Соединённые Штаты Америки

Сложная ткань американской власти раскрывается через проницательные повествования о политических интригах, военных интервенциях, культурных силах и личностях, формирующих самую влиятельную нацию мира. Эти глубокие работы исследуют всё — от драм Белого дома и внешней политики до социальных движений и скрытых механизмов контроля, которые продолжают определять роль Америки на мировой арене.

Соединённые Штаты Америки Саммари книг

Marriage Meetings for Lasting Love

— Marcia Naomi Berger • 2014

A weekly 30-minute meeting with a fixed agenda: the practice that outlasts every good intention.

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💬 Couples Communication 🔧 Relationship Maintenance 🔬 Gottman Method ⚡ Conflict Management 💝 Appreciation Practice

Marriage Meetings for Lasting Love Саммари

Иммерсивные

Marriage Meetings for Lasting Love

A weekly 30-minute meeting with a fixed agenda: the practice that outlasts every good intention.

— Marcia Naomi Berger 2014 232 стр.

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💬 Couples Communication 🔧 Relationship Maintenance 🔬 Gottman Method ⚡ Conflict Management 💝 Appreciation Practice

One Nation Under Blackmail

— Whitney Alyse Webb • 2022

Seventeen White House visits. The blackmail machine that protected Jeffrey Epstein for decades.

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🏛️ Political Corruption 🕵️ Intelligence History 🔫 Organized Crime 📹 Surveillance State 🕶️ Modern Espionage

One Nation Under Blackmail

Seventeen White House visits. The blackmail machine that protected Jeffrey Epstein for decades.

— Whitney Alyse Webb 2022 432 стр.

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🏛️ Political Corruption 🕵️ Intelligence History 🔫 Organized Crime 📹 Surveillance State 🕶️ Modern Espionage

Martin Eden

— Jack London • 1909

A sailor meets a refined girl and destroys himself trying to become worthy of her love.

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🔨 Working Class Fiction 🏛️ Gilded Age Fiction 💔 Doomed Ambition 🎨 Artist As Outsider 💕 Class Divide Romance

Martin Eden

A sailor meets a refined girl and destroys himself trying to become worthy of her love.

— Jack London 1909 480 стр.

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🔨 Working Class Fiction 🏛️ Gilded Age Fiction 💔 Doomed Ambition 🎨 Artist As Outsider 💕 Class Divide Romance

Killing Hope

— William Blum • 1995

For forty years, the CIA overthrew governments across the globe. The full ledger is in one book.

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❄️ Cold War Politics 🕵️ Covert Operations 🌎 American Empire 🏛️ Regime Change 💰 Corporate Imperialism

Killing Hope

For forty years, the CIA overthrew governments across the globe. The full ledger is in one book.

— William Blum 1995 469 стр.

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❄️ Cold War Politics 🕵️ Covert Operations 🌎 American Empire 🏛️ Regime Change 💰 Corporate Imperialism

Colossus

— Niall Ferguson • 2004

America has always been an empire. Refusing to admit it is the root of its failures.

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🇺🇸 American Hegemony 🏛️ Comparative Empires 🏗️ Nation-Building 💸 Fiscal Crisis 📉 Declinism

Colossus

America has always been an empire. Refusing to admit it is the root of its failures.

— Niall Ferguson 2004 417 стр.

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🇺🇸 American Hegemony 🏛️ Comparative Empires 🏗️ Nation-Building 💸 Fiscal Crisis 📉 Declinism

Fire and Fury

— Michael Wolff • 2018

Bannon versus the family. Cable news versus the briefings. The West Wing as it actually ran.

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🏛️ White House Insider 🇺🇸 Trump Presidency ⚔️ Political Infighting 💥 White House Dysfunction 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Fire and Fury

Bannon versus the family. Cable news versus the briefings. The West Wing as it actually ran.

— Michael Wolff 2018 336 стр.

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🏛️ White House Insider 🇺🇸 Trump Presidency ⚔️ Political Infighting 💥 White House Dysfunction 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Monopoly Capital

— Paul A. Baran • 1966

A surplus the system cannot absorb: monopoly capitalism's real engine is not production, but waste.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 📉 Economic Stagnation 💣 Military-Industrial Complex ⚠️ Crisis Theory

Monopoly Capital

A surplus the system cannot absorb: monopoly capitalism's real engine is not production, but waste.

— Paul A. Baran 1966 416 стр.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 📉 Economic Stagnation 💣 Military-Industrial Complex ⚠️ Crisis Theory

On Boxing

— Joyce Carol Oates • 1987

A novelist finds that inside the ring, pain, time, and masculinity obey different laws.

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🥊 Boxing Culture ✍️ Literary Sports Writing 🧠 Philosophy Of Sport 💪 Masculinity And Violence 🩸 Athletic Suffering

On Boxing

A novelist finds that inside the ring, pain, time, and masculinity obey different laws.

— Joyce Carol Oates 1987 304 стр.

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🥊 Boxing Culture ✍️ Literary Sports Writing 🧠 Philosophy Of Sport 💪 Masculinity And Violence 🩸 Athletic Suffering

A Century of War

— F. William Engdahl • 1992

How Anglo-American elites controlled oil to engineer a century of wars and financial crises.

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🛢️ Oil Geopolitics 🇬🇧🇺🇸 Anglo-American Power 💵 Petrodollar System 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 British Empire ⚠️ Manufactured Crises

A Century of War

How Anglo-American elites controlled oil to engineer a century of wars and financial crises.

— F. William Engdahl 1992 312 стр.

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🛢️ Oil Geopolitics 🇬🇧🇺🇸 Anglo-American Power 💵 Petrodollar System 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 British Empire ⚠️ Manufactured Crises

The Politics Industry

— Katherine M. Gehl • 2020

Two parties rigged the political market. One election redesign can open it.

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🗳️ Electoral Reform 🏛️ Political Duopoly 📊 Ranked Choice Voting 🔓 Gridlock Solutions 🇺🇸 American Democracy

The Politics Industry

Two parties rigged the political market. One election redesign can open it.

— Katherine M. Gehl 2020 272 стр.

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🗳️ Electoral Reform 🏛️ Political Duopoly 📊 Ranked Choice Voting 🔓 Gridlock Solutions 🇺🇸 American Democracy

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

— John Fante • 1938

Starving in a Colorado shack, an Italian bricklayer abandons his family for a widow's bed.

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🧳 Immigrant Hardship 🙏 Catholic Guilt 💔 Troubled Marriage 👨‍👦 Father Son Conflict 💘 Adolescent Infatuation

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

Starving in a Colorado shack, an Italian bricklayer abandons his family for a widow's bed.

— John Fante 1938 266 стр.

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🧳 Immigrant Hardship 🙏 Catholic Guilt 💔 Troubled Marriage 👨‍👦 Father Son Conflict 💘 Adolescent Infatuation

JFK's Forgotten Crisis

— Bruce Riedel • 2015

A CIA shadow war in Tibet helped spark the 1962 Sino-Indian War. Asia never recovered.

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🌐 Cold War Geopolitics 🏔️ Sino-Indian Relations 🕵️ Covert Operations 🔍 Intelligence Failures ⚡ Crisis Management

JFK's Forgotten Crisis

A CIA shadow war in Tibet helped spark the 1962 Sino-Indian War. Asia never recovered.

— Bruce Riedel 2015 177 стр.

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🌐 Cold War Geopolitics 🏔️ Sino-Indian Relations 🕵️ Covert Operations 🔍 Intelligence Failures ⚡ Crisis Management

Hypnotizing Maria

— Richard Bach • 2009

After a midair rescue, a pilot crosses America with a hypnotist to see how belief shapes reality.

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📖 Philosophical Parable ✈️ Aviation Fiction 🔮 New Age Wisdom 🧠 Power Of Belief 🕸️ Interconnected Lives

Hypnotizing Maria

After a midair rescue, a pilot crosses America with a hypnotist to see how belief shapes reality.

— Richard Bach 2009 160 стр.

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📖 Philosophical Parable ✈️ Aviation Fiction 🔮 New Age Wisdom 🧠 Power Of Belief 🕸️ Interconnected Lives

Deliver Me from Nowhere

— Warren Zanes • 2023

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

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🎧 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.

— Warren Zanes 2023 320 стр.

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

Rogue State

— William Blum • 2000

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

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🏛️ 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.

— William Blum 2000 393 стр.

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

A Renegade History of the United States

— Thaddeus Russell • 2010

America's founders feared pleasure. Its drunkards, prostitutes, and gangsters made freedom real.

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📚 Revisionist History 👇 History From Below 🚔 Social Control 💋 Sexual Politics 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Race And Whiteness

A Renegade History of the United States

America's founders feared pleasure. Its drunkards, prostitutes, and gangsters made freedom real.

— Thaddeus Russell 2010 400 стр.

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📚 Revisionist History 👇 History From Below 🚔 Social Control 💋 Sexual Politics 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Race And Whiteness

House of Bush, House of Saud

— Craig Unger • 2004

Oil, covert wars, and a revolving door: the Bush-Saudi alliance that 9/11 nearly destroyed.

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🛢️ Oil Politics 🇸🇦 Us-Saudi Relations 🔍 Investigative Journalism 💥 Blowback 🔄 Revolving Door

House of Bush, House of Saud

Oil, covert wars, and a revolving door: the Bush-Saudi alliance that 9/11 nearly destroyed.

— Craig Unger 2004 384 стр.

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🛢️ Oil Politics 🇸🇦 Us-Saudi Relations 🔍 Investigative Journalism 💥 Blowback 🔄 Revolving Door

The Republic for Which It Stands

— Richard White • 2017

America rebuilt itself after 1865 into something no one voted for. A history of broken promises.

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era 💰 Gilded Age 🔨 Labor History 🌳 Environmental History ⚖️ Jim Crow Origins

The Republic for Which It Stands

America rebuilt itself after 1865 into something no one voted for. A history of broken promises.

— Richard White 2017 962 стр.

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era 💰 Gilded Age 🔨 Labor History 🌳 Environmental History ⚖️ Jim Crow Origins

The End of the Myth

— Greg Grandin • 2019

How to build a property portfolio with positive cashflow, even if you've hit the borrowing wall.

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💰 Positive Cashflow 🏠 Rental Properties 🧾 Tax Depreciation 🤝 Tenant Relationships 📈 Portfolio Scaling

The End of the Myth

How to build a property portfolio with positive cashflow, even if you've hit the borrowing wall.

— Greg Grandin 2019 369 стр.

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💰 Positive Cashflow 🏠 Rental Properties 🧾 Tax Depreciation 🤝 Tenant Relationships 📈 Portfolio Scaling

Аргументы в пользу Трампа

— Виктор Дэвис Хэнсон • 2019

Trump was the symptom of an establishment that had failed its own voters for decades.

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🔨 Populist Movements ⚡ Political Polarization 🏛️ Administrative State 🏭 Economic Nationalism 🏚️ Deindustrialization

Аргументы в пользу Трампа

Trump was the symptom of an establishment that had failed its own voters for decades.

— Виктор Дэвис Хэнсон 2019 400 стр.

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🔨 Populist Movements ⚡ Political Polarization 🏛️ Administrative State 🏭 Economic Nationalism 🏚️ Deindustrialization

Hidden History

— Brian Haughton • 2007

Twelve ancient mysteries where the evidence outlasts every explanation archaeologists have offered.

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🏛️ Lost Civilizations 🔍 Ancient Mysteries ⛏️ Alternative Archaeology ⚙️ Ancient Technology ⭐ Archaeoastronomy

Hidden History

Twelve ancient mysteries where the evidence outlasts every explanation archaeologists have offered.

— Brian Haughton 2007 272 стр.

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🏛️ Lost Civilizations 🔍 Ancient Mysteries ⛏️ Alternative Archaeology ⚙️ Ancient Technology ⭐ Archaeoastronomy

The Truth About Trump

— Michael D'Antonio • 2015

A Queens developer's decades-long project of self-invention, and how it conquered America.

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🏛️ Political Biographies 💼 Business Moguls 👨‍👦 Family Dynasties 🗳️ Populist Politics 📺 Media Manipulation

The Truth About Trump

A Queens developer's decades-long project of self-invention, and how it conquered America.

— Michael D'Antonio 2015 550 стр.

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🏛️ Political Biographies 💼 Business Moguls 👨‍👦 Family Dynasties 🗳️ Populist Politics 📺 Media Manipulation

The Art Of Creative Writing

— Lajos Egri • 1995

Unforgettable fiction starts with a character too insecure to walk away from their opposite.

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🎭 Character Design 🎪 Playwriting 🧠 Human Motivation 😨 Creative Anxiety 🏛️ Aristotelian Poetics

The Art Of Creative Writing

Unforgettable fiction starts with a character too insecure to walk away from their opposite.

— Lajos Egri 1995 224 стр.

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🎭 Character Design 🎪 Playwriting 🧠 Human Motivation 😨 Creative Anxiety 🏛️ Aristotelian Poetics

Amexica

— Ed Vulliamy • 2010

Drugs north, guns south: the border is its own nation, and the cartels are its government.

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🕴️ Organized Crime ⚔️ Drug War 💀 Narco Culture 💰 Cartel Economics 🏜️ Migrant Journeys

Amexica

Drugs north, guns south: the border is its own nation, and the cartels are its government.

— Ed Vulliamy 2010 368 стр.

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🕴️ Organized Crime ⚔️ Drug War 💀 Narco Culture 💰 Cartel Economics 🏜️ Migrant Journeys

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

The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy

— Jim Marrs • 2010

A century-long campaign to crash the economy, sicken the people, and lock down the state.

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👤 Shadow Government 💸 Financial Conspiracy 📹 Mass Surveillance 📺 Media Manipulation 💊 Big Pharma

The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy

A century-long campaign to crash the economy, sicken the people, and lock down the state.

— Jim Marrs 2010 496 стр.

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👤 Shadow Government 💸 Financial Conspiracy 📹 Mass Surveillance 📺 Media Manipulation 💊 Big Pharma

The Mammoth Book of the West

— Jon E. Lewis • 1996

Land seized, gold mined, bison slaughtered: how the real West vanished behind the myth.

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🏔️ American Frontier 🐂 Westward Expansion 🛤️ Pioneer Migration 💰 Gold Rush California 🐄 Cattle Ranching

The Mammoth Book of the West

Land seized, gold mined, bison slaughtered: how the real West vanished behind the myth.

— Jon E. Lewis 1996 544 стр.

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🏔️ American Frontier 🐂 Westward Expansion 🛤️ Pioneer Migration 💰 Gold Rush California 🐄 Cattle Ranching

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

Master of Reality

— John Darnielle • 2008

The staff took his Walkman. They cannot take the Black Sabbath album inside his head.

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🏥 Psychiatric Ward 🎸 Music As Refuge 😤 Angry Teen Narrator 🌑 Dark Coming Of Age 📓 Epistolary Novel

Master of Reality

The staff took his Walkman. They cannot take the Black Sabbath album inside his head.

— John Darnielle 2008 112 стр.

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🏥 Psychiatric Ward 🎸 Music As Refuge 😤 Angry Teen Narrator 🌑 Dark Coming Of Age 📓 Epistolary Novel

[(The Coup

— Ervand Abrahamian • 2013

Oil, not communism, drove the 1953 Iran coup. Its buried logic still poisons US-Iran relations.

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📜 Iranian History 🕵️ Covert Operations 🛢️ Oil Politics 🌐 Us-Iran Relations 🌍 Imperialism

[(The Coup

Oil, not communism, drove the 1953 Iran coup. Its buried logic still poisons US-Iran relations.

— Ervand Abrahamian 2013

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📜 Iranian History 🕵️ Covert Operations 🛢️ Oil Politics 🌐 Us-Iran Relations 🌍 Imperialism

Hazards of Time Travel

— Joyce Carol Oates • 2018

A teenager's forbidden questions land her in 1959 Wisconsin, where one wrong memory means erasure.

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📚 Literary Dystopia 🧠 Memory Erasure 👁️ Surveillance State 💔 Forbidden Love 🌧️ Melancholy Tone

Hazards of Time Travel

A teenager's forbidden questions land her in 1959 Wisconsin, where one wrong memory means erasure.

— Joyce Carol Oates 2018 336 стр.

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📚 Literary Dystopia 🧠 Memory Erasure 👁️ Surveillance State 💔 Forbidden Love 🌧️ Melancholy Tone

The Management of Savagery

— Max Blumenthal • 2019

Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Trump: three products of the same American national security machine.

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🏛️ American Empire ↩️ Blowback 🔄 Regime Change 📢 War Propaganda ☪️ Political Islam

The Management of Savagery

Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Trump: three products of the same American national security machine.

— Max Blumenthal 2019 400 стр.

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🏛️ American Empire ↩️ Blowback 🔄 Regime Change 📢 War Propaganda ☪️ Political Islam

The Counter-Revolution of 1776

— Gerald Horne • 2014

Britain was turning against slavery. The American Revolution was the slaveholders' answer.

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🇺🇸 American Revolution ⛓️ Atlantic Slavery 🏘️ Settler Colonialism ✊ Slave Resistance 📚 Revisionist History

The Counter-Revolution of 1776

Britain was turning against slavery. The American Revolution was the slaveholders' answer.

— Gerald Horne 2014 363 стр.

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🇺🇸 American Revolution ⛓️ Atlantic Slavery 🏘️ Settler Colonialism ✊ Slave Resistance 📚 Revisionist History

The Jungle Grows Back

— Robert Kagan • 2018

The global peace is a fluke. American power built it; without constant effort, it collapses.

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🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🌐 Liberal Internationalism 🕊️ Pax Americana 🦅 Neoconservatism ⚔️ Great Power Competition

The Jungle Grows Back

The global peace is a fluke. American power built it; without constant effort, it collapses.

— Robert Kagan 2018 192 стр.

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🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🌐 Liberal Internationalism 🕊️ Pax Americana 🦅 Neoconservatism ⚔️ Great Power Competition

A Man Called White

— Walter Francis White • 1948

Blue-eyed and Black, he could pass for white, so he walked straight into lynch mobs.

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✊🏾 Civil Rights Movement ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🪢 Anti-Lynching Activism 🪞 Passing Narratives 🗳️ Voting Rights

A Man Called White

Blue-eyed and Black, he could pass for white, so he walked straight into lynch mobs.

— Walter Francis White 1948 392 стр.

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✊🏾 Civil Rights Movement ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🪢 Anti-Lynching Activism 🪞 Passing Narratives 🗳️ Voting Rights

Race and Manifest Destiny

— Reginald Horsman • 1981

Manifest Destiny had a hidden engine: a pseudo-science that ranked races and justified conquest.

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🏛️ Intellectual History 🌎 American Expansionism 🧬 Scientific Racism 🗺️ Manifest Destiny 👑 Anglo-Saxonism

Race and Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny had a hidden engine: a pseudo-science that ranked races and justified conquest.

— Reginald Horsman 1981 380 стр.

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🏛️ Intellectual History 🌎 American Expansionism 🧬 Scientific Racism 🗺️ Manifest Destiny 👑 Anglo-Saxonism

The Rise and Fall of American Growth

— Robert J. Gordon • 2016

Indoor plumbing, electricity, and the car transformed daily life in ways the internet never will.

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🏛️ Economic History 🇺🇸 American Economy ⚙️ Technological Change 🏠 Standard Of Living 🏭 Industrial Revolutions

The Rise and Fall of American Growth

Indoor plumbing, electricity, and the car transformed daily life in ways the internet never will.

— Robert J. Gordon 2016 784 стр.

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🏛️ Economic History 🇺🇸 American Economy ⚙️ Technological Change 🏠 Standard Of Living 🏭 Industrial Revolutions

Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution

— Woody Holton • 2007

Statehouses were too soft on debtors, so the Constitution shifted power to creditors.

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🏛️ Constitutional History 📜 American Revolution 💸 Economic History ⚖️ Class Conflict 🏹 Popular Uprisings

Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution

Statehouses were too soft on debtors, so the Constitution shifted power to creditors.

— Woody Holton 2007 384 стр.

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🏛️ Constitutional History 📜 American Revolution 💸 Economic History ⚖️ Class Conflict 🏹 Popular Uprisings

Ask the Dust

— John Fante • 1939

An impoverished writer in 1930s Los Angeles meets a waitress whose scorn and need mirror his own.

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🏙️ 1930s Los Angeles 🎨 Starving Artist 💔 Obsessive Love 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 📉 Depression-Era America

Ask the Dust

An impoverished writer in 1930s Los Angeles meets a waitress whose scorn and need mirror his own.

— John Fante 1939 165 стр.

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🏙️ 1930s Los Angeles 🎨 Starving Artist 💔 Obsessive Love 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 📉 Depression-Era America

How to Hide an Empire

— Daniel Immerwahr • 2019

The pandemic was a hoax to feed invisible entities. Next step: they merge you with machines.

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🕵️ New World Order 🧠 Mind Control 🤖 Transhumanism 🖥️ Simulation Theory 📜 Gnosticism

How to Hide an Empire

The pandemic was a hoax to feed invisible entities. Next step: they merge you with machines.

— Daniel Immerwahr 2019 513 стр.

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🕵️ New World Order 🧠 Mind Control 🤖 Transhumanism 🖥️ Simulation Theory 📜 Gnosticism

Cultural Backlash

— Pippa Norris • 2019

Social liberalism's growth triggered an authoritarian backlash. Trump and Brexit are its expression.

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🗳️ Comparative Politics 📢 Populism Studies ⚠️ Authoritarian Values 🔄 Value Change 🌍 Immigration Attitudes

Cultural Backlash

Social liberalism's growth triggered an authoritarian backlash. Trump and Brexit are its expression.

— Pippa Norris 2019 554 стр.

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🗳️ Comparative Politics 📢 Populism Studies ⚠️ Authoritarian Values 🔄 Value Change 🌍 Immigration Attitudes

Great American Hypocrites

— Glenn Greenwald • 2008

Republicans win by dressing up as John Wayne while the press applauds the costume.

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🐘 Republican Party 🎭 Political Mythology 📺 Media Criticism 🃏 Political Deception 💪 Masculinity Politics

Great American Hypocrites

Republicans win by dressing up as John Wayne while the press applauds the costume.

— Glenn Greenwald 2008 304 стр.

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🐘 Republican Party 🎭 Political Mythology 📺 Media Criticism 🃏 Political Deception 💪 Masculinity Politics

Liberty and Coercion

— Gary Gerstle • 2015

Federal liberty, state coercion: the two-hundred-year paradox at the heart of American governance.

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🏛️ Constitutional History 🌐 Federalism ⚖️ States' Rights 🇺🇸 American Political Development 🗽 Classical Liberalism

Liberty and Coercion

Federal liberty, state coercion: the two-hundred-year paradox at the heart of American governance.

— Gary Gerstle 2015 472 стр.

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🏛️ Constitutional History 🌐 Federalism ⚖️ States' Rights 🇺🇸 American Political Development 🗽 Classical Liberalism

This Vast Southern Empire

— Matthew Karp • 2016

Why the slaveholding South pushed for a powerful state: to protect and project slavery worldwide.

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🏛️ Antebellum Politics 🌍 Geopolitics Of Slavery 💰 Commodity Power ⚔️ Military Expansion 🧬 Scientific Racism

This Vast Southern Empire

Why the slaveholding South pushed for a powerful state: to protect and project slavery worldwide.

— Matthew Karp 2016 368 стр.

4.28

500+ оценок

🏛️ Antebellum Politics 🌍 Geopolitics Of Slavery 💰 Commodity Power ⚔️ Military Expansion 🧬 Scientific Racism

The Hell of Good Intentions

— Stephen M. Walt • 2018

After the Cold War, America tried to lead the world. It overreached, failed, and learned nothing.

4.01

500+

🗺️ Grand Strategy 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy ⚔️ Military Overreach 🌍 Post-Cold War Era 🏛️ Foreign Policy Elite

The Hell of Good Intentions

After the Cold War, America tried to lead the world. It overreached, failed, and learned nothing.

— Stephen M. Walt 2018 400 стр.

4.01

500+ оценок

🗺️ Grand Strategy 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy ⚔️ Military Overreach 🌍 Post-Cold War Era 🏛️ Foreign Policy Elite

The Next American Nation

— Michael Lind • 1995

Three racial orders have governed America. The fourth has no use for race at all.

3.95

📜 American Nationalism 🏴 National Identity 🕊️ Liberal Nationalism ⚖️ Color-Blind Policy 🗳️ Racial Politics

The Next American Nation

Three racial orders have governed America. The fourth has no use for race at all.

— Michael Lind 1995 448 стр.

3.95

87 оценок

📜 American Nationalism 🏴 National Identity 🕊️ Liberal Nationalism ⚖️ Color-Blind Policy 🗳️ Racial Politics

American Political Parties and Elections

— L. Sandy Maisel • 2016

Why your vote matters less than your zip code: the institutional rules that run American elections.

3.39

322

🗳️ Electoral Systems 💰 Campaign Finance 🏛️ Two-Party System ✊ Voting Rights 🎯 Political Parties

American Political Parties and Elections

Why your vote matters less than your zip code: the institutional rules that run American elections.

— L. Sandy Maisel 2016 208 стр.

3.39

322 оценок

🗳️ Electoral Systems 💰 Campaign Finance 🏛️ Two-Party System ✊ Voting Rights 🎯 Political Parties

Paths Out of Dixie

— Robert Mickey • 2015

The Jim Crow South was authoritarian, not democratic. It fell along three distinct paths.

4.36

📍 Southern Politics 🏛️ Authoritarian Regimes 🗳️ Voting Rights 🚫 Racial Segregation 🏢 One-Party Rule

Paths Out of Dixie

The Jim Crow South was authoritarian, not democratic. It fell along three distinct paths.

— Robert Mickey 2015 584 стр.

4.36

39 оценок

📍 Southern Politics 🏛️ Authoritarian Regimes 🗳️ Voting Rights 🚫 Racial Segregation 🏢 One-Party Rule

American Exceptionalism and American Innocence

— Roberto Sirvent • 2019

American history is the original fake news: a cover story for genocide, slavery, and endless war.

4.08

287

🏛️ American Empire 🪓 Settler Colonialism 📜 National Myths ⚪ White Supremacy 📢 Propaganda Studies

American Exceptionalism and American Innocence

American history is the original fake news: a cover story for genocide, slavery, and endless war.

— Roberto Sirvent 2019 256 стр.

4.08

287 оценок

🏛️ American Empire 🪓 Settler Colonialism 📜 National Myths ⚪ White Supremacy 📢 Propaganda Studies

Yankee Leviathan

— Richard Franklin Bensel • 1991

The Confederacy's statist war machine, not the Constitution, built the modern American state.

3.69

📜 Civil War History 🏚️ Reconstruction Era 🏛️ State Formation 💰 Political Economy 🗳️ American Political Development

Yankee Leviathan

The Confederacy's statist war machine, not the Constitution, built the modern American state.

— Richard Franklin Bensel 1991 466 стр.

3.69

49 оценок

📜 Civil War History 🏚️ Reconstruction Era 🏛️ State Formation 💰 Political Economy 🗳️ American Political Development

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