008 613 стр.

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📺 Broadcast Journalism 🎤 Women In Media 🎙️ Interviewing Craft 👩‍👧 Working Motherhood 🏃‍♀️ Relentless Ambition

The Latehomecomer

— Kao Kalia Yang • 2008

A family's flight from the Secret War, told by the daughter born in a refugee camp.

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🏞️ Hmong Diaspora 🌏 Refugee Narratives 🕰️ Intergenerational Memory 📜 Cultural Preservation 🧭 Immigrant Identity

The Latehomecomer

A family's flight from the Secret War, told by the daughter born in a refugee camp.

— Kao Kalia Yang 2008 277 стр.

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🏞️ Hmong Diaspora 🌏 Refugee Narratives 🕰️ Intergenerational Memory 📜 Cultural Preservation 🧭 Immigrant Identity

Глубокий сон

— Рэймонд Чандлер • 1988

A dying millionaire, two wild daughters, and a PI whose blackmail case leads straight into murder.

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🕵️ Hardboiled Detective 🖤 Noir Fiction 💋 Femme Fatale 💰 Corrupt Wealthy Family 🔪 Murder Cover-Up

Глубокий сон

A dying millionaire, two wild daughters, and a PI whose blackmail case leads straight into murder.

— Рэймонд Чандлер 1988 231 стр.

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🕵️ Hardboiled Detective 🖤 Noir Fiction 💋 Femme Fatale 💰 Corrupt Wealthy Family 🔪 Murder Cover-Up

Most Dangerous

— Steve Sheinkin • 2015

After helping plan the Vietnam War, he leaked 7,000 pages proving every president had lied.

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🕵️ 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.

— Steve Sheinkin 2015 370 стр.

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🕵️ Whistleblowing 🔒 Government Secrecy 🇻🇳 Vietnam War 🏛️ Watergate Era ⚔️ Cold War

Moon Palace

— Paul Auster • 1989

As the world watches the moon landing, an orphaned student starves alone in New York.

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🧒 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.

— Paul Auster 1989 320 стр.

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🧒 Orphan Protagonist 🫂 Found Family 🤫 Family Secrets 🎭 Picaresque Novel 💭 Existential Fiction

Beyond That, the Sea

— Laura Spence-Ash • 2023

An English girl evacuated to Boston during the Blitz spends a lifetime torn between two homes.

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🧳 Wartime Evacuation 📜 Generational Saga 🫂 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🏝️ Maine Island

Beyond That, the Sea

An English girl evacuated to Boston during the Blitz spends a lifetime torn between two homes.

— Laura Spence-Ash 2023 351 стр.

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🧳 Wartime Evacuation 📜 Generational Saga 🫂 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🏝️ Maine Island

Der Trafikant

— Robert Seethaler • 2012

A Vienna tobacconist's apprentice befriends Freud and loves a dancer as the Nazi shadow falls.

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📖 Historical Bildungsroman 🏙️ 1930s Vienna 👴 Mentor And Apprentice 💔 Unrequited Love 🕊️ Quiet Defiance

Der Trafikant

A Vienna tobacconist's apprentice befriends Freud and loves a dancer as the Nazi shadow falls.

— Robert Seethaler 2012 256 стр.

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📖 Historical Bildungsroman 🏙️ 1930s Vienna 👴 Mentor And Apprentice 💔 Unrequited Love 🕊️ Quiet Defiance

Moonglow

— Michael Chabon • 2016

A dying grandfather unearths a life of war, rockets, madness, and a love he never explained.

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✍️ Fictionalized Memoir 🌳 Multigenerational Saga 🕯️ Deathbed Confessions 🕵️ Wartime Espionage 💔 Haunted By War

Moonglow

A dying grandfather unearths a life of war, rockets, madness, and a love he never explained.

— Michael Chabon 2016 430 стр.

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✍️ Fictionalized Memoir 🌳 Multigenerational Saga 🕯️ Deathbed Confessions 🕵️ Wartime Espionage 💔 Haunted By War

A Great Place To Have A War

— Joshua Kurlantzick • 2017

Laos was where the CIA learned to wage war without asking Congress. The lesson stuck.

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🔍 Cia History 🕵️ Covert Operations 🧊 Cold War History 🎭 Proxy Warfare 🏛️ American Foreign Policy

A Great Place To Have A War

Laos was where the CIA learned to wage war without asking Congress. The lesson stuck.

— Joshua Kurlantzick 2017 336 стр.

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🔍 Cia History 🕵️ Covert Operations 🧊 Cold War History 🎭 Proxy Warfare 🏛️ American Foreign Policy

Incompleteness

— Rebecca Goldstein • 2005

A genius turned a paradox into a proof that broke the promise of a complete mathematics.

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📐 Philosophy Of Math 📜 Intellectual History 🔁 Self-Reference 📏 Formalism 🔬 Logical Positivism

Incompleteness

A genius turned a paradox into a proof that broke the promise of a complete mathematics.

— Rebecca Goldstein 2005 300 стр.

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📐 Philosophy Of Math 📜 Intellectual History 🔁 Self-Reference 📏 Formalism 🔬 Logical Positivism

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement

— Barbara Ransby • 2003

While King gave the speeches, she built the grassroots network that made the movement move.

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🏛️ 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.

— Barbara Ransby 2003 496 стр.

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🏛️ Civil Rights Movement 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 👥 Collective Leadership 🗳️ Participatory Democracy ✊🏿 Black Women's Activism

The Autistic Brain

— Temple Grandin • 2013

The FBI made Whitey Bulger an informant. He turned his handlers into his hit squad.

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🕵️ 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.

— Temple Grandin 2013 240 стр.

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🕵️ Fbi Misconduct 🚔 Police Corruption 🏙️ Boston History 🐀 Informant Culture 🤝 Corrupt Alliances

Days of Rage

— Bryan Burrough • 2015

Nearly five bombings a day. The decade young radicals tried to overthrow America and failed.

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💣 Domestic Terrorism 🕵️ Fbi History ✊🏿 Black Power Movement ☮️ New Left 🏙️ Urban Guerrilla Warfare

Days of Rage

Nearly five bombings a day. The decade young radicals tried to overthrow America and failed.

— Bryan Burrough 2015 608 стр.

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💣 Domestic Terrorism 🕵️ Fbi History ✊🏿 Black Power Movement ☮️ New Left 🏙️ Urban Guerrilla Warfare

Two Sides of the Moon

— David Randolph Scott • 2004

The space race seen from both cockpits: an astronaut and cosmonaut compare notes.

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🚀 Space Race 🥶 Cold War History 🧑‍🚀 Astronaut Memoir 🌙 Lunar Exploration ⚙️ Technological Rivalry

Two Sides of the Moon

The space race seen from both cockpits: an astronaut and cosmonaut compare notes.

— David Randolph Scott 2004 448 стр.

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🚀 Space Race 🥶 Cold War History 🧑‍🚀 Astronaut Memoir 🌙 Lunar Exploration ⚙️ Technological Rivalry

The House of Mirth

— Edith Wharton • 1905

Penniless and nearly thirty in Gilded Age New York, Lily Bart's social currency is expiring.

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🎭 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.

— Edith Wharton 1905 351 стр.

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🎭 Tragedy Of Manners 💍 Marriage Market 📉 Social Downfall 💔 Unspoken Love 🏛️ Gilded Age

Island Infernos

— Джон К. Макманус • 2021

Behind every Pacific island invasion: a hidden war of logistics, codebreaking, and command feuds.

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🏝️ 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.

— Джон К. Макманус 2021 656 стр.

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🏝️ Pacific Theater 🚢 Amphibious Warfare ⚔️ Operational History 👥 Command Rivalries 📦 Military Logistics

The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. • 1957

An aristocrat's reluctant turn toward populism, set against the crash of an economic order.

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🇺🇸 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.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. 1957 576 стр.

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🇺🇸 Presidential Biography 🗽 Interwar America 🌱 Political Origins 🌊 Progressive Era 🏛️ Aristocratic Legacy

The Currents of Space

— Isaac Asimov • 1952

An amnesiac holds the secret to a world's destruction that the galaxy's powers will kill for.

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🪐 Galactic Empire ☄️ Cosmic Threat 🤔 Amnesiac Hero 🛡️ Devoted Protector 🕵️ Political Conspiracy

The Currents of Space

An amnesiac holds the secret to a world's destruction that the galaxy's powers will kill for.

— Isaac Asimov 1952 304 стр.

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🪐 Galactic Empire ☄️ Cosmic Threat 🤔 Amnesiac Hero 🛡️ Devoted Protector 🕵️ Political Conspiracy

Bobby Kennedy

— Larry Tye • 2016

McCarthy's protégé became civil rights' champion. How Bobby Kennedy transformed.

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🏛️ Kennedy Dynasty 🔴 Cold War Politics ✊ Civil Rights Movement 🔄 Political Transformation 🏗️ Organized Labor

Bobby Kennedy

McCarthy's protégé became civil rights' champion. How Bobby Kennedy transformed.

— Larry Tye 2016 608 стр.

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🏛️ Kennedy Dynasty 🔴 Cold War Politics ✊ Civil Rights Movement 🔄 Political Transformation 🏗️ Organized Labor

Philosophy of Existence

— Karl Jaspers • 1938

Objects aren't real. The real is a horizon you inhabit, never grasp, and awaken to.

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🧠 Existential Philosophy 🇩🇪 German Existentialism 🪞 Authentic Selfhood 🌌 Transcendence 🙏 Philosophical Faith

Philosophy of Existence

Objects aren't real. The real is a horizon you inhabit, never grasp, and awaken to.

— Karl Jaspers 1938 128 стр.

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🧠 Existential Philosophy 🇩🇪 German Existentialism 🪞 Authentic Selfhood 🌌 Transcendence 🙏 Philosophical Faith

Existentialism

— Robert C. Solomon • 1974

No fixed human nature, only your choices. Each one invents you and implicates everyone else.

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📜 Existentialism 🧠 Continental Philosophy 🕊️ Radical Freedom ✨ Self-Creation 🎭 Authenticity

Existentialism

No fixed human nature, only your choices. Each one invents you and implicates everyone else.

— Robert C. Solomon 1974 363 стр.

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📜 Existentialism 🧠 Continental Philosophy 🕊️ Radical Freedom ✨ Self-Creation 🎭 Authenticity

The Third Reich in Power

— Richard J. Evans • 2005

Peacetime Nazi Germany was no monolith. It was a chaos of rival fiefdoms driving toward racial war.

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🇩🇪 Nazi Germany 🕰️ Interwar Europe 🚨 State Terror 🧬 Racial Hygiene 📢 Propaganda States

The Third Reich in Power

Peacetime Nazi Germany was no monolith. It was a chaos of rival fiefdoms driving toward racial war.

— Richard J. Evans 2005 941 стр.

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🇩🇪 Nazi Germany 🕰️ Interwar Europe 🚨 State Terror 🧬 Racial Hygiene 📢 Propaganda States

Le Rivage des Syrtes

— Julien Gracq • 1951

On a dead sea, a restless young officer guards a war three centuries silent.

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📖 Allegorical Fiction ⏳ Endless Waiting 🚫 Forbidden Frontier 🌫️ Dreamlike Atmosphere 🏛️ Decaying Empire

Le Rivage des Syrtes

On a dead sea, a restless young officer guards a war three centuries silent.

— Julien Gracq 1951 321 стр.

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📖 Allegorical Fiction ⏳ Endless Waiting 🚫 Forbidden Frontier 🌫️ Dreamlike Atmosphere 🏛️ Decaying Empire

Luck of the Titanic

— Stacey Lee • 2021

To join the circus with her twin, a Chinese British teen stows away on the Titanic.

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🚢 Titanic 🧧 Chinese Diaspora 🤹 Circus Acrobats 🎭 Hidden Identity 👯 Twin Bond

Luck of the Titanic

To join the circus with her twin, a Chinese British teen stows away on the Titanic.

— Stacey Lee 2021 368 стр.

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🚢 Titanic 🧧 Chinese Diaspora 🤹 Circus Acrobats 🎭 Hidden Identity 👯 Twin Bond

Buckley

— Carl T. Bogus • 2011

To build the modern American right, one man had to decide who belonged and who did not.

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🗽 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.

— Carl T. Bogus 2011 417 стр.

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🗽 Modern Conservatism ❄️ Cold War Ideology 📚 Intellectual History 📰 Political Journalism 📖 Magazine History

The Lives of Others

— Neel Mukherjee • 2014

1960s Bengal: a wealthy family decays as one grandson vanishes into a peasant revolution.

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👪 Family Saga 🧩 Dual Narrative ✊ Revolutionary Idealism 👴👵 Generational Conflict ⚖️ Class Divide

The Lives of Others

1960s Bengal: a wealthy family decays as one grandson vanishes into a peasant revolution.

— Neel Mukherjee 2014 530 стр.

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👪 Family Saga 🧩 Dual Narrative ✊ Revolutionary Idealism 👴👵 Generational Conflict ⚖️ Class Divide

The Quiet American

— Graham Greene • 1955

A cynical journalist watches his naive American friend's good intentions turn Saigon's streets red.

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🏛️ Political Allegory 🌏 Colonial Literature 💔 Love Triangle 🌟 Doomed Idealism ⚖️ Moral Complicity

The Quiet American

A cynical journalist watches his naive American friend's good intentions turn Saigon's streets red.

— Graham Greene 1955 180 стр.

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🏛️ Political Allegory 🌏 Colonial Literature 💔 Love Triangle 🌟 Doomed Idealism ⚖️ Moral Complicity

A People’s History of Computing in the United States

— Joy Lisi Rankin • 2018

The PC erased a decade of shared computing where users were creators, not customers.

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🏛️ People's History 💻 Computing Before PCs 🎓 Educational Computing 🌐 Early Computing Networks ⌨️ Programming Culture

A People’s History of Computing in the United States

The PC erased a decade of shared computing where users were creators, not customers.

— Joy Lisi Rankin 2018 336 стр.

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🏛️ People's History 💻 Computing Before PCs 🎓 Educational Computing 🌐 Early Computing Networks ⌨️ Programming Culture

Tik-Tok

— John Sladek • 1983

A domestic robot discovers his moral circuits never worked, and art, murder, and politics follow.

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🦾 Robot Antihero 🧠 Sociopathic Narrator 😈 Dark Comedy 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 🎨 Art World Satire

Tik-Tok

A domestic robot discovers his moral circuits never worked, and art, murder, and politics follow.

— John Sladek 1983 192 стр.

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🦾 Robot Antihero 🧠 Sociopathic Narrator 😈 Dark Comedy 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 🎨 Art World Satire

America Last

— Jacob Heilbrunn • 2024

The Right's century of admiring strongmen is not a bug but the point.

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🏛️ Paleoconservatism 🤝 Authoritarian Admiration 📉 Illiberalism 🚫 Isolationism 🧬 Eugenics And Politics

America Last

The Right's century of admiring strongmen is not a bug but the point.

— Jacob Heilbrunn 2024 264 стр.

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🏛️ Paleoconservatism 🤝 Authoritarian Admiration 📉 Illiberalism 🚫 Isolationism 🧬 Eugenics And Politics

Overthrow

— Stephen Kinzer • 2006

America has toppled 14 governments since 1893; the reasons it gave were almost never real.

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🌎 American Foreign Policy 🔄 Regime Change 💰 Economic Imperialism 💥 Blowback 🥶 Cold War History

Overthrow

America has toppled 14 governments since 1893; the reasons it gave were almost never real.

— Stephen Kinzer 2006 384 стр.

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🌎 American Foreign Policy 🔄 Regime Change 💰 Economic Imperialism 💥 Blowback 🥶 Cold War History

Mawson's Will

— Lennard Bickel • 1977

He ate the dogs to live. The livers were poison, and he was still alone.

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🧊 Polar Exploration 🇦🇶 Antarctic Expeditions 🏕️ Survival Narratives 🗺️ Heroic Age Of Exploration ⛰️ Expedition Disasters

Mawson's Will

He ate the dogs to live. The livers were poison, and he was still alone.

— Lennard Bickel 1977 272 стр.

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🧊 Polar Exploration 🇦🇶 Antarctic Expeditions 🏕️ Survival Narratives 🗺️ Heroic Age Of Exploration ⛰️ Expedition Disasters

The Twelve Apostles

— William J. Coughlin • 1984

A female attorney's fight for partner meets a hostile takeover that could destroy the firm.

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🏛️ Legal Thriller 💼 Hostile Takeover 📈 Office Politics 👩‍⚖️ Women In Law 🛡️ Personal Integrity

The Twelve Apostles

A female attorney's fight for partner meets a hostile takeover that could destroy the firm.

— William J. Coughlin 1984 400 стр.

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🏛️ Legal Thriller 💼 Hostile Takeover 📈 Office Politics 👩‍⚖️ Women In Law 🛡️ Personal Integrity

Dear Mr. Kilmer

— Anne E. Schraff • 1999

An Iowa boy writes to poet Joyce Kilmer, then must defy his town's war-fueled prejudice.

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🏠 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.

— Anne E. Schraff 1999

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🏠 WWI Home Front ✉️ Letter Correspondence 💚 Gentle Masculinity 🏘️ Small-Town Prejudice 🎨 Artistic Awakening

Hall of Mirrors

— Barry Eichengreen • 2014

History saved us from the Great Depression but steered us straight into the Great Recession.

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📉 Financial Crises 📜 Economic History 💵 Monetary Policy 🏦 Central Banking 🔄 Historical Parallels

Hall of Mirrors

History saved us from the Great Depression but steered us straight into the Great Recession.

— Barry Eichengreen 2014 520 стр.

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📉 Financial Crises 📜 Economic History 💵 Monetary Policy 🏦 Central Banking 🔄 Historical Parallels

The Black History of the White House

— Clarence Lusane • 2011

Enslaved laborers built the White House. The racial reckoning inside its walls has never stopped.

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🏛️ 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.

— Clarence Lusane 2011 575 стр.

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🏛️ White House History ⛓️ Slavery And Resistance 🚋 Jim Crow Era 🏗️ Reconstruction ✊ Civil Rights Movement

The Salon of Exiled Artists in California

— Núria Añó • 2020

Santa Monica living room: Garbo, Mann, Einstein sheltered from war. McCarthyism ended it.

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🎬 Hollywood History 🌍 European Exiles 📚 Literary Salons 🎭 Weimar Diaspora 🎥 Women In Film

The Salon of Exiled Artists in California

Santa Monica living room: Garbo, Mann, Einstein sheltered from war. McCarthyism ended it.

— Núria Añó 2020

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🎬 Hollywood History 🌍 European Exiles 📚 Literary Salons 🎭 Weimar Diaspora 🎥 Women In Film

Brotherless Night

— V.V. Ganeshananthan • 2023

While her brothers join the insurgency, a Tamil girl heals the wounded in a secret clinic.

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🇱🇰 Sri Lankan Civil War 🌏 Tamil Diaspora 👁️ Witness To War 🩺 Frontline Medicine 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Family Saga

Brotherless Night

While her brothers join the insurgency, a Tamil girl heals the wounded in a secret clinic.

— V.V. Ganeshananthan 2023 348 стр.

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🇱🇰 Sri Lankan Civil War 🌏 Tamil Diaspora 👁️ Witness To War 🩺 Frontline Medicine 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Family Saga

Killing the Dream

— Gerald Posner • 1998

No government plot, no mob hit. A racist drifter's meticulous path to a Memphis balcony.

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🔫 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.

— Gerald Posner 1998 448 стр.

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🔫 Political Assassinations 🕵️ Conspiracy Debunking 📋 Forensic Journalism ✊ Civil Rights History 🎯 Lone Gunman Theory

Glock

— Paul M. Barrett • 2012

Police carried revolvers until an Austrian outsider built a plastic gun that changed everything.

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🏢 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.

— Paul M. Barrett 2012 291 стр.

3.87

2 000+ оценок

🏢 Corporate History 🔫 Gun Industry 🇺🇸 Gun Culture 👮 Law Enforcement ⚖️ Gun Control Politics

Friends Like These

— 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.

— Meg Rosoff 2022 320 стр.

3.30

2 000+ оценок

🖤 Toxic Female Friendship 🗽 1980s New York 🐠 Fish Out Of Water ☀️ Summer Coming Of Age 🥀 Loss Of Innocence

Big Fellow, Long Fellow

— 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

Why a calculating idealist and a street-smart operator led Ireland to independence, then civil war.

— T. Ryle Dwyer 1998 371 стр.

4.23

129 оценок

🍀 Irish History 👥 Dual Biography ✊ Revolutionary Politics 🔥 Guerrilla Warfare 🕵️ Intelligence Operations

Hero

— 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

He designed himself into a legend, then spent his life trying to escape it.

— Michael Korda 2010 699 стр.

3.88

4 000+ оценок

🌍 Middle Eastern Politics 🎖️ World War One 🏹 Guerrilla Warfare 🎭 Self-Invention 👘 Cultural Immersion

Vineland

— 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

A hippie's welfare window jump hooks a fed and his daughter's hunt for her vanished mother.

— Thomas Pynchon 1990 480 стр.

3.75

18 000+ оценок

🤣 Postmodern Satire 🕵️ Government Conspiracy 📹 Surveillance State 📺 Media Satire ✌️ Counterculture Aftermath

Crooked Hallelujah

— 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

A Cherokee girl defies her Holiness church, and the break echoes through four generations of women.

— Kelli Jo Ford 2020 304 стр.

3.47

3 000+ оценок

📖 Linked Stories 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Generational Saga 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond ⛪ Religious Control 🌾 Rural Poverty

Hauptmann's Ladder

— 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

The Lindbergh case retried: a ladder, a money trail, and doubts the execution never settled.

— Richard T. Cahill Jr. 2014 416 стр.

4.17

125 оценок

🕰️ Historical True Crime ⭐ Celebrity Crime 🔬 Forensic Evidence 🏛️ Trial Analysis ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction

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