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Hillbilly Elegy

av J.D. Vance • 2016

Poverty teaches a lesson that keeps you poor: your effort doesn't matter.

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500 000+

⛰️ Appalachian Memoir 🏭 White Working Class 🧸 Childhood Adversity 📈 Upward Mobility 🔁 Generational Cycles

Oppslukende

Hillbilly Elegy

Poverty teaches a lesson that keeps you poor: your effort doesn't matter.

av J.D. Vance 2016 274 sider

3.83

500 000+ vurderinger

⛰️ Appalachian Memoir 🏭 White Working Class 🧸 Childhood Adversity 📈 Upward Mobility 🔁 Generational Cycles

Diplomacy

av Henry Kissinger • 1994

Europe balanced power; America chases ideals. Three centuries of diplomatic collision.

4.25

9 000+

🏛️ International Relations 📜 Diplomatic History 🌍 Geopolitics ⚖️ Balance Of Power 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy

Diplomacy

Europe balanced power; America chases ideals. Three centuries of diplomatic collision.

av Henry Kissinger 1994 912 sider

4.25

9 000+ vurderinger

🏛️ International Relations 📜 Diplomatic History 🌍 Geopolitics ⚖️ Balance Of Power 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy

Benjamin Franklin

av Walter Isaacson • 2003

A runaway apprentice who tamed lightning, charmed Paris, and lost a son to the crown.

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🏛️ Founding Fathers ⚔️ American Revolution 🧠 Polymath Biography 💡 Enlightenment Era 🔨 Self-Made Lives

Benjamin Franklin

A runaway apprentice who tamed lightning, charmed Paris, and lost a son to the crown.

av Walter Isaacson 2003 586 sider

4.05

100 000+ vurderinger

🏛️ Founding Fathers ⚔️ American Revolution 🧠 Polymath Biography 💡 Enlightenment Era 🔨 Self-Made Lives

The Making of Asian America

av Erika Lee • 2015

Asian American history begins with Spanish galleons in Mexico, a century before the Gold Rush.

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🏛️ Asian American History 🌏 Asian Diaspora 🚢 Transpacific History ✋ Anti Asian Racism ⚖️ Legal Exclusion

The Making of Asian America

Asian American history begins with Spanish galleons in Mexico, a century before the Gold Rush.

av Erika Lee 2015 528 sider

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2 000+ vurderinger

🏛️ Asian American History 🌏 Asian Diaspora 🚢 Transpacific History ✋ Anti Asian Racism ⚖️ Legal Exclusion

Wizard

av Marc J. Seifer • 1996

Electrified the world, outsmarted by rivals, bankrupted by a giant tower: the Nikola Tesla story.

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📝 Inventor Biography ⚡ History Of Electricity ⚔️ War Of Currents 💰 Gilded Age 🎩 Eccentric Inventor

Wizard

Electrified the world, outsmarted by rivals, bankrupted by a giant tower: the Nikola Tesla story.

av Marc J. Seifer 1996 678 sider

3.73

6 000+ vurderinger

📝 Inventor Biography ⚡ History Of Electricity ⚔️ War Of Currents 💰 Gilded Age 🎩 Eccentric Inventor

The Devil in the White City

av Erik Larson • 2003

An architect builds a wonder. A doctor builds a hotel next door for murder. Chicago, 1893.

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📯 Gilded Age 🎡 World's Fairs 🔪 Serial Killers 🏙️ Urban History 🏛️ Architectural History

The Devil in the White City

An architect builds a wonder. A doctor builds a hotel next door for murder. Chicago, 1893.

av Erik Larson 2003 464 sider

4.00

700 000+ vurderinger

📯 Gilded Age 🎡 World's Fairs 🔪 Serial Killers 🏙️ Urban History 🏛️ Architectural History

The Image

av Daniel J. Boorstin • 1961

Most news is manufactured. We know it. And we still prefer the show over the real.

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1 000+

🎙️ Media Criticism 🎭 Manufactured Reality 🌟 Celebrity Culture 🏛️ Image Politics 📢 Advertising Critique

The Image

Most news is manufactured. We know it. And we still prefer the show over the real.

av Daniel J. Boorstin 1961 336 sider

4.07

1 000+ vurderinger

🎙️ Media Criticism 🎭 Manufactured Reality 🌟 Celebrity Culture 🏛️ Image Politics 📢 Advertising Critique

The Road to Unfreedom

av Timothy Snyder • 2018

The 2016 election was the target of a Russian authoritarian project decades in the making.

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🏛️ Modern Authoritarianism 🇷🇺 Russian Political Thought 💻 Information Warfare 🗺️ Eurasianism 📉 Democratic Backsliding

The Road to Unfreedom

The 2016 election was the target of a Russian authoritarian project decades in the making.

av Timothy Snyder 2018 359 sider

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10 000+ vurderinger

🏛️ Modern Authoritarianism 🇷🇺 Russian Political Thought 💻 Information Warfare 🗺️ Eurasianism 📉 Democratic Backsliding

From Poor Law to Welfare State

av Walter I. Trattner • 1974

How America turned helping the poor from an act of justice into a judgment on character.

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318

🏛️ Social Welfare History 🇺🇸 American Social Policy ⚖️ Poverty And Morality 🏥 Institutional Care ⛪ Religious Charity

From Poor Law to Welfare State

How America turned helping the poor from an act of justice into a judgment on character.

av Walter I. Trattner 1974 464 sider

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318 vurderinger

🏛️ Social Welfare History 🇺🇸 American Social Policy ⚖️ Poverty And Morality 🏥 Institutional Care ⛪ Religious Charity

Den usynlige mannen

av Ralph Ellison • 1952

He steals electricity and lives underground because the world above never learned to see him.

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🎓 Bildungsroman 📚 African American Classic 🎭 Unnamed Narrator 🛤️ Picaresque Journey 🏛️ Institutional Betrayal

Den usynlige mannen

He steals electricity and lives underground because the world above never learned to see him.

av Ralph Ellison 1952 581 sider

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200 000+ vurderinger

🎓 Bildungsroman 📚 African American Classic 🎭 Unnamed Narrator 🛤️ Picaresque Journey 🏛️ Institutional Betrayal

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

av Jane Jacobs • 1961

Slums with low crime and safe sidewalks: the invisible logic cities follow when planners look away.

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🏙️ Urban Planning 🏚️ Urban Renewal 🚶 Street Life 🌆 New Urbanism 🏘️ Urban Density

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Slums with low crime and safe sidewalks: the invisible logic cities follow when planners look away.

av Jane Jacobs 1961 472 sider

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🏙️ Urban Planning 🏚️ Urban Renewal 🚶 Street Life 🌆 New Urbanism 🏘️ Urban Density

Thank You for Smoking

av Christopher Buckley • 1994

A tobacco spokesman charms his critics until extremists cover him in nicotine patches.

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🏢 Corporate Satire 📺 Media Spin 🏛️ Lobbying Culture 🤝 Unlikely Allies 🖤 Dark Comedy

Thank You for Smoking

A tobacco spokesman charms his critics until extremists cover him in nicotine patches.

av Christopher Buckley 1994 272 sider

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13 000+ vurderinger

🏢 Corporate Satire 📺 Media Spin 🏛️ Lobbying Culture 🤝 Unlikely Allies 🖤 Dark Comedy

The German Wife

av Kelly Rimmer • 2022

A German wife hides her past from a camp liberator whose own trauma endangers them both.

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😔 Postwar Guilt 🕰️ Dual Timeline ⚖️ Moral Compromise 🌾 Dust Bowl 🔴 Rise Of Nazism

The German Wife

A German wife hides her past from a camp liberator whose own trauma endangers them both.

av Kelly Rimmer 2022 464 sider

4.37

52 000+ vurderinger

😔 Postwar Guilt 🕰️ Dual Timeline ⚖️ Moral Compromise 🌾 Dust Bowl 🔴 Rise Of Nazism

Destiny of the Republic

av Candice Millard • 2011

Survivable gunshot, deadly cure: a madman, a president, and the medical failure that finished him.

4.24

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🗳️ Gilded Age Politics ⚕️ Medical History 🏛️ Presidential Biography 🔫 Political Assassination 🧠 Criminal Insanity

Destiny of the Republic

Survivable gunshot, deadly cure: a madman, a president, and the medical failure that finished him.

av Candice Millard 2011 339 sider

4.24

86 000+ vurderinger

🗳️ Gilded Age Politics ⚕️ Medical History 🏛️ Presidential Biography 🔫 Political Assassination 🧠 Criminal Insanity

Capitalism in America

av Alan Greenspan • 2018

America's 400-year economic experiment: why each era's solution becomes the next era's problem.

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2 000+

🏛️ Economic History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 🏢 Business History 💵 Monetary History ⚖️ Government And Markets

Capitalism in America

America's 400-year economic experiment: why each era's solution becomes the next era's problem.

av Alan Greenspan 2018 496 sider

4.06

2 000+ vurderinger

🏛️ Economic History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 🏢 Business History 💵 Monetary History ⚖️ Government And Markets

The Robber Barons

av Matthew Josephson • 1934

A handful of men seized America's railroads, oil, and steel; government helped them do it.

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429

💰 Gilded Age 🏭 Captains Of Industry 🎩 Monopoly And Trusts 🚂 Railroad Empires 🏛️ Political Corruption

The Robber Barons

A handful of men seized America's railroads, oil, and steel; government helped them do it.

av Matthew Josephson 1934 496 sider

3.73

429 vurderinger

💰 Gilded Age 🏭 Captains Of Industry 🎩 Monopoly And Trusts 🚂 Railroad Empires 🏛️ Political Corruption

War on Peace

av Ronan Farrow • 2018

Before Trump, before forever war, Washington gutted the one tool that could prevent them: diplomacy.

4.14

8 000+

📜 Us Foreign Policy 🕊️ American Diplomacy 🛡️ National Security State 🌐 Liberal Internationalism 💬 Soft Power

War on Peace

Before Trump, before forever war, Washington gutted the one tool that could prevent them: diplomacy.

av Ronan Farrow 2018 392 sider

4.14

8 000+ vurderinger

📜 Us Foreign Policy 🕊️ American Diplomacy 🛡️ National Security State 🌐 Liberal Internationalism 💬 Soft Power

A Fever in the Heartland

av Timothy Egan • 2023

In 1920s Indiana, the Klan was the law. One woman's dying declaration exposed the regime.

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👻 Klan History 🏛️ Political Corruption 🔪 True Crime History 📰 Exposé Journalism ⚖️ Legal Reckoning

A Fever in the Heartland

In 1920s Indiana, the Klan was the law. One woman's dying declaration exposed the regime.

av Timothy Egan 2023 432 sider

4.35

49 000+ vurderinger

👻 Klan History 🏛️ Political Corruption 🔪 True Crime History 📰 Exposé Journalism ⚖️ Legal Reckoning

LatinoLand

av Marie Arana • 2024

Thirty-three countries, five centuries of mixing: the real story inside the label 'Latino.'

4.31

500+

🪪 Latino Identity 🧳 Immigration History 📚 Ethnic Studies 🧬 Racial Formation 🗣️ Immigrant Narratives

LatinoLand

Thirty-three countries, five centuries of mixing: the real story inside the label 'Latino.'

av Marie Arana 2024 573 sider

4.31

500+ vurderinger

🪪 Latino Identity 🧳 Immigration History 📚 Ethnic Studies 🧬 Racial Formation 🗣️ Immigrant Narratives

Mannen i det høye slottet

av Philip K. Dick • 1962

The Axis won. A banned book says they didn’t. Reading it is a death sentence.

3.59

200 000+

🕰️ Alternate History 🇩🇪 Nazi Occupation 🕵️ Spy Defector 📖 Book Within A Book 🎲 Divination And Fate

Mannen i det høye slottet

The Axis won. A banned book says they didn’t. Reading it is a death sentence.

av Philip K. Dick 1962 259 sider

3.59

200 000+ vurderinger

🕰️ Alternate History 🇩🇪 Nazi Occupation 🕵️ Spy Defector 📖 Book Within A Book 🎲 Divination And Fate

John Adams

av David McCullough • 2001

Washington led the army, Jefferson wrote the words. Adams did the work that saved them both.

4.09

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👔 Founding Fathers 🇺🇸 Presidential Biography ⚔️ Revolutionary War Era 📜 Diplomatic History 📖 Narrative History

John Adams

Washington led the army, Jefferson wrote the words. Adams did the work that saved them both.

av David McCullough 2001 751 sider

4.09

300 000+ vurderinger

👔 Founding Fathers 🇺🇸 Presidential Biography ⚔️ Revolutionary War Era 📜 Diplomatic History 📖 Narrative History

The Plot Against America

av Philip Roth • 2004

Lindbergh wins the 1940 election, and a Newark Jewish family becomes the enemy.

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70 000+

🕰️ Alternate History ✡️ Jewish Identity 🏚️ Family Under Siege 🧒 Wartime Childhood 😨 Creeping Dread

The Plot Against America

Lindbergh wins the 1940 election, and a Newark Jewish family becomes the enemy.

av Philip Roth 2004 391 sider

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70 000+ vurderinger

🕰️ Alternate History ✡️ Jewish Identity 🏚️ Family Under Siege 🧒 Wartime Childhood 😨 Creeping Dread

The Tyranny of Good Intentions

av Paul Craig Roberts • 2000

Good intentions retooled criminal justice into a weapon, and the Constitution is losing.

4.06

127

⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform 📜 Constitutional Law 🏛️ Prosecutorial Power 🔒 Government Overreach 🔗 Mass Incarceration

The Tyranny of Good Intentions

Good intentions retooled criminal justice into a weapon, and the Constitution is losing.

av Paul Craig Roberts 2000 186 sider

4.06

127 vurderinger

⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform 📜 Constitutional Law 🏛️ Prosecutorial Power 🔒 Government Overreach 🔗 Mass Incarceration

On Boxing

av Joyce Carol Oates • 1987

A novelist finds that inside the ring, pain, time, and masculinity obey different laws.

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1 000+

🥊 Boxing Culture ✍️ Literary Sports Writing 🧠 Philosophy Of Sport 💪 Masculinity And Violence 🩸 Athletic Suffering

On Boxing

A novelist finds that inside the ring, pain, time, and masculinity obey different laws.

av Joyce Carol Oates 1987 304 sider

3.89

1 000+ vurderinger

🥊 Boxing Culture ✍️ Literary Sports Writing 🧠 Philosophy Of Sport 💪 Masculinity And Violence 🩸 Athletic Suffering

Lincoln Highway

av Amor Towles • 2021

Two brothers aim for California. Two stowaways from a work farm demand New York instead.

4.22

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🚗 Midcentury Road Trip 🇺🇸 1950s Americana 🧭 Coming-Of-Age Journey 🤝 Found Family 🕊️ Redemption Arc

Lincoln Highway

Two brothers aim for California. Two stowaways from a work farm demand New York instead.

av Amor Towles 2021 576 sider

4.22

300 000+ vurderinger

🚗 Midcentury Road Trip 🇺🇸 1950s Americana 🧭 Coming-Of-Age Journey 🤝 Found Family 🕊️ Redemption Arc

Benjamin Graham

av Benjamin Graham • 1996

Before value investing had rules, its founder lost a fortune on fireworks. His memoir explains why.

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253

🧱 Value Investing 🏦 Wall Street History 📚 Self-Education 📉 Financial Crashes 🗳️ Shareholder Activism

Benjamin Graham

Before value investing had rules, its founder lost a fortune on fireworks. His memoir explains why.

av Benjamin Graham 1996 351 sider

4.32

253 vurderinger

🧱 Value Investing 🏦 Wall Street History 📚 Self-Education 📉 Financial Crashes 🗳️ Shareholder Activism

All the Shah's Men

av Stephen Kinzer • 2003

The 1953 CIA coup in Iran: how a quick win for oil created decades of blowback.

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🏛️ Iranian History 🕵️ Covert Operations 🛢️ Oil Geopolitics ❄️ Cold War Interventions 💥 Regime Change

All the Shah's Men

The 1953 CIA coup in Iran: how a quick win for oil created decades of blowback.

av Stephen Kinzer 2003 272 sider

4.29

12 000+ vurderinger

🏛️ Iranian History 🕵️ Covert Operations 🛢️ Oil Geopolitics ❄️ Cold War Interventions 💥 Regime Change

New Cold Wars

av David E. Sanger • 2024

The post-Cold War peace was a mirage. The new rivalry is hybrid, global, and nuclear.

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🌐 Geopolitics 🤝 International Relations ⚔️ Great Power Competition 💻 Hybrid Warfare ☢️ Nuclear Strategy

New Cold Wars

The post-Cold War peace was a mirage. The new rivalry is hybrid, global, and nuclear.

av David E. Sanger 2024 528 sider

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2 000+ vurderinger

🌐 Geopolitics 🤝 International Relations ⚔️ Great Power Competition 💻 Hybrid Warfare ☢️ Nuclear Strategy

Men Without Women

av Ernest Hemingway • 1927

Bereft of women, men face war and mortality in Hemingway's classic short stories.

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16 000+

✍️ Literary Minimalism 🥂 Lost Generation 💪 Masculinity In Crisis 🗿 Stoic Protagonists 😶 Existential Dread

Men Without Women

Bereft of women, men face war and mortality in Hemingway's classic short stories.

av Ernest Hemingway 1927 153 sider

3.58

16 000+ vurderinger

✍️ Literary Minimalism 🥂 Lost Generation 💪 Masculinity In Crisis 🗿 Stoic Protagonists 😶 Existential Dread

Why Nothing Works

av Marc J. Dunkelman • 2025

Progressivism has two souls: one builds, one stops. The stopper won, so nothing gets built.

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🇺🇸 American Progressivism 🔒 Bureaucratic Gridlock 🏘️ Housing Crisis 🏗️ Infrastructure Politics 🏡 Local Control

Why Nothing Works

Progressivism has two souls: one builds, one stops. The stopper won, so nothing gets built.

av Marc J. Dunkelman 2025 416 sider

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1 000+ vurderinger

🇺🇸 American Progressivism 🔒 Bureaucratic Gridlock 🏘️ Housing Crisis 🏗️ Infrastructure Politics 🏡 Local Control

Our Malady

av Timothy Snyder • 2020

From a hospital bed, a tyranny scholar diagnoses America's for-profit medicine as a freedom crisis.

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🇺🇸 American Healthcare 🏥 Healthcare Reform 💰 Profit In Medicine ⚖️ Health Inequality 🌐 Universal Healthcare

Our Malady

From a hospital bed, a tyranny scholar diagnoses America's for-profit medicine as a freedom crisis.

av Timothy Snyder 2020 181 sider

4.14

2 000+ vurderinger

🇺🇸 American Healthcare 🏥 Healthcare Reform 💰 Profit In Medicine ⚖️ Health Inequality 🌐 Universal Healthcare

Celebrity Nation

av Landon Y. Jones • 2023

America traded heroes for celebrities. The deal changed how we vote, spend, and measure a life.

3.29

138

🎭 Celebrity Culture 📖 Cultural Criticism 👁️ Attention Economy 📱 Social Media Culture 🎙️ Media Studies

Celebrity Nation

America traded heroes for celebrities. The deal changed how we vote, spend, and measure a life.

av Landon Y. Jones 2023 216 sider

3.29

138 vurderinger

🎭 Celebrity Culture 📖 Cultural Criticism 👁️ Attention Economy 📱 Social Media Culture 🎙️ Media Studies

Wright Brothers, Wrong Story

av William Elliott azelgrove • 2018

Wilbur Wright solved flight alone. Orville Wright spent decades burying that fact.

3.66

130

🛩️ Aviation History 🔍 Revisionist Biography 🔧 Inventor Biography ⚖️ Patent Wars 🌟 Unsung Genius

Wright Brothers, Wrong Story

Wilbur Wright solved flight alone. Orville Wright spent decades burying that fact.

av William Elliott azelgrove 2018 288 sider

3.66

130 vurderinger

🛩️ Aviation History 🔍 Revisionist Biography 🔧 Inventor Biography ⚖️ Patent Wars 🌟 Unsung Genius

Ain't No Makin' It

av Jay MacLeod • 2008

One group believed hard work would save them; the other didn't. Class position decided their fates.

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1 000+

🏙️ Urban Poverty 📝 Ethnographic Sociology ⚖️ Class Inequality 🔄 Social Reproduction 🚧 Structural Barriers

Ain't No Makin' It

One group believed hard work would save them; the other didn't. Class position decided their fates.

av Jay MacLeod 2008 537 sider

4.07

1 000+ vurderinger

🏙️ Urban Poverty 📝 Ethnographic Sociology ⚖️ Class Inequality 🔄 Social Reproduction 🚧 Structural Barriers

The End of Race Politics

av Coleman Hughes • 2024

Colorblindness was once anti-racism's core demand. Today it is treated as the enemy.

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🎯 Colorblindness Debate 🏷️ Identity Politics 📊 Racial Disparities ✊ Civil Rights Tradition 🧬 Social Construct Of Race

The End of Race Politics

Colorblindness was once anti-racism's core demand. Today it is treated as the enemy.

av Coleman Hughes 2024 256 sider

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2 000+ vurderinger

🎯 Colorblindness Debate 🏷️ Identity Politics 📊 Racial Disparities ✊ Civil Rights Tradition 🧬 Social Construct Of Race

Strange Rites

av Tara Isabella Burton • 2020

Americans didn't quit religion. They replaced church with SoulCycle, fandom, and social justice.

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🇺🇸 American Religion 📊 Sociology Of Religion 🌱 Secular Spirituality 🧩 Personalized Faith 🛒 Spiritual Marketplace

Strange Rites

Americans didn't quit religion. They replaced church with SoulCycle, fandom, and social justice.

av Tara Isabella Burton 2020 301 sider

3.88

1 000+ vurderinger

🇺🇸 American Religion 📊 Sociology Of Religion 🌱 Secular Spirituality 🧩 Personalized Faith 🛒 Spiritual Marketplace

American Kompromat

av Craig Unger • 2021

The KGB spent decades turning a developer into a candidate; money was the kompromat.

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1 000+

🕵️ Russian Intelligence 🕸️ Political Conspiracy 💸 Money Laundering 🕶️ Espionage Tradecraft 🔍 Investigative Journalism

American Kompromat

The KGB spent decades turning a developer into a candidate; money was the kompromat.

av Craig Unger 2021 368 sider

3.91

1 000+ vurderinger

🕵️ Russian Intelligence 🕸️ Political Conspiracy 💸 Money Laundering 🕶️ Espionage Tradecraft 🔍 Investigative Journalism

The Great Escape

av Saket Soni • 2023

Trapped in a US labor camp, hundreds of Indian men escaped, then began a 1,500-mile march.

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⛓️ Labor Trafficking 🚨 Immigration Enforcement ✊ Labor Organizing 📜 Indentured Servitude ⚖️ Legal Battles

The Great Escape

Trapped in a US labor camp, hundreds of Indian men escaped, then began a 1,500-mile march.

av Saket Soni 2023 368 sider

4.50

500+ vurderinger

⛓️ Labor Trafficking 🚨 Immigration Enforcement ✊ Labor Organizing 📜 Indentured Servitude ⚖️ Legal Battles

Edge of Eternity

av Ken Follett • 2014

Three families fight the Cold War from their kitchens: East Berlin, Washington, and Moscow.

4.21

100 000+

🧱 Cold War Saga 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multi-Generational Epic 🏛️ Political Intrigue 💞 Interracial Romance 👁️ Surveillance State

Edge of Eternity

Three families fight the Cold War from their kitchens: East Berlin, Washington, and Moscow.

av Ken Follett 2014 36 sider

4.21

100 000+ vurderinger

🧱 Cold War Saga 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multi-Generational Epic 🏛️ Political Intrigue 💞 Interracial Romance 👁️ Surveillance State

Real Americans

av Rachel Khong • 2024

A wish made on a stolen lotus seed reshapes three generations of a Chinese American family.

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🏠 Multi-Generational Saga 🧧 Chinese American Identity 💰 Class Divide Romance 🔍 Family Secrets ⏳ Time Slips

Real Americans

A wish made on a stolen lotus seed reshapes three generations of a Chinese American family.

av Rachel Khong 2024 15 sider

3.94

97 000+ vurderinger

🏠 Multi-Generational Saga 🧧 Chinese American Identity 💰 Class Divide Romance 🔍 Family Secrets ⏳ Time Slips

The Stonewall Riots

av Gayle E. Pitman • 2019

A 1969 police raid ignited a rebellion that launched the modern fight for LGBT equality.

4.04

1 000+

🏳️‍🌈 Lgbtq History ✊ Civil Rights History 🌃 Underground Subcultures 👮 Police Brutality 📢 Community Activism

The Stonewall Riots

A 1969 police raid ignited a rebellion that launched the modern fight for LGBT equality.

av Gayle E. Pitman 2019 224 sider

4.04

1 000+ vurderinger

🏳️‍🌈 Lgbtq History ✊ Civil Rights History 🌃 Underground Subcultures 👮 Police Brutality 📢 Community Activism

Adrift

av Scott Galloway • 2022

Middle class collapsed, billionaires multiplied, young men stopped dating. Charts that explain why.

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💰 Income Inequality 👁️ Attention Economy 📉 Middle Class Decline 💼 Shareholder Capitalism 📱 Social Media Harms

Adrift

Middle class collapsed, billionaires multiplied, young men stopped dating. Charts that explain why.

av Scott Galloway 2022 320 sider

3.89

2 000+ vurderinger

💰 Income Inequality 👁️ Attention Economy 📉 Middle Class Decline 💼 Shareholder Capitalism 📱 Social Media Harms

Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown

av John Lithgow • 2020

A bulbous king demands a crown: satirical poems that rhyme the Trump years into infamy.

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🖋️ Political Poetry 🎭 Satirical Verse 🐘 Trump Presidency ⚠️ Authoritarianism 📺 Media Manipulation

Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown

A bulbous king demands a crown: satirical poems that rhyme the Trump years into infamy.

av John Lithgow 2020 104 sider

4.21

1 000+ vurderinger

🖋️ Political Poetry 🎭 Satirical Verse 🐘 Trump Presidency ⚠️ Authoritarianism 📺 Media Manipulation

Loving Learning

av Tom Little • 2015

American schools got hooked on standardized tests. The antidote began in 1919.

3.88

209

📚 Progressive Education 🔄 Education Reform 👧 Child-Centered Learning 🔬 Experiential Learning 🎲 Play-Based Learning

Loving Learning

American schools got hooked on standardized tests. The antidote began in 1919.

av Tom Little 2015 256 sider

3.88

209 vurderinger

📚 Progressive Education 🔄 Education Reform 👧 Child-Centered Learning 🔬 Experiential Learning 🎲 Play-Based Learning

Choice Theory

av William Glasser • 1999

How the frontier let America flee racism and inequality, until the wall shut the last exit.

4.01

3 000+

🇺🇸 American History 🏔️ Frontier Myth 🏹 Settler Colonialism 💰 Racial Capitalism ✨ American Exceptionalism

Choice Theory

How the frontier let America flee racism and inequality, until the wall shut the last exit.

av William Glasser 1999 368 sider

4.01

3 000+ vurderinger

🇺🇸 American History 🏔️ Frontier Myth 🏹 Settler Colonialism 💰 Racial Capitalism ✨ American Exceptionalism

The JFK Conspiracy

av Brad Meltzer • 2025

A car bomb waited at the Kennedy compound. The would-be assassin drove away, and history forgot.

4.11

6 000+

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The JFK Conspiracy

A car bomb waited at the Kennedy compound. The would-be assassin drove away, and history forgot.

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Inequality isn't fate; it's a policy choice, and the architects designed it for themselves.

3.82

1 000+

💸 Income Inequality 🏛 Political Economy 💰 Money In Politics 🏢 Corporate Power 📉 Regressive Taxation

The Great Divide

Inequality isn't fate; it's a policy choice, and the architects designed it for themselves.

av Joseph E. Stiglitz 2015 448 sider

3.82

1 000+ vurderinger

💸 Income Inequality 🏛 Political Economy 💰 Money In Politics 🏢 Corporate Power 📉 Regressive Taxation

Steal This Book

av Abbie Hoffman • 1971

The counterculture manual: how to get everything free and fight the system.

3.60

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Steal This Book

The counterculture manual: how to get everything free and fight the system.

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3.60

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Six times more productive: America's factory floor still beats China's, but policy hasn't caught up.

3.73

🏭 American Manufacturing 🏛️ Industrial Policy ⚙️ Innovation Policy 👷 Skills Gap 🏗️ Reshoring

Entrepreneurial Nation

Six times more productive: America's factory floor still beats China's, but policy hasn't caught up.

av Ro Khanna 2012 272 sider

3.73

30 vurderinger

🏭 American Manufacturing 🏛️ Industrial Policy ⚙️ Innovation Policy 👷 Skills Gap 🏗️ Reshoring

Russian Roulette

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Putin ordered it, WikiLeaks delivered it, and Trump's team kept taking the meetings.

4.20

6 000+

🇺🇸 Election Interference 🕵️ Russian Intelligence 🐻 Putin's Russia 📢 Disinformation Campaigns 💻 Cyber Warfare

Russian Roulette

Putin ordered it, WikiLeaks delivered it, and Trump's team kept taking the meetings.

av Michael Isikoff 2018

4.20

6 000+ vurderinger

🇺🇸 Election Interference 🕵️ Russian Intelligence 🐻 Putin's Russia 📢 Disinformation Campaigns 💻 Cyber Warfare

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