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A Generation of Sociopaths Summary
A Generation of Sociopaths
How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
by Bruce Cannon Gibney 2017 430 pages
3.55
2k+ ratings
Politics
History
Sociology
Your Face Belongs to Us Summary
Your Face Belongs to Us
A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
by Kashmir Hill 2023 352 pages
4.11
2k+ ratings
Technology
Politics
Business
John Adams Summary
John Adams
by David McCullough 2001 751 pages
4.09
300k+ ratings
History
Biography
American History
What Is to Be Done? Summary
What Is to Be Done?
by Vladimir Lenin 1902 272 pages
4.11
5k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
Civil Rights Summary
Civil Rights
Rhetoric or Reality?
by Thomas Sowell 1984 164 pages
4.40
500+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
Thinking Strategically Summary
Thinking Strategically
The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life
by Avinash K. Dixit 1991 416 pages
3.86
3k+ ratings
Business
Economics
Politics
What Is Populism? Summary
What Is Populism?
by Jan-Werner Müller 2014 136 pages
3.82
2k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
The Big Three in Economics Summary
The Big Three in Economics
Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes
by Mark Skousen 2007 264 pages
3.59
500+ ratings
Economics
History
Politics
What Young India Wants Summary
What Young India Wants
by Chetan Bhagat 2012 181 pages
3.26
9k+ ratings
India
Indian Literature
Essays
Strategic Vision Summary
Strategic Vision
America and the Crisis of Global Power
by Zbigniew Brzeziński 2012 224 pages
3.80
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
International Relations
Letters to a Young Contrarian Summary
Letters to a Young Contrarian
by Christopher Hitchens 2001 141 pages
4.13
12k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Essays
The Upswing Summary
The Upswing
How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
by Robert D. Putnam 2020 464 pages
3.94
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
Sociology
Reham Khan Summary
Reham Khan
by Reham Khan 2018 562 pages
2.56
455 ratings
Biography
Pakistan
Politics
The New Paradigm for Financial Markets Summary
The New Paradigm for Financial Markets
The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means
by George Soros 2008 163 pages
3.42
1k+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
A Line in the Sand Summary
A Line in the Sand
Britain, France and the Struggle that Shaped the Middle East
by James Barr 2011 352 pages
4.06
5k+ ratings
History
Middle East
Politics
Our Declaration Summary
Our Declaration
A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
by Danielle S. Allen 2014 320 pages
3.83
500+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
The Plot Against America Summary
The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth 2004 391 pages
3.82
70k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Alternate History
Literature
Imaginary Homelands Summary
Imaginary Homelands
Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
by Salman Rushdie 1991 448 pages
3.99
1k+ ratings
Essays
India
Politics
My Life Summary
My Life
by Bill Clinton 2004 1008 pages
3.74
50k+ ratings
Biography
Politics
History
The Avoidable War Summary
The Avoidable War
The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China
by Kevin Rudd 2022 432 pages
4.23
1k+ ratings
China
Politics
History
Pendulum Summary
Pendulum
How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future: PDF Included
by Roy H. Williams 2012
3.71
409 ratings
History
Politics
Sociology
Conformity Summary
Conformity
The Power of Social Influences
by Cass R. Sunstein 2019 192 pages
3.46
396 ratings
Psychology
Sociology
Politics
The Wise Men Summary
The Wise Men
Six Friends and the World They Made
by Walter Isaacson 1986 864 pages
4.11
4k+ ratings
History
Biography
Politics
The Fifth Risk Summary
The Fifth Risk
Undoing Democracy
by Michael Lewis 2018 255 pages
4.09
48k+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
Flatline Constructs Summary
Flatline Constructs
Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction
by Mark Fisher 2018 212 pages
4.13
345 ratings
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority Summary
The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority
by Martin Gurri 2014 362 pages
4.19
1k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
The Foundations of Leninism Summary
The Foundations of Leninism
by Joseph Stalin 1924 123 pages
4.05
1k+ ratings
Politics
Theory
Philosophy
Phishing for Phools Summary
Phishing for Phools
The Economics of Manipulation and Deception
by George A. Akerlof 2015 288 pages
3.43
2k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Psychology
Sacred Economics Summary
Sacred Economics
Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
by Charles Eisenstein 2011 469 pages
4.21
1k+ ratings
Economics
History
Philosophy
Mindf*ck Summary
Mindf*ck
Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
by Christopher Wylie 2019 288 pages
4.36
7k+ ratings
Politics
Technology
History
In Defense of a Liberal Education Summary
In Defense of a Liberal Education
by Fareed Zakaria 2015 208 pages
3.83
3k+ ratings
Education
Philosophy
Politics
The Hacker and the State Summary
The Hacker and the State
Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics
by Ben Buchanan 2020 406 pages
4.19
500+ ratings
Technology
Politics
Science
The Invention of the Jewish People Summary
The Invention of the Jewish People
by Shlomo Sand 2008 332 pages
4.13
1k+ ratings
History
Politics
Religion
The Undocumented Americans Summary
The Undocumented Americans
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio 2020 208 pages
4.37
27k+ ratings
Memoir
Politics
Social Justice
The News Summary
The News
A User's Manual
by Alain de Botton 2014 272 pages
3.58
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
Journalism
Politics
Objectivism Summary
Objectivism
The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
by Leonard Peikoff 1991 493 pages
3.77
5k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Classics
Words That Work Summary
Words That Work
IT'S NOT WHAT YOU SAY THAT MATTERS, IT'S WHAT PEOPLE HEAR
by Frank Luntz 2006 483 pages
3.62
2k+ ratings
Communication
Business
Writing
Best Evidence Summary
Best Evidence
by David S. Lifton 1980 920 pages
4.01
500+ ratings
History
Conspiracy Theories
Politics
Stamped Summary
Stamped
Racism, Antiracism, and You
by Jason Reynolds 2020 294 pages
4.46
54k+ ratings
History
Race
Social Justice
The Mystery Of Capital Summary
The Mystery Of Capital
Why Capitalism Succeeds In The West And Fails Everywhere Else
by Hernando de Soto 2000 276 pages
3.99
4k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
History
The Madness of Crowds Summary
The Madness of Crowds
Gender, Race and Identity
by Douglas Murray 2019 288 pages
4.20
17k+ ratings
Politics
Psychology
Sociology
The Next Civil War Summary
The Next Civil War
Dispatches from the American Future
by Stephen Marche 2022 238 pages
3.68
2k+ ratings
Politics
History
War
Lies My Teacher Told Me Summary
Lies My Teacher Told Me
Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by James W. Loewen 1995 465 pages
3.97
75k+ ratings
History
Education
Politics
The Future Is Asian Summary
The Future Is Asian
by Parag Khanna 2019 448 pages
3.70
1k+ ratings
Politics
China
Economics
Totalitarianism Summary
Totalitarianism
Part Three of the Origins of the Totalitarism
by Hannah Arendt 1968
4.18
500+ ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
On Speaking Well Summary
On Speaking Well
by Peggy Noonan 1998 224 pages
3.89
500+ ratings
Communication
Self Help
Politics
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again Summary
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
by Katherine Angel 2021 144 pages
4.06
6k+ ratings
Feminism
Sexuality
Essays
Woke Racism Summary
Woke Racism
How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
by John McWhorter 2021 220 pages
3.92
6k+ ratings
Politics
Race
Sociology
War and Peace and War Summary
War and Peace and War
The Rise and Fall of Empires
by Peter Turchin 2005 416 pages
4.17
500+ ratings
History
Politics
War
Fix the System, Not the Women Summary
Fix the System, Not the Women
by Laura Bates 2022 206 pages
4.49
5k+ ratings
Feminism
Politics
Womens
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