History Book Summaries

China's Gilded Age Summary
China's Gilded Age
The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption
by Yuen Yuen Ang 2021 266 pages
4.19
275 ratings
China
Economics
Politics
Madame Blavatsky Summary
Madame Blavatsky
The Mother of Modern Spirituality
by Gary Lachman 2012 352 pages
3.82
249 ratings
Occult
Biography
History
The Myths and Gods of India Summary
The Myths and Gods of India
The Classic Work on Hindu Polytheism from the Princeton Bollingen Series
by Alain Daniélou 1960 512 pages
4.00
135 ratings
Religion
India
Hinduism
Jewish Space Lasers Summary
Jewish Space Lasers
The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories
by Mike Rothschild 2023 336 pages
3.81
825 ratings
History
Politics
Jewish
The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged) Summary
The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged)
Adventures in Math and Science
by Adam Rutherford 2021 304 pages
4.10
1.7K ratings
Science
Mathematics
History
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness Summary
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
How White People Profit from Identity Politics
by George Lipsitz 1998 296 pages
4.22
856 ratings
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
A Dark Muse Summary
A Dark Muse
A History of the Occult
by Gary Lachman 2003 384 pages
3.74
227 ratings
Occult
History
Esoterica
The Personality Brokers Summary
The Personality Brokers
The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
by Merve Emre 2018 307 pages
3.26
3.3K ratings
Psychology
History
Science
Front Row at the Trump Show Summary
Front Row at the Trump Show
by Jonathan Karl 2020 368 pages
4.27
4.2K ratings
Politics
History
Journalism
World Without Mind Summary
World Without Mind
The Existential Threat of Big Tech
by Franklin Foer 2017 272 pages
3.62
2.2K ratings
Technology
Science
Business
The Ministry of Truth Summary
The Ministry of Truth
The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
by Dorian Lynskey 2019 368 pages
4.13
1.3K ratings
History
Biography
Politics
The Atlantis Blueprint Summary
The Atlantis Blueprint
Unlocking the Ancient Mysteries of a Long-lost Civilization
by Rand Flem-Ath 2000 415 pages
3.81
569 ratings
History
Alternate History
Ancient History
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume III Summary
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume III
by Edward Gibbon 1788 1360 pages
4.25
1.4K ratings
History
Classics
Ancient History
Broke, USA Summary
Broke, USA
From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. - How the Working Poor Became Big Business
by Gary Rivlin 2010 358 pages
3.71
1.1K ratings
Economics
Politics
Poverty
The Spider Network Summary
The Spider Network
The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History
by David Enrich 2017 528 pages
4.07
6.2K ratings
Business
Finance
History
How Migration Really Works Summary
How Migration Really Works
A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in Politics
by Hein de Haas 2023 436 pages
4.38
1.6K ratings
Politics
Sociology
History
A Brief History of the Spanish Language Summary
A Brief History of the Spanish Language
by David A. Pharies 2007 248 pages
3.86
146 ratings
Language
Linguistics
History
Dispatches from Planet 3 Summary
Dispatches from Planet 3
Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond
by Marcia Bartusiak 2018 320 pages
4.11
157 ratings
Science
Astronomy
History
You are Being Lied To Summary
You are Being Lied To
The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes, and Cultural Myths
by Russ Kick 2001 350 pages
3.86
1.1K ratings
Politics
History
Conspiracy Theories
The Ultimate Evil Summary
The Ultimate Evil
by Maury Terry 1987 538 pages
3.87
2.0K ratings
True Crime
Crime
History
The Unsettling of America Summary
The Unsettling of America
Culture and Agriculture
by Wendell Berry 1977 246 pages
4.34
6.4K ratings
Agriculture
Food
Nature
Bobos in Paradise Summary
Bobos in Paradise
The New Upper Class and How They Got There
by David Brooks 2000 284 pages
3.62
4.5K ratings
Sociology
Politics
History
The Anti-capitalistic Mentality Summary
The Anti-capitalistic Mentality
by Ludwig von Mises 1956 88 pages
3.97
2.2K ratings
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
Henry V Summary
Henry V
The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
by Dan Jones 2024 432 pages
4.43
4.3K ratings
History
Biography
Medieval
A Short History of the World Summary
A Short History of the World
by Christopher Lascelles 2011 241 pages
3.85
1.6K ratings
History
Historical
Reference
Human Devolution Summary
Human Devolution
A Vedic Alternative to Darwin's Theory
by Michael A. Cremo 2003 554 pages
4.12
156 ratings
History
Biology
Science
A Brief History of Indonesia Summary
A Brief History of Indonesia
Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation
by Tim Hannigan 2015 288 pages
4.03
1.3K ratings
History
Asia
Travel
The Lords of Strategy Summary
The Lords of Strategy
The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World
by Walter Kiechel III 2009 368 pages
3.94
2.5K ratings
Business
History
Management
When a Killer Calls Summary
When a Killer Calls
by John E. Douglas 2022 336 pages
4.03
5.8K ratings
True Crime
Crime
History
Under the Black Flag Summary
Under the Black Flag
The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
by David Cordingly 1995 296 pages
3.68
10.0K ratings
History
Pirates
Historical
Under the Trestle Summary
Under the Trestle
The 1980 Disappearance of Gina Renee Hall & Virginia’s First “No Body” Murder Trial.
by Ron Peterson Jr. 2018 334 pages
4.30
1.9K ratings
True Crime
Crime
Mystery
These Are the Plunderers Summary
These Are the Plunderers
How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America
by Gretchen Morgenson 2023 391 pages
3.73
834 ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
Magnificent Rebels Summary
Magnificent Rebels
The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
by Andrea Wulf 2022 512 pages
4.19
2.1K ratings
History
Philosophy
Biography
Devil's Game Summary
Devil's Game
How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam
by Robert Dreyfuss 2005 400 pages
4.00
261 ratings
Politics
History
Islam
The Alchemists Summary
The Alchemists
Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
by Neil Irwin 2013 448 pages
4.05
1.4K ratings
Economics
Finance
History
The Intellectual Devotional Summary
The Intellectual Devotional
Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Roam Confidently with the Cultured Class
by David S. Kidder 2006 377 pages
3.94
3.5K ratings
History
Reference
Education
The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries Summary
The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries
by Colin Wilson 1984 320 pages
3.66
254 ratings
Paranormal
Mystery
History
The Last Warlord Summary
The Last Warlord
The Life and Legend of Dostum, the Afghan Warrior Who Led US Special Forces to Topple the Taliban Regime
by Brian Glyn Williams 2013 352 pages
4.30
117 ratings
History
Military History
Military Fiction
The Long Alliance Summary
The Long Alliance
The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama
by Gabriel Debenedetti 2022 432 pages
4.02
251 ratings
Politics
History
Biography
A Woman of No Importance Summary
A Woman of No Importance
The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
by Sonia Purnell 2019 352 pages
4.15
57.0K ratings
History
Biography
Book Club
The Patient Ferment of the Early Church Summary
The Patient Ferment of the Early Church
The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire
by Alan Kreider 2016 336 pages
4.48
553 ratings
History
Christian
Church History
International Relations Summary
International Relations
by Joshua S. Goldstein 1993 624 pages
3.81
434 ratings
Politics
International Relations
Political Science
Steve Jobs Summary
Steve Jobs
The Man Who Thought Different: A Biography
by Karen Blumenthal 2012 320 pages
3.95
6.4K ratings
Biography
Business
Technology
The World According to Cunk Summary
The World According to Cunk
An Illustrated History of All World Events Ever
by Philomena Cunk 2024 256 pages
3.95
1.2K ratings
History
Humor
Comedy
We Are Free to Change the World Summary
We Are Free to Change the World
Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience
by Lyndsey Stonebridge 2024 368 pages
4.12
315 ratings
Philosophy
Biography
Politics
The Campaigns of Alexander Summary
The Campaigns of Alexander
by Arrian 430 pages
4.16
5.2K ratings
History
Classics
Biography
How We Got the Bible Summary
How We Got the Bible
by Neil R. Lightfoot 1962 224 pages
4.03
862 ratings
Religion
History
Christian
New Thinking Summary
New Thinking
From Einstein to Artificial Intelligence, the Science and Technology that Transformed Our World
by Dagogo Altraide 2019 393 pages
4.19
749 ratings
Science
Technology
History
Contesting Democracy Summary
Contesting Democracy
Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe
by Jan-Werner Müller 2006 304 pages
4.03
147 ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
Let Me Speak! Testimony of Domitila, a Woman of the Bolivian Mines Summary
Let Me Speak! Testimony of Domitila, a Woman of the Bolivian Mines
by Domitila Barrios de Chungara 1977 236 pages
4.25
380 ratings
History
Bolivia
Memoir
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