Thế kỷ 20

Thế kỷ 20 đầy biến động đã sinh ra những tư tưởng cách mạng và các phong trào nghệ thuật cấp tiến, mãi mãi thay đổi cách chúng ta nhìn nhận bản thân và xã hội. Giữa hai cuộc chiến tranh thế giới và những biến động xã hội, các nhà văn đã vật lộn với chủ nghĩa hiện sinh, dòng ý thức và bóng tối ngày càng lan rộng của chủ nghĩa toàn trị qua những tác phẩm đột phá định hình nền văn học hiện đại.

Thế kỷ 20 Tóm tắt sách

I Used to Be Charming

của 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.

của Eve Babitz 2019 360 trang

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1.000+ đánh giá

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

Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters

của 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.

của Jared Knott 2020 457 trang

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2.000+ đánh giá

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

My Fellow Soldiers

của 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.

của Andrew Carroll 2017 400 trang

4.22

379 đánh giá

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

Vital Little Plans

của Jane Jacobs • 2016

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

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186

🏙️ 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.

của Jane Jacobs 2016 544 trang

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186 đánh giá

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

Audition

của 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.

của Barbara Walters 2008 613 trang

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6.000+ đánh giá

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

The Latehomecomer

của 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.

của Kao Kalia Yang 2008 277 trang

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8.000+ đánh giá

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

Giấc ngủ dài

của Raymond Chandler • 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

Giấc ngủ dài

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

của Raymond Chandler 1988 231 trang

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100.000+ đánh giá

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

Most Dangerous

của Steve Sheinkin • 2015

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

4.20

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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.

của Steve Sheinkin 2015 370 trang

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6.000+ đánh giá

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

Moon Palace

của Paul Auster • 1989

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

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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.

của Paul Auster 1989 320 trang

3.98

29.000+ đánh giá

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

Beyond That, the Sea

của 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.

của Laura Spence-Ash 2023 351 trang

4.22

52.000+ đánh giá

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

Der Trafikant

của Robert Seethaler • 2012

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

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22.000+

📖 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.

của Robert Seethaler 2012 256 trang

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22.000+ đánh giá

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

Moonglow

của Michael Chabon • 2016

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

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34.000+

✍️ 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.

của Michael Chabon 2016 430 trang

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34.000+ đánh giá

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

A Great Place To Have A War

của Joshua Kurlantzick • 2017

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

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500+

🔍 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.

của Joshua Kurlantzick 2017 336 trang

3.90

500+ đánh giá

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

Incompleteness

của 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.

của Rebecca Goldstein 2005 300 trang

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1.000+ đánh giá

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

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement

của 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.

của Barbara Ransby 2003 496 trang

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1.000+ đánh giá

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

The Autistic Brain

của 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.

của Temple Grandin 2013 240 trang

4.1

11.000+ đánh giá

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

Days of Rage

của 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.

của Bryan Burrough 2015 608 trang

3.98

2.000+ đánh giá

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

Two Sides of the Moon

của 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.

của David Randolph Scott 2004 448 trang

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500+ đánh giá

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

The House of Mirth

của 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.

của Edith Wharton 1905 351 trang

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100.000+ đánh giá

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

Island Infernos

của John C. McManus • 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.

của John C. McManus 2021 656 trang

4.46

500+ đánh giá

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

The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33

của Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. • 1957

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

4.19

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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.

của Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. 1957 576 trang

4.19

455 đánh giá

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

The Currents of Space

của 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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22.000+

🪐 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.

của Isaac Asimov 1952 304 trang

3.85

22.000+ đánh giá

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

Bobby Kennedy

của 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.

của Larry Tye 2016 608 trang

4.38

2.000+ đánh giá

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

Philosophy of Existence

của Karl Jaspers • 1938

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

3.79

323

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

Philosophy of Existence

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

của Karl Jaspers 1938 128 trang

3.79

323 đánh giá

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

Existentialism

của Robert C. Solomon • 1974

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

4.07

384

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

Existentialism

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

của Robert C. Solomon 1974 363 trang

4.07

384 đánh giá

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

The Third Reich in Power

của Richard J. Evans • 2005

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

4.36

7.000+

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

The Third Reich in Power

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

của Richard J. Evans 2005 941 trang

4.36

7.000+ đánh giá

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

Le Rivage des Syrtes

của 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.

của Julien Gracq 1951 321 trang

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1.000+ đánh giá

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

Luck of the Titanic

của 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.

của Stacey Lee 2021 368 trang

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9.000+ đánh giá

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

Buckley

của 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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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.

của Carl T. Bogus 2011 417 trang

3.75

151 đánh giá

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

The Lives of Others

của Neel Mukherjee • 2014

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

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5.000+

👪 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.

của Neel Mukherjee 2014 530 trang

3.68

5.000+ đánh giá

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

The Quiet American

của 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.

của Graham Greene 1955 180 trang

3.98

72.000+ đánh giá

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

A People’s History of Computing in the United States

của Joy Lisi Rankin • 2018

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

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193

🏛️ 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.

của Joy Lisi Rankin 2018 336 trang

3.49

193 đánh giá

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

Tik-Tok

của John Sladek • 1983

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

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500+

🦾 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.

của John Sladek 1983 192 trang

3.70

500+ đánh giá

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

America Last

của 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.

của Jacob Heilbrunn 2024 264 trang

3.83

246 đánh giá

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

Overthrow

của 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.

của Stephen Kinzer 2006 384 trang

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4.000+ đánh giá

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

Mawson's Will

của 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.

của Lennard Bickel 1977 272 trang

4.26

1.000+ đánh giá

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

The Twelve Apostles

của 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.

của William J. Coughlin 1984 400 trang

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1.000+ đánh giá

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

Dear Mr. Kilmer

của 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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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.

của Anne E. Schraff 1999

3.96

272 đánh giá

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

Hall of Mirrors

của Barry Eichengreen • 2014

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

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296

📉 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.

của Barry Eichengreen 2014 520 trang

4.01

296 đánh giá

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

The Black History of the White House

của 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.

của Clarence Lusane 2011 575 trang

4.15

434 đánh giá

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

The Salon of Exiled Artists in California

của Núria Añó • 2020

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

4.21

🎬 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.

của Núria Añó 2020

4.21

14 đánh giá

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

Brotherless Night

của 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.

của V.V. Ganeshananthan 2023 348 trang

4.45

18.000+ đánh giá

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

Killing the Dream

của 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.

của Gerald Posner 1998 448 trang

4.09

220 đánh giá

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

Glock

của 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.

của Paul M. Barrett 2012 291 trang

3.87

2.000+ đánh giá

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

Friends Like These

của 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.

của Meg Rosoff 2022 320 trang

3.30

2.000+ đánh giá

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

Big Fellow, Long Fellow

của 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.

của T. Ryle Dwyer 1998 371 trang

4.23

129 đánh giá

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

Hero

của 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.

của Michael Korda 2010 699 trang

3.88

4.000+ đánh giá

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

Vineland

của 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.

của Thomas Pynchon 1990 480 trang

3.75

18.000+ đánh giá

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

Crooked Hallelujah

của 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.

của Kelli Jo Ford 2020 304 trang

3.47

3.000+ đánh giá

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

Hauptmann's Ladder

của 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.

của Richard T. Cahill Jr. 2014 416 trang

4.17

125 đánh giá

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

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