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Democracy in America Summary
Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville 1835 983 pages
4.05
26k+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
The Origins of Totalitarianism Summary
The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt 1951 527 pages
4.30
13k+ ratings
History
Philosophy
Politics
The Open Society and Its Enemies Summary
The Open Society and Its Enemies
by Karl Popper 1956 920 pages
4.23
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Summary
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith 1776 1076 pages
3.88
35k+ ratings
Economics
Philosophy
Classics
The Wealth of Nations Summary
The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith 2010 416 pages
3.93
100+ ratings
Economics
Business
Philosophy
Why We Can't Wait Summary
Why We Can't Wait
by Martin Luther King Jr. 1964 223 pages
4.54
8k+ ratings
History
Politics
Race
Pedagogy of the Oppressed Summary
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
by Paulo Freire 1968 183 pages
4.30
37k+ ratings
Education
Philosophy
Politics
Confronting Collapse Summary
Confronting Collapse
The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World
by Michael C. Ruppert 2009 264 pages
3.84
100+ ratings
Politics
Economics
Peak Oil
The Indoctrinated Brain Summary
The Indoctrinated Brain
How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom
by Michael Nehls 2023 290 pages
4.18
100+ ratings
Psychology
Politics
Self Help
Black Wave Summary
Black Wave
Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
by Kim Ghattas 2020 400 pages
4.40
5k+ ratings
History
Politics
Iran
Personal History Summary
Personal History
A Memoir
by Katharine Graham 1997 642 pages
4.08
24k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
History
A Template for Understanding Big Debt Crises Summary
A Template for Understanding Big Debt Crises
by Ray Dalio 2018 456 pages
4.35
2k+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
Discipline and Punish Summary
Discipline and Punish
The Birth of the Prison
by Michel Foucault 1975 333 pages
4.23
34k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Sociology
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning Summary
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning
Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
by Peter Zeihan 2022 512 pages
4.17
11k+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
The Color of Law Summary
The Color of Law
A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
by Richard Rothstein 2017 368 pages
4.44
42k+ ratings
History
Race
Politics
Our Choice Summary
Our Choice
A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
by Al Gore 2008 416 pages
3.99
500+ ratings
Science
Environment
Climate Change
Edible Economics Summary
Edible Economics
A Hungry Economist Explains the World
by Ha-Joon Chang 2022 224 pages
3.83
2k+ ratings
Economics
Food
Politics
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
200k+ ratings
History
Politics
American History
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Summary
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
A History of Nazi Germany
by William L. Shirer 1960 1147 pages
4.22
100k+ ratings
History
War
World War II
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
4.25
1k+ ratings
History
Classics
Ancient History
The Global Minotaur Summary
The Global Minotaur
America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy
by Yanis Varoufakis 2011 252 pages
4.17
2k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Technofeudalism Summary
Technofeudalism
What Killed Capitalism
by Yanis Varoufakis 2023 224 pages
4.02
3k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Postwar Summary
Postwar
A History of Europe Since 1945
by Tony Judt 2005 933 pages
4.38
13k+ ratings
History
Politics
European History
The Cold War Summary
The Cold War
A New History
by John Lewis Gaddis 2005 352 pages
3.95
7k+ ratings
History
Politics
War
Economics in One Lesson Summary
Economics in One Lesson
by Henry Hazlitt 1946 218 pages
4.17
20k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations Summary
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
by David S. Landes 1998 531 pages
3.96
3k+ ratings
Economics
History
Politics
False Alarm Summary
False Alarm
How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
by Bjørn Lomborg 2020 320 pages
4.18
2k+ ratings
Science
Politics
Climate Change
The Gulag Archipelago Summary
The Gulag Archipelago
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973 660 pages
4.37
11k+ ratings
History
Russia
Politics
Churchill Summary
Churchill
Walking with Destiny
by Andrew Roberts 2018 1105 pages
4.37
10k+ ratings
Biography
History
Politics
The Nazi Conspiracy Summary
The Nazi Conspiracy
The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
by Brad Meltzer 2023 400 pages
4.15
8k+ ratings
History
World War II
Politics
The Case Against Education Summary
The Case Against Education
Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
by Bryan Caplan 2018 416 pages
3.95
1k+ ratings
Education
Economics
Politics
A Fever in the Heartland Summary
A Fever in the Heartland
The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
by Timothy Egan 2023 432 pages
4.37
37k+ ratings
History
True Crime
Politics
Against Intellectual Monopoly Summary
Against Intellectual Monopoly
by Michele Boldrin 2008 312 pages
4.03
100+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Law
The People's Platform Summary
The People's Platform
Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
by Astra Taylor 2012 288 pages
4.03
500+ ratings
Technology
Politics
Sociology
Weapons of Mass Instruction Summary
Weapons of Mass Instruction
A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
by John Taylor Gatto 2008 192 pages
4.23
3k+ ratings
Education
Parenting
Politics
The Trial and Death of Socrates Summary
The Trial and Death of Socrates
by Plato 58 pages
4.12
43k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
History
Surprise, Kill, Vanish Summary
Surprise, Kill, Vanish
The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins
by Annie Jacobsen 2019 560 pages
4.32
5k+ ratings
History
Military Fiction
Politics
Critique of Practical Reason Summary
Critique of Practical Reason
by Immanuel Kant 1788 181 pages
3.94
11k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
German Literature
The Palestine Laboratory Summary
The Palestine Laboratory
How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
by Antony Loewenstein 2023 320 pages
4.45
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
War
Misbelief Summary
Misbelief
What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
by Dan Ariely 2023 320 pages
3.91
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Sociology
The Conscience of a Liberal Summary
The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Krugman 2007 296 pages
3.97
6k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Making It in America Summary
Making It in America
The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A.
by Rachel Slade 2024 352 pages
3.65
100+ ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
Broken Code Summary
Broken Code
Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets
by Jeff Horwitz 2023 528 pages
3.89
500+ ratings
Technology
Business
Politics
In This Economy? Summary
In This Economy?
How Money & Markets Really Work
by Kyla Scanlon 2024 279 pages
3.87
500+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
The Green New Deal Summary
The Green New Deal
Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth
by Jeremy Rifkin 2019 304 pages
3.69
500+ ratings
Politics
Environment
Economics
50 Politics Classics Summary
50 Politics Classics
Freedom Equality Power: Mind-Changing, World-Changing Ideas from Fifty Landmark Books
by Tom Butler-Bowdon 2015 336 pages
4.00
100+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
Apocalypse Never Summary
Apocalypse Never
Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
by Michael Shellenberger 2020 272 pages
4.17
5k+ ratings
Science
Politics
Environment
The Small and the Mighty Summary
The Small and the Mighty
Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
by Sharon McMahon 2024 320 pages
4.48
20k+ ratings
History
Biography
Historical
The Crowd & The Psychology of Revolution Summary
The Crowd & The Psychology of Revolution
by Gustave Le Bon 2015 286 pages
4.18
100+ ratings
Psychology
Politics
Sociology
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster Summary
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
by Bill Gates 2021 272 pages
4.13
49k+ ratings
Science
Climate Change
Environment
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