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Autocracy, Inc. Summary
Autocracy, Inc.
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The Winner-Take-All Society Summary
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The Post-American World Summary
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The Great Taking Summary
The Great Taking
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Waste Land Summary
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Crisis Economics Summary
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The Tyranny of Good Intentions Summary
The Tyranny of Good Intentions
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The Dying Citizen Summary
The Dying Citizen
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4.35
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How to Stop Fascism Summary
How to Stop Fascism
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by Paul Mason 2021 320 pages
4.05
390 ratings
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How Tyrants Fall Summary
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by Marcel Dirsus 2024 274 pages
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The Assault on Truth Summary
The Assault on Truth
Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism
by Peter Oborne 2021 251 pages
3.98
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National Populism Summary
National Populism
The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy
by Roger Eatwell 2018 374 pages
3.80
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Shattered Nation Summary
Shattered Nation
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by Danny Dorling 2023 288 pages
3.97
119 ratings
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Heroic Failure Summary
Heroic Failure
Brexit and the Politics of Pain
by Fintan O'Toole 2018 240 pages
4.11
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The End of Reality Summary
The End of Reality
How Four Billionaires are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto
by Jonathan Taplin 2023 336 pages
3.92
500+ ratings
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The Invention of Russia Summary
The Invention of Russia
The Rise of Putin and The Age of Fake News
by Arkady Ostrovsky 2015 378 pages
4.01
1k+ ratings
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Winter Is Coming Summary
Winter Is Coming
Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
by Garry Kasparov 2015 290 pages
4.04
3k+ ratings
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House of Trump, House of Putin Summary
House of Trump, House of Putin
The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia
by Craig Unger 2018 382 pages
4.02
1k+ ratings
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The Fall of the House of Bush Summary
The Fall of the House of Bush
The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America's Future
by Craig Unger 2007 448 pages
4.00
202 ratings
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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
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The Silenced Majority Summary
The Silenced Majority
Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope
by Amy Goodman 2012 380 pages
4.06
251 ratings
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How Britain Ends Summary
How Britain Ends
English Nationalism and the Rebirth of Four Nations
by Gavin Esler 2021 320 pages
4.09
500+ ratings
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When the Money Runs Out Summary
When the Money Runs Out
The End of Western Affluence
by Stephen D. King 2013 304 pages
3.63
206 ratings
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Reckless Endangerment Summary
Reckless Endangerment
How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon
by Gretchen Morgenson 2011 331 pages
3.96
1k+ ratings
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The Growth Map Summary
The Growth Map
Economic Opportunity in the BRICs and Beyond
by Jim O'Neill 2011 256 pages
3.59
288 ratings
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Moveable Feasts Summary
Moveable Feasts
From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat
by Sarah Murray 2007 272 pages
3.55
205 ratings
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Facts and Other Lies Summary
Facts and Other Lies
Welcome to the Disinformation Age
by Ed Coper 2022 394 pages
4.16
242 ratings
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Giving Up Is Unforgivable Summary
Giving Up Is Unforgivable
A Manual for Keeping a Democracy
by Joyce Vance 2025 208 pages
4.28
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Rebellion Summary
Rebellion
How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart – Again
by Robert Kagan 2024 258 pages
4.39
500+ ratings
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Winner-Take-All Politics Summary
Winner-Take-All Politics
How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
by Jacob S. Hacker 2010 368 pages
4.04
2k+ ratings
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Londonistan Summary
Londonistan
by Melanie Phillips 2006 200 pages
3.60
500+ ratings
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A Necessary Evil Summary
A Necessary Evil
A History of American Distrust of Government
by Garry Wills 1999 368 pages
3.78
196 ratings
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Laboratories of Autocracy Summary
Laboratories of Autocracy
A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines
by David Pepper 2021 452 pages
4.48
338 ratings
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Iran's Grand Strategy Summary
Iran's Grand Strategy
A Political History
by Vali Nasr 2025 408 pages
4.21
500+ ratings
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Ill Winds Summary
Ill Winds
Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency
by Larry Diamond 2019 368 pages
3.99
274 ratings
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International Relations
The Destructionists Summary
The Destructionists
The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party
by Dana Milbank 2022 416 pages
4.21
1k+ ratings
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Beyond Outrage Summary
Beyond Outrage
What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it
by Robert B. Reich 2012 72 pages
4.06
2k+ ratings
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Dangerous Charisma Summary
Dangerous Charisma
by Jerrold M. Post 2019 352 pages
3.56
186 ratings
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The New Rulers of the World Summary
The New Rulers of the World
by John Pilger 2002 192 pages
4.14
1k+ ratings
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