History

How did society arrive at where it stands today? To learn about the politicians, scientists, innovators, leaders and rulers whose actions shaped the present, peruse these summaries.

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Summaries

10 Book

The Only Plane in the Sky
An Oral History of 9/11
Garrett M. Graff
Avid Reader Press, 2019
9 Book

Free Speech
A History from Socrates to Social Media
Jacob Mchangama
Basic Books, 2022
9 Book

Women & Power
A Manifesto
Mary Beard
Profile Books, 2018
9 Book

Lincoln's Mentors
The Education of a Leader
Michael Gerhardt
Custom House, 2021
9 Book

Quirky
The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World
Melissa Schilling
Public Affairs, 2018
9 Book

Leadership in Turbulent Times
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Simon & Schuster, 2018
9 Book

On the Judgment of History
(Ruth Benedict Book Series)
Joan Wallach Scott
Columbia UP, 2020
10 Book

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
John Maynard Keynes
Prometheus Books, 1997
9 Book

Thinking in Time
The Uses of History for Decision Makers
Ernest R. May and Richard E. Neustadt
Free Press, 1988
9 Book

Chip War
The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Chris Miller
Scribner, 2022
10 Book

1776
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster, 2005
8 Book

Dinners with Ruth
A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
Nina Totenberg
Simon & Schuster, 2022
9 Book

Burning the Books
A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
Richard Ovenden
Belknap Press, 2020
8 Book

All Made Up
The Power and Pitfalls of Beauty Culture, from Cleopatra to Kim Kardashian
Rae Nudson
Beacon Press, 2021
8 Book

Hearts Touched with Fire
How Great Leaders are Made
David Gergen
Simon & Schuster, 2022
9 Book

The BBC
A People's History
David Hendy
Profile Books, 2022
9 Book

For Profit
A History of Corporations
William Magnuson
Basic Books, 2022
9 Book

Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
Harper, 2015
8 Book

One Nation Under God
How Corporate America Invented Christian America
Kevin M. Kruse
Basic Books, 2015
8 Book

Undaunted
Overcoming Doubts and Doubters
Kara Goldin
HarperCollins Leadership, 2020
8 Book

The Leader’s Mind
How Great Leaders Prepare, Perform, and Prevail
Jim Afremow and Phil White
HarperCollins Leadership, 2021
8 Book

Goddess of the Market
Ayn Rand and the American Right
Jennifer Burns
Oxford UP, 2009
8 Book

Character Assassination and Reputation Management
Theory and Applications
Eric Shiraev et al.
Routledge, 2021
9 Book

The Hero Code
Lessons Learned from Lives Well Lived
Admiral William H. McRaven
Grand Central, 2021
10 Book

Collapse
How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond
Penguin, 2005
9 Book

Lessons from the Titans
What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success
Scott M. Davis et al.
McGraw-Hill, 2020
9 Book

IBM
The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (History of Computing)
James W. Cortada
MIT Press, 2019
9 Book

The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
Oxford UP, 2008
Book

The Wager
A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann
Doubleday, 2023
9 Book

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Touchstone, 2003
Book

Pathogenesis
A History of the World in Eight Plagues
Jonathan Kennedy
Crown, 2023
Book

The Rediscovery of America
Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Ned Blackhawk
Yale UP, 2023
8 Book

Alexis de Tocqueville
A Life
Hugh Brogan
Yale UP, 2008
9 Book

Vanguard
How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Martha S. Jones
Basic Books, 2020
8 Book

From Beirut to Jerusalem
Thomas L. Friedman
FSG, 1995
8 Book

The Domino’s Story
How the Innovative Pizza Giant Used Technology to Deliver a Customer Experience Revolution (The Business Storybook Series)
Marcia Layton Turner
HarperCollins Leadership, 2020