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A New Foreign Policy Summary
A New Foreign Policy
Beyond American Exceptionalism
by Jeffrey D. Sachs 2018 274 pages
3.88
337 ratings
Politics
History
International Relations
The American Presidency Summary
The American Presidency
A Very Short Introduction
by Charles O. Jones 2007 192 pages
3.41
227 ratings
Politics
History
American History
Obama Summary
Obama
From Promise to Power
by David Mendell 2007 448 pages
4.18
2k+ ratings
Biography
Politics
History
Rebellion Summary
Rebellion
How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart – Again
by Robert Kagan 2024 258 pages
4.39
500+ ratings
Politics
History
American History
Sex in the Heartland Summary
Sex in the Heartland
by Bailey 1999 265 pages
3.74
157 ratings
History
Sexuality
American History
Blowback Summary
Blowback
The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
by Chalmers Johnson 2000 268 pages
4.06
2k+ ratings
Politics
History
War
Great American Hypocrites Summary
Great American Hypocrites
Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics
by Glenn Greenwald 2008 304 pages
3.70
450 ratings
Politics
History
Government
The Unquiet Frontier Summary
The Unquiet Frontier
Rising Rivals, Vulnerable Allies, and the Crisis of American Power
by Jakub J. Grygiel 2016 240 pages
4.01
87 ratings
Politics
Military Fiction
International Relations
Rights Talk Summary
Rights Talk
The Impoverishment of Political Discourse
by Mary Ann Glendon 1991 236 pages
4.06
124 ratings
Politics
Law
Philosophy
Nemesis Summary
Nemesis
The Last Days of the American Republic
by Chalmers Johnson 2007 354 pages
4.07
500+ ratings
Politics
History
War
Origins of the New South, 1877–1913 Summary
Origins of the New South, 1877–1913
by C. Vann Woodward 1951 656 pages
4.11
240 ratings
History
American History
Race
The White House Is Burning Summary
The White House Is Burning
August 24, 1814
by Jane Sutcliffe 2014 128 pages
4.01
168 ratings
History
American History
Middle Grade
American Exceptionalism and American Innocence Summary
American Exceptionalism and American Innocence
A People's History of Fake News―From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
by Roberto Sirvent 2019 256 pages
4.08
287 ratings
Politics
History
United States
The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism Summary
The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism
by Theda Skocpol 2011 264 pages
3.82
413 ratings
Politics
History
Political Science
Partisans Summary
Partisans
The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s
by Nicole Hemmer 2022 368 pages
4.17
475 ratings
Politics
History
American History
The Great Exception Summary
The Great Exception
The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics
by Jefferson R. Cowie 2016 288 pages
3.90
203 ratings
History
Politics
Economics
The Politics of Rage Summary
The Politics of Rage
George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics
by Dan T. Carter 1995 580 pages
4.23
363 ratings
Politics
History
American History
The Fall of the House of Labor Summary
The Fall of the House of Labor
The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925
by David Montgomery 1987 508 pages
3.93
147 ratings
History
Labor
Politics
White Collar Summary
White Collar
The American Middle Classes
by C. Wright Mills 1951 416 pages
4.04
269 ratings
Sociology
History
Economics
Land of Promise Summary
Land of Promise
An Economic History of the United States
by Michael Lind 2012 592 pages
3.91
397 ratings
History
Economics
American History
Nations Apart Summary
Nations Apart
How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America
by Colin Woodard 2025 368 pages
4.08
246 ratings
History
Politics
American History
Rule and Ruin Summary
Rule and Ruin
The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party
by Geoffrey Kabaservice 2011 482 pages
4.00
401 ratings
Politics
History
American History
Slave Nation Summary
Slave Nation
How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution
by Alfred W. Blumrosen 2005 304 pages
4.02
113 ratings
History
American History
United States
Republican Gomorrah Summary
Republican Gomorrah
Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party
by Max Blumenthal 2007 432 pages
3.88
1k+ ratings
Politics
Religion
History
Exceptional America Summary
Exceptional America
What Divides Americans from the World and from Each Other
by Mugambi Jouet 2017 358 pages
3.98
51 ratings
Politics
History
United States
Federalism Summary
Federalism
A Very Short Introduction
by Mark J. Rozell 2019 160 pages
3.67
63 ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900 Summary
The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900
by Richard Franklin Bensel 2000 576 pages
3.50
22 ratings
History
Politics
American History
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion Summary
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion
Including the 1831 "Confessions"
by Herbert Aptheker 1966 176 pages
3.55
64 ratings
History
Race
American History
Producers, Parasites, Patriots Summary
Producers, Parasites, Patriots
Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity
by Daniel Martinez HoSang 2019 208 pages
3.98
48 ratings
Politics
Race
United States
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