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Trải nghiệm Mỹ được phơi bày qua những tiếng nói chất vấn, tôn vinh và vật lộn với các lý tưởng, thể chế và bản sắc không ngừng biến đổi của quốc gia. Những tác phẩm này nắm bắt cả dòng chảy lớn của lịch sử Hoa Kỳ lẫn những câu chuyện riêng tư của con người nơi đây, từ các tuyên ngôn chính trị và bình luận văn hóa đến các tiểu luận cá nhân và truyện kể vùng miền.

Mỹ Tóm tắt sách

Sometimes a Great Notion

của Ken Kesey • 1964

A logging clan's defiant creed pits them against their town, their blood, and the river itself.

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🪵 Family Saga 🌲 Pacific Northwest 🪓 Brother Against Brother 🖤 Doomed Masculinity 🌊 Indifferent Nature

Sometimes a Great Notion

A logging clan's defiant creed pits them against their town, their blood, and the river itself.

của Ken Kesey 1964 628 trang

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24.000+ đánh giá

🪵 Family Saga 🌲 Pacific Northwest 🪓 Brother Against Brother 🖤 Doomed Masculinity 🌊 Indifferent Nature

Franny và Zooey

của J.D. Salinger • 1957

Sick of pretense, she collapses at lunch. Her brother must talk her back to the world.

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200.000+

🌀 Existential Crisis 👥 Sibling Bond 📚 Precocious Family 🙏 Spiritual Seeking 🥂 Witty Melancholy

Franny và Zooey

Sick of pretense, she collapses at lunch. Her brother must talk her back to the world.

của J.D. Salinger 1957

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200.000+ đánh giá

🌀 Existential Crisis 👥 Sibling Bond 📚 Precocious Family 🙏 Spiritual Seeking 🥂 Witty Melancholy

A Childhood

của Harry Crews • 1978

By age six he had lived a lifetime. The writing was just aftermath.

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3.000+

🏚️ Rural Poverty 🌾 Southern Memoir 🩸 Childhood Trauma 🗣️ Oral Tradition 🦴 Southern Gothic

A Childhood

By age six he had lived a lifetime. The writing was just aftermath.

của Harry Crews 1978 192 trang

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3.000+ đánh giá

🏚️ Rural Poverty 🌾 Southern Memoir 🩸 Childhood Trauma 🗣️ Oral Tradition 🦴 Southern Gothic

Once an Eagle

của Anton Myrer • 1968

A Nebraska farm boy rises to Army command, but his deadliest enemy wears the same uniform.

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🎖️ Military Epic ⚔️ Rival Officers ⚖️ Military Ethics 🕯️ Generational Sacrifice 💔 Military Marriage

Once an Eagle

A Nebraska farm boy rises to Army command, but his deadliest enemy wears the same uniform.

của Anton Myrer 1968 1312 trang

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8.000+ đánh giá

🎖️ Military Epic ⚔️ Rival Officers ⚖️ Military Ethics 🕯️ Generational Sacrifice 💔 Military Marriage

The World Played Chess

của Robert Dugoni • 2021

A Vietnam vet's journal links a father and son to a war that never ended.

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40.000+

🎖️ Vietnam War 🏖️ 1970s California 👨‍👦 Fathers And Sons 😔 Survivor's Guilt 🤝 Male Friendship

The World Played Chess

A Vietnam vet's journal links a father and son to a war that never ended.

của Robert Dugoni 2021 400 trang

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40.000+ đánh giá

🎖️ Vietnam War 🏖️ 1970s California 👨‍👦 Fathers And Sons 😔 Survivor's Guilt 🤝 Male Friendship

Những cuộc phiêu lưu của Huckleberry Finn

của Mark Twain • 1885

Faking his death, a boy and a runaway slave drift the Mississippi hunting freedom.

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🎒 Picaresque Novel 🚣 River Journey 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 🎭 Con Artists 🖤 Dark Satire

Những cuộc phiêu lưu của Huckleberry Finn

Faking his death, a boy and a runaway slave drift the Mississippi hunting freedom.

của Mark Twain 1885 327 trang

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1.000.000+ đánh giá

🎒 Picaresque Novel 🚣 River Journey 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 🎭 Con Artists 🖤 Dark Satire

Revolutionary Road

của Richard Yates • 1961

Frank and April Wheeler are sure they're exceptional. Their suburban marriage says otherwise.

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94.000+

📚 Midcentury American Fiction 🏡 Suburban Disillusionment 💔 Marriage As Prison 🎭 Performative Domesticity 🔒 Claustrophobic Atmosphere

Revolutionary Road

Frank and April Wheeler are sure they're exceptional. Their suburban marriage says otherwise.

của Richard Yates 1961 355 trang

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94.000+ đánh giá

📚 Midcentury American Fiction 🏡 Suburban Disillusionment 💔 Marriage As Prison 🎭 Performative Domesticity 🔒 Claustrophobic Atmosphere

From Here to Eternity

của James Jones • 1951

At Schofield Barracks, a bugler quits boxing, and the peacetime Army sets out to crush him.

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🪖 Peacetime Army 💔 Adulterous Affair 🥊 Defiant Outsider 🏭 Gritty Naturalism 🌺 Pre-War Hawaii

From Here to Eternity

At Schofield Barracks, a bugler quits boxing, and the peacetime Army sets out to crush him.

của James Jones 1951 816 trang

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18.000+ đánh giá

🪖 Peacetime Army 💔 Adulterous Affair 🥊 Defiant Outsider 🏭 Gritty Naturalism 🌺 Pre-War Hawaii

Born to Run

của Bruce Springsteen • 2016

Stadiums roared his anthems. Inside, he waged a lifelong war with depression and his father's ghost.

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55.000+

🎸 Songwriter Memoir 🏭 Blue Collar Roots 🌑 Depression And Art 🎭 Fame And Isolation 🥁 Band Dynamics

Born to Run

Stadiums roared his anthems. Inside, he waged a lifelong war with depression and his father's ghost.

của Bruce Springsteen 2016 528 trang

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55.000+ đánh giá

🎸 Songwriter Memoir 🏭 Blue Collar Roots 🌑 Depression And Art 🎭 Fame And Isolation 🥁 Band Dynamics

Culture Jam

của Kalle Lasn • 1999

The inside of your head is a billboard. Here is the spray paint.

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🛒 Consumer Culture 🏢 Corporate Power 📺 Media Criticism 📢 Advertising Critique 🎭 Situationist Theory

Culture Jam

The inside of your head is a billboard. Here is the spray paint.

của Kalle Lasn 1999 272 trang

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1.000+ đánh giá

🛒 Consumer Culture 🏢 Corporate Power 📺 Media Criticism 📢 Advertising Critique 🎭 Situationist Theory

بهترین داستان های کوتاه

của Ernest Hemingway • 1987

A lifetime of war, love, and loss distilled into the spare short stories of Ernest Hemingway.

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38.000+

🥀 Lost Generation 🎖️ War's Aftermath 💪 Stoic Masculinity 🗽 American Expatriates 🤫 Unspoken Emotions

بهترین داستان های کوتاه

A lifetime of war, love, and loss distilled into the spare short stories of Ernest Hemingway.

của Ernest Hemingway 1987 439 trang

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38.000+ đánh giá

🥀 Lost Generation 🎖️ War's Aftermath 💪 Stoic Masculinity 🗽 American Expatriates 🤫 Unspoken Emotions

Giants of Enterprise

của Richard S. Tedlow • 2001

Seven titans built American business. The power they won then turned on them.

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1.000+

📜 Business History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 🏭 Industrial Innovation 🛍️ Consumer Culture 🏷️ Brand Building

Giants of Enterprise

Seven titans built American business. The power they won then turned on them.

của Richard S. Tedlow 2001 512 trang

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1.000+ đánh giá

📜 Business History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 🏭 Industrial Innovation 🛍️ Consumer Culture 🏷️ Brand Building

Power Failure

của William D. Cohan • 2022

The celebrated CEO playbook that made GE an icon also programmed its collapse.

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🏢 Corporate History 💰 Financial Engineering 📖 Business Biography 📊 Earnings Management 📉 Organizational Decline

Power Failure

The celebrated CEO playbook that made GE an icon also programmed its collapse.

của William D. Cohan 2022 816 trang

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1.000+ đánh giá

🏢 Corporate History 💰 Financial Engineering 📖 Business Biography 📊 Earnings Management 📉 Organizational Decline

The Father of Spin

của Larry Tye • 1998

A parade of smoking debutantes, a heartier breakfast, and the man who engineered modern spin.

3.93

398

📚 Public Relations History 🧠 Propaganda Studies 🗣️ Mass Persuasion 🛍️ Consumer Culture 🗳️ Political Spin

The Father of Spin

A parade of smoking debutantes, a heartier breakfast, and the man who engineered modern spin.

của Larry Tye 1998 304 trang

3.93

398 đánh giá

📚 Public Relations History 🧠 Propaganda Studies 🗣️ Mass Persuasion 🛍️ Consumer Culture 🗳️ Political Spin

Những chú ngựa đẹp

của Cormac McCarthy • 1992

Riding into Mexico for open land, a teen cowboy finds love, prison, and the end of the West.

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🏜️ Literary Western 🤠 Cowboy Coming Of Age 💔 Forbidden Class Romance 🤝 Tested Loyalty 🐎 Vanishing Frontier

Những chú ngựa đẹp

Riding into Mexico for open land, a teen cowboy finds love, prison, and the end of the West.

của Cormac McCarthy 1992 302 trang

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100.000+ đánh giá

🏜️ Literary Western 🤠 Cowboy Coming Of Age 💔 Forbidden Class Romance 🤝 Tested Loyalty 🐎 Vanishing Frontier

Caste

của Isabel Wilkerson • 2020

America's deepest divide isn't race but caste, a hidden hierarchy four hundred years old.

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🏛️ Racial Hierarchy ⛓️ Systemic Racism 🚧 American Apartheid 😶 Dehumanization 🔺 Social Hierarchy

Caste

America's deepest divide isn't race but caste, a hidden hierarchy four hundred years old.

của Isabel Wilkerson 2020 456 trang

4.52

100.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Racial Hierarchy ⛓️ Systemic Racism 🚧 American Apartheid 😶 Dehumanization 🔺 Social Hierarchy

Andrew Carnegie

của David Nasaw • 2006

How a penniless immigrant built the world's biggest steel empire, and then tried to die broke.

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🏛️ Gilded Age 🧑‍💼 Captains Of Industry 🎁 Strategic Philanthropy 📜 Business History 💪 Self-Made Men

Andrew Carnegie

How a penniless immigrant built the world's biggest steel empire, and then tried to die broke.

của David Nasaw 2006 896 trang

3.86

5.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Gilded Age 🧑‍💼 Captains Of Industry 🎁 Strategic Philanthropy 📜 Business History 💪 Self-Made Men

The Big Con

của David W. Maurer • 1940

The con man's only real partner is the mark's greed. A 1940 study of American swindlers.

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1.000+

🎭 Con Artistry 🔍 Criminal Subcultures 🗣️ Criminal Language 🧠 Social Engineering 🎪 Psychology Of Deception

The Big Con

The con man's only real partner is the mark's greed. A 1940 study of American swindlers.

của David W. Maurer 1940 315 trang

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1.000+ đánh giá

🎭 Con Artistry 🔍 Criminal Subcultures 🗣️ Criminal Language 🧠 Social Engineering 🎪 Psychology Of Deception

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

của John Fante • 1938

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

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14.000+

🧳 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.

của John Fante 1938 266 trang

4.10

14.000+ đánh giá

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

Why Read Moby-Dick?

của Nathaniel Philbrick • 2010

The whale is America: a historian on why Moby-Dick is the novel our present moment demands.

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🇺🇸 American Literature 🎭 Tragic Obsession 🔍 Literary Analysis 🦅 American Identity 🌊 Existential Literature

Why Read Moby-Dick?

The whale is America: a historian on why Moby-Dick is the novel our present moment demands.

của Nathaniel Philbrick 2010 131 trang

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4.000+ đánh giá

🇺🇸 American Literature 🎭 Tragic Obsession 🔍 Literary Analysis 🦅 American Identity 🌊 Existential Literature

All the Forgivenesses

của Elizabeth Hardinger • 2019

After her brother's drowning, a Kentucky farm girl grows up raising everyone but herself.

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🌾 Rural Historical 🇺🇸 Early 1900s America 👩‍👧‍👦 Eldest Daughter Burden 😔 Childhood Guilt 🏚️ Hardscrabble Life

All the Forgivenesses

After her brother's drowning, a Kentucky farm girl grows up raising everyone but herself.

của Elizabeth Hardinger 2019 371 trang

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20.000+ đánh giá

🌾 Rural Historical 🇺🇸 Early 1900s America 👩‍👧‍👦 Eldest Daughter Burden 😔 Childhood Guilt 🏚️ Hardscrabble Life

The Boys from Biloxi

của John Grisham • 2022

Two boyhood friends in Biloxi: one a prosecutor, the other a mob heir. Only one side can win.

4.05

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🏛️ Legal Thriller 🕴️ Organized Crime 👦 Friends Turned Rivals 🏚️ Small Town Corruption 🌊 Gulf Coast

The Boys from Biloxi

Two boyhood friends in Biloxi: one a prosecutor, the other a mob heir. Only one side can win.

của John Grisham 2022 464 trang

4.05

95.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Legal Thriller 🕴️ Organized Crime 👦 Friends Turned Rivals 🏚️ Small Town Corruption 🌊 Gulf Coast

If Beale Street Could Talk

của James Baldwin • 1974

Pregnant, a young Black woman in 1970s Harlem battles to free her falsely accused fiancé.

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🖤 Black Love Story 🗣️ False Accusation ⛓️ Wrongful Arrest 👮 Police Brutality 💔 Love And Incarceration

If Beale Street Could Talk

Pregnant, a young Black woman in 1970s Harlem battles to free her falsely accused fiancé.

của James Baldwin 1974 197 trang

4.27

84.000+ đánh giá

🖤 Black Love Story 🗣️ False Accusation ⛓️ Wrongful Arrest 👮 Police Brutality 💔 Love And Incarceration

The Lost Continent

của Bill Bryson • 1989

He drove across America looking for the perfect small town. He mostly found parking lots.

3.81

65.000+

🚗 American Road Trips 🏘️ Small-Town Life 🇺🇸 American Nostalgia 🛒 Consumer Culture 😂 Travel Humor

The Lost Continent

He drove across America looking for the perfect small town. He mostly found parking lots.

của Bill Bryson 1989 299 trang

3.81

65.000+ đánh giá

🚗 American Road Trips 🏘️ Small-Town Life 🇺🇸 American Nostalgia 🛒 Consumer Culture 😂 Travel Humor

Big Chief

của Jon Hickey • 2025

Half Anishinaabe, half white, a rez lawyer rigs elections, waiting for a home that never comes.

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2.000+

🏛️ Tribal Politics 🏠 Rez Life 🌓 Mixed Heritage 💰 Political Corruption 🔥 Grief And Ritual

Big Chief

Half Anishinaabe, half white, a rez lawyer rigs elections, waiting for a home that never comes.

của Jon Hickey 2025 320 trang

3.58

2.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Tribal Politics 🏠 Rez Life 🌓 Mixed Heritage 💰 Political Corruption 🔥 Grief And Ritual

The Clash of the Cultures

của John C. Bogle • 2012

Your fund manager trades constantly. The index fund pioneer showed why that helps them, not you.

3.87

500+

📊 Index Investing 💼 Mutual Funds 🧠 Investment Philosophy 🎰 Market Speculation 🏛️ Corporate Governance

The Clash of the Cultures

Your fund manager trades constantly. The index fund pioneer showed why that helps them, not you.

của John C. Bogle 2012 384 trang

3.87

500+ đánh giá

📊 Index Investing 💼 Mutual Funds 🧠 Investment Philosophy 🎰 Market Speculation 🏛️ Corporate Governance

The Little Book of Hedge Funds

của Anthony Scaramucci • 2011

How hedge funds chase absolute returns, why most fail, and what the fees actually cost you.

3.67

263

📖 Hedge Fund Primer 🔄 Alternative Investments 🎯 Absolute Returns ⚡ Alpha Generation 🕳️ Market Inefficiency

The Little Book of Hedge Funds

How hedge funds chase absolute returns, why most fail, and what the fees actually cost you.

của Anthony Scaramucci 2011 272 trang

3.67

263 đánh giá

📖 Hedge Fund Primer 🔄 Alternative Investments 🎯 Absolute Returns ⚡ Alpha Generation 🕳️ Market Inefficiency

Sackett's Land

của Louis L'Amour • 1974

A farmer finds Roman gold, humiliates a nobleman, and flees England for an untamed new world.

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14.000+

🗡️ Elizabethan Adventure 🌲 Colonial Frontier 💰 Found Treasure 🤝 Band Of Misfits ⚔️ Noble Vs Commoner

Sackett's Land

A farmer finds Roman gold, humiliates a nobleman, and flees England for an untamed new world.

của Louis L'Amour 1974 185 trang

4.16

14.000+ đánh giá

🗡️ Elizabethan Adventure 🌲 Colonial Frontier 💰 Found Treasure 🤝 Band Of Misfits ⚔️ Noble Vs Commoner

How the Hippies Saved Physics

của David Kaiser • 2011

With mysticism and est funding, a Berkeley group revived entanglement, seeding quantum computing.

3.55

500+

🏛️ History Of Physics ⚛️ Quantum Foundations 🔬 Sociology Of Science 🧘 Quantum Mysticism 🌿 Fringe Science

How the Hippies Saved Physics

With mysticism and est funding, a Berkeley group revived entanglement, seeding quantum computing.

của David Kaiser 2011 400 trang

3.55

500+ đánh giá

🏛️ History Of Physics ⚛️ Quantum Foundations 🔬 Sociology Of Science 🧘 Quantum Mysticism 🌿 Fringe Science

True Grit

của Charles Portis • 1968

A fourteen-year-old hires a one-eyed marshal to hunt her father's killer into the Indian Territory.

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⚖️ Frontier Justice 🔍 Manhunt 👥 Unlikely Duo 😐 Deadpan Narrator 🏜️ Frontier Odyssey

True Grit

A fourteen-year-old hires a one-eyed marshal to hunt her father's killer into the Indian Territory.

của Charles Portis 1968 224 trang

4.17

74.000+ đánh giá

⚖️ Frontier Justice 🔍 Manhunt 👥 Unlikely Duo 😐 Deadpan Narrator 🏜️ Frontier Odyssey

The Liberal Tradition in America

của Louis Hartz • 1955

Skipping feudalism made America free, and that freedom imprisoned it inside a single idea.

3.63

158

🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 🤝 Liberal Consensus 🐑 Political Conformity 🚩 Failure Of Socialism 📜 Consensus History

The Liberal Tradition in America

Skipping feudalism made America free, and that freedom imprisoned it inside a single idea.

của Louis Hartz 1955 348 trang

3.63

158 đánh giá

🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 🤝 Liberal Consensus 🐑 Political Conformity 🚩 Failure Of Socialism 📜 Consensus History

The Devil at His Elbow

của Valerie Bauerlein • 2024

Three generations of prosecutors. Two bodies at the kennels. A video that ended a century of rule.

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🏚️ Southern Gothic 👑 Family Dynasties 🏛️ Small Town Corruption ⚖️ Abuse Of Power 💊 Opioid Crisis

The Devil at His Elbow

Three generations of prosecutors. Two bodies at the kennels. A video that ended a century of rule.

của Valerie Bauerlein 2024 480 trang

4.46

13.000+ đánh giá

🏚️ Southern Gothic 👑 Family Dynasties 🏛️ Small Town Corruption ⚖️ Abuse Of Power 💊 Opioid Crisis

The Twilight Struggle

của Hal Brands • 2022

How America's Cold War playbook for long-haul rivalry can be updated for China and Russia.

3.98

248

🥶 Cold War History 🗺️ Grand Strategy 🌍 Great Power Rivalry 🚧 Containment Strategy ☢️ Nuclear Deterrence

The Twilight Struggle

How America's Cold War playbook for long-haul rivalry can be updated for China and Russia.

của Hal Brands 2022 318 trang

3.98

248 đánh giá

🥶 Cold War History 🗺️ Grand Strategy 🌍 Great Power Rivalry 🚧 Containment Strategy ☢️ Nuclear Deterrence

The Death and Life of the Great American School System

của Diane Ravitch • 2010

Accountability was meant to fix schools. An insider shows how it broke them instead.

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📋 Education Policy 🏫 Public Education 📝 Standardized Testing 🏛️ Charter Schools 🔧 Education Reform

The Death and Life of the Great American School System

Accountability was meant to fix schools. An insider shows how it broke them instead.

của Diane Ravitch 2010 283 trang

4.05

5.000+ đánh giá

📋 Education Policy 🏫 Public Education 📝 Standardized Testing 🏛️ Charter Schools 🔧 Education Reform

Psychic Warrior

của David Morehouse • 1996

An officer's near-death awakening lands him in the CIA's most secret unit: psychic espionage.

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🎯 Remote Viewing 🕵️ Psychic Espionage 🔒 Government Cover-Up 💀 Near-Death Experience 📢 Whistleblower

Psychic Warrior

An officer's near-death awakening lands him in the CIA's most secret unit: psychic espionage.

của David Morehouse 1996 310 trang

3.87

500+ đánh giá

🎯 Remote Viewing 🕵️ Psychic Espionage 🔒 Government Cover-Up 💀 Near-Death Experience 📢 Whistleblower

Amity

của Nathan Harris • 2025

To find his stolen sister, a freedman follows her trail into a Mexico that devours refugees.

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5.000+

🕊️ Post-Emancipation 💔 Separated Siblings 🏜️ Survival Journey 🏘️ Freedom Settlement 🏚️ Post-Civil War South

Amity

To find his stolen sister, a freedman follows her trail into a Mexico that devours refugees.

của Nathan Harris 2025 320 trang

3.76

5.000+ đánh giá

🕊️ Post-Emancipation 💔 Separated Siblings 🏜️ Survival Journey 🏘️ Freedom Settlement 🏚️ Post-Civil War South

The Power Worshippers

của Katherine Stewart • 2020

Christian nationalism isn't a faith movement. It's a political machine, and democracy is the target.

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⛪ Christian Nationalism 🇺🇸 American Politics ⚖️ Church And State 🔍 Investigative Journalism 💰 Dark Money

The Power Worshippers

Christian nationalism isn't a faith movement. It's a political machine, and democracy is the target.

của Katherine Stewart 2020 352 trang

4.26

2.000+ đánh giá

⛪ Christian Nationalism 🇺🇸 American Politics ⚖️ Church And State 🔍 Investigative Journalism 💰 Dark Money

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays

của Tennessee Williams • 1955

A dying patriarch's birthday gathering unspools every lie his Southern family has ever told.

4.06

1.000+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 👨‍👩‍👦 Family Drama 💔 Repressed Desire 🤫 Family Secrets 🥃 Alcoholic Protagonist

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays

A dying patriarch's birthday gathering unspools every lie his Southern family has ever told.

của Tennessee Williams 1955 329 trang

4.06

1.000+ đánh giá

🏚️ Southern Gothic 👨‍👩‍👦 Family Drama 💔 Repressed Desire 🤫 Family Secrets 🥃 Alcoholic Protagonist

On Drinking

của Charles Bukowski • 2019

The poetry and prose of a man who traded sobriety for stories and never looked back.

3.87

1.000+

🍺 Drunken Confessional 📓 Autobiographical Poetry 🚪 Literary Outsider 🎨 Self-Destructive Artist 🥃 Bleak Humor

On Drinking

The poetry and prose of a man who traded sobriety for stories and never looked back.

của Charles Bukowski 2019 263 trang

3.87

1.000+ đánh giá

🍺 Drunken Confessional 📓 Autobiographical Poetry 🚪 Literary Outsider 🎨 Self-Destructive Artist 🥃 Bleak Humor

The Hamlet Fire

của Bryant Simon • 2020

A chicken plant fire killed 25. The doors were locked, but deregulation built the trap.

4.12

245

🏭 Labor History 🍗 Food Politics ⚠️ Workplace Safety 🐔 Factory Farming 📉 Deregulation

The Hamlet Fire

A chicken plant fire killed 25. The doors were locked, but deregulation built the trap.

của Bryant Simon 2020 302 trang

4.12

245 đánh giá

🏭 Labor History 🍗 Food Politics ⚠️ Workplace Safety 🐔 Factory Farming 📉 Deregulation

The Stoic

của Theodore Dreiser • 1947

His empire crumbling, an American financier stakes everything on London and a much younger muse.

4.35

3.000+

🏭 Naturalist Fiction 💰 Gilded Age 📈 Social Climbing 💔 Loveless Marriage 🏗️ Empire Building

The Stoic

His empire crumbling, an American financier stakes everything on London and a much younger muse.

của Theodore Dreiser 1947 334 trang

4.35

3.000+ đánh giá

🏭 Naturalist Fiction 💰 Gilded Age 📈 Social Climbing 💔 Loveless Marriage 🏗️ Empire Building

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

của Charles Bukowski • 1986

Five cats, a bottle, and a typewriter: what survival looks like when you stop pretending.

4.17

19.000+

🖋️ Confessional Poetry 🚬 Dirty Realism 🍷 Alcoholism And Art 🏭 Working Class Life 🏙️ Urban Isolation

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Five cats, a bottle, and a typewriter: what survival looks like when you stop pretending.

của Charles Bukowski 1986 320 trang

4.17

19.000+ đánh giá

🖋️ Confessional Poetry 🚬 Dirty Realism 🍷 Alcoholism And Art 🏭 Working Class Life 🏙️ Urban Isolation

Christ in Concrete

của Pietro Di Donato • 1937

A father buried in concrete. His twelve-year-old son must now lay brick to feed the family.

3.76

1.000+

🧱 Labor Fiction 🧳 Immigrant Labor 👦 Child Breadwinner 🏘️ Tenement Life 🩸 Gritty Realism

Christ in Concrete

A father buried in concrete. His twelve-year-old son must now lay brick to feed the family.

của Pietro Di Donato 1937 236 trang

3.76

1.000+ đánh giá

🧱 Labor Fiction 🧳 Immigrant Labor 👦 Child Breadwinner 🏘️ Tenement Life 🩸 Gritty Realism

Republic, Lost

của Lawrence Lessig • 2011

America's government answers to funders, not voters. The corruption is legal, and it's by design.

4.18

2.000+

💰 Money In Politics 🗳️ Election Reform 🔗 Systemic Corruption 🏛️ Democratic Reform 🏢 Dysfunctional Congress

Republic, Lost

America's government answers to funders, not voters. The corruption is legal, and it's by design.

của Lawrence Lessig 2011 400 trang

4.18

2.000+ đánh giá

💰 Money In Politics 🗳️ Election Reform 🔗 Systemic Corruption 🏛️ Democratic Reform 🏢 Dysfunctional Congress

Unmasked

của Andy Ngo • 2021

The black-clad rioters aren't random. They have a century-old playbook, and democracy is the target.

4.17

2.000+

🔥 Political Extremism 🏴 Anarchist Movements 💥 Political Violence 💻 Internet Vigilantism 📚 Critical Theory

Unmasked

The black-clad rioters aren't random. They have a century-old playbook, and democracy is the target.

của Andy Ngo 2021 239 trang

4.17

2.000+ đánh giá

🔥 Political Extremism 🏴 Anarchist Movements 💥 Political Violence 💻 Internet Vigilantism 📚 Critical Theory

Tiền bạc và Quyền lực

của William D. Cohan • 2011

Goldman Sachs's rise from a near-fatal 1970 crisis to the most powerful bank in the world.

3.85

1.000+

🏦 Investment Banking 🏛️ Wall Street History 📜 Corporate Biography 📉 Financial Crises 🤝 Banking Culture

Tiền bạc và Quyền lực

Goldman Sachs's rise from a near-fatal 1970 crisis to the most powerful bank in the world.

của William D. Cohan 2011 672 trang

3.85

1.000+ đánh giá

🏦 Investment Banking 🏛️ Wall Street History 📜 Corporate Biography 📉 Financial Crises 🤝 Banking Culture

Wild Faith

của Talia Lavin • 2024

A parallel America of home schools and prophets: the Christian Right wants dominion, not votes.

4.19

2.000+

✝️ Christian Nationalism 🏛️ Theocracy And Democracy ⚕️ Reproductive Rights 🏠 Homeschooling Movement 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories

Wild Faith

A parallel America of home schools and prophets: the Christian Right wants dominion, not votes.

của Talia Lavin 2024 304 trang

4.19

2.000+ đánh giá

✝️ Christian Nationalism 🏛️ Theocracy And Democracy ⚕️ Reproductive Rights 🏠 Homeschooling Movement 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories

The Speech

của Bernie Sanders • 2010

The floor speech that indicted tax cuts, trade deals, and deregulation for gutting the middle class.

4.20

500+

📊 Economic Inequality 🏢 Corporate Power 🗳️ Progressive Politics 📉 Wall Street Critique 💵 Campaign Finance

The Speech

The floor speech that indicted tax cuts, trade deals, and deregulation for gutting the middle class.

của Bernie Sanders 2010 288 trang

4.20

500+ đánh giá

📊 Economic Inequality 🏢 Corporate Power 🗳️ Progressive Politics 📉 Wall Street Critique 💵 Campaign Finance

Who Gets In and Why

của Jeffrey J. Selingo • 2020

It's not your GPA that gets you into college. An inside investigation reveals what really decides.

4.27

4.000+

🎓 College Admissions 📜 Education Policy 📰 Investigative Journalism 💰 Financial Aid 📊 College Rankings

Who Gets In and Why

It's not your GPA that gets you into college. An inside investigation reveals what really decides.

của Jeffrey J. Selingo 2020 320 trang

4.27

4.000+ đánh giá

🎓 College Admissions 📜 Education Policy 📰 Investigative Journalism 💰 Financial Aid 📊 College Rankings

The Envoy

của Zalmay Khalilzad • 2016

An Afghan immigrant becomes America's envoy in the Muslim world, finding a crisis wars cannot solve.

3.64

163

🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🌍 Middle East Politics 📜 Diplomatic Memoir 🏗️ State Building 💥 Post-9/11 Wars

The Envoy

An Afghan immigrant becomes America's envoy in the Muslim world, finding a crisis wars cannot solve.

của Zalmay Khalilzad 2016 336 trang

3.64

163 đánh giá

🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🌍 Middle East Politics 📜 Diplomatic Memoir 🏗️ State Building 💥 Post-9/11 Wars

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