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Promise Me, Dad Summary
Promise Me, Dad
A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
by Joe Biden 2017 272 pages
4.14
24k+ ratings
Memoir
Politics
Biography
Lucky Summary
Lucky
How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency
by Jonathan Allen 2021 17 pages
3.87
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
American History
Rage Inside the Machine Summary
Rage Inside the Machine
The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All
by Robert Elliott Smith 2019 344 pages
3.97
145 ratings
Technology
Science
Philosophy
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
455 ratings
History
American History
Biography
Interventions 2020 Summary
Interventions 2020
by Michel Houellebecq 2020 265 pages
3.57
500+ ratings
Essays
France
Politics
Megafire Summary
Megafire
The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame
by Michael Kodas 2017 384 pages
4.01
254 ratings
Science
Nature
Climate Change
The Stillborn God Summary
The Stillborn God
Religion, Politics, and the Modern West
by Mark Lilla 2007 352 pages
3.60
289 ratings
Religion
Philosophy
Politics
Broke Summary
Broke
The Plan to Restore our Trust, Truth and Treasure
by Glenn Beck 2010 406 pages
4.01
2k+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy Summary
The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy
How the New World Order, Man-Made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America
by Jim Marrs 2010 496 pages
3.91
500+ ratings
Conspiracy Theories
History
Politics
Broken Government Summary
Broken Government
How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
by John W. Dean 2007 364 pages
4.06
331 ratings
Politics
History
American
Batı'nın İnsan Doğası Yanılsaması Summary
Batı'nın İnsan Doğası Yanılsaması
by Marshall Sahlins 2008 133 pages
4.10
322 ratings
Anthropology
Philosophy
History
Power to the Public Summary
Power to the Public
The Promise of Public Interest Technology
by Tara Dawson McGuinness 2021 208 pages
3.98
320 ratings
Politics
Technology
Government
In an Uncertain World Summary
In an Uncertain World
Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington
by Robert E. Rubin 2003 448 pages
3.70
500+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
Sisters in Law Summary
Sisters in Law
How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Dual Biography of First Women Justices
by Linda R. Hirshman 2015 432 pages
3.84
5k+ ratings
History
Biography
Feminism
Trump’s Triumph Summary
Trump’s Triumph
by Newt Gingrich 2025 295 pages
4.15
156 ratings
Politics
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
Economics
Finance
Business
The Way of the Knife Summary
The Way of the Knife
The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
by Mark Mazzetti 2013 381 pages
3.85
4k+ ratings
History
Politics
Military Fiction
The End of Oil Summary
The End of Oil
On the Edge of a Perilous New World
by Paul Roberts 2004 368 pages
3.74
1k+ ratings
Politics
Science
Environment
Writings of Abraham Lincoln Summary
Writings of Abraham Lincoln
by Abraham Lincoln 1953
4.13
313 ratings
History
Biography
Civil War
Two Sides of the Moon Summary
Two Sides of the Moon
Our Story of the Cold War Space Race
by David Randolph Scott 2004 448 pages
4.29
500+ ratings
Space
History
Biography
Privacy in the Age of Big Data Summary
Privacy in the Age of Big Data
Recognizing Threats, Defending Your Rights, and Protecting Your Family
by Theresa Payton 2014 328 pages
3.56
112 ratings
Technology
Politics
The Fort Bragg Cartel Summary
The Fort Bragg Cartel
Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces
by Seth Harp 2025 357 pages
4.06
9k+ ratings
History
True Crime
Crime
Jackpot Summary
Jackpot
How the Super-Rich Really Live―and How Their Wealth Harms Us All
by Michael Mechanic 2021 416 pages
3.86
500+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Sociology
What We Owe Each Other Summary
What We Owe Each Other
A New Social Contract
by Minouche Shafik 2021
3.85
1k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
Human Frontiers Summary
Human Frontiers
The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
by Michael Bhaskar 2021 432 pages
3.83
126 ratings
Science
Technology
Sociology
Los señores del narco Summary
Los señores del narco
by Anabel Hernández 2010 592 pages
4.04
2k+ ratings
History
Politics
Crime
The Ones We've Been Waiting for Summary
The Ones We've Been Waiting for
How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America
by Charlotte Alter 2020 368 pages
4.20
500+ ratings
Politics
History
Leadership
Power Play Summary
Power Play
Breaking Through Bias, Barriers and Boys' Clubs
by Julia Banks 2021 236 pages
3.94
463 ratings
Politics
Feminism
Australia
The Perfect Police State Summary
The Perfect Police State
An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future
by Geoffrey Cain 2021 304 pages
4.23
1k+ ratings
Politics
China
History
The Age of Capital, 1848–1875 Summary
The Age of Capital, 1848–1875
by Eric J. Hobsbawm 1975 354 pages
4.27
4k+ ratings
History
Politics
Economics
Behind the Kitchen Door Summary
Behind the Kitchen Door
by Sarumathi Jayaraman 2013 208 pages
3.65
489 ratings
Food
Social Justice
Politics
The Profit Paradox Summary
The Profit Paradox
How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work
by Jan Eeckhout 2021 336 pages
3.91
302 ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
The Shortest History of Economics Summary
The Shortest History of Economics
by Andrew Leigh 2024 241 pages
3.92
1k+ ratings
Economics
History
Finance
Yes We (Still) Can Summary
Yes We (Still) Can
Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump
by Dan Pfeiffer 2018 304 pages
4.16
7k+ ratings
Politics
Memoir
History
The Miracle of the Kurds Summary
The Miracle of the Kurds
A Remarkable Story of Hope Reborn in Northern Iraq
by Stephen Mansfield 2014 272 pages
4.09
335 ratings
History
Politics
Middle East
10 Books That Screwed Up the World Summary
10 Books That Screwed Up the World
And 5 Others That Didn't Help
by Benjamin Wiker 2008 260 pages
3.43
1k+ ratings
History
Philosophy
Politics
It Takes a Pillage Summary
It Takes a Pillage
Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street
by Nomi Prins 2009 304 pages
3.96
195 ratings
Economics
Politics
Finance
Benjamin Franklin Summary
Benjamin Franklin
A Life From Beginning to End
by Hourly History 2016 43 pages
4.18
500+ ratings
Biography
History
Historical
I Shall Not Hate Summary
I Shall Not Hate
A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
by Izzeldin Abuelaish 2010 237 pages
4.32
7k+ ratings
Memoir
Middle East
Biography
Gaffs Summary
Gaffs
Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About it
by Rory Hearne 2022 352 pages
3.52
171 ratings
Politics
Irish Literature
Ireland
Tory Nation Summary
Tory Nation
How one party took over
by Samuel Earle 2023 304 pages
4.18
65 ratings
Politics
History
Buckley Summary
Buckley
William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism
by Carl T. Bogus 2011 417 pages
3.75
151 ratings
History
Biography
Politics
The Palestinian Delusion Summary
The Palestinian Delusion
The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process
by Robert Spencer 2019 304 pages
4.01
500+ ratings
History
Politics
Israel
Rethinking Capitalism Summary
Rethinking Capitalism
Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
by Michael Jacobs 2016 224 pages
4.01
121 ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
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
Economics
Business
History
The Human Cost of Welfare Summary
The Human Cost of Welfare
How the System Hurts the People It's Supposed to Help
by Phil Harvey 2016 206 pages
4.45
20 ratings
Politics
Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World Summary
Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World
A Concise History
by Rebecca E. Karl 2009 216 pages
3.83
284 ratings
China
History
Biography
These Truths Summary
These Truths
A History of the United States
by Jill Lepore 2018 960 pages
4.40
13k+ ratings
History
Politics
American History
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume I Summary
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume I
by Adam Smith 1776 550 pages
3.92
287 ratings
Economics
Philosophy
History
Bull by the Horns Summary
Bull by the Horns
Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself
by Sheila Bair 2012 432 pages
3.91
494 ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
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