https://pithybooks.com/tags/politics/ Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “politics”. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:09 GMT https://pithybooks.com/books/atlas-shrugged/ https://pithybooks.com/books/atlas-shrugged/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Railroads strain under rules as Dagny fights to keep trains running and find a missing inventor. https://pithybooks.com/books/between-the-world-and-me/ https://pithybooks.com/books/between-the-world-and-me/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Coates writes to his son about the Black body in America, from Howard to the loss of Prince Jones. https://pithybooks.com/books/dune-messiah/ https://pithybooks.com/books/dune-messiah/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Emperor Paul faces jihad fallout as Bene Gesserit and Tleilaxu plot with ghola Duncan to break him. https://pithybooks.com/books/fall-of-giants/ https://pithybooks.com/books/fall-of-giants/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Five families from Wales to Russia live through World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the fight for women's votes. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-casual-vacancy/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-casual-vacancy/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Barry Fairbrother dies and leaves a Pagford council seat open, sparking an election, a class war over the Fields, and trouble for local teenagers. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-prince/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-prince/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Machiavelli advises Lorenzo on rule through fear and love, fortune, cruelty and mercy. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-testaments/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-testaments/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Aunt Lydia, Agnes and Nicole conspire to bring down Gilead fifteen years later. https://pithybooks.com/books/hillbilly-elegy/ https://pithybooks.com/books/hillbilly-elegy/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Vance traces Mamaw and Papaw from Kentucky to Middletown through addiction, Marines, and Yale Law. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-unbearable-lightness-of-being/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-unbearable-lightness-of-being/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Surgeon Tomas loves Tereza yet keeps mistresses, while artist Sabina and professor Franz test freedom around the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-well-of-ascension/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-well-of-ascension/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT After the Lord Ruler falls, Vin and Elend must hold Luthadel against three armies while a mist spirit hunts Vin and the Well of Ascension calls. https://pithybooks.com/books/a-dance-with-dragons/ https://pithybooks.com/books/a-dance-with-dragons/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tyrion flees east, Dany chains her dragons in Meereen, and Jon holds the Wall as winter comes. https://pithybooks.com/books/a-feast-for-crows/ https://pithybooks.com/books/a-feast-for-crows/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT After the War of the Five Kings, Cersei seizes power while Brienne searches and the Ironborn rise. https://pithybooks.com/books/a-storm-of-swords/ https://pithybooks.com/books/a-storm-of-swords/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kings bleed, weddings turn red, and bastards rise as war splits Westeros. https://pithybooks.com/books/deception-point/ https://pithybooks.com/books/deception-point/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A meteorite in Arctic ice may prove alien life, and analyst Rachel Sexton must verify it as killers close in. https://pithybooks.com/books/a-clash-of-kings/ https://pithybooks.com/books/a-clash-of-kings/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Five kings fight after Robert dies while Jon meets wildlings, Dany crosses the Red Waste, and Tyrion holds King's Landing. https://pithybooks.com/books/red-white-and-royal-blue/ https://pithybooks.com/books/red-white-and-royal-blue/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT America's First Son fakes a friendship with a British prince after a cake disaster, but private emails turn into a secret romance during a tense reelection year. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Young Coriolanus Snow mentors Lucy Gray in the 10th Hunger Games. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-wicked-king/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-wicked-king/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Jude must hold Cardan on the Elfhame throne while the Undersea plots. https://pithybooks.com/books/a-game-of-thrones/ https://pithybooks.com/books/a-game-of-thrones/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Martin's A Game of Thrones retold: Starks, Lannisters, Dany's dragons, and why Ned's mercy costs him. https://pithybooks.com/books/dune/ https://pithybooks.com/books/dune/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dune retold: Paul leaves Caladan for Arrakis, spice, Fremen, jihad seeded in desert.