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A People's History of the United States
A bottom-up history of the United States from Columbus to Clinton, told through workers, women, Native nations and Black voices against elite rule.
2,398-word summary · 11 min read
nonfiction + politics
5 books tagged both “nonfiction” and “politics”.
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A Promised Land
First-volume memoir from Iowa 2008 through the 2011 bin Laden raid, crisis management and doubt.
2,243-word summary · 10 min read
We Should All Be Feminists
Adichie turns her 2012 TEDx talk into a short sharp essay on gender, using stories from Lagos and America to argue equality helps everyone.
2,625-word summary · 12 min read
Between the World and Me
Coates writes to his son about the Black body in America, from Howard to the loss of Prince Jones.
2,234-word summary · 10 min read
The Prince
Machiavelli advises Lorenzo on rule through fear and love, fortune, cruelty and mercy.
2,204-word summary · 10 min read