Amerikansk historia

Amerikas berättelser utvecklas genom avgörande ögonblick, legendariska gestalter och de komplexa krafter som formade en nation – från revolutionära spioner och befälhavare under inbördeskriget till moderna presidenter och kulturella omvandlingar. Dessa fängslande berättelser belyser triumfer, strider och beslut som ekar genom tiden och avslöjar hur beslutsamma individer och kraftfulla idéer har styrt det amerikanska experimentet.

Amerikansk historia Boksammanfattningar

Becoming Madam Secretary

av Stephanie Dray

After a factory fire kills 146 workers, one woman must convince a nation to protect its own.

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📖 Biographical Fiction 🚪 Trailblazing Women 🏛️ Progressive Era 📜 New Deal 🗳️ Woman In Politics

Immersiv

Becoming Madam Secretary

After a factory fire kills 146 workers, one woman must convince a nation to protect its own.

av Stephanie Dray 2024 528 sidor

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📖 Biographical Fiction 🚪 Trailblazing Women 🏛️ Progressive Era 📜 New Deal 🗳️ Woman In Politics

The Jakarta Method

av Vincent Bevins • 2020

Washington's greatest Cold War win killed a million Indonesians. Then the method went global.

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📚 Cold War History 🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🔴 Anticommunism ⚡ State Violence 🕵️ Covert Operations

Immersiv

The Jakarta Method

Washington's greatest Cold War win killed a million Indonesians. Then the method went global.

av Vincent Bevins 2020 320 sidor

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📚 Cold War History 🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🔴 Anticommunism ⚡ State Violence 🕵️ Covert Operations

The Demon of Unrest

av Erik Larson • 2024

A dueling code, a hunger for fame, and the 113 days that ignited America's deadliest war.

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🏛️ Civil War Origins ⛓️ American Slavery ⚔️ Honor Culture 📉 Political Failure 🔴 Presidential Crisis

Immersiv

The Demon of Unrest

A dueling code, a hunger for fame, and the 113 days that ignited America's deadliest war.

av Erik Larson 2024 592 sidor

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🏛️ Civil War Origins ⛓️ American Slavery ⚔️ Honor Culture 📉 Political Failure 🔴 Presidential Crisis

An Empire of Wealth

av John Steele Gordon • 2004

6% of the people, 30% of GDP: the institutional inheritance behind American wealth.

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🕰️ Economic History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 🏛️ Institutional Economics 📉 Financial Crises ⚡ Creative Destruction

Immersiv

An Empire of Wealth

6% of the people, 30% of GDP: the institutional inheritance behind American wealth.

av John Steele Gordon 2004 460 sidor

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🕰️ Economic History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 🏛️ Institutional Economics 📉 Financial Crises ⚡ Creative Destruction

The Frontiersmen

av Allan W. Eckert • 1967

The earth shook, the Mississippi reversed, and scattered warriors rode to one man's war.

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🏞️ Frontier History 🪶 Native American History 🔗 Pan-Indian Resistance ⚔️ Frontier Warfare 📜 Broken Treaties

Immersiv

The Frontiersmen

The earth shook, the Mississippi reversed, and scattered warriors rode to one man's war.

av Allan W. Eckert 1967 652 sidor

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🏞️ Frontier History 🪶 Native American History 🔗 Pan-Indian Resistance ⚔️ Frontier Warfare 📜 Broken Treaties

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

av Dee Brown • 1970

Broken treaties, forced marches, and buffalo slaughter: the American West from the losing side.

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🏹 Plains Indian Wars 📜 Broken Treaties 🗺️ Forced Relocation 🏞️ Westward Expansion ⚔️ Settler Colonialism

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Sammanfattning

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Broken treaties, forced marches, and buffalo slaughter: the American West from the losing side.

av Dee Brown 1970 509 sidor

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🏹 Plains Indian Wars 📜 Broken Treaties 🗺️ Forced Relocation 🏞️ Westward Expansion ⚔️ Settler Colonialism

The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution

av Mark Peterson • 2026

The U.S. Constitution was built to seize a continent. What happens when the land runs out?

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🏛️ Constitutional History 🌎 American Expansion ⚡ Settler Colonialism 💰 Political Economy ⚖️ Minority Rule

The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution Sammanfattning

Immersiv

The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution

The U.S. Constitution was built to seize a continent. What happens when the land runs out?

av Mark Peterson 2026 390 sidor

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🏛️ Constitutional History 🌎 American Expansion ⚡ Settler Colonialism 💰 Political Economy ⚖️ Minority Rule

One Nation Under Blackmail

av 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.

av Whitney Alyse Webb 2022 432 sidor

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

The Cold War

av John Lewis Gaddis • 2005

Two empires, opposite ideologies, enough bombs to end everything. Why the Cold War stayed cold.

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🧊 Cold War History 🪆 Soviet Union 🦅 American Foreign Policy ☢️ Nuclear Deterrence ⚔️ Ideological Conflict

The Cold War

Two empires, opposite ideologies, enough bombs to end everything. Why the Cold War stayed cold.

av John Lewis Gaddis 2005 352 sidor

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🧊 Cold War History 🪆 Soviet Union 🦅 American Foreign Policy ☢️ Nuclear Deterrence ⚔️ Ideological Conflict

Benjamin Franklin

av Walter Isaacson • 2003

A runaway apprentice who tamed lightning, charmed Paris, and lost a son to the crown.

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🏛️ Founding Fathers ⚔️ American Revolution 🧠 Polymath Biography 💡 Enlightenment Era 🔨 Self-Made Lives

Benjamin Franklin

A runaway apprentice who tamed lightning, charmed Paris, and lost a son to the crown.

av Walter Isaacson 2003 586 sidor

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🏛️ Founding Fathers ⚔️ American Revolution 🧠 Polymath Biography 💡 Enlightenment Era 🔨 Self-Made Lives

Team of Rivals

av Doris Kearns Goodwin • 2005

Lincoln beat three famous rivals for president. Then he hired every last one of them.

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👤 Presidential Biography 🏛️ Political Leadership ⚔️ Civil War Era 📋 Cabinet Politics 🤝 Political Rivalry

Team of Rivals

Lincoln beat three famous rivals for president. Then he hired every last one of them.

av Doris Kearns Goodwin 2005 916 sidor

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👤 Presidential Biography 🏛️ Political Leadership ⚔️ Civil War Era 📋 Cabinet Politics 🤝 Political Rivalry

Titan

av Ron Chernow • 1998

A pious Baptist created the Standard Oil octopus, gave away millions to be remembered as a saint.

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🛢️ Oil Industry History 💰 Robber Barons 🏗️ Corporate Consolidation ✝️ Protestant Ethic 🎁 Mega Philanthropy

Titan

A pious Baptist created the Standard Oil octopus, gave away millions to be remembered as a saint.

av Ron Chernow 1998 832 sidor

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🛢️ Oil Industry History 💰 Robber Barons 🏗️ Corporate Consolidation ✝️ Protestant Ethic 🎁 Mega Philanthropy

Appetite for America

av Stephen Fried • 2010

A railroad restaurant empire that civilized the West and launched America's first female workforce.

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🚂 Railroad History 🏨 Hospitality Industry 💼 Gilded Age Business 🏜️ Frontier Settlement 👩‍💼 Women's Labor History

Appetite for America

A railroad restaurant empire that civilized the West and launched America's first female workforce.

av Stephen Fried 2010 751 sidor

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🚂 Railroad History 🏨 Hospitality Industry 💼 Gilded Age Business 🏜️ Frontier Settlement 👩‍💼 Women's Labor History

Albion's Seed

av David Hackett Fischer • 1989

Four British migrations planted rival cultures in America, each with its own definition of freedom.

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🏛️ Colonial America 📖 Cultural History 🗺️ Regional Cultures 🧳 Migration Patterns ⚖️ Comparative History

Albion's Seed

Four British migrations planted rival cultures in America, each with its own definition of freedom.

av David Hackett Fischer 1989 946 sidor

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🏛️ Colonial America 📖 Cultural History 🗺️ Regional Cultures 🧳 Migration Patterns ⚖️ Comparative History

The House of Morgan

av Ron Chernow • 1990

Before the Federal Reserve, a single private bank rescued Wall Street and answered to no one.

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🏛️ Banking History 👑 Financial Dynasties 📈 Wall Street History 🎩 Gilded Age ⚖️ Financial Regulation

The House of Morgan

Before the Federal Reserve, a single private bank rescued Wall Street and answered to no one.

av Ron Chernow 1990 812 sidor

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🏛️ Banking History 👑 Financial Dynasties 📈 Wall Street History 🎩 Gilded Age ⚖️ Financial Regulation

1491

av Charles C. Mann • 2005

A hemisphere of cities, empires, and millions, emptied by smallpox before colonists arrived.

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🏛️ Pre-Columbian History 🗿 Indigenous Civilizations 📖 Revisionist History 🌍 Columbian Exchange 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge

1491

A hemisphere of cities, empires, and millions, emptied by smallpox before colonists arrived.

av Charles C. Mann 2005 563 sidor

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🏛️ Pre-Columbian History 🗿 Indigenous Civilizations 📖 Revisionist History 🌍 Columbian Exchange 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge

A People’s History of the United States

av Howard Zinn • 1980

The history you learned in school is a cover story for class war, genocide, and slave revolts.

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📖 Revisionist History 🔍 History From Below 🦅 American Empire 🏚️ Settler Colonialism ✊ Class Struggle

A People’s History of the United States

The history you learned in school is a cover story for class war, genocide, and slave revolts.

av Howard Zinn 1980 729 sidor

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📖 Revisionist History 🔍 History From Below 🦅 American Empire 🏚️ Settler Colonialism ✊ Class Struggle

Alexander Hamilton

av Ron Chernow • 2004

From Caribbean orphan to architect of American capitalism: the scandal and duel that ended him.

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🏛️ American Revolution 🇺🇸 Founding Fathers 📜 Political Biography 💰 Financial Systems 🏗️ Self-Made Man

Alexander Hamilton

From Caribbean orphan to architect of American capitalism: the scandal and duel that ended him.

av Ron Chernow 2004 818 sidor

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🏛️ American Revolution 🇺🇸 Founding Fathers 📜 Political Biography 💰 Financial Systems 🏗️ Self-Made Man

From Poor Law to Welfare State

av Walter I. Trattner • 1974

How America turned helping the poor from an act of justice into a judgment on character.

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318

🏛️ Social Welfare History 🇺🇸 American Social Policy ⚖️ Poverty And Morality 🏥 Institutional Care ⛪ Religious Charity

From Poor Law to Welfare State

How America turned helping the poor from an act of justice into a judgment on character.

av Walter I. Trattner 1974 464 sidor

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🏛️ Social Welfare History 🇺🇸 American Social Policy ⚖️ Poverty And Morality 🏥 Institutional Care ⛪ Religious Charity

Tried by War

av James M. McPherson • 2008

How a lawyer with zero military training became the most hands-on commander in chief.

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🎖️ Civil War History 🏛️ Presidential Leadership ⚔️ Military Command 📜 War Powers ⛓️‍💥 Emancipation

Tried by War

How a lawyer with zero military training became the most hands-on commander in chief.

av James M. McPherson 2008 329 sidor

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🎖️ Civil War History 🏛️ Presidential Leadership ⚔️ Military Command 📜 War Powers ⛓️‍💥 Emancipation

Killing Hope

av 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.

av William Blum 1995 469 sidor

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

1493

av Charles C. Mann • 2011

Potatoes east, mosquitoes west: the biological upheaval set off by 1492 that still runs the world.

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🌿 Environmental History 🦟 Disease And Empire 🌽 Agricultural Revolution 🦠 Ecological Exchange 🧬 Big History

1493

Potatoes east, mosquitoes west: the biological upheaval set off by 1492 that still runs the world.

av Charles C. Mann 2011 836 sidor

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🌿 Environmental History 🦟 Disease And Empire 🌽 Agricultural Revolution 🦠 Ecological Exchange 🧬 Big History

Tyranny of the Minority

av Steven Levitsky • 2023

The party fewer voters chose governs, and the rulebook was written to let them.

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🗳️ Electoral Reform 📉 Democratic Backsliding 🚫 Voter Suppression 🗺️ Gerrymandering 🌐 Comparative Politics

Tyranny of the Minority

The party fewer voters chose governs, and the rulebook was written to let them.

av Steven Levitsky 2023 368 sidor

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🗳️ Electoral Reform 📉 Democratic Backsliding 🚫 Voter Suppression 🗺️ Gerrymandering 🌐 Comparative Politics

Leadership

av Doris Kearns Goodwin • 2018

Before they transformed the nation, they were broken by life. Four presidents, one pattern.

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🏛️ Presidential History 🗳️ Political Leadership 📖 Biographical Leadership ⚡ Crisis Decision Making 🧠 Cognitive Diversity

Leadership

Before they transformed the nation, they were broken by life. Four presidents, one pattern.

av Doris Kearns Goodwin 2018 18 sidor

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🏛️ Presidential History 🗳️ Political Leadership 📖 Biographical Leadership ⚡ Crisis Decision Making 🧠 Cognitive Diversity

The Storm Before the Calm

av George Friedman • 2020

Every eighty years America's government breaks; every fifty, its economy. Now both arrive at once.

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🏛️ American Political History 🔄 Cyclical History 🌪️ Crisis And Renewal 👥 Demographic Shifts 💾 Technology And Society

The Storm Before the Calm

Every eighty years America's government breaks; every fifty, its economy. Now both arrive at once.

av George Friedman 2020 256 sidor

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🏛️ American Political History 🔄 Cyclical History 🌪️ Crisis And Renewal 👥 Demographic Shifts 💾 Technology And Society

Hitler's American Model

av James Q. Whitman • 2017

The Nuremberg Laws had an American blueprint. Nazi lawyers studied Jim Crow and found their model.

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📜 Legal History ⚖️ Race And Law 🏛️ Institutional Racism 🔬 Racial Classification 🏚️ Jim Crow Era

Hitler's American Model

The Nuremberg Laws had an American blueprint. Nazi lawyers studied Jim Crow and found their model.

av James Q. Whitman 2017 208 sidor

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📜 Legal History ⚖️ Race And Law 🏛️ Institutional Racism 🔬 Racial Classification 🏚️ Jim Crow Era

Lincoln on Leadership

av Donald T. Phillips • 1993

He filled his cabinet with rivals and still won the war. Lincoln's playbook for tough times.

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🏛️ Historical Leadership 💼 Executive Leadership 🚨 Crisis Management ⚔️ Civil War History 📣 Communication Strategy

Lincoln on Leadership

He filled his cabinet with rivals and still won the war. Lincoln's playbook for tough times.

av Donald T. Phillips 1993 193 sidor

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🏛️ Historical Leadership 💼 Executive Leadership 🚨 Crisis Management ⚔️ Civil War History 📣 Communication Strategy

How the Word Is Passed

av Clint Smith • 2021

From Monticello to Angola Prison, nine American sites where slavery's past has never really ended.

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📜 American Slavery 🏛️ Public History 🧠 Collective Memory ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🏚️ Lost Cause Mythology

How the Word Is Passed

From Monticello to Angola Prison, nine American sites where slavery's past has never really ended.

av Clint Smith 2021 336 sidor

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📜 American Slavery 🏛️ Public History 🧠 Collective Memory ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🏚️ Lost Cause Mythology

Five Families

av Selwyn Raab • 2005

Sicilian immigrants built a shadow government Prohibition made rich, and the laws that broke it.

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🕴️ Mafia History 🗽 American Underworld 🌍 Sicilian Diaspora 🍸 Prohibition Era 💼 Racketeering

Five Families

Sicilian immigrants built a shadow government Prohibition made rich, and the laws that broke it.

av Selwyn Raab 2005 784 sidor

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🕴️ Mafia History 🗽 American Underworld 🌍 Sicilian Diaspora 🍸 Prohibition Era 💼 Racketeering

Fight

av Jonathan Allen • 2025

Inside the Democratic implosion: a debate disaster, a party revolt, and the scramble that failed.

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🗳️ Presidential Campaigns 🐴 Democratic Party 🏛️ Insider Politics 📉 Campaign Disasters 🎭 Political Polarization

Fight

Inside the Democratic implosion: a debate disaster, a party revolt, and the scramble that failed.

av Jonathan Allen 2025 352 sidor

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🗳️ Presidential Campaigns 🐴 Democratic Party 🏛️ Insider Politics 📉 Campaign Disasters 🎭 Political Polarization

Common Sense

av Thomas Paine • 1776

A plain argument that kings and birthright are frauds, and America must walk away now.

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🇺🇸 American Revolution 🏛️ Political Philosophy 🗳️ Republicanism 👑 Anti-Monarchism 💡 Enlightenment Politics

Common Sense

A plain argument that kings and birthright are frauds, and America must walk away now.

av Thomas Paine 1776 104 sidor

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🇺🇸 American Revolution 🏛️ Political Philosophy 🗳️ Republicanism 👑 Anti-Monarchism 💡 Enlightenment Politics

The Bridge

av David Remnick • 2010

Community organizer. Harvard Law. A blowout loss. The political apprenticeship of Barack Obama.

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📖 Political Biographies 🗳️ Race And Politics 🏙️ Chicago Politics 🧬 Biracial Experience 🤝 Political Pragmatism

The Bridge

Community organizer. Harvard Law. A blowout loss. The political apprenticeship of Barack Obama.

av David Remnick 2010 672 sidor

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📖 Political Biographies 🗳️ Race And Politics 🏙️ Chicago Politics 🧬 Biracial Experience 🤝 Political Pragmatism

Capitalism in America

av Alan Greenspan • 2018

America's 400-year economic experiment: why each era's solution becomes the next era's problem.

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🏛️ Economic History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 🏢 Business History 💵 Monetary History ⚖️ Government And Markets

Capitalism in America

America's 400-year economic experiment: why each era's solution becomes the next era's problem.

av Alan Greenspan 2018 496 sidor

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🏛️ Economic History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 🏢 Business History 💵 Monetary History ⚖️ Government And Markets

Destiny of the Republic

av Candice Millard • 2011

Survivable gunshot, deadly cure: a madman, a president, and the medical failure that finished him.

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🗳️ Gilded Age Politics ⚕️ Medical History 🏛️ Presidential Biography 🔫 Political Assassination 🧠 Criminal Insanity

Destiny of the Republic

Survivable gunshot, deadly cure: a madman, a president, and the medical failure that finished him.

av Candice Millard 2011 339 sidor

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🗳️ Gilded Age Politics ⚕️ Medical History 🏛️ Presidential Biography 🔫 Political Assassination 🧠 Criminal Insanity

The Second Founding

av Eric Foner • 2019

Reconstruction gave birth to a new Constitution. The Supreme Court spent a century erasing it.

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📜 Constitutional History 🏛️ Reconstruction Era 🗳️ Voting Rights ⚖️ Equal Protection 🛑 Racial Inequality

The Second Founding

Reconstruction gave birth to a new Constitution. The Supreme Court spent a century erasing it.

av Eric Foner 2019 224 sidor

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📜 Constitutional History 🏛️ Reconstruction Era 🗳️ Voting Rights ⚖️ Equal Protection 🛑 Racial Inequality

The Warmth of Other Suns

av Isabel Wilkerson • 2010

Three lives: a sharecropper, a picker, a surgeon. Their flight from the South rewired America.

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🚂 Great Migration ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🏙️ Urban History 🗣️ Oral History 🏠 Housing Discrimination

The Warmth of Other Suns

Three lives: a sharecropper, a picker, a surgeon. Their flight from the South rewired America.

av Isabel Wilkerson 2010 622 sidor

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🚂 Great Migration ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🏙️ Urban History 🗣️ Oral History 🏠 Housing Discrimination

The Best and the Brightest

av David Halberstam • 1969

How Washington's most brilliant men led America into Vietnam, and could not stop themselves.

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🥶 Cold War History 🇻🇳 Vietnam War 🎭 Political Hubris 🏛️ American Foreign Policy 🏠 Presidential History

The Best and the Brightest

How Washington's most brilliant men led America into Vietnam, and could not stop themselves.

av David Halberstam 1969 720 sidor

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🥶 Cold War History 🇻🇳 Vietnam War 🎭 Political Hubris 🏛️ American Foreign Policy 🏠 Presidential History

The Tycoons

av Charles R. Morris • 2005

Four rival industrialists, four methods, one generation: how America became the world's factory.

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🏛️ Gilded Age 🚂 Railroads 💰 Robber Barons 🏭 Industrial Revolution 📊 Corporate Consolidation

The Tycoons

Four rival industrialists, four methods, one generation: how America became the world's factory.

av Charles R. Morris 2005 400 sidor

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🏛️ Gilded Age 🚂 Railroads 💰 Robber Barons 🏭 Industrial Revolution 📊 Corporate Consolidation

Modern Times

av Paul Johnson • 1983

Einstein and Freud dismantled the old moral universe. Into the void stepped the totalitarians.

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📅 Modern History 💡 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political History ⚖️ Moral Relativism 🚫 Totalitarianism

Modern Times

Einstein and Freud dismantled the old moral universe. Into the void stepped the totalitarians.

av Paul Johnson 1983 880 sidor

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📅 Modern History 💡 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political History ⚖️ Moral Relativism 🚫 Totalitarianism

The Great Crash 1929

av John Kenneth Galbraith • 1955

Authorities knew a crash was coming; five structural flaws ensured it became the Great Depression.

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📜 Financial History 📉 Stock Market Crashes 🫧 Speculative Bubbles 🧠 Market Psychology 🏛️ Institutional Economics

The Great Crash 1929

Authorities knew a crash was coming; five structural flaws ensured it became the Great Depression.

av John Kenneth Galbraith 1955 206 sidor

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📜 Financial History 📉 Stock Market Crashes 🫧 Speculative Bubbles 🧠 Market Psychology 🏛️ Institutional Economics

Democracy in America

av Alexis de Tocqueville • 1835

Equality built American democracy—and made majority rule the new despotism.

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🏛️ Democratic Theory 🌍 Comparative Politics ⚖️ Social Equality ⚠️ Democratic Pathologies ✝️ Faith And Freedom

Democracy in America

Equality built American democracy—and made majority rule the new despotism.

av Alexis de Tocqueville 1835 983 sidor

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🏛️ Democratic Theory 🌍 Comparative Politics ⚖️ Social Equality ⚠️ Democratic Pathologies ✝️ Faith And Freedom

1776

av David McCullough • 2005

How a year of defeats and desertions almost ended the American Revolution before it began.

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🦅 American Revolution ⚔️ Military History 🏰 18th Century Warfare 📖 Narrative History 📚 Popular History

1776

How a year of defeats and desertions almost ended the American Revolution before it began.

av David McCullough 2005 386 sidor

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🦅 American Revolution ⚔️ Military History 🏰 18th Century Warfare 📖 Narrative History 📚 Popular History

Empire of the Summer Moon

av S.C. Gwynne • 2010

An empire on horseback ruled the plains for two centuries. Then the six-shooter arrived.

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🪶 Plains Indians 🏜️ American Frontier 🐎 Horse Cultures ⚔️ Guerrilla Warfare ✊ Indigenous Resistance

Empire of the Summer Moon

An empire on horseback ruled the plains for two centuries. Then the six-shooter arrived.

av S.C. Gwynne 2010 371 sidor

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🪶 Plains Indians 🏜️ American Frontier 🐎 Horse Cultures ⚔️ Guerrilla Warfare ✊ Indigenous Resistance

The Situation Room

av George Stephanopoulos • 2024

Twelve presidents. One basement room. The crises that revealed who they really were.

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🏛️ Presidential History 🏠 White House History ⚡ Crisis Decision Making 🌍 American Foreign Policy 🔒 National Security

The Situation Room

Twelve presidents. One basement room. The crises that revealed who they really were.

av George Stephanopoulos 2024 466 sidor

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🏛️ Presidential History 🏠 White House History ⚡ Crisis Decision Making 🌍 American Foreign Policy 🔒 National Security

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young

av Harold G. Moore • 1991

The first helicopter assault of the Vietnam War became the template for every battle that followed.

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🇻🇳 Vietnam War 🏛️ Military History ⚔️ Battle Narratives 🥾 Infantry Combat 🔫 Close-Quarters Battle

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young

The first helicopter assault of the Vietnam War became the template for every battle that followed.

av Harold G. Moore 1991 480 sidor

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🇻🇳 Vietnam War 🏛️ Military History ⚔️ Battle Narratives 🥾 Infantry Combat 🔫 Close-Quarters Battle

When the Clock Broke

av John Ganz • 2024

David Duke, Ross Perot, and the early 1990s road from the Cold War to Trump.

4.07

4 000+

🏛️ Political History 🐘 Right-Wing Movements ⚔️ Culture Wars 💸 Economic Anxiety 📻 Media Fragmentation

When the Clock Broke

David Duke, Ross Perot, and the early 1990s road from the Cold War to Trump.

av John Ganz 2024 420 sidor

4.07

4 000+ betyg

🏛️ Political History 🐘 Right-Wing Movements ⚔️ Culture Wars 💸 Economic Anxiety 📻 Media Fragmentation

Suicide of a Superpower

av Patrick J. Buchanan • 2011

America didn't fall; it jumped. The ideas shredding it are its own choices, not enemy blows.

4.05

500+

📉 American Decline 🏛️ Paleoconservatism 🏭 Economic Nationalism 🌍 Imperial Overreach ⛪ Secularization Thesis

Suicide of a Superpower

America didn't fall; it jumped. The ideas shredding it are its own choices, not enemy blows.

av Patrick J. Buchanan 2011 496 sidor

4.05

500+ betyg

📉 American Decline 🏛️ Paleoconservatism 🏭 Economic Nationalism 🌍 Imperial Overreach ⛪ Secularization Thesis

The Power Broker

av Robert A. Caro • 1974

How one unelected man built New York, bulldozed entire communities, and answered to no one.

4.53

29 000+

🏙️ Urban Planning 📋 Political Biography ⚡ Power And Democracy 🏚️ Displacement And Communities 🔄 Urban Renewal

The Power Broker

How one unelected man built New York, bulldozed entire communities, and answered to no one.

av Robert A. Caro 1974 1246 sidor

4.53

29 000+ betyg

🏙️ Urban Planning 📋 Political Biography ⚡ Power And Democracy 🏚️ Displacement And Communities 🔄 Urban Renewal

The Bill of Obligations

av Richard N. Haass • 2023

Rights are half the contract. Democracy's survival depends on ten duties Americans have forgotten.

4.12

1 000+

🇺🇸 American Politics 📜 Civic Duty ⚡ Political Polarization 🤝 Political Compromise 🕳️ Democratic Erosion

The Bill of Obligations

Rights are half the contract. Democracy's survival depends on ten duties Americans have forgotten.

av Richard N. Haass 2023 240 sidor

4.12

1 000+ betyg

🇺🇸 American Politics 📜 Civic Duty ⚡ Political Polarization 🤝 Political Compromise 🕳️ Democratic Erosion

The Robber Barons

av Matthew Josephson • 1934

A handful of men seized America's railroads, oil, and steel; government helped them do it.

3.73

429

💰 Gilded Age 🏭 Captains Of Industry 🎩 Monopoly And Trusts 🚂 Railroad Empires 🏛️ Political Corruption

The Robber Barons

A handful of men seized America's railroads, oil, and steel; government helped them do it.

av Matthew Josephson 1934 496 sidor

3.73

429 betyg

💰 Gilded Age 🏭 Captains Of Industry 🎩 Monopoly And Trusts 🚂 Railroad Empires 🏛️ Political Corruption

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