American History Book Summaries

The Cold War Summary
The Cold War
A New History
by John Lewis Gaddis 2005 352 pages
3.95
8.0K ratings
History
Politics
War
Team of Rivals Summary
Team of Rivals
The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin 2005 916 pages
4.28
194.6K ratings
History
Biography
Politics
Benjamin Franklin Summary
Benjamin Franklin
An American Life
by Walter Isaacson 2003 586 pages
4.05
145.9K ratings
Biography
History
American History
Appetite for America Summary
Appetite for America
How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West
by Stephen Fried 2010 518 pages
4.20
1.2K ratings
History
Biography
American History
1493 Summary
1493
Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
by Charles C. Mann 2011 557 pages
4.12
20.4K ratings
History
Science
American History
One Nation Under Blackmail Summary
One Nation Under Blackmail
The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Organized Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein, Vol. 2
by Whitney Alyse Webb 2022 432 pages
4.45
414 ratings
Politics
History
Conspiracy Theories
Tried by War Summary
Tried by War
Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
by James M. McPherson 2008 329 pages
4.09
5.9K ratings
History
Civil War
Biography
Common Sense Summary
Common Sense
by Thomas Paine 1776 104 pages
4.00
38.2K ratings
History
Classics
Philosophy
Capitalism in America Summary
Capitalism in America
An Economic History of the United States
by Alan Greenspan 2018 496 pages
4.07
2.2K ratings
Economics
History
Business
The Jakarta Method Summary
The Jakarta Method
Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
by Vincent Bevins 2020 320 pages
4.61
13.8K ratings
History
Politics
Asia
Tyranny of the Minority Summary
Tyranny of the Minority
Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
by Steven Levitsky 2023 368 pages
4.40
3.2K ratings
Politics
History
Political Science
The Demon of Unrest Summary
The Demon of Unrest
A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
by Erik Larson 2024 565 pages
4.19
46.6K ratings
History
Civil War
Politics
1491 Summary
1491
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann 2005 563 pages
4.05
92.2K ratings
History
American History
Anthropology
The Bill of Obligations Summary
The Bill of Obligations
The Ten Habits of Good Citizens
by Richard N. Haass 2023 240 pages
4.14
1.4K ratings
Politics
History
American History
A People’s History of the United States Summary
A People’s History of the United States
1492 - Present
by Howard Zinn 1980 729 pages
4.08
257.1K ratings
History
Politics
American History
How the Word Is Passed Summary
How the Word Is Passed
A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
by Clint Smith 2021 336 pages
4.71
37.3K ratings
History
Race
Social Justice
JFK's Forgotten Crisis Summary
JFK's Forgotten Crisis
Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-Indian War
by Bruce Riedel 2015 177 pages
4.16
404 ratings
History
India
Politics
When the Clock Broke Summary
When the Clock Broke
Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
by John Ganz 2024 432 pages
4.09
3.1K ratings
History
Politics
American History
The House of Morgan Summary
The House of Morgan
An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
by Ron Chernow 1990 812 pages
3.96
12.1K ratings
History
Biography
Business
The Best and the Brightest Summary
The Best and the Brightest
by David Halberstam 1969 688 pages
4.27
12.6K ratings
History
Politics
War
The Greater Journey Summary
The Greater Journey
Americans in Paris
by David McCullough 2011 558 pages
3.94
20.3K ratings
History
France
Biography
Leadership Summary
Leadership
In Turbulent Times
by Doris Kearns Goodwin 2018 473 pages
4.40
15.3K ratings
History
Leadership
Biography
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge Summary
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge
George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition
by Erica Armstrong Dunbar 2019 272 pages
3.97
1.5K ratings
Biography
History
Middle Grade
Killing Hope Summary
Killing Hope
U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II
by William Blum 1995 500 pages
4.26
2.0K ratings
History
Politics
War
The Tycoons Summary
The Tycoons
How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
by Charles R. Morris 2005 400 pages
3.74
2.1K ratings
History
Biography
Business
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything Summary
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything
Tales from the Pentagon
by Rosa Brooks 2016 448 pages
3.93
1.8K ratings
Politics
History
Military Fiction
The Second Founding Summary
The Second Founding
How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
by Eric Foner 2019 224 pages
4.23
2.5K ratings
History
American History
Civil War
Modern Times Summary
Modern Times
The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
by Paul Johnson 1983 880 pages
4.27
2.9K ratings
History
Politics
World History
Titan Summary
Titan
The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
by Ron Chernow 1998 832 pages
4.16
34.7K ratings
Biography
History
Business
The Bridge Summary
The Bridge
The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
by David Remnick 2010 656 pages
4.10
4.6K ratings
Biography
Politics
History
The Wise Men Summary
The Wise Men
Six Friends and the World They Made
by Walter Isaacson 1986 864 pages
4.10
4.2K ratings
History
Biography
Politics
Destiny of the Republic Summary
Destiny of the Republic
A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
by Candice Millard 2011 339 pages
4.22
80.2K ratings
History
Biography
American History
Fight Summary
Fight
Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House
by Jonathan Allen 2025 352 pages
4.06
1.7K ratings
Politics
History
The United States Of America
The Great Debate Summary
The Great Debate
Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
by Yuval Levin 2013 296 pages
3.87
1.4K ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
Alexander Hamilton Summary
Alexander Hamilton
by Ron Chernow 2004 818 pages
4.22
192.4K ratings
History
Biography
American History
Hitler's American Model Summary
Hitler's American Model
The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
by James Q. Whitman 2017 208 pages
3.91
1.6K ratings
History
Politics
Race
American Sketches Summary
American Sketches
Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane
by Walter Isaacson 2009 304 pages
3.76
1.7K ratings
Biography
History
Politics
Lies My Teacher Told Me Summary
Lies My Teacher Told Me
Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by James W. Loewen 1995 383 pages
3.97
72.0K ratings
History
Education
Politics
The Hamlet Fire Summary
The Hamlet Fire
A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives
by Bryant Simon 2017 320 pages
4.11
235 ratings
History
American History
Labor
Killing the Witches Summary
Killing the Witches
The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
by Bill O'Reilly 2023 291 pages
3.64
14.2K ratings
History
Historical
Witches
Who Stole the American Dream? Summary
Who Stole the American Dream?
by Hedrick Smith 2012 592 pages
4.19
854 ratings
Politics
Economics
History
The Obamas Summary
The Obamas
by Jodi Kantor 2011 368 pages
3.69
2.3K ratings
Biography
Politics
History
The Robber Barons Summary
The Robber Barons
by Matthew Josephson 1934 496 pages
3.73
402 ratings
History
Business
American History
Andrew Carnegie Summary
Andrew Carnegie
by David Nasaw 2006 896 pages
3.85
5.7K ratings
Biography
History
Business
Bad Mexicans Summary
Bad Mexicans
Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
by Kelly Lytle Hernández 2022 372 pages
4.19
2.1K ratings
History
Politics
Race
The Situation Room Summary
The Situation Room
The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
by George Stephanopoulos 2024 368 pages
4.36
9.0K ratings
History
Politics
American History
Dark Alliance Summary
Dark Alliance
The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
by Gary Webb 1998 601 pages
4.29
1.9K ratings
History
Politics
True Crime
First Principles Summary
First Principles
What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
by Thomas E. Ricks 2020 416 pages
4.07
3.7K ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
Fiasco Summary
Fiasco
The American Military Adventure in Iraq
by Thomas E. Ricks 2006 482 pages
4.09
7.7K ratings
History
Politics
Military Fiction
Rosa Parks Summary
Rosa Parks
My Story
by Rosa Parks 1948 188 pages
4.18
2.6K ratings
Biography
History
Memoir
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