Американски

Американският опит се разкрива чрез гласове, които поставят под въпрос, възхваляват и се борят с идеалите, институциите и непрекъснато променящата се идентичност на нацията. Тези произведения улавят както широката дъга на американската история, така и интимните истории на нейните хора — от политически манифести и културни коментари до лични есета и регионални разкази.

Американски Резюмета на книги

Клубът Брайър

от Кейт Куин

Thanksgiving night, 1954: a body in a D.C. boarding house, and the house knows the killer.

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🫂 Found Family 🇺🇸 1950s America 🚩 Soviet Defector 🏛️ Washington Dc 👩‍❤️‍👩 1950s Lesbian Romance

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Клубът Брайър

Thanksgiving night, 1954: a body in a D.C. boarding house, and the house knows the killer.

от Кейт Куин 2024 432 страници

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300 000+ оценки

🫂 Found Family 🇺🇸 1950s America 🚩 Soviet Defector 🏛️ Washington Dc 👩‍❤️‍👩 1950s Lesbian Romance

The Big Short

от Michael Lewis • 2010

Wall Street bet housing never falls. A few misfits read the fine print and won billions.

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🏦 Financial Crises 🏠 Housing Bubble 💰 Wall Street 📰 Narrative Journalism 📉 Short Selling

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The Big Short

Wall Street bet housing never falls. A few misfits read the fine print and won billions.

от Michael Lewis 2010 287 страници

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🏦 Financial Crises 🏠 Housing Bubble 💰 Wall Street 📰 Narrative Journalism 📉 Short Selling

The Franklin Scandal

от Nick Bryant • 2008

A credit union fronted a child-trafficking ring. The cover-up is better documented than the crime.

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500+

🔗 Human Trafficking 📁 Institutional Cover-Up 🔍 Investigative Journalism ⚖️ Prosecutorial Misconduct 📰 Media Complicity

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The Franklin Scandal

A credit union fronted a child-trafficking ring. The cover-up is better documented than the crime.

от Nick Bryant 2008 650 страници

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500+ оценки

🔗 Human Trafficking 📁 Institutional Cover-Up 🔍 Investigative Journalism ⚖️ Prosecutorial Misconduct 📰 Media Complicity

Джеймс

от Пърсивал Еверет • 2024

An enslaved man escapes down the Mississippi to rescue his family and reclaim his story.

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🖋️ Reimagined Classic 🗣️ Code-Switching 🚣 River Journey 🫂 Found Family 👤 Secret Parentage

Джеймс

An enslaved man escapes down the Mississippi to rescue his family and reclaim his story.

от Пърсивал Еверет 2024 303 страници

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500 000+ оценки

🖋️ Reimagined Classic 🗣️ Code-Switching 🚣 River Journey 🫂 Found Family 👤 Secret Parentage

World Order

от Henry Kissinger • 2014

Europe invented the state system; now every civilization advances a rival blueprint for world order.

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🌍 International Order ⚖️ Balance Of Power 📜 Diplomatic History 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🗺️ Geopolitics

World Order

Europe invented the state system; now every civilization advances a rival blueprint for world order.

от Henry Kissinger 2014 420 страници

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14 000+ оценки

🌍 International Order ⚖️ Balance Of Power 📜 Diplomatic History 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🗺️ Geopolitics

Into the Wild

от Jon Krakauer • 1996

A young man sheds his name and cash, walks into the Alaskan wild, and never returns.

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📖 Narrative Nonfiction 🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness 🏃 Runaway Idealist 💔 Estranged Family ⛰️ Man Vs Nature

Into the Wild

A young man sheds his name and cash, walks into the Alaskan wild, and never returns.

от Jon Krakauer 1996 240 страници

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1 000 000+ оценки

📖 Narrative Nonfiction 🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness 🏃 Runaway Idealist 💔 Estranged Family ⛰️ Man Vs Nature

Manufacturing Consent

от Edward S. Herman • 1988

Why a free press produces propaganda as reliably as a state ministry: the structural answer.

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📰 Media Criticism 📢 Propaganda Studies ⚙️ Structural Bias 🏢 Corporate Media ⚡ Media Power

Manufacturing Consent

Why a free press produces propaganda as reliably as a state ministry: the structural answer.

от Edward S. Herman 1988 543 страници

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24 000+ оценки

📰 Media Criticism 📢 Propaganda Studies ⚙️ Structural Bias 🏢 Corporate Media ⚡ Media Power

One Nation Under Blackmail

от Whitney Alyse Webb • 2022

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

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500+

🏛️ 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.

от Whitney Alyse Webb 2022 432 страници

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500+ оценки

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

Bowling Alone

от Robert D. Putnam • 2000

The clubs emptied and Americans stopped voting. The damage goes deeper than loneliness.

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🏛️ Social Capital 🗳️ Civic Engagement 📉 Community Decline 🏠 Social Isolation 🔄 Generational Change

Bowling Alone

The clubs emptied and Americans stopped voting. The damage goes deeper than loneliness.

от Robert D. Putnam 2000 544 страници

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9000+ оценки

🏛️ Social Capital 🗳️ Civic Engagement 📉 Community Decline 🏠 Social Isolation 🔄 Generational Change

The Fourth Turning

от William Strauss • 1996

America's history runs on an 80-year cycle of four social seasons. The crisis season has begun.

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🕰️ Cyclical History 👥 Generational Dynamics ⚠️ Crisis Forecasting 🏚️ Institutional Decay 🌋 Cultural Upheaval

The Fourth Turning

America's history runs on an 80-year cycle of four social seasons. The crisis season has begun.

от William Strauss 1996 400 страници

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🕰️ Cyclical History 👥 Generational Dynamics ⚠️ Crisis Forecasting 🏚️ Institutional Decay 🌋 Cultural Upheaval

The Snowball

от Alice Schroeder • 2008

Buffett mastered compound interest at age ten. People took him a lifetime.

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🧮 Value Investing 📋 Business Biography 📈 Compound Growth ⏳ Long-Term Investing 💰 Wealth Accumulation

The Snowball

Buffett mastered compound interest at age ten. People took him a lifetime.

от Alice Schroeder 2008 832 страници

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54 000+ оценки

🧮 Value Investing 📋 Business Biography 📈 Compound Growth ⏳ Long-Term Investing 💰 Wealth Accumulation

Момчетата от Никъл

от Колсън Уайтхед • 2019

A boy believes in equality. Then a Florida reform school teaches him the cost of hope.

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🌳 Jim Crow South 🏫 Reform School ⚖️ Idealist Vs Cynic 🔒 Wrongful Imprisonment 🎭 Assumed Identity

Момчетата от Никъл

A boy believes in equality. Then a Florida reform school teaches him the cost of hope.

от Колсън Уайтхед 2019 213 страници

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300 000+ оценки

🌳 Jim Crow South 🏫 Reform School ⚖️ Idealist Vs Cynic 🔒 Wrongful Imprisonment 🎭 Assumed Identity

Martin Eden

от Jack London • 1909

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

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

Martin Eden

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

от Jack London 1909 480 страници

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56 000+ оценки

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

1929

от Andrew Ross Sorkin • 2025

A $255-a-month prosecutor took down Wall Street. The 1929 crash was never about greed.

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🏛️ Financial History 📉 Stock Market Crashes 🏦 Wall Street History 💳 Credit And Debt 📋 Banking Regulation

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1929

A $255-a-month prosecutor took down Wall Street. The 1929 crash was never about greed.

от Andrew Ross Sorkin 2025 577 страници

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30 000+ оценки

🏛️ Financial History 📉 Stock Market Crashes 🏦 Wall Street History 💳 Credit And Debt 📋 Banking Regulation

Behind the Green Mask

от Rosa Koire • 2011

A veteran appraiser found that green policies are a UN blueprint to abolish private property.

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365

🗺️ Land Use Policy 🏠 Property Rights 🌍 Agenda 21 🎭 Manufactured Consent 🏚️ Eminent Domain Abuse

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Behind the Green Mask

A veteran appraiser found that green policies are a UN blueprint to abolish private property.

от Rosa Koire 2011 172 страници

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365 оценки

🗺️ Land Use Policy 🏠 Property Rights 🌍 Agenda 21 🎭 Manufactured Consent 🏚️ Eminent Domain Abuse

Великият Гетсби

от Ф. Скот Фицджералд

Gatsby's mansion teemed with strangers. The woman he loved was across the bay, married to another.

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🥂 Roaring Twenties 💔 Obsessive Love 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 💰 Old Money Vs New Money 🍂 Elegiac

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Великият Гетсби

Gatsby's mansion teemed with strangers. The woman he loved was across the bay, married to another.

от Ф. Скот Фицджералд 1925 180 страници

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🥂 Roaring Twenties 💔 Obsessive Love 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 💰 Old Money Vs New Money 🍂 Elegiac

How Civil Wars Start

от Barbara F. Walter • 2022

America is now an anocracy, the regime type three times likelier to fracture into civil war.

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🔬 Civil War Studies 📉 Democratic Backsliding 🌐 Comparative Politics 🪓 Ethnic Factionalism ⚠️ Domestic Extremism

How Civil Wars Start

America is now an anocracy, the regime type three times likelier to fracture into civil war.

от Barbara F. Walter 2022 320 страници

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6000+ оценки

🔬 Civil War Studies 📉 Democratic Backsliding 🌐 Comparative Politics 🪓 Ethnic Factionalism ⚠️ Domestic Extremism

Team of Rivals

от 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.

от Doris Kearns Goodwin 2005 916 страници

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200 000+ оценки

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

Caste

от Isabel Wilkerson • 2020

America is a hidden caste system the Nazis once studied: four centuries old, eight rules deep.

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📊 Social Stratification 🔗 Caste Systems ⚖️ Comparative History 🏛️ Institutional Racism 🧱 Structural Inequality

Caste

America is a hidden caste system the Nazis once studied: four centuries old, eight rules deep.

от Isabel Wilkerson 2020 544 страници

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100 000+ оценки

📊 Social Stratification 🔗 Caste Systems ⚖️ Comparative History 🏛️ Institutional Racism 🧱 Structural Inequality

Съдебните заседатели

от Джон Гришам • 1996

A billion-dollar tobacco trial. One juror. And a verdict for sale to the highest bidder.

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🎭 Jury Manipulation 🚬 Big Tobacco 💰 Corrupt Justice 🐱 Cat And Mouse 🔀 Double Cross

Съдебните заседатели

A billion-dollar tobacco trial. One juror. And a verdict for sale to the highest bidder.

от Джон Гришам 1996 464 страници

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300 000+ оценки

🎭 Jury Manipulation 🚬 Big Tobacco 💰 Corrupt Justice 🐱 Cat And Mouse 🔀 Double Cross

Стоунър

от Джон Уилямс • 1965

William Stoner turns from the soil to the sonnet, and a quiet, unremarkable life begins.

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📚 Campus Novel 🖋️ Quiet Life Portrait 💔 Unhappy Marriage ❤️‍🔥 Forbidden Love Affair 🪨 Stoic Protagonist

Стоунър

William Stoner turns from the soil to the sonnet, and a quiet, unremarkable life begins.

от Джон Уилямс 1965 292 страници

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200 000+ оценки

📚 Campus Novel 🖋️ Quiet Life Portrait 💔 Unhappy Marriage ❤️‍🔥 Forbidden Love Affair 🪨 Stoic Protagonist

Appetite for America

от 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.

от Stephen Fried 2010 751 страници

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1000+ оценки

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

The Schopenhauer Cure

от Irvin D. Yalom • 2005

A dying psychiatrist and his former patient swap therapy for philosophy, shaking up a therapy group.

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🧠 Psychological Fiction 📚 Philosophical Novel 🛋️ Therapist-Patient Bond 🕊️ Dying Mentor 💔 Trauma Recovery

The Schopenhauer Cure

A dying psychiatrist and his former patient swap therapy for philosophy, shaking up a therapy group.

от Irvin D. Yalom 2005 358 страници

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31 000+ оценки

🧠 Psychological Fiction 📚 Philosophical Novel 🛋️ Therapist-Patient Bond 🕊️ Dying Mentor 💔 Trauma Recovery

The Five Flirting Styles

от Jeffrey A. Hall • 2013

Stop copying someone else's moves. Your flirting instincts already work; here's how to use them.

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🧪 Attraction Science 👁️ Body Language 💘 Dating Advice 🗂️ Personality Types 💞 Romantic Connection

The Five Flirting Styles

Stop copying someone else's moves. Your flirting instincts already work; here's how to use them.

от Jeffrey A. Hall 2013 305 страници

3.47

109 оценки

🧪 Attraction Science 👁️ Body Language 💘 Dating Advice 🗂️ Personality Types 💞 Romantic Connection

The Poisoner's Handbook

от Deborah Blum • 2010

Jazz Age poisoners had the perfect crime, until a morgue chemist invented toxicology to catch them.

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🧪 Forensic Toxicology ☠️ Poison History 🎷 Jazz Age New York 🍸 Prohibition Era 💀 Deadly Substances

The Poisoner's Handbook

Jazz Age poisoners had the perfect crime, until a morgue chemist invented toxicology to catch them.

от Deborah Blum 2010 319 страници

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37 000+ оценки

🧪 Forensic Toxicology ☠️ Poison History 🎷 Jazz Age New York 🍸 Prohibition Era 💀 Deadly Substances

The Innocent Man

от John Grisham • 2006

Ada, Oklahoma. Two men condemned for murder. Twelve years later, DNA pointed to the real killer.

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🏛️ Wrongful Convictions ⚖️ Death Penalty 📋 Prosecutorial Misconduct 🔬 Junk Science In Court 🏘️ Small-Town Justice

The Innocent Man

Ada, Oklahoma. Two men condemned for murder. Twelve years later, DNA pointed to the real killer.

от John Grisham 2006 435 страници

3.87

85 000+ оценки

🏛️ Wrongful Convictions ⚖️ Death Penalty 📋 Prosecutorial Misconduct 🔬 Junk Science In Court 🏘️ Small-Town Justice

Старецът и морето

от Ърнест Хемингуей

Eighty-four days empty, an old fisherman rows far offshore and hooks a marlin longer than his boat.

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📘 Allegorical Fiction 👴 Mentor And Student 🌊 Man Versus Nature 🦈 Dignity In Defeat ⛵ Life At Sea

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Старецът и морето

Eighty-four days empty, an old fisherman rows far offshore and hooks a marlin longer than his boat.

от Ърнест Хемингуей 1952 96 страници

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📘 Allegorical Fiction 👴 Mentor And Student 🌊 Man Versus Nature 🦈 Dignity In Defeat ⛵ Life At Sea

The Secret Destiny of America

от Manly P. Hall • 1944

A secret order spent millennia planning one nation. Its symbols are still on your money.

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📜 Esoteric History 🇺🇸 American Civil Religion 🕯️ Secret Societies 👁️ Esoteric Symbolism 🔮 Theosophy

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The Secret Destiny of America

A secret order spent millennia planning one nation. Its symbols are still on your money.

от Manly P. Hall 1944 200 страници

4.10

500+ оценки

📜 Esoteric History 🇺🇸 American Civil Religion 🕯️ Secret Societies 👁️ Esoteric Symbolism 🔮 Theosophy

The Invisible Coup

от Peter Schweizer • 2026

Mass migration is not a crisis. It's a weapon, and its architects say so on camera.

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🛂 Immigration Policy 🔐 National Security 🕵️ Foreign Interference 📊 Demographic Change 🏫 Assimilation Politics

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The Invisible Coup

Mass migration is not a crisis. It's a weapon, and its architects say so on camera.

от Peter Schweizer 2026 288 страници

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🛂 Immigration Policy 🔐 National Security 🕵️ Foreign Interference 📊 Demographic Change 🏫 Assimilation Politics

The Lincoln Lawyer

от Michael Connelly • 2005

A Los Angeles lawyer's dream client is accused of assault, but he's hiding a murder.

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📚 Legal Thriller ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 👨‍💼 Defense Attorney 🃏 Client Deception 🥃 Hard-Boiled

The Lincoln Lawyer

A Los Angeles lawyer's dream client is accused of assault, but he's hiding a murder.

от Michael Connelly 2005 405 страници

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200 000+ оценки

📚 Legal Thriller ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 👨‍💼 Defense Attorney 🃏 Client Deception 🥃 Hard-Boiled

The Small and the Mighty

от Sharon McMahon • 2024

The Preamble's author is forgotten. So are eleven other Americans who bent history.

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🏛️ American History 🔍 Hidden Figures 👥 Collective Biography 🌱 Grassroots Activism ✊ Civil Rights History

The Small and the Mighty

The Preamble's author is forgotten. So are eleven other Americans who bent history.

от Sharon McMahon 2024 307 страници

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42 000+ оценки

🏛️ American History 🔍 Hidden Figures 👥 Collective Biography 🌱 Grassroots Activism ✊ Civil Rights History

Go as a River

от Шели Рийд • 2023

A Colorado farm girl's forbidden love leaves her with a secret she buries for decades.

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💔 Forbidden Love 💕 Interracial Romance 🤰 Secret Pregnancy 🏔️ Survival In Wilderness 🏜️ Rural Colorado

Go as a River

A Colorado farm girl's forbidden love leaves her with a secret she buries for decades.

от Шели Рийд 2023 320 страници

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100 000+ оценки

💔 Forbidden Love 💕 Interracial Romance 🤰 Secret Pregnancy 🏔️ Survival In Wilderness 🏜️ Rural Colorado

Too Big to Fail

от Andrew Ross Sorkin • 2009

The weekend Lehman fell: frantic phone calls, shattered egos, and a global economy on the brink.

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🏦 Wall Street 📉 Financial Crises 💼 Investment Banking 🏛️ Government Bailouts 📊 Corporate Downfall

Too Big to Fail

The weekend Lehman fell: frantic phone calls, shattered egos, and a global economy on the brink.

от Andrew Ross Sorkin 2009 813 страници

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43 000+ оценки

🏦 Wall Street 📉 Financial Crises 💼 Investment Banking 🏛️ Government Bailouts 📊 Corporate Downfall

Death by China

от Peter Navarro • 2011

America armed its biggest rival: every dollar spent at Walmart helped finance the Chinese military.

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🇺🇸 Economic Nationalism 🏭 Authoritarian Capitalism 💱 Currency Manipulation ⚔️ Trade War Literature 💻 Cyber Warfare

Death by China

America armed its biggest rival: every dollar spent at Walmart helped finance the Chinese military.

от Peter Navarro 2011 303 страници

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500+ оценки

🇺🇸 Economic Nationalism 🏭 Authoritarian Capitalism 💱 Currency Manipulation ⚔️ Trade War Literature 💻 Cyber Warfare

Треска 1793

от Лори Хальс Андерсън • 2000

1793 Philadelphia: a teen must survive the fever and rebuild her family's coffeehouse.

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🦠 Epidemic Fiction 🫂 Found Family 🏥 Historical Survival 🌱 Crisis Coming Of Age 🏛️ 18th Century America

Треска 1793

1793 Philadelphia: a teen must survive the fever and rebuild her family's coffeehouse.

от Лори Хальс Андерсън 2000 252 страници

3.93

100 000+ оценки

🦠 Epidemic Fiction 🫂 Found Family 🏥 Historical Survival 🌱 Crisis Coming Of Age 🏛️ 18th Century America

Woke, Inc.

от Vivek Ramaswamy • 2021

Social justice as corporate shield: a CEO exposes how causes mask a massive power grab.

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4000+

🏢 Stakeholder Capitalism ⚡ Corporate Power 🌱 ESG Investing 🎭 Performative Activism ⚖️ Democratic Backsliding

Woke, Inc.

Social justice as corporate shield: a CEO exposes how causes mask a massive power grab.

от Vivek Ramaswamy 2021 368 страници

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4000+ оценки

🏢 Stakeholder Capitalism ⚡ Corporate Power 🌱 ESG Investing 🎭 Performative Activism ⚖️ Democratic Backsliding

Free to Choose

от Milton Friedman • 1979

Economic freedom isn't one value among many. It is the mechanism that delivers all the others.

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🏪 Free Market Economics 🏛️ Classical Liberalism 🎓 Chicago School 💰 Monetarism ⚠️ Government Failure

Free to Choose

Economic freedom isn't one value among many. It is the mechanism that delivers all the others.

от Milton Friedman 1979 356 страници

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9000+ оценки

🏪 Free Market Economics 🏛️ Classical Liberalism 🎓 Chicago School 💰 Monetarism ⚠️ Government Failure

American Like Me

от America Ferrera • 2018

Actors and athletes on the day their Americanness was questioned, and the moment they claimed it.

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🧩 Hyphenated Identity 🌐 Diaspora 👥 Double Consciousness 🌟 Celebrity Memoir ✍️ Personal Essays

American Like Me

Actors and athletes on the day their Americanness was questioned, and the moment they claimed it.

от America Ferrera 2018 337 страници

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6000+ оценки

🧩 Hyphenated Identity 🌐 Diaspora 👥 Double Consciousness 🌟 Celebrity Memoir ✍️ Personal Essays

Fellow Travelers

от Thomas Mallon • 2007

In McCarthy's Washington, a diplomat and a young idealist risk everything for a hidden affair.

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🏳️‍🌈 Lavender Scare 🚪 Closeted Romance ⏳ Age Gap Romance 👁️ Political Paranoia 📰 Mccarthy Era

Fellow Travelers

In McCarthy's Washington, a diplomat and a young idealist risk everything for a hidden affair.

от Thomas Mallon 2007 356 страници

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5000+ оценки

🏳️‍🌈 Lavender Scare 🚪 Closeted Romance ⏳ Age Gap Romance 👁️ Political Paranoia 📰 Mccarthy Era

The Jailhouse Lawyer

от Calvin Duncan • 2025

He taught himself law from death row, freed other inmates, and walked free after 28 years.

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🔓 Wrongful Conviction 🔗 Mass Incarceration ✍️ Prison Memoir 🤝 Mutual Aid 🧠 Logotherapy

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The Jailhouse Lawyer

He taught himself law from death row, freed other inmates, and walked free after 28 years.

от Calvin Duncan 2025 400 страници

4.49

1000+ оценки

🔓 Wrongful Conviction 🔗 Mass Incarceration ✍️ Prison Memoir 🤝 Mutual Aid 🧠 Logotherapy

The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution

от Mark Peterson • 2026

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

4.09

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

The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution Резюме

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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?

от Mark Peterson 2026 390 страници

4.09

22 оценки

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

The Calamity Club

от Kathryn Stockett

A churchgoing spinster opens a brothel to rescue an orphan from a eugenics asylum.

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🏚️ Southern Fiction ✊ Feminist Historical 🤝 Found Family 👯‍♀️ Women Outcasts 👩‍🦳 Spinster Heroine

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The Calamity Club

A churchgoing spinster opens a brothel to rescue an orphan from a eugenics asylum.

от Kathryn Stockett 2026 656 страници

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100 000+ оценки

🏚️ Southern Fiction ✊ Feminist Historical 🤝 Found Family 👯‍♀️ Women Outcasts 👩‍🦳 Spinster Heroine

Боен клуб

от Чък Паланюк • 1996

An insomniac and a soap salesman start an underground fight club that spirals into anarchy.

4.18

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🖤 Transgressive Fiction 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🪞 Dissociative Identity ⚔️ Toxic Masculinity 🛒 Anti-Consumerism

Боен клуб

An insomniac and a soap salesman start an underground fight club that spirals into anarchy.

от Чък Паланюк 1996 224 страници

4.18

600 000+ оценки

🖤 Transgressive Fiction 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🪞 Dissociative Identity ⚔️ Toxic Masculinity 🛒 Anti-Consumerism

Полет над кукувиче гнездо

от Кен Кийзи • 1962

A gambler fakes insanity and discovers the mental ward's head nurse is the true warden.

4.20

700 000+

🏥 Psychiatric Institution 🧠 Unreliable Narrator 🔥 Charismatic Rebel 🫂 Found Family 💔 Tragic Hero

Полет над кукувиче гнездо

A gambler fakes insanity and discovers the mental ward's head nurse is the true warden.

от Кен Кийзи 1962 325 страници

4.20

700 000+ оценки

🏥 Psychiatric Institution 🧠 Unreliable Narrator 🔥 Charismatic Rebel 🫂 Found Family 💔 Tragic Hero

Albion's Seed

от David Hackett Fischer • 1989

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

4.38

3000+

🏛️ 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.

от David Hackett Fischer 1989 946 страници

4.38

3000+ оценки

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

Evicted

от Matthew Desmond • 2016

Poverty isn't the cause of eviction. Eviction is the cause of poverty, and the market profits.

4.47

100 000+

🏙️ Urban Poverty 🏚️ Housing Insecurity ✊ Racial Inequality 🔄 Poverty Cycle 📖 Narrative Ethnography

Evicted

Poverty isn't the cause of eviction. Eviction is the cause of poverty, and the market profits.

от Matthew Desmond 2016 418 страници

4.47

100 000+ оценки

🏙️ Urban Poverty 🏚️ Housing Insecurity ✊ Racial Inequality 🔄 Poverty Cycle 📖 Narrative Ethnography

Перлата

от Джон Стайнбек • 1947

A poor pearl diver finds a perfect pearl, and the town's greed turns hope into a trap.

3.57

200 000+

🪶 Literary Parable 💰 Corrupting Wealth ⛓️ Colonial Oppression 🎭 Tragic Inevitability 📖 Folkloric Tone

Перлата

A poor pearl diver finds a perfect pearl, and the town's greed turns hope into a trap.

от Джон Стайнбек 1947 96 страници

3.57

200 000+ оценки

🪶 Literary Parable 💰 Corrupting Wealth ⛓️ Colonial Oppression 🎭 Tragic Inevitability 📖 Folkloric Tone

Moneyball

от Michael Lewis • 2003

A broke baseball team won by obsessing over one stat the rest of the league ignored.

4.27

100 000+

⚾ Baseball Analytics 📊 Sabermetrics 📉 Market Inefficiencies 💎 Undervalued Assets ⚡ Disruptive Strategy

Moneyball

A broke baseball team won by obsessing over one stat the rest of the league ignored.

от Michael Lewis 2003 272 страници

4.27

100 000+ оценки

⚾ Baseball Analytics 📊 Sabermetrics 📉 Market Inefficiencies 💎 Undervalued Assets ⚡ Disruptive Strategy

The Boys in the Boat

от Daniel James Brown • 2013

Left for dead by his family, Joe Rantz climbed into a boat bound for Hitler's Berlin.

4.39

300 000+

🏅 Olympic History 📉 Depression-Era America 🚣 Crew Racing 🎭 Olympic Propaganda 🐶 Underdog Stories

The Boys in the Boat

Left for dead by his family, Joe Rantz climbed into a boat bound for Hitler's Berlin.

от Daniel James Brown 2013 416 страници

4.39

300 000+ оценки

🏅 Olympic History 📉 Depression-Era America 🚣 Crew Racing 🎭 Olympic Propaganda 🐶 Underdog Stories

Четирите ветрове

от Кристин Хана • 2021

A mother loses her Texas farm to dust and drives west toward California's broken promise.

4.30

1 000 000+

🏜️ Dust Bowl Fiction 🇺🇸 1930s America ✊ Labor Organizing 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters 💗 Mother's Sacrifice

Четирите ветрове

A mother loses her Texas farm to dust and drives west toward California's broken promise.

от Кристин Хана 2021 464 страници

4.30

1 000 000+ оценки

🏜️ Dust Bowl Fiction 🇺🇸 1930s America ✊ Labor Organizing 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters 💗 Mother's Sacrifice

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