The Prince
Machiavelli advises Lorenzo on rule through fear and love, fortune, cruelty and mercy.
2,204-word summary · 10 min read
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Washington rowers led by Joe Rantz chase gold in Hitler's Berlin in 1936.
2,439-word summary · 11 min read
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Art Spiegelman interviews his father Vladek about Sosnowiec and Auschwitz, drawing Jews as mice in this tense father and son memoir.
2,223-word summary · 10 min read
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
In 1920s Oklahoma, Osage oil wealth makes tribal members targets for murder, forcing the young FBI under Tom White to expose the conspiracy behind the Reign of…
2,403-word summary · 11 min read
John Adams
McCullough follows Adams from Braintree lawyer to second president.
2,515-word summary · 11 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
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bryson asks how we know what we know, from atoms to continents, with humor and awe.
2,134-word summary · 9 min read
The Crucible
Salem witch trials inflame fear as John Proctor faces confession and conscience.
2,572-word summary · 11 min read
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Diamond argues geography and crops explain why some societies expanded faster than others.
3,432-word summary · 15 min read
A Discovery of Witches
Historian Diana Bishop calls up a lost alchemical manuscript in Oxford's Bodleian Library and draws vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, plus every creature…
2,025-word summary · 9 min read
The Devil in the White City
Architect Burnham builds the 1893 Chicago Fair while H.H. Holmes builds his murder hotel nearby.
2,020-word summary · 9 min read
Unbroken
Louis Zamperini survives a Pacific crash, sharks and POW camps after running in the Berlin Olympics.
3,263-word summary · 15 min read