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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 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 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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#1 Capitalism is a system that takes more than it gives back. The ecological crisis is an inevitable consequence of this system. The standard story that capitalism emerged naturally from feudalism is not true.
#2 Feudalism was a system in which the land was controlled by the nobility, and the people who lived on it were forced to render tribute to them in the form of...
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Get the Summary of Hunter S. Thompson's Hell's Angels in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson's vivid account of his experiences with California's most notorious motorcycle gang, the Hell's Angels. In the mid-1960s, Thompson spent almost two years living with the controversial Angels, cycling up and down the coast, reveling in the anarchic spirit of their clan,...
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Get the Summary of Dan & Elliot Kirschner Rather's What Unites Us in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In a collection of original essays, the venerated television journalist, Dan Rather, celebrates our shared values and what matters most in our great country, and shows us what patriotism looks like. Writing about the institutions that sustain us, such as public libraries, public schools,...
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#1 The word burnout occurred to me as a possible explanation for my angry dread toward my career. I was a scholar at heart, and I spent my lame-duck semester researching burnout to understand my life.
#2 Burnout is when you are constantly drained of energy, see your clients or students as problems rather than people you're meant to help, and feel that your work accomplishes...
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#1 The first wave of Chinese emigration to the United States began in the mid-nineteenth century, when China was still an imperial state ruled by the surviving members of the Qing dynasty. The Qing, originally from Manchuria, had held power for two hundred years, but their power was waning.
#2 The Chinese civilization was centered around the two rivers that flowed from...
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#1 Simpson, a member of the Priesthood, was known as an aggressive reporter skilled at uncovering corruption in politics, business, and government. He was invited to speak at a prestigious conference in 2009 alongside some of his profession's biggest names.
#2 By the 1990s, online news organizations were appearing and readers and advertisers began flocking to them. The...
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#1 Gus Hathaway, a case officer in the CIA's Directorate of Operations, was thinking of asking the National Security Agency for help with a problem in Moscow. The culture of the DO was to keep their mouths shut to outsiders, and the NSA had become CIA's bureaucratic enemy over turf fights about which agency should collect signals intelligence.
#2 The previous year, the...
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#1 I was a tennis bum in the summer before I entered the seventh grade. I was so passionate about the sport that I would idly hold a tennis ball and just sniff it. I became good enough that I was second man on the varsity tennis team of my 3,000-student California high school as a freshman.
#2 The author went on to say that great writers are often obsessed with their...
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#1 The story of Martin Shkreli is a prime example of how not to make money. He started his own hedge fund, betting that the stock prices of certain biotech companies would drop. But instead of using his knowledge to help people, he used it to help himself and his investors make money.
#2 Martin Shkreli is a good example of how people who don't follow the norms of society...
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#1 It is not the big, dramatic things that get us down, but just being Indian, trying to hang on to our way of life while being surrounded by a more powerful culture.
#2 I am a Sioux from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. I belong to the Burned Thigh, the Brule Tribe, the Sicangu in our language. The Brules were part of the Seven Sacred Campfires, the seven tribes...
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#1 I am a feminist, but I refuse to preface any discussion of Islam with the usual fake niceties about radical extremists. I prefer to discuss facts directly, and I use exaggeration and bombast.
#2 The Left has always been good at turning social classes against one another, and this has never been more evident than during the Obama years, when the Left turned...
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#1 The Kahn family in Mafraq, Jordan, experienced the Nori Horror Show. Nori began raging just after sundown, and her parents cried out to Allah for help. Yet Nori only hurled dishes at them in response to their prayers.
#2 The nurse, Nori, was having a hard time dealing with the deaths of her patients. She would hear voices in her head, and she was afraid they were...
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#1 Health is the first thing I consider when it comes to wellbeing. The girl born in the United States today can expect to live more than 80 years, and this estimate is conservative because it ignores any future reductions in mortality.
#2 Health is not just about being alive and living a long time, but about living in good health. Good health has many dimensions and...
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Get the Summary of Joel C. Rosenberg's Enemies and Allies in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Do recent changes in the Middle East signal peace? One Arab country after another is signing historic, game-changing peace, trade, investment, and tourism deals with Israel. At the same time, Russia, Iran, and Turkey are forming a highly dangerous alliance that could threaten the Western powers....
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#1 The story of Fannie Lou Hamer, a Black woman from Mississippi, illustrates the contributions of a Black woman with limited material resources and little formal education, but an all-consuming passion for social justice.
#2 Hamer was a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a civil rights organization, in 1962. That year, she learned about...
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