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The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One Summary
The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One
How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry
by William K. Black 1995 352 pages
4.06
185 ratings
Economics
History
Finance
Life After Cars Summary
Life After Cars
Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
by Sarah Goodyear 2025 300 pages
4.29
1k+ ratings
Urbanism
Politics
Urban Planning
Science of Coercion Summary
Science of Coercion
Communication Research and Psychological Warfare, 1945-1960
by Christopher Simpson 1994 224 pages
4.11
89 ratings
History
Psychology
Politics
How To Trump SJWs Summary
How To Trump SJWs
Using Alinsky’s ‘Rules for Radicals’ Against Liberals
by Manon Welles 2016 88 pages
4.25
181 ratings
Politics
Copaganda Summary
Copaganda
How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
by Alec Karakatsanis 2025 432 pages
4.49
500+ ratings
Politics
Social Justice
History
The Fifth Domain Summary
The Fifth Domain
Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats
by Richard A. Clarke 2019 352 pages
4.02
500+ ratings
Technology
Politics
History
King of Kings Summary
King of Kings
The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
by Scott Anderson 2025 481 pages
4.32
4k+ ratings
History
Politics
Middle East
The Big Myth Summary
The Big Myth
How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
by Naomi Oreskes 2023 576 pages
4.36
500+ ratings
Economics
Politics
History
What Is Property? Summary
What Is Property?
by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1840 310 pages
3.78
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Economics
The Management of Savagery Summary
The Management of Savagery
How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump
by Max Blumenthal 2019 400 pages
4.29
500+ ratings
Politics
History
War
Against the Web Summary
Against the Web
A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right
by Michael Brooks 2020 96 pages
4.10
1k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Essays
Russian History Summary
Russian History
A Very Short Introduction
by Geoffrey Hosking 2012 154 pages
3.64
500+ ratings
History
Russia
Russian History
American Lion Summary
American Lion
Andrew Jackson in the White House
by Jon Meacham 2008 483 pages
3.86
57k+ ratings
History
Biography
Presidents
The Truth About Muhammad Summary
The Truth About Muhammad
Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion
by Robert Spencer 2006 224 pages
3.88
1k+ ratings
Religion
Islam
History
Freezing Order Summary
Freezing Order
A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
by Bill Browder 2022 332 pages
4.34
27k+ ratings
Politics
History
Russia
The Complete Infidel's Guide to Iran Summary
The Complete Infidel's Guide to Iran
by Robert Spencer 2016 256 pages
3.53
73 ratings
Religion
Middle East
Politics
Zeitoun Summary
Zeitoun
by Dave Eggers 2009 342 pages
4.05
80k+ ratings
Book Club
Biography
History
Ain't I a Woman Summary
Ain't I a Woman
Black Women and Feminism
by bell hooks 1981 205 pages
4.51
19k+ ratings
Feminism
Race
History
Natives Summary
Natives
Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
by Akala 2018 352 pages
4.53
22k+ ratings
History
Politics
Race
No Straight Road Takes You There Summary
No Straight Road Takes You There
Essays for Uneven Terrain
by Rebecca Solnit 2025 176 pages
4.16
1k+ ratings
Essays
Feminism
Politics
Manufacturing Consent Summary
Manufacturing Consent
Noam Chomsky and the Media
by Mark Achbar 1994 264 pages
4.41
500+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism Summary
The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism
The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
by Christopher Hitchens 2011 332 pages
4.11
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Essays
Revolt Against the Modern World Summary
Revolt Against the Modern World
by Julius Evola 1934 375 pages
3.98
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
The Wages of Whiteness Summary
The Wages of Whiteness
Race and the Making of the American Working Class
by David R. Roediger 1991 197 pages
3.99
2k+ ratings
History
Race
Politics
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse Summary
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse
Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
by William Neuman 2022 352 pages
4.13
1k+ ratings
History
Politics
Economics
The Age of Extraction Summary
The Age of Extraction
How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
by Tim Wu 2025 224 pages
3.91
500+ ratings
Technology
Economics
Politics
The New Leviathans Summary
The New Leviathans
Thoughts After Liberalism
by John Gray 2023 178 pages
3.42
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
The Fight in the Fields Summary
The Fight in the Fields
Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement
by Susan Ferriss 1997 352 pages
4.00
99 ratings
History
Politics
Labor
The Indispensable Right Summary
The Indispensable Right
Free Speech in an Age of Rage
by Jonathan Turley 2024 432 pages
4.36
400 ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
Unworthy Republic Summary
Unworthy Republic
The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
by Claudio Saunt 2020 396 pages
4.22
1k+ ratings
History
American History
Politics
Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism Summary
Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
by John Calvert 2009 256 pages
4.01
132 ratings
History
Islam
Politics
2054 Summary
2054
by Elliot Ackerman 2024 304 pages
3.41
3k+ ratings
Science Fiction
Politics
Thriller
Spy Schools Summary
Spy Schools
How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities
by Daniel Golden 2017 352 pages
3.57
315 ratings
History
Politics
Education
American Holocaust Summary
American Holocaust
The Conquest of the New World
by David E. Stannard 1992 408 pages
4.34
1k+ ratings
History
Native American
Politics
The Accidental Superpower Summary
The Accidental Superpower
Ten Years On
by Peter Zeihan 2023 409 pages
4.46
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
United States of Distraction Summary
United States of Distraction
Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (And What We Can Do About It)
by Mickey Huff 2019 248 pages
3.74
114 ratings
Politics
History
American
Escape from Rome Summary
Escape from Rome
The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
by Walter Scheidel 2019 670 pages
4.05
482 ratings
History
Economics
Ancient History
Outclassed Summary
Outclassed
How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back
by Joan C. Williams 2025 368 pages
4.19
237 ratings
Politics
Labor
Economics
Mexifornia Summary
Mexifornia
A State of Becoming
by Victor Davis Hanson 2003 179 pages
3.93
500+ ratings
Politics
History
American History
Uncivil Agreement Summary
Uncivil Agreement
How Politics Became Our Identity
by Lilliana Mason 2018 192 pages
3.84
500+ ratings
Politics
Political Science
Psychology
Angrynomics Summary
Angrynomics
by Eric Lonergan 2020 192 pages
3.90
500+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
Adriatic Summary
Adriatic
A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age
by Robert D. Kaplan 2022 368 pages
3.61
500+ ratings
History
Travel
Politics
Jesus and John Wayne Summary
Jesus and John Wayne
How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
by Kristin Kobes Du Mez 2020 356 pages
4.25
42k+ ratings
History
Religion
Politics
Limits to Medicine Summary
Limits to Medicine
Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
by Ivan Illich 1974 320 pages
4.04
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Medicine
Health
Where Law Ends Summary
Where Law Ends
Inside the Mueller Investigation
by Andrew Weissmann 2020 403 pages
4.38
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
Law
All the Single Ladies Summary
All the Single Ladies
by Rebecca Traister 2016 339 pages
4.00
17k+ ratings
Feminism
History
Politics
The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran Summary
The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran
by Robert Spencer 2009 260 pages
3.72
500+ ratings
Religion
Islam
Politics
The Deadline Summary
The Deadline
Essays
by Jill Lepore 2023 622 pages
4.31
500+ ratings
Essays
History
Politics
Black-Owned Summary
Black-Owned
The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
by Char Adams 2025 304 pages
4.33
500+ ratings
History
Books About Books
Race
Code Warriors Summary
Code Warriors
NSA's Code Breakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union
by Stephen Budiansky 2016 416 pages
3.72
500+ ratings
History
Espionage
Politics
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