Politics Book Summaries

The Discovery of India Summary
The Discovery of India
by Jawaharlal Nehru 1946 656 pages
4.09
8.5K ratings
History
India
Politics
Doughnut Economics Summary
Doughnut Economics
Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
by Kate Raworth 2017 384 pages
4.18
14.8K ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
Leadership Summary
Leadership
by James MacGregor Burns 1978 546 pages
3.87
487 ratings
Leadership
History
Business
The Prosperity Paradox Summary
The Prosperity Paradox
How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty
by Clayton M. Christensen 2019 355 pages
4.27
1.4K ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
History of Modern India Summary
History of Modern India
by Bipan Chandra 2009 352 pages
4.08
2.3K ratings
History
India
Politics
Requiem for the American Dream Summary
Requiem for the American Dream
The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power
by Noam Chomsky 2017 192 pages
4.21
3.7K ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Rest Is Resistance Summary
Rest Is Resistance
A Manifesto
by Tricia Hersey 2022 224 pages
4.06
11.1K ratings
Self Help
Social Justice
Mental Health
Why Civil Resistance Works Summary
Why Civil Resistance Works
The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
by Erica Chenoweth 2011 320 pages
4.02
574 ratings
Politics
History
Activism
The Bottom Billion Summary
The Bottom Billion
Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
by Paul Collier 2007 205 pages
3.85
7.9K ratings
Economics
Politics
International Development
Hood Feminism Summary
Hood Feminism
Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
by Mikki Kendall 2020 267 pages
4.36
59.5K ratings
Feminism
Race
Social Justice
The Irrational Ape Summary
The Irrational Ape
Why Flawed Logic Puts us all at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World
by David Robert Grimes 2019 482 pages
4.27
1.0K ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar Summary
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar
What Everyone Needs to Know
by P.W. Singer 2013 320 pages
3.83
1.4K ratings
Technology
Science
Politics
Beyond Order Summary
Beyond Order
12 More Rules For Life
by Jordan B. Peterson 2021 382 pages
4.15
28.7K ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Philosophy
The Story Paradox Summary
The Story Paradox
How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down
by Jonathan Gottschall 2021 272 pages
3.72
393 ratings
Psychology
Politics
Science
Pedagogy of the Oppressed Summary
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
by Paulo Freire 1968 183 pages
4.30
37.3K ratings
Education
Philosophy
Politics
Lords of Finance Summary
Lords of Finance
The Bankers Who Broke the World
by Liaquat Ahamed 2009 564 pages
4.03
16.1K ratings
History
Economics
Finance
When McKinsey Comes to Town Summary
When McKinsey Comes to Town
by Walt Bogdanich 2022 368 pages
3.80
9.9K ratings
Business
Politics
History
What Money Can't Buy Summary
What Money Can't Buy
The Moral Limits of Markets
by Michael J. Sandel 2012 256 pages
3.93
13.6K ratings
Philosophy
Economics
Politics
The Price of Inequality Summary
The Price of Inequality
How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2012 523 pages
4.02
9.7K ratings
Politics
Sociology
Business
The Narrow Corridor Summary
The Narrow Corridor
States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
by Daron Acemoğlu 2019 560 pages
4.22
3.5K ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology Summary
Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology
by Vandana Shiva 2015 192 pages
3.95
410 ratings
Food
Agriculture
Politics
The Grand Chessboard Summary
The Grand Chessboard
American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives
by Zbigniew Brzeziński 1997 240 pages
3.97
3.2K ratings
Politics
History
International Relations
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State Summary
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
by Catharine A. MacKinnon 1989 352 pages
4.00
516 ratings
Feminism
Politics
Philosophy
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy Summary
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
Towards a Radical Democratic Politics
by Ernesto Laclau 1985 198 pages
3.84
1.4K ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
High Conflict Summary
High Conflict
Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out
by Amanda Ripley 2021 368 pages
4.27
4.3K ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Politics
The Man Who Broke Capitalism Summary
The Man Who Broke Capitalism
How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy
by David Gelles 2022 272 pages
4.02
2.2K ratings
Business
Economics
Biography
Moral Tribes Summary
Moral Tribes
Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
by Joshua D. Greene 2013 432 pages
4.02
3.2K ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Science
The New Geography of Jobs Summary
The New Geography of Jobs
by Enrico Moretti 2012 294 pages
4.03
2.7K ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
Naked Economics Summary
Naked Economics
Undressing the Dismal Science
by Charles Wheelan 2002 384 pages
4.03
19.2K ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
After the Prophet Summary
After the Prophet
The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
by Lesley Hazleton 2009 256 pages
4.09
9.3K ratings
History
Religion
Islam
Feminism Is for Everybody Summary
Feminism Is for Everybody
Passionate Politics
by bell hooks 2000 123 pages
4.16
26.7K ratings
Feminism
Politics
Social Justice
The Singapore Story Summary
The Singapore Story
Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew
by Lee Kuan Yew 1998 680 pages
4.28
3.2K ratings
Biography
History
Politics
Empire Summary
Empire
How Britain Made the Modern World
by Niall Ferguson 2003 422 pages
3.93
9.5K ratings
History
Politics
Economics
Trust Me, I'm Lying Summary
Trust Me, I'm Lying
Confessions of a Media Manipulator
by Ryan Holiday 2012 259 pages
3.86
12.0K ratings
Business
Psychology
Politics
Wealth, Poverty and Politics Summary
Wealth, Poverty and Politics
An International Perspective
by Thomas Sowell 2015 328 pages
4.36
2.0K ratings
Economics
Politics
History
The Meritocracy Trap Summary
The Meritocracy Trap
How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
by Daniel Markovits 2019 448 pages
3.83
2.1K ratings
Politics
Economics
Sociology
Pleasure Activism Summary
Pleasure Activism
The Politics of Feeling Good
by Adrienne Maree Brown 2019 441 pages
4.24
9.0K ratings
Feminism
Politics
Social Justice
سيكولوجية الجماهير Summary
سيكولوجية الجماهير
by Gustave Le Bon 1895 200 pages
3.82
19.4K ratings
Psychology
Sociology
Politics
Viral Justice Summary
Viral Justice
How We Grow the World We Want
by Ruha Benjamin 2022 392 pages
4.45
1.2K ratings
Social Justice
Race
Politics
The Wisdom of Crowds Summary
The Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki 2004 306 pages
3.82
24.6K ratings
Psychology
Business
Economics
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy Summary
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
by John J. Mearsheimer 2006 484 pages
4.09
3.8K ratings
Politics
History
International Relations
Fellow Travelers Summary
Fellow Travelers
by Thomas Mallon 2007 356 pages
3.60
4.9K ratings
Historical Fiction
LGBT
Queer
How the World Ran Out of Everything Summary
How the World Ran Out of Everything
Inside the Global Supply Chain
by Peter S. Goodman 2024 416 pages
4.11
950 ratings
Economics
Business
History
The Demon of Unrest Summary
The Demon of Unrest
A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
by Erik Larson 2024 565 pages
4.19
46.6K ratings
History
Civil War
Politics
Selections from the Prison Notebooks Summary
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
by Antonio Gramsci 1947 483 pages
4.20
5.2K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
I'm Just Saying Summary
I'm Just Saying
A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World
by Milan Kordestani 2023 268 pages
4.26
7.6K ratings
Communication
Self Help
Psychology
Enrique's Journey Summary
Enrique's Journey
by Sonia Nazario 2005 294 pages
3.88
16.7K ratings
Biography
Book Club
School
How to Be an Antiracist Summary
How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi 2019 305 pages
4.37
117.8K ratings
Race
Social Justice
Politics
The Crisis of Narration Summary
The Crisis of Narration
by Byung-Chul Han 2023 77 pages
3.90
1.6K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Essays
A Promised Land Summary
A Promised Land
by Barack Obama 2020 768 pages
4.32
258.5K ratings
Biography
Memoir
Politics
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