Verenigde Staten

De gangen van de Amerikaanse macht komen tot leven door indringende verslagen over presidenten, beleid en cruciale momenten die het traject van de natie hebben gevormd. Deze meeslepende werken onderzoeken de complexe krachten achter de Amerikaanse politiek, economie en buitenlandse betrekkingen — van de dynamiek in het Witte Huis tot de veranderende rol van het land op het wereldtoneel.

Verenigde Staten Boeksamenvattingen

The Lords of Easy Money

door Christopher Leonard • 2022

The Fed printed trillions and gave them to Wall Street first, calling the inequality an accident.

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🏦 Central Banking 🏛️ Federal Reserve 🫧 Asset Bubbles ⚖️ Economic Inequality ⚠️ Systemic Risk

Immersief

The Lords of Easy Money

The Fed printed trillions and gave them to Wall Street first, calling the inequality an accident.

door Christopher Leonard 2022 362 pagina's

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🏦 Central Banking 🏛️ Federal Reserve 🫧 Asset Bubbles ⚖️ Economic Inequality ⚠️ Systemic Risk

Het schepsel van Jekyll Island

door G. Edward Griffin • 1994

A private cartel creates every dollar as debt, then destroys 90 percent of its value.

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🏦 Central Banking 📜 Monetary History 🏛️ Austrian Economics 🥇 Gold Standard 🔍 Hidden History

Het schepsel van Jekyll Island Samenvatting

Immersief

Het schepsel van Jekyll Island

A private cartel creates every dollar as debt, then destroys 90 percent of its value.

door G. Edward Griffin 1994 608 pagina's

4.29

6.000+ beoordelingen

🏦 Central Banking 📜 Monetary History 🏛️ Austrian Economics 🥇 Gold Standard 🔍 Hidden History

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

door Dee Brown • 1970

Broken treaties, forced marches, and buffalo slaughter: the American West from the losing side.

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🏹 Plains Indian Wars 📜 Broken Treaties 🗺️ Forced Relocation 🏞️ Westward Expansion ⚔️ Settler Colonialism

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Samenvatting

Immersief

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Broken treaties, forced marches, and buffalo slaughter: the American West from the losing side.

door Dee Brown 1970 509 pagina's

4.26

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🏹 Plains Indian Wars 📜 Broken Treaties 🗺️ Forced Relocation 🏞️ Westward Expansion ⚔️ Settler Colonialism

The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution

door Mark Peterson • 2026

The U.S. Constitution was built to seize a continent. What happens when the land runs out?

4.09

🏛️ Constitutional History 🌎 American Expansion ⚡ Settler Colonialism 💰 Political Economy ⚖️ Minority Rule

The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution Samenvatting

Immersief

The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution

The U.S. Constitution was built to seize a continent. What happens when the land runs out?

door Mark Peterson 2026 390 pagina's

4.09

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🏛️ Constitutional History 🌎 American Expansion ⚡ Settler Colonialism 💰 Political Economy ⚖️ Minority Rule

Abundance

door Ezra Klein • 2025

Polarization is a symptom. The disease is a system that rewards sabotage and punishes compromise.

3.89

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🧩 Systemic Dysfunction 🧲 Political Polarization 🏷️ Identity Politics 😠 Negative Partisanship 👥 Group Identity

Abundance

Polarization is a symptom. The disease is a system that rewards sabotage and punishes compromise.

door Ezra Klein 2025 304 pagina's

3.89

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🧩 Systemic Dysfunction 🧲 Political Polarization 🏷️ Identity Politics 😠 Negative Partisanship 👥 Group Identity

How Democracies Die

door Steven Levitsky • 2018

Coups are relics. The new authoritarian wins the election first, then slowly silences the referees.

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🏛️ Democratic Backsliding 🌐 Comparative Politics ⚡ Political Polarization 📜 Constitutional Norms ⚖️ Checks And Balances

How Democracies Die

Coups are relics. The new authoritarian wins the election first, then slowly silences the referees.

door Steven Levitsky 2018 320 pagina's

4.16

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🏛️ Democratic Backsliding 🌐 Comparative Politics ⚡ Political Polarization 📜 Constitutional Norms ⚖️ Checks And Balances

Team of Rivals

door Doris Kearns Goodwin • 2005

Lincoln beat three famous rivals for president. Then he hired every last one of them.

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👤 Presidential Biography 🏛️ Political Leadership ⚔️ Civil War Era 📋 Cabinet Politics 🤝 Political Rivalry

Team of Rivals

Lincoln beat three famous rivals for president. Then he hired every last one of them.

door Doris Kearns Goodwin 2005 916 pagina's

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👤 Presidential Biography 🏛️ Political Leadership ⚔️ Civil War Era 📋 Cabinet Politics 🤝 Political Rivalry

Albion's Seed

door David Hackett Fischer • 1989

Four British migrations planted rival cultures in America, each with its own definition of freedom.

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🏛️ Colonial America 📖 Cultural History 🗺️ Regional Cultures 🧳 Migration Patterns ⚖️ Comparative History

Albion's Seed

Four British migrations planted rival cultures in America, each with its own definition of freedom.

door David Hackett Fischer 1989 946 pagina's

4.38

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🏛️ Colonial America 📖 Cultural History 🗺️ Regional Cultures 🧳 Migration Patterns ⚖️ Comparative History

Michael Jordan

door Roland Lazenby • 2014

Before the global brand and the six rings: one locked door and a sophomore's broken pride.

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📖 NBA History 🏀 Basketball Greats 🗽 American Icons 🔥 Competitive Drive 💪 Overcoming Adversity

Michael Jordan

Before the global brand and the six rings: one locked door and a sophomore's broken pride.

door Roland Lazenby 2014 678 pagina's

4.31

8.000+ beoordelingen

📖 NBA History 🏀 Basketball Greats 🗽 American Icons 🔥 Competitive Drive 💪 Overcoming Adversity

Women, Race, & Class

door Angela Y. Davis • 1981

From abolition to abortion, the women's movement has a race problem it has never solved.

4.59

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🖤 Black Feminism 🧩 Intersectionality 🏥 Reproductive Justice 🏠 Domestic Labor 🌱 Abolitionist Roots

Women, Race, & Class

From abolition to abortion, the women's movement has a race problem it has never solved.

door Angela Y. Davis 1981 288 pagina's

4.59

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🖤 Black Feminism 🧩 Intersectionality 🏥 Reproductive Justice 🏠 Domestic Labor 🌱 Abolitionist Roots

Tried by War

door James M. McPherson • 2008

How a lawyer with zero military training became the most hands-on commander in chief.

4.09

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🎖️ Civil War History 🏛️ Presidential Leadership ⚔️ Military Command 📜 War Powers ⛓️‍💥 Emancipation

Tried by War

How a lawyer with zero military training became the most hands-on commander in chief.

door James M. McPherson 2008 329 pagina's

4.09

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🎖️ Civil War History 🏛️ Presidential Leadership ⚔️ Military Command 📜 War Powers ⛓️‍💥 Emancipation

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

door John J. Mearsheimer • 2006

How a single interest group has reshaped U.S. Middle East policy, often against American interests.

4.12

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🌍 Foreign Policy 🤝 Political Lobbying ⚔️ Middle East Conflict 📺 Media Influence 🎓 Realism

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

How a single interest group has reshaped U.S. Middle East policy, often against American interests.

door John J. Mearsheimer 2006 484 pagina's

4.12

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🌍 Foreign Policy 🤝 Political Lobbying ⚔️ Middle East Conflict 📺 Media Influence 🎓 Realism

Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War"

door Patrick J. Buchanan • 2008

Britain's empire fell not to war but to a diplomatic blunder that handed the world to its rivals.

4.21

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🔄 World War Revisionism 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Imperial Decline 🤝 Appeasement 📜 Diplomatic Failures 🗺️ Political Realism

Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War"

Britain's empire fell not to war but to a diplomatic blunder that handed the world to its rivals.

door Patrick J. Buchanan 2008 544 pagina's

4.21

2.000+ beoordelingen

🔄 World War Revisionism 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Imperial Decline 🤝 Appeasement 📜 Diplomatic Failures 🗺️ Political Realism

How the Word Is Passed

door Clint Smith • 2021

From Monticello to Angola Prison, nine American sites where slavery's past has never really ended.

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📜 American Slavery 🏛️ Public History 🧠 Collective Memory ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🏚️ Lost Cause Mythology

How the Word Is Passed

From Monticello to Angola Prison, nine American sites where slavery's past has never really ended.

door Clint Smith 2021 336 pagina's

4.70

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📜 American Slavery 🏛️ Public History 🧠 Collective Memory ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🏚️ Lost Cause Mythology

The Bridge

door David Remnick • 2010

Community organizer. Harvard Law. A blowout loss. The political apprenticeship of Barack Obama.

4.10

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📖 Political Biographies 🗳️ Race And Politics 🏙️ Chicago Politics 🧬 Biracial Experience 🤝 Political Pragmatism

The Bridge

Community organizer. Harvard Law. A blowout loss. The political apprenticeship of Barack Obama.

door David Remnick 2010 672 pagina's

4.10

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📖 Political Biographies 🗳️ Race And Politics 🏙️ Chicago Politics 🧬 Biracial Experience 🤝 Political Pragmatism

The Tycoons

door Charles R. Morris • 2005

Four rival industrialists, four methods, one generation: how America became the world's factory.

3.74

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🏛️ Gilded Age 🚂 Railroads 💰 Robber Barons 🏭 Industrial Revolution 📊 Corporate Consolidation

The Tycoons

Four rival industrialists, four methods, one generation: how America became the world's factory.

door Charles R. Morris 2005 400 pagina's

3.74

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🏛️ Gilded Age 🚂 Railroads 💰 Robber Barons 🏭 Industrial Revolution 📊 Corporate Consolidation

Sweet Sixteen

door Annelise Heurtier • 2013

A Black teen integrates an Arkansas high school; a white classmate learns silence has a price.

3.92

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🏫 School Desegregation ✊🏾 Civil Rights Era 🏚️ Jim Crow South 👥 Dual Narratives 👁️ Racial Awakening

Sweet Sixteen

A Black teen integrates an Arkansas high school; a white classmate learns silence has a price.

door Annelise Heurtier 2013 217 pagina's

3.92

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🏫 School Desegregation ✊🏾 Civil Rights Era 🏚️ Jim Crow South 👥 Dual Narratives 👁️ Racial Awakening

The Great Crash 1929

door John Kenneth Galbraith • 1955

Authorities knew a crash was coming; five structural flaws ensured it became the Great Depression.

3.92

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📜 Financial History 📉 Stock Market Crashes 🫧 Speculative Bubbles 🧠 Market Psychology 🏛️ Institutional Economics

The Great Crash 1929

Authorities knew a crash was coming; five structural flaws ensured it became the Great Depression.

door John Kenneth Galbraith 1955 206 pagina's

3.92

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📜 Financial History 📉 Stock Market Crashes 🫧 Speculative Bubbles 🧠 Market Psychology 🏛️ Institutional Economics

1776

door David McCullough • 2005

How a year of defeats and desertions almost ended the American Revolution before it began.

4.10

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🦅 American Revolution ⚔️ Military History 🏰 18th Century Warfare 📖 Narrative History 📚 Popular History

1776

How a year of defeats and desertions almost ended the American Revolution before it began.

door David McCullough 2005 386 pagina's

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🦅 American Revolution ⚔️ Military History 🏰 18th Century Warfare 📖 Narrative History 📚 Popular History

Bachelor Girl

door Betsy Israel • 2002

The hidden history of single women: from spinsters to the women who refused to settle.

3.72

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💃 Single Women 📚 Cultural History 🏙️ Urban Life 🏭 Workplace History 💋 Sexual Revolution

Bachelor Girl

The hidden history of single women: from spinsters to the women who refused to settle.

door Betsy Israel 2002 324 pagina's

3.72

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💃 Single Women 📚 Cultural History 🏙️ Urban Life 🏭 Workplace History 💋 Sexual Revolution

The Situation Room

door George Stephanopoulos • 2024

Twelve presidents. One basement room. The crises that revealed who they really were.

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🏛️ Presidential History 🏠 White House History ⚡ Crisis Decision Making 🌍 American Foreign Policy 🔒 National Security

The Situation Room

Twelve presidents. One basement room. The crises that revealed who they really were.

door George Stephanopoulos 2024 466 pagina's

4.33

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🏛️ Presidential History 🏠 White House History ⚡ Crisis Decision Making 🌍 American Foreign Policy 🔒 National Security

Fiasco

door Thomas E. Ricks • 2006

A year planning the invasion, zero for the peace: how ideology and hubris lost Iraq.

4.09

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🇮🇶 Iraq War 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🪖 Counterinsurgency 🔍 Intelligence Failures 🏛️ Civil-Military Relations

Fiasco

A year planning the invasion, zero for the peace: how ideology and hubris lost Iraq.

door Thomas E. Ricks 2006 482 pagina's

4.09

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🇮🇶 Iraq War 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🪖 Counterinsurgency 🔍 Intelligence Failures 🏛️ Civil-Military Relations

The Grift

door Clay Cane • 2024

From Reconstruction to Trump, the Black conservatives who enabled racism for a seat at the table.

4.32

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🏛️ African American History 🐘 Black Conservatism 💰 Political Opportunism 🗳️ Voting Rights 📜 Reconstruction Era

The Grift

From Reconstruction to Trump, the Black conservatives who enabled racism for a seat at the table.

door Clay Cane 2024 400 pagina's

4.32

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🏛️ African American History 🐘 Black Conservatism 💰 Political Opportunism 🗳️ Voting Rights 📜 Reconstruction Era

My Life

door Bill Clinton • 2004

A dead father, a violent stepfather, and an ambition that wouldn't quit: the making of a president.

3.74

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🏛️ Presidential Memoirs 🗳️ Retail Politics 🌱 Political Coming Of Age 🌴 Southern Politics 🪖 Vietnam War Era

My Life

A dead father, a violent stepfather, and an ambition that wouldn't quit: the making of a president.

door Bill Clinton 2004 1008 pagina's

3.74

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🏛️ Presidential Memoirs 🗳️ Retail Politics 🌱 Political Coming Of Age 🌴 Southern Politics 🪖 Vietnam War Era

The Five Thousand Year Leap

door W. Cleon Skousen • 1981

The principles that compressed 5,000 years of political trial into a single working republic.

4.27

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🏛️ Founding Fathers ⚖️ Natural Law 🗽 Classical Liberalism 🫡 Civic Virtue 📜 Originalism

The Five Thousand Year Leap

The principles that compressed 5,000 years of political trial into a single working republic.

door W. Cleon Skousen 1981 331 pagina's

4.27

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🏛️ Founding Fathers ⚖️ Natural Law 🗽 Classical Liberalism 🫡 Civic Virtue 📜 Originalism

Fire and Fury

door Michael Wolff • 2018

Bannon versus the family. Cable news versus the briefings. The West Wing as it actually ran.

3.44

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🏛️ White House Insider 🇺🇸 Trump Presidency ⚔️ Political Infighting 💥 White House Dysfunction 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Fire and Fury

Bannon versus the family. Cable news versus the briefings. The West Wing as it actually ran.

door Michael Wolff 2018 336 pagina's

3.44

77.000+ beoordelingen

🏛️ White House Insider 🇺🇸 Trump Presidency ⚔️ Political Infighting 💥 White House Dysfunction 🔍 Investigative Journalism

For Love of Country

door Tulsi Gabbard • 2024

A Democratic congresswoman walks away from her party. What she saw inside explains why.

4.34

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🇺🇸 American Politics 📖 Political Memoirs 🏛️ Classical Liberalism 🕊️ Anti-Interventionism 🎤 Cancel Culture

For Love of Country

A Democratic congresswoman walks away from her party. What she saw inside explains why.

door Tulsi Gabbard 2024 242 pagina's

4.34

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🇺🇸 American Politics 📖 Political Memoirs 🏛️ Classical Liberalism 🕊️ Anti-Interventionism 🎤 Cancel Culture

Who Stole the American Dream?

door Hedrick Smith • 2012

One 1971 memo mobilized business for political combat. The middle class never recovered.

4.19

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🏛️ Political Economy 🏢 Corporate Power 📉 Middle Class Decline 💰 Income Inequality 🗳️ Campaign Finance

Who Stole the American Dream?

One 1971 memo mobilized business for political combat. The middle class never recovered.

door Hedrick Smith 2012 624 pagina's

4.19

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🏛️ Political Economy 🏢 Corporate Power 📉 Middle Class Decline 💰 Income Inequality 🗳️ Campaign Finance

Bad Mexicans

door Kelly Lytle Hernández • 2022

The Mexican Revolution began with ink, not gunpowder. The U.S. fought to stop it.

4.18

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🪖 Mexican Revolution 🏜️ Borderlands History 🏴 Anarchist Movements ✊ Labor Strikes 🌍 Anti-Colonialism

Bad Mexicans

The Mexican Revolution began with ink, not gunpowder. The U.S. fought to stop it.

door Kelly Lytle Hernández 2022 372 pagina's

4.18

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🪖 Mexican Revolution 🏜️ Borderlands History 🏴 Anarchist Movements ✊ Labor Strikes 🌍 Anti-Colonialism

The Autistic Brain

door Temple Grandin • 2013

A free Black man is sold into slavery; a single smuggled letter holds his escape.

4.1

11.000+

🔗 American Slavery 📜 Slave Narratives ⛓ Kidnapping And Captivity 🏚️ Plantation Life 🛡️ Survival And Resistance

The Autistic Brain

A free Black man is sold into slavery; a single smuggled letter holds his escape.

door Temple Grandin 2013 240 pagina's

4.1

11.000+ beoordelingen

🔗 American Slavery 📜 Slave Narratives ⛓ Kidnapping And Captivity 🏚️ Plantation Life 🛡️ Survival And Resistance

Did America Have a Christian Founding?

door Mark David Hall • 2019

Founders weren't deists. Christian convictions shaped the Constitution more than the Enlightenment.

3.99

379

🇺🇸 American Founding ⛪ Church And State 🕊️ Religious Liberty ✝️ Christian Founding 📜 Founders' Faith

Did America Have a Christian Founding?

Founders weren't deists. Christian convictions shaped the Constitution more than the Enlightenment.

door Mark David Hall 2019 240 pagina's

3.99

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🇺🇸 American Founding ⛪ Church And State 🕊️ Religious Liberty ✝️ Christian Founding 📜 Founders' Faith

Tyranny of the Minority

door Steven Levitsky • 2023

Electoral College, Senate bias, filibuster: three 18th-century relics now delivering minority rule.

4.39

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🏚️ Democratic Backsliding 🗳️ Electoral Reform 🏛️ Institutional Decay 🚫 Voter Suppression 🐍 Authoritarian Creep

Tyranny of the Minority

Electoral College, Senate bias, filibuster: three 18th-century relics now delivering minority rule.

door Steven Levitsky 2023 369 pagina's

4.39

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🏚️ Democratic Backsliding 🗳️ Electoral Reform 🏛️ Institutional Decay 🚫 Voter Suppression 🐍 Authoritarian Creep

Asia's Cauldron

door Robert D. Kaplan • 2014

One sea, half the world's trade, six rival claims: the old Pacific order is over.

3.95

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🔭 Geopolitics ⚔️ Great Power Rivalry ⚓ Maritime Strategy 🗺️ Territorial Disputes ⛽ Energy Security

Asia's Cauldron

One sea, half the world's trade, six rival claims: the old Pacific order is over.

door Robert D. Kaplan 2014 256 pagina's

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🔭 Geopolitics ⚔️ Great Power Rivalry ⚓ Maritime Strategy 🗺️ Territorial Disputes ⛽ Energy Security

The Indifferent Stars Above

door Daniel James Brown • 2009

For a young bride in the Donner Party, survival meant starvation, snow, and an unspeakable act.

4.25

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🧭 Westward Expansion 🇺🇸 Manifest Destiny 🏕️ Wilderness Survival 👩‍🌾 Pioneer Women ❄️ Nature's Indifference

The Indifferent Stars Above

For a young bride in the Donner Party, survival meant starvation, snow, and an unspeakable act.

door Daniel James Brown 2009 352 pagina's

4.25

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🧭 Westward Expansion 🇺🇸 Manifest Destiny 🏕️ Wilderness Survival 👩‍🌾 Pioneer Women ❄️ Nature's Indifference

The Path to Power

door Robert A. Caro • 1982

Before the presidency, a Texas hill country boy learned the dark arts of power on a college campus.

4.43

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🏛️ Presidential Biographies 🎭 Political Manipulation ⚡ Power Accumulation 🕯️ Backroom Politics 🌾 Escape From Poverty

The Path to Power

Before the presidency, a Texas hill country boy learned the dark arts of power on a college campus.

door Robert A. Caro 1982 768 pagina's

4.43

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🏛️ Presidential Biographies 🎭 Political Manipulation ⚡ Power Accumulation 🕯️ Backroom Politics 🌾 Escape From Poverty

The Divider

door Peter Baker • 2022

Trump's presidency was built on division. The Capitol attack was where that architecture led.

4.45

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🏛️ Presidential History 🟠 Trump Presidency ⚔️ Political Division 📉 Democratic Backsliding 📺 Media And Politics

The Divider

Trump's presidency was built on division. The Capitol attack was where that architecture led.

door Peter Baker 2022 725 pagina's

4.45

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🏛️ Presidential History 🟠 Trump Presidency ⚔️ Political Division 📉 Democratic Backsliding 📺 Media And Politics

We Are Not Yet Equal

door Carol Anderson • 2018

Every Black American victory was met with a legal counterattack designed to undo it.

4.40

500+

⚖ Systemic Racism 📚 African American History 🔄 Backlash Politics 🗳 Voter Suppression 🔗 Mass Incarceration

We Are Not Yet Equal

Every Black American victory was met with a legal counterattack designed to undo it.

door Carol Anderson 2018

4.40

500+ beoordelingen

⚖ Systemic Racism 📚 African American History 🔄 Backlash Politics 🗳 Voter Suppression 🔗 Mass Incarceration

Undaunted Courage

door Stephen E. Ambrose • 1996

A brave captain mapped the West for Jefferson, then got lost in his own mind.

4.23

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🏞️ American Frontier 🗺️ Expedition Narratives 🌅 Manifest Destiny 🪶 Indigenous Relations 🪖 Early U.S. Army

Undaunted Courage

A brave captain mapped the West for Jefferson, then got lost in his own mind.

door Stephen E. Ambrose 1996 592 pagina's

4.23

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🏞️ American Frontier 🗺️ Expedition Narratives 🌅 Manifest Destiny 🪶 Indigenous Relations 🪖 Early U.S. Army

What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

door Thomas Frank • 2004

The poorest county in America votes Republican. Why a culture war delivers wealth to the top.

3.85

12.000+

🗳️ Political Realignment 🐘 Conservative Movement 🏭 Class Politics 😤 Cultural Backlash 🤔 Voting Against Interest

What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

The poorest county in America votes Republican. Why a culture war delivers wealth to the top.

door Thomas Frank 2004 332 pagina's

3.85

12.000+ beoordelingen

🗳️ Political Realignment 🐘 Conservative Movement 🏭 Class Politics 😤 Cultural Backlash 🤔 Voting Against Interest

Common Sense

door Joel Greenblatt • 2020

The same incentive logic that picks stocks can fix schools, wages, and banks.

3.65

276

🏛️ Economic Policy 📚 Education Reform 💡 Market-Based Solutions 🪢 Social Safety Net 🏦 Banking Reform

Common Sense

The same incentive logic that picks stocks can fix schools, wages, and banks.

door Joel Greenblatt 2020 146 pagina's

3.65

276 beoordelingen

🏛️ Economic Policy 📚 Education Reform 💡 Market-Based Solutions 🪢 Social Safety Net 🏦 Banking Reform

Deliver Me from Nowhere

door Warren Zanes • 2023

Why Bruce Springsteen's darkest album was a home demo he never meant to release.

4.33

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🎧 Album Making-Of 🏠 Home Recording 🧠 Creative Struggle 🌾 Dark Americana 🔧 Working Class Stories

Deliver Me from Nowhere

Why Bruce Springsteen's darkest album was a home demo he never meant to release.

door Warren Zanes 2023 320 pagina's

4.33

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🎧 Album Making-Of 🏠 Home Recording 🧠 Creative Struggle 🌾 Dark Americana 🔧 Working Class Stories

Case Closed

door Gerald Posner • 1993

One mail-order rifle, three shots, and the case against conspiracy in the JFK assassination.

4.05

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🔫 Presidential Assassinations ❄️ Cold War America 🔍 Conspiracy Debunking 🕵️ Forensic History 💥 Political Violence

Case Closed

One mail-order rifle, three shots, and the case against conspiracy in the JFK assassination.

door Gerald Posner 1993 640 pagina's

4.05

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🔫 Presidential Assassinations ❄️ Cold War America 🔍 Conspiracy Debunking 🕵️ Forensic History 💥 Political Violence

Spies in the Family

door Eva Dillon • 2017

A Soviet general spied for the U.S. for two decades. His handler's daughter reveals why.

4.15

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📡 Cold War Espionage 🕵️ CIA History 🏳️ Soviet Defectors 🔍 Mole Hunts 🤝 Handler-Agent Bonds

Spies in the Family

A Soviet general spied for the U.S. for two decades. His handler's daughter reveals why.

door Eva Dillon 2017 352 pagina's

4.15

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📡 Cold War Espionage 🕵️ CIA History 🏳️ Soviet Defectors 🔍 Mole Hunts 🤝 Handler-Agent Bonds

Follow the Money

door Dan Bongino • 2020

A Cambridge dinner, a monitored phone call, and the trap that felled a national security advisor.

4.36

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🕵️ Deep State 🏛️ Political Corruption 📰 Media Bias 🔍 Intelligence Agencies 🗳️ Election Interference

Follow the Money

A Cambridge dinner, a monitored phone call, and the trap that felled a national security advisor.

door Dan Bongino 2020 210 pagina's

4.36

500+ beoordelingen

🕵️ Deep State 🏛️ Political Corruption 📰 Media Bias 🔍 Intelligence Agencies 🗳️ Election Interference

Washington's Spies

door Alexander Rose • 2006

Washington's spies weren't professionals. They were neighbors who took their secret to the grave.

3.82

6.000+

🦅 American Revolution 🕵️ Espionage History 🎖️ Military Intelligence 🔐 Spycraft 🔢 Secret Codes

Washington's Spies

Washington's spies weren't professionals. They were neighbors who took their secret to the grave.

door Alexander Rose 2006 384 pagina's

3.82

6.000+ beoordelingen

🦅 American Revolution 🕵️ Espionage History 🎖️ Military Intelligence 🔐 Spycraft 🔢 Secret Codes

Rebooting Justice

door Benjamin H. Barton • 2017

Justice is too expensive for most Americans. The surprising cure: fewer lawyers and smarter systems.

3.90

🏛️ Access To Justice ⚖️ Legal System Reform 🔗 Criminal Justice Reform 💻 Technology And Law 📜 Occupational Licensing

Rebooting Justice

Justice is too expensive for most Americans. The surprising cure: fewer lawyers and smarter systems.

door Benjamin H. Barton 2017 242 pagina's

3.90

29 beoordelingen

🏛️ Access To Justice ⚖️ Legal System Reform 🔗 Criminal Justice Reform 💻 Technology And Law 📜 Occupational Licensing

The Founding Fathers on Leadership

door Donald T. Phillips • 1997

Beat an empire with better teamwork: the leadership manual hidden in the American Revolution.

3.87

298

📚 Applied History 🤝 Team Building ⚡ Crisis Leadership 🔭 Visionary Leadership ♟️ Strategic Thinking

The Founding Fathers on Leadership

Beat an empire with better teamwork: the leadership manual hidden in the American Revolution.

door Donald T. Phillips 1997 274 pagina's

3.87

298 beoordelingen

📚 Applied History 🤝 Team Building ⚡ Crisis Leadership 🔭 Visionary Leadership ♟️ Strategic Thinking

Blood and Thunder

door Hampton Sides • 2006

To conquer the Southwest, America sent an illiterate tracker who became both a hero and a butcher.

4.30

20.000+

🗺️ Manifest Destiny 🏜️ Navajo History 💔 Forced Relocation 🚂 Westward Expansion ✊ Indigenous Resistance

Blood and Thunder

To conquer the Southwest, America sent an illiterate tracker who became both a hero and a butcher.

door Hampton Sides 2006 460 pagina's

4.30

20.000+ beoordelingen

🗺️ Manifest Destiny 🏜️ Navajo History 💔 Forced Relocation 🚂 Westward Expansion ✊ Indigenous Resistance

America's Bank

door Roger Lowenstein • 2015

In 1907, one elderly banker had to save the American financial system from his private library.

3.81

1.000+

🏦 Central Banking 💰 Monetary History 📉 Financial Panics 🎩 Gilded Age Banking 🗳️ Progressive Era

America's Bank

In 1907, one elderly banker had to save the American financial system from his private library.

door Roger Lowenstein 2015 368 pagina's

3.81

1.000+ beoordelingen

🏦 Central Banking 💰 Monetary History 📉 Financial Panics 🎩 Gilded Age Banking 🗳️ Progressive Era

Griftopia

door Matt Taibbi • 2010

From the ballot box to the commodities pit, one unified hustle is picking every American pocket.

4.16

9.000+

📰 Financial Journalism 🫧 Bubble Economics 🏛️ Systemic Corruption 🎛️ Regulatory Capture 💸 Predatory Finance

Griftopia

From the ballot box to the commodities pit, one unified hustle is picking every American pocket.

door Matt Taibbi 2010 253 pagina's

4.16

9.000+ beoordelingen

📰 Financial Journalism 🫧 Bubble Economics 🏛️ Systemic Corruption 🎛️ Regulatory Capture 💸 Predatory Finance

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