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Mỹ Tóm tắt sách

After the Fall

của Ben Rhodes • 2022

America's post-Cold War mistakes taught the world's authoritarians how to dismantle democracy.

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157

🧭 Post-Cold War Order 🌍 Global Authoritarianism 🚧 Democratic Erosion 📡 Information Warfare 🗳️ Nationalist Populism

After the Fall

America's post-Cold War mistakes taught the world's authoritarians how to dismantle democracy.

của Ben Rhodes 2022 384 trang

4.15

157 đánh giá

🧭 Post-Cold War Order 🌍 Global Authoritarianism 🚧 Democratic Erosion 📡 Information Warfare 🗳️ Nationalist Populism

Not Working

của D.W. Gibson • 2012

What a paycheck conceals: Americans on the identity, health, and dignity that left with the job.

3.68

🎙️ Oral History 💸 Economic Precarity 🔨 Work And Identity 📉 Great Recession 🔄 Career Transitions

Not Working

What a paycheck conceals: Americans on the identity, health, and dignity that left with the job.

của D.W. Gibson 2012 479 trang

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60 đánh giá

🎙️ Oral History 💸 Economic Precarity 🔨 Work And Identity 📉 Great Recession 🔄 Career Transitions

The Lost Order

của Steve Berry • 2017

A rare book dealer follows his ancestor's coded clues to a secret society's lost Confederate vault.

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11.000+

🕵️ Conspiracy Thriller 🗺️ Treasure Hunt 🕯️ Secret Society 📜 Family Legacy ⏳ Dual Timeline

The Lost Order

A rare book dealer follows his ancestor's coded clues to a secret society's lost Confederate vault.

của Steve Berry 2017 493 trang

4.09

11.000+ đánh giá

🕵️ Conspiracy Thriller 🗺️ Treasure Hunt 🕯️ Secret Society 📜 Family Legacy ⏳ Dual Timeline

The Devil's Chessboard

của David Talbot • 2015

He built the CIA. Kennedy fired him. Then he led the cover-up of Kennedy's murder.

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🕵️ Intelligence Agencies 🥶 Cold War Politics 🕶️ Covert Operations 💥 Regime Change 🧠 Mind Control Experiments

The Devil's Chessboard

He built the CIA. Kennedy fired him. Then he led the cover-up of Kennedy's murder.

của David Talbot 2015 704 trang

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8.000+ đánh giá

🕵️ Intelligence Agencies 🥶 Cold War Politics 🕶️ Covert Operations 💥 Regime Change 🧠 Mind Control Experiments

Nonconformity

của Nelson Algren • 1996

Real writing means siding with the damned, risking obsession, and refusing to comfort.

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268

✍️ The Writing Life 🎯 Artistic Integrity 🔍 Social Criticism 🏭 Literary Naturalism 🚪 Literary Outsiders

Nonconformity

Real writing means siding with the damned, risking obsession, and refusing to comfort.

của Nelson Algren 1996 144 trang

4.07

268 đánh giá

✍️ The Writing Life 🎯 Artistic Integrity 🔍 Social Criticism 🏭 Literary Naturalism 🚪 Literary Outsiders

Unworthy Republic

của Claudio Saunt • 2020

Eighty thousand deported. A ledger-obsessed bureaucracy. The hidden cost behind the Trail of Tears.

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🎩 Jacksonian America 🏚️ Settler Colonialism ⛓️ Antebellum South 🧳 Forced Migration 🏞️ Land Dispossession

Unworthy Republic

Eighty thousand deported. A ledger-obsessed bureaucracy. The hidden cost behind the Trail of Tears.

của Claudio Saunt 2020 396 trang

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1.000+ đánh giá

🎩 Jacksonian America 🏚️ Settler Colonialism ⛓️ Antebellum South 🧳 Forced Migration 🏞️ Land Dispossession

Football for Dummies

của Howie Long • 1998

How to watch football and actually know what's happening: rules, positions, strategy explained.

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🏈 American Football 📚 Sports Reference 📖 Beginner's Guides 📋 Game Rules 📣 Fan Culture

Football for Dummies

How to watch football and actually know what's happening: rules, positions, strategy explained.

của Howie Long 1998 414 trang

3.69

500+ đánh giá

🏈 American Football 📚 Sports Reference 📖 Beginner's Guides 📋 Game Rules 📣 Fan Culture

The Great Contradiction

của Joseph J. Ellis • 2025

To create a nation, the founders protected slavery. Indian removal was the other price of union.

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🏛️ Founding Era 📜 Constitutional History ⛓️ Slavery And The Founders 🪶 Indian Removal ⚖️ Liberty And Slavery

The Great Contradiction

To create a nation, the founders protected slavery. Indian removal was the other price of union.

của Joseph J. Ellis 2025 240 trang

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1.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Founding Era 📜 Constitutional History ⛓️ Slavery And The Founders 🪶 Indian Removal ⚖️ Liberty And Slavery

The Violent Take It by Force

của Matthew D. Taylor • 2024

Behind January 6th was a charismatic Christian movement most Americans have never heard of.

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🕊️ Charismatic Movement 👑 Dominion Theology ⚔️ Spiritual Warfare 🇺🇸 Christian Nationalism ⚠️ Religious Extremism

The Violent Take It by Force

Behind January 6th was a charismatic Christian movement most Americans have never heard of.

của Matthew D. Taylor 2024 292 trang

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500+ đánh giá

🕊️ Charismatic Movement 👑 Dominion Theology ⚔️ Spiritual Warfare 🇺🇸 Christian Nationalism ⚠️ Religious Extremism

Summer and Smoke

của Tennessee Williams • 1948

From her rectory window, she watches the doctor's son chase everything she cannot give him.

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3.000+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 💔 Unrequited Love 🔥 Repressed Desire ⏳ Missed Connection 🪞 Divided Self

Summer and Smoke

From her rectory window, she watches the doctor's son chase everything she cannot give him.

của Tennessee Williams 1948 72 trang

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3.000+ đánh giá

🏚️ Southern Gothic 💔 Unrequited Love 🔥 Repressed Desire ⏳ Missed Connection 🪞 Divided Self

Cash

của Johnny Cash • 1997

He crawled into a cave to die and came out ready to play Folsom Prison.

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🎸 Music Memoirs 🕶️ Outlaw Country 💊 Addiction Recovery ✝️ Faith Journeys 🕊️ Redemption Stories

Cash

He crawled into a cave to die and came out ready to play Folsom Prison.

của Johnny Cash 1997 310 trang

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25.000+ đánh giá

🎸 Music Memoirs 🕶️ Outlaw Country 💊 Addiction Recovery ✝️ Faith Journeys 🕊️ Redemption Stories

How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps

của Ben Shapiro • 2020

Three principles made America. A rival philosophy now insists all three were the problem all along.

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🇺🇸 American Identity 📜 Classical Liberalism ⚖️ Natural Rights 🏛️ Limited Government 🎯 Cancel Culture

How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps

Three principles made America. A rival philosophy now insists all three were the problem all along.

của Ben Shapiro 2020 288 trang

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5.000+ đánh giá

🇺🇸 American Identity 📜 Classical Liberalism ⚖️ Natural Rights 🏛️ Limited Government 🎯 Cancel Culture

Dancing on Coals

của Ellen O'Connell • 2011

An Apache warrior hates the white heiress he is sworn to protect. Survival demands more.

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🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🏕️ Forced Proximity 🌍 Cross-Cultural Romance ⏳ Slow Burn Romance 🏜️ American West

Dancing on Coals

An Apache warrior hates the white heiress he is sworn to protect. Survival demands more.

của Ellen O'Connell 2011 320 trang

4.15

5.000+ đánh giá

🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🏕️ Forced Proximity 🌍 Cross-Cultural Romance ⏳ Slow Burn Romance 🏜️ American West

Legacy of Ashes

của Tim Weiner • 2007

Born to inform presidents, the CIA chose covert action instead, and its failures are fatal.

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🕵️ Intelligence Agencies 🕶️ Covert Operations 🚨 Institutional Failure 🧠 Intelligence Failures ❄️ Cold War History

Legacy of Ashes

Born to inform presidents, the CIA chose covert action instead, and its failures are fatal.

của Tim Weiner 2007 514 trang

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15.000+ đánh giá

🕵️ Intelligence Agencies 🕶️ Covert Operations 🚨 Institutional Failure 🧠 Intelligence Failures ❄️ Cold War History

The Patriot Threat

của Steve Berry • 2015

Ambushed in Venice, Cotton Malone hunts documents proving the American income tax was never legal.

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🕵️ Conspiracy Thriller 🔐 Codebreaking 🏛️ Government Cover-Up 😮‍💨 Reluctant Operative 💀 Revenge Plot

The Patriot Threat

Ambushed in Venice, Cotton Malone hunts documents proving the American income tax was never legal.

của Steve Berry 2015 386 trang

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11.000+ đánh giá

🕵️ Conspiracy Thriller 🔐 Codebreaking 🏛️ Government Cover-Up 😮‍💨 Reluctant Operative 💀 Revenge Plot

The South Was Right!

của James Ronald Kennedy • 1991

The South legally seceded. The North invaded for economic gain. The rest is propaganda.

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482

🏴 Lost Cause 🏡 Southern Identity 📜 Historical Revisionism 🏛️ State Sovereignty ✂️ Secession

The South Was Right!

The South legally seceded. The North invaded for economic gain. The rest is propaganda.

của James Ronald Kennedy 1991 431 trang

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482 đánh giá

🏴 Lost Cause 🏡 Southern Identity 📜 Historical Revisionism 🏛️ State Sovereignty ✂️ Secession

Men and Rubber

của Harvey S. Firestone • 1926

Think deeply, save a surplus, never cut quality: a tire titan's rules for surviving any crisis.

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253

🏗️ Company Building 🏭 Early Industrialists 💰 Financial Prudence ⚙️ Operational Excellence 🔗 Vertical Integration

Men and Rubber

Think deeply, save a surplus, never cut quality: a tire titan's rules for surviving any crisis.

của Harvey S. Firestone 1926 288 trang

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253 đánh giá

🏗️ Company Building 🏭 Early Industrialists 💰 Financial Prudence ⚙️ Operational Excellence 🔗 Vertical Integration

The Imagineers of War

của Sharon Weinberger • 2017

DARPA gave us the Internet and lost Vietnam. The same faith in technology drove both.

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🛰️ Cold War Science 🔬 Defense Research 🏛️ Institutional History 🌍 Counterinsurgency 🛸 Drone Warfare

The Imagineers of War

DARPA gave us the Internet and lost Vietnam. The same faith in technology drove both.

của Sharon Weinberger 2017 496 trang

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500+ đánh giá

🛰️ Cold War Science 🔬 Defense Research 🏛️ Institutional History 🌍 Counterinsurgency 🛸 Drone Warfare

Fifty Sides of the Beach Boys

của Mark Dillon • 2012

Fifty songs that built and nearly destroyed a California garage band turned icon.

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128

🎵 Song By Song Biography 🎸 1960s Rock 🎛️ Studio Innovation 🌊 California Sound ⚡ Band Dynamics

Fifty Sides of the Beach Boys

Fifty songs that built and nearly destroyed a California garage band turned icon.

của Mark Dillon 2012 336 trang

3.92

128 đánh giá

🎵 Song By Song Biography 🎸 1960s Rock 🎛️ Studio Innovation 🌊 California Sound ⚡ Band Dynamics

The Big Sort

của Bill Bishop • 2008

Landslide counties doubled because Americans moved to live near people who think just like them.

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🏛️ Political Polarization 🏘️ Lifestyle Segregation 📣 Echo Chambers 👥 Group Polarization 🧩 Social Fragmentation

The Big Sort

Landslide counties doubled because Americans moved to live near people who think just like them.

của Bill Bishop 2008 370 trang

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2.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Political Polarization 🏘️ Lifestyle Segregation 📣 Echo Chambers 👥 Group Polarization 🧩 Social Fragmentation

Madam Ambassador

của Eleni Kounalakis • 2015

Orbán's supermajority could rewrite Hungary. She was the American ambassador inside the room.

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110

🏛️ Diplomatic Memoir 👩‍💼 Women In Diplomacy 📉 Democratic Backsliding 🏚️ Post-Communist Europe 📜 Historical Reckoning

Madam Ambassador

Orbán's supermajority could rewrite Hungary. She was the American ambassador inside the room.

của Eleni Kounalakis 2015 320 trang

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110 đánh giá

🏛️ Diplomatic Memoir 👩‍💼 Women In Diplomacy 📉 Democratic Backsliding 🏚️ Post-Communist Europe 📜 Historical Reckoning

The Bonfire of the Vanities

của Tom Wolfe • 1987

A bond trader's wrong turn into the Bronx hands a city its next public enemy.

3.93

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🎭 Social Satire 📜 Literary Tragedy 📉 Fall From Grace 📺 Media Circus ⚖️ Legal Nightmare

The Bonfire of the Vanities

A bond trader's wrong turn into the Bronx hands a city its next public enemy.

của Tom Wolfe 1987 690 trang

3.93

87.000+ đánh giá

🎭 Social Satire 📜 Literary Tragedy 📉 Fall From Grace 📺 Media Circus ⚖️ Legal Nightmare

North Woods

của Daniel Mason • 2023

A Massachusetts house holds three centuries of longing: the dead stay, the forest reclaims all.

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100.000+

📖 Polyphonic Novel 🏠 Place As Protagonist 👻 Haunted House 👯 Twin Sisters 🌳 Family Legacy

North Woods

A Massachusetts house holds three centuries of longing: the dead stay, the forest reclaims all.

của Daniel Mason 2023 372 trang

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100.000+ đánh giá

📖 Polyphonic Novel 🏠 Place As Protagonist 👻 Haunted House 👯 Twin Sisters 🌳 Family Legacy

The Wages of Whiteness

của David R. Roediger • 1991

The white working class took racial status as partial payment. The bargain was a trap.

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🔨 Labor History 👤 Whiteness Studies 🧬 Racial Identity 💰 Racial Capitalism 🏛️ Antebellum America

The Wages of Whiteness

The white working class took racial status as partial payment. The bargain was a trap.

của David R. Roediger 1991 197 trang

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2.000+ đánh giá

🔨 Labor History 👤 Whiteness Studies 🧬 Racial Identity 💰 Racial Capitalism 🏛️ Antebellum America

A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1

của Allan H. Meltzer • 2003

The Federal Reserve's founding doctrines caused the Great Depression and the 1937 recession.

4.04

🏦 Federal Reserve History 💰 Monetary Policy 📉 Great Depression 🥇 Gold Standard 📚 Institutional History

A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1

The Federal Reserve's founding doctrines caused the Great Depression and the 1937 recession.

của Allan H. Meltzer 2003 808 trang

4.04

53 đánh giá

🏦 Federal Reserve History 💰 Monetary Policy 📉 Great Depression 🥇 Gold Standard 📚 Institutional History

The Last Stand

của Nathaniel Philbrick • 2010

Custer chased glory; Sitting Bull saw it coming. The collision and the myth it made.

4.05

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🪖 Military History 🏞️ American Frontier 🏹 Native American History 🛡️ Indian Wars 🎖️ Military Leadership

The Last Stand

Custer chased glory; Sitting Bull saw it coming. The collision and the myth it made.

của Nathaniel Philbrick 2010 466 trang

4.05

12.000+ đánh giá

🪖 Military History 🏞️ American Frontier 🏹 Native American History 🛡️ Indian Wars 🎖️ Military Leadership

The Strange Career of Jim Crow

của C. Vann Woodward • 1955

Jim Crow: a system built in the 1890s, started in the North, and never inevitable.

4.14

3.000+

🏗️ Reconstruction Era 🚂 Jim Crow Era 🏚️ Southern History ⚖️ Race And Law 📜 Revisionist History

The Strange Career of Jim Crow

Jim Crow: a system built in the 1890s, started in the North, and never inevitable.

của C. Vann Woodward 1955 245 trang

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3.000+ đánh giá

🏗️ Reconstruction Era 🚂 Jim Crow Era 🏚️ Southern History ⚖️ Race And Law 📜 Revisionist History

Booth

của Karen Joy Fowler • 2022

Six Booth siblings grow up among Shakespeare, scandal, and ghosts. One will assassinate a president.

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15.000+

🎭 Family Saga 🎪 Theater Family 🏛️ Antebellum America 👻 Haunted By The Past ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry

Booth

Six Booth siblings grow up among Shakespeare, scandal, and ghosts. One will assassinate a president.

của Karen Joy Fowler 2022 470 trang

3.82

15.000+ đánh giá

🎭 Family Saga 🎪 Theater Family 🏛️ Antebellum America 👻 Haunted By The Past ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry

The Big Myth

của Naomi Oreskes • 2023

Free market worship was never ancient wisdom. It was a business propaganda campaign.

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📉 Economic Myths 🏢 Corporate Lobbying 📢 Propaganda History 🌪️ Deregulation Disasters ⛓️‍💥 Free Market Critique

The Big Myth

Free market worship was never ancient wisdom. It was a business propaganda campaign.

của Naomi Oreskes 2023 576 trang

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500+ đánh giá

📉 Economic Myths 🏢 Corporate Lobbying 📢 Propaganda History 🌪️ Deregulation Disasters ⛓️‍💥 Free Market Critique

Nature's Metropolis

của William Cronon • 1991

The grain and hogs flowing through Chicago didn't just feed the nation, they rewired the continent.

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🌿 Environmental History 🗺️ Economic Geography 🏙️ Urban Systems 📦 Commodity History 🏭 Industrial Food

Nature's Metropolis

The grain and hogs flowing through Chicago didn't just feed the nation, they rewired the continent.

của William Cronon 1991 592 trang

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3.000+ đánh giá

🌿 Environmental History 🗺️ Economic Geography 🏙️ Urban Systems 📦 Commodity History 🏭 Industrial Food

Founding Faith

của Steven Waldman • 2008

The founders wanted religious freedom not despite their faith, but because of it.

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🕊️ Religious Freedom ⛪ Church And State 🎩 Founding Fathers ⚖️ Constitutional Law 1️⃣ First Amendment

Founding Faith

The founders wanted religious freedom not despite their faith, but because of it.

của Steven Waldman 2008 304 trang

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500+ đánh giá

🕊️ Religious Freedom ⛪ Church And State 🎩 Founding Fathers ⚖️ Constitutional Law 1️⃣ First Amendment

Arts & Entertainments

của Christopher R. Beha • 2014

His sex tape with a celebrity ex leaks; a reality show devours his family and future.

3.20

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📰 Media Satire 📺 Reality Television 🤰 Fertility Struggles 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Staged Romance

Arts & Entertainments

His sex tape with a celebrity ex leaks; a reality show devours his family and future.

của Christopher R. Beha 2014 269 trang

3.20

500+ đánh giá

📰 Media Satire 📺 Reality Television 🤰 Fertility Struggles 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Staged Romance

The Indispensable Right

của Jonathan Turley • 2024

Free speech was America's founding promise and its first betrayal. The pattern is repeating now.

4.36

414

📜 Free Speech History ⚖️ Constitutional Law 🚫 Cancel Culture 🎓 Academic Freedom 🏛️ Government Censorship

The Indispensable Right

Free speech was America's founding promise and its first betrayal. The pattern is repeating now.

của Jonathan Turley 2024 432 trang

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414 đánh giá

📜 Free Speech History ⚖️ Constitutional Law 🚫 Cancel Culture 🎓 Academic Freedom 🏛️ Government Censorship

The Second Mrs. Astor

của Shana Abe • 2021

A teenager marries America's richest man, and a scandalized society drives them onto the Titanic.

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🏛️ Gilded Age 💐 Age Gap Romance 🖤 Doomed Love 🌊 Survivor's Guilt 🕰️ Edwardian

The Second Mrs. Astor

A teenager marries America's richest man, and a scandalized society drives them onto the Titanic.

của Shana Abe 2021 323 trang

3.96

74.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Gilded Age 💐 Age Gap Romance 🖤 Doomed Love 🌊 Survivor's Guilt 🕰️ Edwardian

của Thomas Pynchon • 1963

One man chases a woman who keeps appearing across history, each time less human than before.

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🔍 Conspiracy Quest 🎭 Identity As Performance 🧿 Object Fetishism 🌍 Colonial Africa 🗽 Bohemian New York

One man chases a woman who keeps appearing across history, each time less human than before.

của Thomas Pynchon 1963 640 trang

3.97

25.000+ đánh giá

🔍 Conspiracy Quest 🎭 Identity As Performance 🧿 Object Fetishism 🌍 Colonial Africa 🗽 Bohemian New York

Abraham Lincoln, Philosopher Statesman

của Joseph R. Fornieri • 2013

Lincoln's secret: he wrestled with eternal principles before he ever grasped for power.

4.67

🏛️ Statesmanship ⚔️ Civil War Era 🦉 Practical Wisdom ⚖️ Moral Leadership 🗣️ Rhetoric And Persuasion

Abraham Lincoln, Philosopher Statesman

Lincoln's secret: he wrestled with eternal principles before he ever grasped for power.

của Joseph R. Fornieri 2013 249 trang

4.67

6 đánh giá

🏛️ Statesmanship ⚔️ Civil War Era 🦉 Practical Wisdom ⚖️ Moral Leadership 🗣️ Rhetoric And Persuasion

American Crucible

của Gary Gerstle • 2001

Equal rights versus white identity: how America's two nationalisms have warred for a century.

3.82

246

🏛️ American Nationalism 📅 20th Century America ⚖️ Civic Nationalism 🧬 Racial Nationalism 🚪 Immigration Restriction

American Crucible

Equal rights versus white identity: how America's two nationalisms have warred for a century.

của Gary Gerstle 2001 472 trang

3.82

246 đánh giá

🏛️ American Nationalism 📅 20th Century America ⚖️ Civic Nationalism 🧬 Racial Nationalism 🚪 Immigration Restriction

The Business of America is Lobbying

của Lee Drutman • 2015

Once corporations hire lobbyists, they rarely leave. The feedback loop that keeps them spending.

3.79

🏢 Corporate Lobbying 📊 Political Economy 💼 Corporate Influence 🔒 Regulatory Capture ⚠️ Democratic Erosion

The Business of America is Lobbying

Once corporations hire lobbyists, they rarely leave. The feedback loop that keeps them spending.

của Lee Drutman 2015 269 trang

3.79

67 đánh giá

🏢 Corporate Lobbying 📊 Political Economy 💼 Corporate Influence 🔒 Regulatory Capture ⚠️ Democratic Erosion

American Slavery, American Freedom

của Edmund S. Morgan • 1975

American liberty and American slavery grew from the same soil, and each strengthened the other.

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🏛️ Colonial America 🌿 Virginia History ⛓️ Origins Of Slavery 🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏼 Race And Class 🔨 Labor History

American Slavery, American Freedom

American liberty and American slavery grew from the same soil, and each strengthened the other.

của Edmund S. Morgan 1975 464 trang

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3.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Colonial America 🌿 Virginia History ⛓️ Origins Of Slavery 🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏼 Race And Class 🔨 Labor History

Hocus Pocus

của Kurt Vonnegut Jr. • 1990

Writing on scraps in a library turned prison, he counts his kills and his lovers.

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🎭 Political Satire 📝 Fictional Memoir 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🖤 Dark Comedy 🔒 Prison Narrative

Hocus Pocus

Writing on scraps in a library turned prison, he counts his kills and his lovers.

của Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1990 322 trang

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36.000+ đánh giá

🎭 Political Satire 📝 Fictional Memoir 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🖤 Dark Comedy 🔒 Prison Narrative

The Natural

của Bernard Malamud • 1952

A baseball prodigy returns at 34, but a cold woman and a bookie's fix threaten his last shot.

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🖤 Literary Baseball 🦅 American Myth 💋 Femme Fatale 🎭 Tragic Hero 💪 Sports Comeback

The Natural

A baseball prodigy returns at 34, but a cold woman and a bookie's fix threaten his last shot.

của Bernard Malamud 1952 231 trang

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12.000+ đánh giá

🖤 Literary Baseball 🦅 American Myth 💋 Femme Fatale 🎭 Tragic Hero 💪 Sports Comeback

You Can’t Be Serious

của Kal Penn • 2021

His first day in Hollywood, his back was on fire. His next job, he served President Obama.

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🌍 Immigrant Experience 🧧 Asian American Identity 🗣️ Code-Switching 🔄 Career Pivots

You Can’t Be Serious

His first day in Hollywood, his back was on fire. His next job, he served President Obama.

của Kal Penn 2021 368 trang

4.20

10.000+ đánh giá

🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🌍 Immigrant Experience 🧧 Asian American Identity 🗣️ Code-Switching 🔄 Career Pivots

White Backlash

của Marisa Abrajano • 2015

The data is clear: anti-Latino sentiment, not economic anxiety, has redrawn America's political map.

3.65

✈️ Immigration Politics 🌎 Latino Politics 🗳️ Voting Behavior 📺 Media Effects 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Racial Attitudes

White Backlash

The data is clear: anti-Latino sentiment, not economic anxiety, has redrawn America's political map.

của Marisa Abrajano 2015 256 trang

3.65

49 đánh giá

✈️ Immigration Politics 🌎 Latino Politics 🗳️ Voting Behavior 📺 Media Effects 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Racial Attitudes

The Pleasing Hour

của Lily King • 1999

An American au pair arrives in Paris carrying one secret: the baby she gave her sister.

3.54

5.000+

🇫🇷 American In Paris 🤱 Maternal Sacrifice 💋 Forbidden Affair 🗣️ Language Barrier 💔 Mother-Daughter Wounds

The Pleasing Hour

An American au pair arrives in Paris carrying one secret: the baby she gave her sister.

của Lily King 1999 256 trang

3.54

5.000+ đánh giá

🇫🇷 American In Paris 🤱 Maternal Sacrifice 💋 Forbidden Affair 🗣️ Language Barrier 💔 Mother-Daughter Wounds

Jesus and John Wayne

của Kristin Kobes Du Mez • 2020

A history of how white evangelicals swapped a gentle gospel for a militant, iron-fisted patriarch.

4.25

42.000+

🇺🇸 Christian Nationalism 🐘 Religious Right ⛪ White Evangelicalism 💪 Militant Masculinity 🏛️ Patriarchal Culture

Jesus and John Wayne

A history of how white evangelicals swapped a gentle gospel for a militant, iron-fisted patriarch.

của Kristin Kobes Du Mez 2020 356 trang

4.25

42.000+ đánh giá

🇺🇸 Christian Nationalism 🐘 Religious Right ⛪ White Evangelicalism 💪 Militant Masculinity 🏛️ Patriarchal Culture

The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One

của William K. Black • 1995

Bank CEOs were the biggest bank robbers, using deregulation to loot their own institutions.

4.06

185

🏦 Financial Fraud 🏛️ Regulatory Capture 📊 Accounting Fraud ⚠️ Systemic Risk 🎲 Moral Hazard

The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One

Bank CEOs were the biggest bank robbers, using deregulation to loot their own institutions.

của William K. Black 1995 352 trang

4.06

185 đánh giá

🏦 Financial Fraud 🏛️ Regulatory Capture 📊 Accounting Fraud ⚠️ Systemic Risk 🎲 Moral Hazard

Grandma Gatewood's Walk

của Ben Montgomery • 2014

A denim sack, Keds, a shower curtain: a 67-year-old grandma walked the Appalachian Trail alone.

4.11

31.000+

🥾 Thru Hiking 🏔️ Appalachian Trail 👩‍🦳 Women In History 💜 Domestic Abuse Survivors 🌳 Healing In Nature

Grandma Gatewood's Walk

A denim sack, Keds, a shower curtain: a 67-year-old grandma walked the Appalachian Trail alone.

của Ben Montgomery 2014 277 trang

4.11

31.000+ đánh giá

🥾 Thru Hiking 🏔️ Appalachian Trail 👩‍🦳 Women In History 💜 Domestic Abuse Survivors 🌳 Healing In Nature

Blowback

của Chalmers Johnson • 2000

Covert empire: why policies hidden from the American public keep producing violent retaliation.

4.06

2.000+

🏛️ Foreign Policy 🇺🇸 American Empire 🕵️ Covert Operations 📉 Imperial Overreach 💰 Economic Hegemony

Blowback

Covert empire: why policies hidden from the American public keep producing violent retaliation.

của Chalmers Johnson 2000 268 trang

4.06

2.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Foreign Policy 🇺🇸 American Empire 🕵️ Covert Operations 📉 Imperial Overreach 💰 Economic Hegemony

The Library Book

của Susan Orlean • 2018

A seven-hour fire, 400,000 lost books, and one aspiring actor whose story kept changing.

3.88

100.000+

📚 Library History 🏛️ Public Libraries ✍️ Narrative Journalism 🔍 Arson Investigation 🔥 Book Burning

The Library Book

A seven-hour fire, 400,000 lost books, and one aspiring actor whose story kept changing.

của Susan Orlean 2018 317 trang

3.88

100.000+ đánh giá

📚 Library History 🏛️ Public Libraries ✍️ Narrative Journalism 🔍 Arson Investigation 🔥 Book Burning

The Lioness of Boston

của Emily Franklin • 2023

A New York heiress marries into Boston society and discovers every door is bolted shut.

3.64

10.000+

🏛️ Gilded Age Boston 🚪 Outsider In Society 🏗️ Woman Builds Legacy 🎨 Grief Into Art 👥 Chosen Family

The Lioness of Boston

A New York heiress marries into Boston society and discovers every door is bolted shut.

của Emily Franklin 2023 356 trang

3.64

10.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Gilded Age Boston 🚪 Outsider In Society 🏗️ Woman Builds Legacy 🎨 Grief Into Art 👥 Chosen Family

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