June 9, 2026 AI summary: The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is a satirical novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. It gave its name to the entire “Gilded Age” period of American history. READ
goodshit Body of Secrets by James Bamford is an investigative history of the NSA that argues the agency became one of the most powerful and least understood institutions in the U.S. national-security system. Its core idea is that signals intelligence has shaped major Cold War and post–Cold War events, often with very little public oversight.