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The Coming China Wars Summary
The Coming China Wars
Where They Will Be Fought And How They Can Be Won
by Peter Navarro 2006 263 pages
3.32
100+ ratings
China
Politics
History
Pudd'nhead Wilson Summary
Pudd'nhead Wilson
by Mark Twain 1893 160 pages
3.75
19k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Humor
The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems Summary
The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems
by T.S. Eliot 1922 88 pages
4.14
11k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Literature
Suicide of a Superpower Summary
Suicide of a Superpower
Will America Survive to 2025?
by Patrick J. Buchanan 2011 496 pages
4.02
500+ ratings
Politics
History
Cult Classics
White Noise Summary
White Noise
by Don DeLillo 1985 320 pages
3.86
100k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Un-Trumping America Summary
Un-Trumping America
A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again
by Dan Pfeiffer 2020 273 pages
4.20
2k+ ratings
Politics
History
American
Freedom from Fear Summary
Freedom from Fear
The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
by David M. Kennedy 1999 936 pages
4.20
5k+ ratings
History
American History
Politics
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays Summary
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
by David Foster Wallace 2005 343 pages
4.18
52k+ ratings
Essays
Philosophy
Humor
The Freelance Content Marketing Writer Summary
The Freelance Content Marketing Writer
Find your perfect clients, Make tons of money and Build a business you love
by Jennifer Goforth Gregory 2018 274 pages
4.54
100+ ratings
Writing
Business
American
Why Americans Hate Politics Summary
Why Americans Hate Politics
by E.J. Dionne Jr. 1991 432 pages
3.88
100+ ratings
Politics
Political Science
American
God Is Always Hiring Summary
God Is Always Hiring
50 Lessons for Finding Fulfilling Work
by Regina Brett 2014 288 pages
4.01
1k+ ratings
Self Help
Psychology
Inspirational
The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33 Summary
The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33
by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. 1957 576 pages
4.19
100+ ratings
History
Biography
American History
The Big Change Summary
The Big Change
America Transforms Itself, 1900-50
by Frederick Lewis Allen 1952 324 pages
3.94
100+ ratings
History
American History
Economics
Crisis and Command Summary
Crisis and Command
A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush
by John Yoo 2010 544 pages
3.62
100+ ratings
History
Politics
Presidents
Black Folk Summary
Black Folk
The Roots of the Black Working Class
by Blair L.M. Kelley 2023 352 pages
4.49
100+ ratings
History
Race
Politics
Rights of Man, Common Sense and Other Political Writings Summary
Rights of Man, Common Sense and Other Political Writings
by Thomas Paine 1776 544 pages
4.02
500+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
Broken Government Summary
Broken Government
How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
by John W. Dean 2007 352 pages
4.05
100+ ratings
Politics
History
American
Rich Man, Poor Man Summary
Rich Man, Poor Man
by Irwin Shaw 1969 666 pages
4.18
38k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Drama
I Used to Be Charming Summary
I Used to Be Charming
The Rest of Eve Babitz
by Eve Babitz 2019 448 pages
4.16
1k+ ratings
Essays
Memoir
Short Stories
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Summary
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 438 pages
3.91
200k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
The Stoic Summary
The Stoic
by Theodore Dreiser 1947 334 pages
4.35
2k+ ratings
Classics
Novels
American
BOOM Summary
BOOM
Oil, Money, Cowboys, Strippers, and the Energy Rush That Could Change America Forever. A Long, Strange Journey Along the Keystone XL Pipeline
by Tony Horwitz 2014 116 pages
3.89
500+ ratings
Travel
Politics
Environment
Bartleby the Scrivener Summary
Bartleby the Scrivener
by Herman Melville 1853 64 pages
3.93
70k+ ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Literature
Naked Lunch Summary
Naked Lunch
The Restored Text
by William S. Burroughs 1959 289 pages
3.46
96k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
On Fascism Summary
On Fascism
by Matthew C. Macwilliams 2020 208 pages
3.96
500+ ratings
History
Politics
Race
The Mammoth Book of the West Summary
The Mammoth Book of the West
The Making of the American West
by Jon E. Lewis 1996 544 pages
3.98
100+ ratings
History
Westerns
American History
The Republic for Which It Stands Summary
The Republic for Which It Stands
The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
by Richard White 2017 928 pages
4.17
1k+ ratings
History
American History
Politics
Less Than Zero Summary
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis 1985 208 pages
3.60
93k+ ratings
Contemporary
Novels
Classics
The Poetry of Robert Frost Summary
The Poetry of Robert Frost
by Robert Frost 1969 607 pages
4.24
48k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Literature
Christ in Concrete Summary
Christ in Concrete
by Pietro Di Donato 1937 236 pages
3.76
1k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
Private Empire Summary
Private Empire
ExxonMobil and American Power
by Steve Coll 2012 685 pages
3.99
4k+ ratings
Business
History
Politics
Tropic of Cancer Summary
Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller 1934 318 pages
3.66
75k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Men Without Women Summary
Men Without Women
by Ernest Hemingway 1927 153 pages
3.59
14k+ ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Literature
Long Day’s Journey into Night Summary
Long Day’s Journey into Night
by Eugene O'Neill 1956 179 pages
4.05
42k+ ratings
Plays
Drama
Classics
The Liberal Tradition in America Summary
The Liberal Tradition in America
by Louis Hartz 1955 348 pages
3.59
100+ ratings
Politics
History
American History
The Pleasures of the Damned Summary
The Pleasures of the Damned
by Charles Bukowski 2007 557 pages
4.35
6k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Short Stories
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense Summary
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
by Charles Bukowski 1986 320 pages
4.17
18k+ ratings
Classics
Poetry
Literature
City of Glass Summary
City of Glass
by Paul Auster 1985 203 pages
3.76
22k+ ratings
Mystery
Classics
Literature
Islands in the Stream Summary
Islands in the Stream
by Ernest Hemingway 1970 448 pages
3.88
16k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Best American Essays 2018 Summary
Best American Essays 2018
by Hilton Als 2018 336 pages
3.53
100+ ratings
Essays
Anthologies
21st Century
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway Summary
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
by Ernest Hemingway 1987 650 pages
4.29
37k+ ratings
Short Stories
Classics
Literature
Devil's Game Summary
Devil's Game
How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam
by Robert Dreyfuss 2005 400 pages
4.00
100+ ratings
Politics
History
Islam
The New York Trilogy Summary
The New York Trilogy
by Paul Auster 1987 308 pages
3.87
83k+ ratings
Mystery
American
Novels
Run With the Hunted Summary
Run With the Hunted
A Charles Bukowski Reader
by Charles Bukowski 1994 497 pages
4.26
4k+ ratings
Poetry
Short Stories
Literature
Albion's Seed Summary
Albion's Seed
Four British Folkways in America
by David Hackett Fischer 1989 946 pages
4.37
3k+ ratings
History
American History
American
Speedboat Summary
Speedboat
by Renata Adler 1976 192 pages
3.76
7k+ ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Novels
The Names Summary
The Names
by Don DeLillo 1982 339 pages
3.64
4k+ ratings
Novels
American
Greece
The Case for Trump Summary
The Case for Trump
by Victor Davis Hanson 2019 400 pages
4.21
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
Biography
No Democracy Lasts Forever Summary
No Democracy Lasts Forever
How the Constitution Threatens the United States
by Erwin Chemerinsky 2024 240 pages
3.88
100+ ratings
Politics
History
Law
America Last Summary
America Last
The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators
by Jacob Heilbrunn 2024 264 pages
3.85
100+ ratings
Politics
History
American History
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