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The Ayatollah Begs to Differ Summary
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ
The Paradox of Modern Iran
by Hooman Majd 2008 272 pages
3.76
2k+ ratings
Iran
Middle East
History
The Great Taking Summary
The Great Taking
by David Rogers Webb 2023 133 pages
4.13
157 ratings
Finance
Economics
Politics
Stone Age Economics Summary
Stone Age Economics
by Marshall Sahlins 1974 362 pages
3.92
500+ ratings
Anthropology
Economics
History
The Room Where It Happened Summary
The Room Where It Happened
A White House Memoir
by John Bolton 2020 588 pages
3.17
14k+ ratings
Politics
History
Memoir
Learning from the Germans Summary
Learning from the Germans
Race and the Memory of Evil
by Susan Neiman 2019 434 pages
4.20
1k+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
The Genetic Lottery Summary
The Genetic Lottery
Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
by Kathryn Paige Harden 2021 302 pages
3.89
1k+ ratings
Science
Politics
Biology
What We Owe The Future Summary
What We Owe The Future
A Million-Year View
by William MacAskill 2022 494 pages
3.81
6k+ ratings
Philosophy
Science
History
The World As It Is Summary
The World As It Is
A Memoir of the Obama White House
by Ben Rhodes 2018 433 pages
4.30
12k+ ratings
Politics
Memoir
History
Divided Summary
Divided
Why We're Living in an Age of Walls
by Tim Marshall 2018 316 pages
4.01
6k+ ratings
Politics
History
Geography
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Summary
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
by Ilan Pappé 2006 320 pages
4.55
10k+ ratings
History
Politics
Middle East
Stop Reading the News Summary
Stop Reading the News
A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life
by Rolf Dobelli 2019
3.71
3k+ ratings
Self Help
Psychology
Politics
Freefall Summary
Freefall
America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2010 361 pages
3.88
4k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Finance
The Revolution Betrayed Summary
The Revolution Betrayed
by Leon Trotsky 1937 240 pages
4.09
2k+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
Utopia for Realists Summary
Utopia for Realists
The Case for a Universal Basic Income, Open Borders, and a 15-hour Workweek
by Rutger Bregman 2014 252 pages
4.21
43k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
Freedom from Fear Summary
Freedom from Fear
The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
by David M. Kennedy 1999 936 pages
4.21
5k+ ratings
History
American History
Politics
Applied Economics Summary
Applied Economics
Thinking Beyond Stage One
by Thomas Sowellm 2003 348 pages
4.18
2k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
The Future We Choose Summary
The Future We Choose
Surviving the Climate Crisis
by Christiana Figueres 2020 210 pages
4.05
6k+ ratings
Science
Environment
Climate Change
War on Peace Summary
War on Peace
The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
by Ronan Farrow 2018 392 pages
4.14
8k+ ratings
Politics
History
War
Groupthink Summary
Groupthink
Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes
by Irving L. Janis 1982 349 pages
4.13
209 ratings
Psychology
Politics
History
Blood and Oil Summary
Blood and Oil
Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power
by Bradley Hope 2020 368 pages
4.24
10k+ ratings
Politics
History
Middle East
Privacy is Power Summary
Privacy is Power
Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data
by Carissa Véliz 2020 288 pages
4.02
1k+ ratings
Technology
Politics
Sociology
The Broken Ladder Summary
The Broken Ladder
How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
by Keith Payne 2018 256 pages
4.20
4k+ ratings
Politics
Psychology
Economics
Suicide of a Superpower Summary
Suicide of a Superpower
Will America Survive to 2025?
by Patrick J. Buchanan 2011 496 pages
4.05
500+ ratings
Politics
History
Cultural
Hindus in Hindu Rashtra Summary
Hindus in Hindu Rashtra
Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid
by Anand Ranganathan 2023 152 pages
4.46
500+ ratings
Politics
History
India
Lenin Summary
Lenin
A Biography
by Robert Service 2000 592 pages
3.84
1k+ ratings
History
Biography
Russia
The Grift Summary
The Grift
The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump
by Clay Cane 2024 400 pages
4.31
500+ ratings
Politics
History
Race
Call Sign Chaos Summary
Call Sign Chaos
Learning to Lead
by Jim Mattis 2019 320 pages
4.29
13k+ ratings
Leadership
Military Fiction
Biography
The Art of Power Summary
The Art of Power
My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
by Nancy Pelosi 2024 352 pages
3.94
5k+ ratings
Politics
Memoir
Biography
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem Summary
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
by Gregg Colburn 2022 284 pages
4.21
1k+ ratings
Politics
Sociology
Urban Planning
Lawless Summary
Lawless
How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes
by Leah Litman 2025 320 pages
4.04
2k+ ratings
Politics
Law
History
Being And Event Summary
Being And Event
by Alain Badiou 1988 560 pages
4.01
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
MBS Summary
MBS
The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman
by Ben Hubbard 2020 384 pages
4.14
3k+ ratings
Biography
Middle East
Politics
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power Summary
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power
5 Battlegrounds
by Rajiv Malhotra 2021 520 pages
4.28
217 ratings
Science
Artificial Intelligence
Politics
50 Philosophy Classics Summary
50 Philosophy Classics
Thinking, Being, Acting Seeing - Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking from Fifty Key Books
by Tom Butler-Bowdon 2013 336 pages
4.09
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Reference
Politics
Fiasco Summary
Fiasco
The American Military Adventure in Iraq
by Thomas E. Ricks 2006 482 pages
4.09
7k+ ratings
History
Politics
War
Hard Choices Summary
Hard Choices
by Hillary Rodham Clinton 2013 788 pages
3.61
14k+ ratings
Politics
Biography
Memoir
Liberty Summary
Liberty
Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty
by Isaiah Berlin 1969 416 pages
4.15
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Essays
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster Summary
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
by Bill Gates 2021 288 pages
4.11
51k+ ratings
Science
Climate Change
Environment
Apocalypse Never Summary
Apocalypse Never
Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
by Michael Shellenberger 2020 272 pages
4.16
6k+ ratings
Science
Politics
Environment
Easy Money Summary
Easy Money
Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
by Ben McKenzie 2023 304 pages
3.95
3k+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
Democracy in America Summary
Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville 1835 983 pages
4.05
27k+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
John Adams Summary
John Adams
by David McCullough 2001 751 pages
4.09
300k+ ratings
History
Biography
American History
Cynical Theories Summary
Cynical Theories
How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
by Helen Pluckrose 2020 353 pages
4.10
5k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Sociology
Malcolm X Summary
Malcolm X
A Life of Reinvention
by Manning Marable 2011 608 pages
4.19
20k+ ratings
Biography
History
Race
A Generation of Sociopaths Summary
A Generation of Sociopaths
How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
by Bruce Cannon Gibney 2017 430 pages
3.55
2k+ ratings
Politics
History
Sociology
LatinoLand Summary
LatinoLand
A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority
by Marie Arana 2024 573 pages
4.30
500+ ratings
History
Sociology
Politics
What Is Populism? Summary
What Is Populism?
by Jan-Werner Müller 2014 136 pages
3.82
2k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
What Young India Wants Summary
What Young India Wants
by Chetan Bhagat 2012 181 pages
3.26
9k+ ratings
India
Indian Literature
Essays
Empire of Normality Summary
Empire of Normality
Neurodiversity and Capitalism
by Robert Chapman 2023 204 pages
4.27
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Politics
Disability
Civil Rights Summary
Civil Rights
Rhetoric or Reality?
by Thomas Sowell 1984 164 pages
4.40
500+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
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