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Slow Burn Summary
Slow Burn
The Hidden Costs of a Warming World
by R. Jisung Park 2024 336 pages
3.76
62 ratings
Environment
Economics
Science
A Man Called White Summary
A Man Called White
The Autobiography of Walter White
by Walter Francis White 1995 392 pages
4.23
48 ratings
Biography
History
Politics
The South Was Right! Summary
The South Was Right!
by James Ronald Kennedy 1994 431 pages
3.95
474 ratings
History
Civil War
American History
A Protest History of the United States Summary
A Protest History of the United States
by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall 2025 360 pages
4.2
107 ratings
History
Politics
American History
Democracy Summary
Democracy
Eleven writers and leaders on what it is – and why it matters
by Margaret Atwood 2024 144 pages
3.99
242 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
Worse Than Slavery Summary
Worse Than Slavery
Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice
by David M. Oshinsky 1997 320 pages
4.3
1.1K ratings
History
Race
African American
Southern Horrors and Other Writings Summary
Southern Horrors and Other Writings
The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900
by Ida B. Wells-Barnett 1996 240 pages
4.36
777 ratings
History
Race
Essays
At the Hands of Persons Unknown Summary
At the Hands of Persons Unknown
The Lynching of Black America
by Philip Dray 2003 560 pages
4.45
672 ratings
History
Race
American History
Crazy Like Us Summary
Crazy Like Us
The Globalization of the American Psyche
by Ethan Watters 2010 320 pages
4.09
4.3K ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
History
American Oligarchs Summary
American Oligarchs
The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power
by Andrea Bernstein 2020 496 pages
4.22
1.3K ratings
Politics
History
Biography
The Price of Greatness Summary
The Price of Greatness
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy
by Jay Cost 2018 256 pages
3.71
239 ratings
History
Politics
American History
Whole Numbers and Half Truths Summary
Whole Numbers and Half Truths
by Rukmini S. 2021 324 pages
4.22
1.1K ratings
India
Economics
Politics
Covert Regime Change Summary
Covert Regime Change
America's Secret Cold War
by Lindsey A. O'Rourke 2018 330 pages
4.17
75 ratings
History
Politics
International Relations
The Deadline Summary
The Deadline
by Jill Lepore 2023 640 pages
4.31
591 ratings
Essays
History
Politics
The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991 Summary
The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
by Eric J. Hobsbawm 1996 627 pages
4.29
7.8K ratings
History
Politics
World History
inside tagesschau Summary
inside tagesschau
Zwischen Nachrichten und Meinungsmache
by Alexander Teske 2025 297 pages
3.6
81 ratings
Politics
The Fight in the Fields Summary
The Fight in the Fields
Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement
by Susan Ferriss 1998 352 pages
3.97
96 ratings
History
Politics
Labor
Daily Wisdom for Why Does He Do That? Summary
Daily Wisdom for Why Does He Do That?
by Lundy Bancroft 2015 464 pages
4.57
417 ratings
Self Help
Psychology
Abuse
The Age of Empire, 1875–1914 Summary
The Age of Empire, 1875–1914
by Eric J. Hobsbawm 1989 405 pages
4.26
4.5K ratings
History
Politics
World History
Nations and Nationalism since 1780 Summary
Nations and Nationalism since 1780
Programme, Myth, Reality
by Eric J. Hobsbawm 1992 214 pages
3.91
2.1K ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
The Great Leveler Summary
The Great Leveler
Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
by Walter Scheidel 2017 528 pages
3.81
1.6K ratings
History
Economics
Politics
The Big Myth Summary
The Big Myth
How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
by Naomi Oreskes 2023 576 pages
4.38
688 ratings
Economics
Politics
History
The Fourth Political Theory Summary
The Fourth Political Theory
by Alexander Dugin 2012 211 pages
3.3
771 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Russia
Latter-Day Pamphlets Summary
Latter-Day Pamphlets
by Thomas Carlyle 2001 308 pages
3.9
94 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
The Age of Abundance Summary
The Age of Abundance
How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture
by Brink Lindsey 2007 400 pages
3.51
135 ratings
Economics
History
Politics
America's Social Arsonist Summary
America's Social Arsonist
Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century
by Gabriel Thompson 2016 294 pages
4.55
51 ratings
Labor
History
Politics
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
Russian History Summary
Russian History
A Very Short Introduction
by Geoffrey Hosking 2012 154 pages
3.64
757 ratings
History
Russia
Russian History
Bandits Summary
Bandits
by Eric J. Hobsbawm 2001 240 pages
3.75
792 ratings
History
Sociology
Crime
Contemporary Conflict Resolution Summary
Contemporary Conflict Resolution
by Oliver Ramsbotham 2005 424 pages
3.73
179 ratings
Politics
Textbooks
School
How the South Won the Civil War Summary
How the South Won the Civil War
Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
by Heather Cox Richardson 2020 272 pages
4.3
5.0K ratings
History
Politics
American History
Science of Coercion Summary
Science of Coercion
Communication Research and Psychological Warfare, 1945-1960
by Christopher Simpson 1994 224 pages
4.09
87 ratings
History
Psychology
Politics
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse Summary
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse
Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
by William Neuman 2022 352 pages
4.13
1.1K ratings
History
Politics
Economics
A Demon of Our Own Design Summary
A Demon of Our Own Design
Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation
by Richard Bookstaber 2007 288 pages
3.92
1.1K ratings
Finance
Economics
Business
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal Summary
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
by Mohammed El-Kurd 2025 256 pages
4.78
3.7K ratings
Politics
History
Essays
Giants Summary
Giants
The Global Power Elite
by Peter Phillips 2018 355 pages
3.8
254 ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Day Of Deceit Summary
Day Of Deceit
The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor
by Robert B. Stinnett 2001 416 pages
3.68
483 ratings
History
World War II
War
I Never Thought of It That Way Summary
I Never Thought of It That Way
How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times
by Monica Guzmán 2022 304 pages
3.88
3.6K ratings
Politics
Self Help
Psychology
Age of Danger Summary
Age of Danger
Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats
by Andrew R. Hoehn 2023 368 pages
3.81
67 ratings
Politics
The Necessity of Exile Summary
The Necessity of Exile
Essays from a Distance
by Shaul Magid 2023 295 pages
4.22
241 ratings
Judaism
Jewish
Religion
There Will Be Fire Summary
There Will Be Fire
Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
by Rory Carroll 2023 397 pages
4.38
11.5K ratings
History
Politics
Ireland
Ain't I a Woman Summary
Ain't I a Woman
Black Women and Feminism
by bell hooks 1999 205 pages
4.5
19.1K ratings
Feminism
Race
History
Bronze Age Mindset Summary
Bronze Age Mindset
by Bronze Age Pervert 2018 198 pages
3.82
3.9K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
Goliath's Curse Summary
Goliath's Curse
The History and Future of Societal Collapse
by Luke Kemp 2025 592 pages
4.16
511 ratings
History
Politics
Sociology
De ce este România altfel? Summary
De ce este România altfel?
by Lucian Boia 2012 128 pages
3.85
2.7K ratings
History
Romania
Romanian Literature
All You Can Eat Summary
All You Can Eat
How Hungry is America?
by Joel Berg 2008 352 pages
3.88
137 ratings
Food
Politics
Poverty
In Europe's Shadow Summary
In Europe's Shadow
Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
by Robert D. Kaplan 2016 336 pages
3.81
1.4K ratings
History
Travel
Romania
The Myth of the State Summary
The Myth of the State
by Ernst Cassirer 1961 303 pages
3.91
206 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
Laut Bercerita Summary
Laut Bercerita
by Leila S. Chudori 2017 380 pages
4.62
24.5K ratings
Historical Fiction
Novels
Indonesian Literature
Industry and Empire Summary
Industry and Empire
The Birth of the Industrial Revolution
by Eric J. Hobsbawm 1999 411 pages
3.92
565 ratings
History
Economics
European History
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