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Spies, Lies, and Algorithms Summary
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms
The History and Future of American Intelligence
by Amy B. Zegart 2022 360 pages
3.95
1.3K ratings
History
Politics
Espionage
How to Change Everything Summary
How to Change Everything
The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other
by Naomi Klein 2021 336 pages
3.89
851 ratings
Environment
Science
Climate Change
Call Sign Chaos Summary
Call Sign Chaos
Learning to Lead
by Jim Mattis 2019 320 pages
4.30
13.2K ratings
Leadership
Military Fiction
Biography
The Truths We Hold Summary
The Truths We Hold
An American Journey
by Kamala Harris 2019 336 pages
4.05
32.1K ratings
Politics
Memoir
Biography
Identity Summary
Identity
The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
by Francis Fukuyama 2018 240 pages
3.85
6.3K ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
What Young India Wants Summary
What Young India Wants
by Chetan Bhagat 2012 181 pages
3.26
9.9K ratings
India
Indian Literature
Essays
The Invention of the Jewish People Summary
The Invention of the Jewish People
by Shlomo Sand 2008 332 pages
4.13
1.7K ratings
History
Politics
Religion
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
2.4K ratings
Economics
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History
Empire of Normality Summary
Empire of Normality
Neurodiversity and Capitalism
by Robert Chapman 2023 204 pages
4.33
652 ratings
Psychology
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Disability
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
4.36
41.0K ratings
History
True Crime
Book Club
Mossad Summary
Mossad
The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
by Michael Bar-Zohar 2010 388 pages
4.19
15.0K ratings
History
Israel
Espionage
The Fifth Risk Summary
The Fifth Risk
by Michael Lewis 2018 221 pages
4.09
46.8K ratings
Politics
History
Economics
In Defense of a Liberal Education Summary
In Defense of a Liberal Education
by Fareed Zakaria 2015 208 pages
3.83
3.1K ratings
Education
Philosophy
Politics
Counterinsurgency Warfare Summary
Counterinsurgency Warfare
Theory and Practice
by David Galula 1964 128 pages
4.02
1.2K ratings
Military Fiction
War
History
The New Silk Roads Summary
The New Silk Roads
The Present and Future of the World
by Peter Frankopan 2018 313 pages
3.58
7.7K ratings
History
Politics
China
Imaginary Homelands Summary
Imaginary Homelands
Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
by Salman Rushdie 1991 448 pages
3.98
1.5K ratings
Essays
India
Politics
The Premonition Summary
The Premonition
A Pandemic Story
by Michael Lewis 2021 304 pages
4.33
41.8K ratings
Science
History
Politics
Trade Wars Are Class Wars Summary
Trade Wars Are Class Wars
How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
by Matthew C. Klein 2020 288 pages
4.15
1.7K ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
The Price We Pay Summary
The Price We Pay
What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It
by Marty Makary 2019 288 pages
4.46
4.1K ratings
Health Care
Medicine
Health
Hard Choices Summary
Hard Choices
by Hillary Rodham Clinton 2013 788 pages
3.61
14.7K ratings
Politics
Biography
Memoir
The China Model Summary
The China Model
Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy
by Daniel A. Bell 2015 336 pages
3.63
271 ratings
China
Politics
History
The Wise Men Summary
The Wise Men
Six Friends and the World They Made
by Walter Isaacson 1986 864 pages
4.10
4.2K ratings
History
Biography
Politics
Strategic Vision Summary
Strategic Vision
America and the Crisis of Global Power
by Zbigniew Brzeziński 2012 224 pages
3.79
1.2K ratings
Politics
History
International Relations
Free Speech Summary
Free Speech
Ten Principles for a Connected World
by Timothy Garton Ash 2017 504 pages
3.97
302 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Law
Four Hundred Souls Summary
Four Hundred Souls
A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
by Ibram X. Kendi 2021 504 pages
4.56
10.6K ratings
History
Race
Social Justice
The Creation of Patriarchy Summary
The Creation of Patriarchy
by Gerda Lerner 1986 318 pages
4.37
2.3K ratings
Feminism
History
Womens
Fault Lines Summary
Fault Lines
The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe
by Voddie T. Baucham Jr. 2021 271 pages
4.44
6.4K ratings
Christian
Theology
Politics
The Great War for Civilisation Summary
The Great War for Civilisation
The Conquest of the Middle East
by Robert Fisk 2005 1111 pages
4.41
5.5K ratings
History
Politics
War
The New Paradigm for Financial Markets Summary
The New Paradigm for Financial Markets
The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means
by George Soros 2008 163 pages
3.41
1.5K ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
Lawless Summary
Lawless
How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes
by Leah Litman 2025 320 pages
4.32
186 ratings
Politics
History
Law
The Great Debate Summary
The Great Debate
Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
by Yuval Levin 2013 296 pages
3.87
1.4K ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
The Education of Cyrus Summary
The Education of Cyrus
by Xenophon 320 pages
4.13
1.8K ratings
History
Philosophy
Biography
The Revolution Betrayed Summary
The Revolution Betrayed
by Leon Trotsky 1937 240 pages
4.07
2.0K ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
The Federalist Papers Summary
The Federalist Papers
by Alexander Hamilton 1788 688 pages
4.10
41.3K ratings
History
Politics
Classics
The System Summary
The System
Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
by Robert B. Reich 2020 224 pages
4.28
3.4K ratings
Politics
Economics
History
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism Summary
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
by Martin Wolf 2023 496 pages
3.93
899 ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Original Sin Summary
Original Sin
President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
by Jake Tapper 2025 352 pages
3.77
3.5K ratings
Politics
History
Biography
Who Stole the American Dream? Summary
Who Stole the American Dream?
by Hedrick Smith 2012 592 pages
4.19
854 ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Freedom from Fear Summary
Freedom from Fear
The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
by David M. Kennedy 1999 936 pages
4.20
5.3K ratings
History
American History
Politics
The Age of AI and Our Human Future Summary
The Age of AI and Our Human Future
by Henry Kissinger 2021 272 pages
3.45
4.8K ratings
Artificial Intelligence
Technology
Science
The New Urban Crisis Summary
The New Urban Crisis
How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do About It
by Richard Florida 2017 336 pages
3.51
1.3K ratings
Urban Planning
Urbanism
Politics
The Problem of Political Authority Summary
The Problem of Political Authority
An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey
by Michael Huemer 2012 365 pages
4.38
683 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Economics
The Skin We're In Summary
The Skin We're In
A Year of Black Resistance and Power
by Desmond Cole 2020 248 pages
4.45
10.1K ratings
Canada
Race
Politics
Lectures on the Will to Know Summary
Lectures on the Will to Know
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1970-1971, & Oedipal Knowledge
by Michel Foucault 2014 293 pages
4.27
233 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
France
Easy Money Summary
Easy Money
Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
by Ben McKenzie 2023 304 pages
3.97
3.3K ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
Unsettled Summary
Unsettled
What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters
by Steven E. Koonin 2021 320 pages
4.25
3.6K ratings
Science
Climate Change
Politics
How to stand Up to a Dictator Summary
How to stand Up to a Dictator
by Maria Ressa 2022 288 pages
4.35
4.7K ratings
Politics
Memoir
History
Enter Ghost Summary
Enter Ghost
by Isabella Hammad 2023 336 pages
4.11
9.1K ratings
Literary Fiction
Contemporary
Historical Fiction
War and Peace and War Summary
War and Peace and War
The Rise and Fall of Empires
by Peter Turchin 2005 416 pages
4.18
854 ratings
History
Politics
War
Objectivism Summary
Objectivism
The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
by Leonard Peikoff 1991 493 pages
3.76
5.1K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Classics
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