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Our Lives in Their Portfolios Summary
Our Lives in Their Portfolios
Why Asset Managers Own the World
by Brett Christophers 2023 389 pages
4.00
303 ratings
Economics
Finance
Politics
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life Summary
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
by Émile Durkheim 1912 416 pages
3.93
3k+ ratings
Sociology
Religion
Philosophy
The Great Delusion Summary
The Great Delusion
Liberal Dreams and International Realities
by John J. Mearsheimer 2018 328 pages
4.10
1k+ ratings
Politics
International Relations
History
The Second Summary
The Second
Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
by Carol Anderson 2021 272 pages
4.31
1k+ ratings
History
Politics
Race
Kingmaker Summary
Kingmaker
by Sonia Purnell 2024 528 pages
4.18
5k+ ratings
Biography
History
Politics
The World After Gaza Summary
The World After Gaza
A Short History
by Pankaj Mishra 2025 300 pages
4.06
1k+ ratings
History
Politics
Middle East
A Spy Among Friends Summary
A Spy Among Friends
Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
by Ben Macintyre 2014 368 pages
4.20
30k+ ratings
History
Biography
Espionage
Illiberal America Summary
Illiberal America
A History
by Steven Hahn 2024 464 pages
4.16
300 ratings
History
Politics
American History
His Very Best Summary
His Very Best
Jimmy Carter, a Life
by Jonathan Alter 2020 800 pages
4.35
2k+ ratings
Biography
History
Politics
In Europe's Shadow Summary
In Europe's Shadow
Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
by Robert D. Kaplan 2016 336 pages
3.80
1k+ ratings
History
Travel
Romania
Southern Horrors and Other Writings Summary
Southern Horrors and Other Writings
The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900
by Ida B. Wells-Barnett 1996 240 pages
4.36
500+ ratings
History
Race
Essays
After Auschwitz Summary
After Auschwitz
by Eva Schloss 2013 336 pages
4.32
7k+ ratings
Holocaust
History
Biography
Islam and the Destiny of Man Summary
Islam and the Destiny of Man
by Charles Le Gai Eaton 1985 256 pages
4.40
1k+ ratings
Islam
Religion
Philosophy
World on Fire Summary
World on Fire
How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
by Amy Chua 2002 368 pages
3.82
1k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Treacherous Alliance Summary
Treacherous Alliance
The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States
by Trita Parsi 2007 384 pages
4.12
500+ ratings
Politics
History
Iran
Reveille for Radicals Summary
Reveille for Radicals
by Saul D. Alinsky 1946 256 pages
3.84
500+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
Contemporary Conflict Resolution Summary
Contemporary Conflict Resolution
by Oliver Ramsbotham 2005 424 pages
3.73
180 ratings
Politics
Textbooks
School
The Strange Career of Jim Crow Summary
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
by C. Vann Woodward 1955 245 pages
4.14
3k+ ratings
History
Race
American History
Stupid TV, Be More Funny Summary
Stupid TV, Be More Funny
How the Golden Era of The Simpsons Changed Television—and America—Forever
by Alan Siegel 2025 304 pages
4.05
1k+ ratings
Pop Culture
Humor
History
Has China Won? The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy Summary
Has China Won? The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
by Kishore Mahbubani 2020 320 pages
4.07
2k+ ratings
China
Politics
History
The Great Emergence Summary
The Great Emergence
How Christianity Is Changing and Why
by Phyllis Tickle 2008 176 pages
3.96
2k+ ratings
Religion
Theology
Christianity
The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City Summary
The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City
by Alan Ehrenhalt 2012 288 pages
3.77
500+ ratings
Urban Planning
Cities
History
The Second Coming of the KKK Summary
The Second Coming of the KKK
The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
by Linda Gordon 2017 272 pages
3.82
1k+ ratings
History
Politics
American History
An Inconvenient Minority Summary
An Inconvenient Minority
The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy
by Kenny Xu 2021 274 pages
3.95
282 ratings
Politics
Education
History
States and Power in Africa Summary
States and Power in Africa
Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control
by Jeffrey Herbst 2000 296 pages
3.99
269 ratings
Africa
History
Politics
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust Summary
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust
Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism
by John Henrik Clarke 1992 131 pages
4.45
500+ ratings
History
Africa
Race
The Crusader Summary
The Crusader
Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism
by Paul Kengor 2006 432 pages
4.33
387 ratings
Biography
History
Politics
American Slavery, American Freedom Summary
American Slavery, American Freedom
by Edmund S. Morgan 1975 464 pages
4.12
3k+ ratings
History
American History
Race
American Crucible Summary
American Crucible
Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century
by Gary Gerstle 2001 472 pages
3.82
246 ratings
History
American History
Race
The College Scam Summary
The College Scam
How America's Universities Are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America's Youth
by Charlie Kirk 2022 288 pages
4.18
500+ ratings
Politics
Education
History
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt Summary
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
by Toby Wilkinson 2010 646 pages
4.13
6k+ ratings
History
Egypt
Ancient History
1066 and all that Summary
1066 and all that
A memorable history of England
by W.C. Sellar 1930 115 pages
3.91
3k+ ratings
History
Humor
Comedy
Lions and Scavengers Summary
Lions and Scavengers
The True Story of America
by Ben Shapiro 2025 256 pages
4.17
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
The New Class War Summary
The New Class War
Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite
by Michael Lind 2017 224 pages
3.74
500+ ratings
Politics
Economics
Sociology
What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia Summary
What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
by Elizabeth Catte 2018 200 pages
4.01
4k+ ratings
History
Politics
Sociology
Tupac Shakur Summary
Tupac Shakur
The Authorized Biography
by Staci Robinson 2023 691 pages
4.43
1k+ ratings
Biography
Music
Biography Memoir
Men and Rubber Summary
Men and Rubber
The Story of Business 1926
by Harvey S. Firestone 1926 288 pages
4.25
253 ratings
Business
Biography
History
The Underworld Summary
The Underworld
Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
by Susan Casey 2023 352 pages
4.22
4k+ ratings
Science
Nature
Environment
Future Babble Summary
Future Babble
Why Expert Predictions Fail - and Why We Believe Them Anyway
by Dan Gardner 2010 320 pages
3.79
500+ ratings
Psychology
Science
History
Number Summary
Number
The Language of Science
by Tobias Dantzig 1930 416 pages
4.09
500+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
History
When Affirmative Action Was White Summary
When Affirmative Action Was White
An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
by Ira Katznelson 2005 272 pages
4.13
2k+ ratings
History
Race
Politics
The Rise of Rome Summary
The Rise of Rome
From the Iron Age to the Punic Wars
by Kathryn Lomas 2017 432 pages
3.99
288 ratings
History
Roman History
Ancient History
The Stage of Time Summary
The Stage of Time
Secrets of the Past, the Nature of Reality, and the Ancient Gods of History
by Matthew LaCroix 2019 213 pages
4.21
346 ratings
History
Religion
Science
Bring the War Home Summary
Bring the War Home
The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
by Kathleen Belew 2018 339 pages
4.21
3k+ ratings
History
Politics
Race
The Theory of Economic Development Summary
The Theory of Economic Development
by Joseph A. Schumpeter 1934 320 pages
4.14
241 ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
The Spartans Summary
The Spartans
The World of the Warrior - Heroes of Ancient Greece, From Utopia to Crisis and Collapse
by Paul Cartledge 2002 320 pages
3.78
3k+ ratings
History
Ancient History
Greece
McNamara at War Summary
McNamara at War
A New History
by Philip Taubman 2025 512 pages
4.18
500+ ratings
History
Politics
Military Fiction
Furious Minds Summary
Furious Minds
The Making of the MAGA New Right
by Laura K. Field 2025 432 pages
4.11
500+ ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
Dying of Whiteness Summary
Dying of Whiteness
How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
by Jonathan M. Metzl 2019 341 pages
4.11
7k+ ratings
Politics
Race
Social Justice
Moral Letters to Lucilius Volume 1 Summary
Moral Letters to Lucilius Volume 1
by Seneca 243 pages
4.45
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
History
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