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#1 It's a book-length essay about Reagan's novels, which Byrne describes as insightful, thoughtful, and a valuable contribution to the literature of the American Dream. According to Byrne, these books were the first to argue that government should never intrude on the lives of Americans. They were also among the first to feature an African American family in a positive...
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Get the Summary of Jack Weatherford's Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World in the World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade,...
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Get the Summary of Thomas Piketty's “A Brief History of Equality” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: It is easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem than Thomas Piketty. Now, in this surprising and powerful new work, Piketty reminds us that the...
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Get the Summary of Jared Kushner's Breaking History in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Now, Kushner finally tells his story-a fast-paced and surprisingly candid account of how an earnest businessman with no political ambitions found himself pulled into a presidency that no one saw coming.
Breaking History takes readers inside debates in the Oval Office, double-crosses at the United...
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Get the Summary of Matt Ridley's “The Rational Optimist” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Life is getting better at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down all across the globe. Though the world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries alike are getting cheaper; population growth is slowing; Africa...
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Get the Summary of Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power in the Room in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Some laws teach the need for prudence ("Law 1: Never Outshine the Master"), others teach the value of confidence ("Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness"), and many recommend absolute self-preservation ("Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally"). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest...
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Get the Summary of Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass in the Room in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation". As she explores these themes, she circles toward a central argument: The awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires...
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Get the Summary of Clayborne Carson's The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Relevant and insightful, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. offers King's seldom disclosed views on some of the world's greatest and most controversial figures: John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Lyndon B. Johnson, Mahatma Gandhi, and Richard Nixon. It also paints a...
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Get the Summary of Rutger Bregman's Humankind in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: f there is one belief that has united the left and the right, psychologists and philosophers, ancient thinkers and modern ones, it is the tacit assumption that humans are bad. It's a notion that drives newspaper headlines and guides the laws that shape our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Pinker,...
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Get the Summary of Moises Naim's The End of Power in the Room in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In The End of Power, award-winning columnist and former Foreign Policy editor Moisés Naím illuminates the struggle between once-dominant megaplayers and the new micropowers challenging them in every field of human endeavor. Drawing on provocative, original research, Naím shows how the antiestablishment...
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Get the Summary of Elie Wiesel's Night in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original...
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Get the Summary of William Strauss and Neil Howe's The Fourth Turning in 20-minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five-hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four eras, or "turnings",...
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Get the Summary of Daniel Schulman's Sons of Wichita in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Sons of Wichita traces the complicated lives and legacies of these four tycoons, as well as their business, social, and political ambitions. No matter where you fall on the ideological spectrum, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of our era, but so little is, publicly known, about...
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Get the Summary of Clarissa Pinkola Estés's Women Who Run With the Wolves in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories, many from her own traditions, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through...
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Get the Summary of Edith Eva Eger's The Choice in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger was, sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele, forced Edie to dance for his amusement and her survival. Edie was, pulled from a pile of corpses, when the American troops liberated the camps in 1945.
Edie spent decades struggling...
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Get the Summary of Allum Bokhari's #DELETED in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Journalist Allum Bokhari has spent four years investigating the tech giants that dominate the Internet: Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. He has discovered a dark plot to seize control of the flow of information, and utilize that power to its full extent - to censor, manipulate, and ultimately sway the...
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Get the Summary of Dr. Carl L. Hart's Drug Use for Grown-Ups in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Dr. Carl L. Hart, Ziff Professor at Columbia University and former chair of the Department of Psychology, is one of the world's preeminent experts on the effects of so-called recreational drugs on the human mind and body. Dr. Hart is open about the fact that he uses drugs himself, in a happy...
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Get the Summary of Gabriel Sherman's The Loudest Voice in the Room in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: When Rupert Murdoch enlisted Roger Ailes to launch a cable news network in 1996, American politics and media changed forever. With a remarkable level of detail and insight, Vanity Fair magazine reporter Gabriel Sherman puts Ailes's unique genius on display, along with the outsize personalities-Bill...
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Get the Summary of Gad Saad's The Parasitic Mind in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: The West's commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism have become endangered by a series of viral forces in our society today. Renowned host of the popular YouTube show "The SAAD Truth", Dr. Gad Saad exposes how an epidemic of idea pathogens are spreading like a virus and killing common sense...
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Get the Summary of Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Drawing on his twenty-five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt shows how moral judgments arise not from reason but from gut feelings. He shows why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have such different intuitions about right and wrong,...
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