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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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#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 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 The 2020 election was a culmination of events that began in 2016 with the rise of Donald Trump, and it was a continuation of the issues that came with his presidency.
#2 I was doing all I could to stay calm and collected, but inside I was a wreck. -> On November 7, 2020, Joe Biden was declared president after a lengthy count in Pennsylvania. The networks had been...
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#1 For years, the media refused to call Trump out for his racist comments and behavior. Too many still can't differentiate between racial undertones and blatant racism.
#2 With Trump as president, the cable news networks began to see huge increases in viewership. However, these audiences were largely composed of older, white men.
#3 Broadcast news was pulling...
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#1 Americans are fascinated by the law. And why not. The law is important, intellectually challenging, and sometimes outrageous. Consider some cases that have made front-page news: Stella Liebeck, who bought a cup of coffee at McDonald's and spilled it on herself, was awarded $2. 7 million in damages.
#2 The law has pervaded our society from the beginning. It is...
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#1 The astronomer Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc was the conductor of the eclipse. He was a self-disciplinarian who never wore silk, drank only white wine, and ate only lightly. He was also a connector of Europe's greatest minds.
#2 Peiresc was a scientist who wrote and dictated letters to his friends and colleagues. He published no books, but he left behind 100,000...
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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 The 2008 financial crisis was a result of many financial manipulations that ordinary people did not understand, and in which they played no part. It cost millions of Americans their livelihoods and their homes and bankrupted many businesses.
#2 Americans' well-justified anger is affecting our political discourse, and it is important to understand the why and the what...
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Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The Competitive Buddha is about mastery, leadership, spirituality, and the Kobe Bryant Mamba Mentality. Discover how people from all parts of the world have brought together the Buddha and athletics for greater fun, enjoyment, and pleasure during their performances.
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Get the Summary of Chris Hedges' Our Class in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Pulitzer Prize—winning journalist Chris Hedges has taught courses in drama, literature, philosophy, and history since 2013 in the college degree program offered by Rutgers University at East Jersey State Prison and other New Jersey prisons. In his first class at East Jersey State Prison, where students read...
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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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#1 The Bible has two points of view on time: the point of view of the regular axis of time which we experience as part of the beings of creation, and the point of view of God who exists outside of time and perceives the past, present, and future in one eternal and unified image.
#2 The pre-Socratic philosopher Parmenides believed that change and movement are not possible...
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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 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 The obvious answer to how cities can attract creative talent is to provide the sort of environment that these people want. Surveys show how creative-class citizens, especially millennials, favor communities with street life.
#2 The American landscape has changed since the seventies, when most teens could walk to school, to the store, and to the soccer field. Now,...
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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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