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Manufacturing Consent Summary
Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by Edward S. Herman 1988 543 pages
4.23
24k+ ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
Writing Tools Summary
Writing Tools
50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
by Roy Peter Clark 2006 260 pages
4.20
5k+ ratings
Writing
Reference
Crafts
Media Literacy Summary
Media Literacy
by W. James Potter 1998 504 pages
3.76
118 ratings
Grad School
Journalism
Textbooks
So You've Been Publicly Shamed Summary
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
by Jon Ronson 2015 304 pages
3.93
66k+ ratings
Psychology
Sociology
Book Club
Trust Me, I'm Lying Summary
Trust Me, I'm Lying
Confessions of a Media Manipulator
by Ryan Holiday 2012 259 pages
3.85
12k+ ratings
Business
Psychology
Politics
When McKinsey Comes to Town Summary
When McKinsey Comes to Town
The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
by Walt Bogdanich 2022 353 pages
3.80
11k+ ratings
Business
Politics
History
Perversion of Justice Summary
Perversion of Justice
The Jeffrey Epstein Story
by Julie K. Brown 2021 463 pages
4.21
3k+ ratings
True Crime
Crime
History
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Summary
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
by Hunter S. Thompson 1971 204 pages
4.06
300k+ ratings
Classics
Humor
Journalism
Telling True Stories Summary
Telling True Stories
A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University
by Mark Kramer 2007 317 pages
4.08
1k+ ratings
Writing
Journalism
Essays
The News Summary
The News
A User's Manual
by Alain de Botton 2014 272 pages
3.58
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
Journalism
Politics
How to Stand Up to a Dictator Summary
How to Stand Up to a Dictator
by Maria Ressa 2022 288 pages
4.36
7k+ ratings
Politics
Memoir
History
Original Sin Summary
Original Sin
President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
by Jake Tapper 2025 352 pages
3.72
21k+ ratings
Politics
History
Biography
She Said Summary
She Said
Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
by Jodi Kantor 2019 310 pages
4.34
44k+ ratings
Feminism
True Crime
Politics
The Great War for Civilisation Summary
The Great War for Civilisation
The Conquest of the Middle East
by Robert Fisk 2005 1111 pages
4.41
5k+ ratings
History
Middle East
Politics
Working Summary
Working
Researching, Interviewing, Writing
by Robert A. Caro 2019 231 pages
4.45
7k+ ratings
Writing
Memoir
Biography
El Narco Summary
El Narco
Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
by Ioan Grillo 2011 336 pages
4.07
5k+ ratings
History
Crime
True Crime
The Content Fuel Framework Summary
The Content Fuel Framework
by Melanie Deziel 2020 206 pages
4.12
205 ratings
Business
Writing
Journalism
Three Cups of Deceit Summary
Three Cups of Deceit
How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way
by Jon Krakauer 2011 77 pages
3.72
11k+ ratings
Biography
History
Journalism
How to Write Short Summary
How to Write Short
Word Craft for Fast Times
by Roy Peter Clark 2013 272 pages
3.77
1k+ ratings
Writing
Reference
Communication
Meme Wars Summary
Meme Wars
The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America
by Joan Donovan 2022 432 pages
3.98
483 ratings
Politics
Technology
History
All or Nothing Summary
All or Nothing
How Trump Recaptured America
by Michael Wolff 2025 400 pages
3.74
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
Presidents
Murder Your Darlings Summary
Murder Your Darlings
And Other Gentle Writing Advice from Aristotle to Zinsser
by Roy Peter Clark 2020 352 pages
4.02
500+ ratings
Writing
Reference
Self Help
Unmasked Summary
Unmasked
Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy
by Andy Ngo 2021 239 pages
4.17
2k+ ratings
Politics
History
Sociology
Storycraft Summary
Storycraft
The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction
by Jack R. Hart 2011 266 pages
4.25
1k+ ratings
Writing
Journalism
Reference
We Are Bellingcat Summary
We Are Bellingcat
An Intelligence Agency for the People
by Eliot Higgins 2021 273 pages
4.12
5k+ ratings
Politics
Journalism
History
Tokyo Vice Summary
Tokyo Vice
An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
by Jake Adelstein 2009 335 pages
3.90
17k+ ratings
Japan
Crime
True Crime
Hate Inc. Summary
Hate Inc.
Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
by Matt Taibbi 2019 380 pages
4.09
5k+ ratings
Politics
Journalism
History
The Big Truck that Went By Summary
The Big Truck that Went By
How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
by Jonathan M. Katz 2013 320 pages
4.12
1k+ ratings
History
Politics
International Development
Enemy of the People Summary
Enemy of the People
Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy
by Marvin Kalb 2018 200 pages
4.13
137 ratings
Politics
History
Journalism
Tokyo Noir Summary
Tokyo Noir
In and Out of Japan's Underworld
by Jake Adelstein 2024 320 pages
3.90
500+ ratings
Japan
True Crime
Crime
Extremely Hardcore Summary
Extremely Hardcore
Inside Elon Musk's Twitter
by Zoë Schiffer 2024 330 pages
3.97
1k+ ratings
Business
Technology
Journalism
Faking It Summary
Faking It
The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music
by Hugh Barker 2007 400 pages
3.67
243 ratings
Music
History
Journalism
House of Bush, House of Saud Summary
House of Bush, House of Saud
The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties
by Craig Unger 2004 384 pages
3.91
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
Middle East
Help! for Writers Summary
Help! for Writers
210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces
by Roy Peter Clark 2011 164 pages
3.92
443 ratings
Writing
Reference
Self Help
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper Summary
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
by John Allen Paulos 1997 224 pages
3.60
1k+ ratings
Mathematics
Science
Education
Wildland Summary
Wildland
The Making of America's Fury
by Evan Osnos 2021 465 pages
4.22
2k+ ratings
Politics
History
Sociology
Slouching Towards Bethlehem Summary
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
by Joan Didion 1968 238 pages
4.18
84k+ ratings
Essays
Memoir
Classics
Confidence Man Summary
Confidence Man
The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
by Maggie Haberman 2022 597 pages
4.09
10k+ ratings
Politics
Biography
History
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families Summary
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
by Philip Gourevitch 1998 356 pages
4.22
37k+ ratings
History
Africa
War
Friday Night Lights Summary
Friday Night Lights
Una città, una squadra, un sogno
by H.G. Bissinger 1988 416 pages
4.14
67k+ ratings
Sports
Football
History
American Story Summary
American Story
A Lifetime Search for Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things
by Bob Dotson 2013 274 pages
3.63
228 ratings
Journalism
Travel
The Gutenberg Parenthesis Summary
The Gutenberg Parenthesis
The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
by Jeff Jarvis 2023 328 pages
3.83
218 ratings
History
Politics
Cultural
The Next Big Story Summary
The Next Big Story
My Journey Through the Land of Possibilities
by Soledad O'Brien 2010 334 pages
3.70
239 ratings
Biography
Memoir
African American
So You Want to Start a Podcast Summary
So You Want to Start a Podcast
Finding Your Voice, Telling Your Story, and Building a Community That Will Listen
by Kristen Meinzer 2019 227 pages
4.00
1k+ ratings
Business
Self Help
How To
Dragnet Nation Summary
Dragnet Nation
A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance
by Julia Angwin 2014 304 pages
3.68
500+ ratings
Politics
Technology
Science
Yemen Summary
Yemen
Dancing on the Heads of Snakes
by Victoria Clark 2010 328 pages
3.71
276 ratings
Middle East
History
21st Century
Thinking Like Your Editor Summary
Thinking Like Your Editor
How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction and Get It Published
by Susan Rabiner 2002 288 pages
4.10
500+ ratings
Writing
Reference
How To
Slanted Summary
Slanted
by Sharyl Attkisson 2020 316 pages
4.31
1k+ ratings
Politics
Journalism
Sociology
The Smear Summary
The Smear
How the Secret Art of Character Assassination Controls What You Think, What You Read, and How You Vote
by Sharyl Attkisson 2017 288 pages
4.22
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
Journalism
You Can't Read This Book Summary
You Can't Read This Book
Censorship in an Age of Freedom
by Nick Cohen 2012
4.08
500+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
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