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History & Society book summaries
Key ideas from the best history and society books — the events, forces, and arguments that shaped the modern world.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Art of War
The Prince
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Born a Crime
Why Nations Fail
A People's History of the United States
Just Mercy
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The New Jim Crow
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
We Should All Be Feminists
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World
Silent Spring
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Permanent Record
Killers of the Flower Moon
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Abundance
The Communist Manifesto
Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
1929
Isaac's Storm
