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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 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 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 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 author was the first officer to arrive at a house where a small child had been shot. The author helped render first aid to the child, but she was already dead. The mother explained that her 16-year-old son had been selling drugs and having guns for years, and that she had kicked him out of the house previously because of it.
#2 I was 18 years old in 1991, and I felt invincible....
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#1 FBI supervisors never visit you. They summon. Gene showed up at my apartment on a Sunday morning to inform me that I had been selected to lead the investigation into Robert Hanssen, a FBI agent who had been spying for the Russian government.
#2 The FBI had instituted the policy after a few agents married into the mob. Meet the perfect girl, marry her, and then learn...
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#1 Benjamin Franklin was one of the most influential Founders, and he was horrified by the power that the Puritans had seized in Massachusetts and nearby New Hampshire. He campaigned against organized religion his entire life.
#2 In 1658, the Massachusetts Puritans chopped off the ears of two Quakers, Christopher Holder and John Copeland. In 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne...
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#1 We all dream, and yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds. We dream of events that never happened, and sometimes we are the hero or the villain. We ignore the laws of space and time in our dreams, and we think of events and people we haven't thought of for years.
#2 The fact that our dreams are similar to myths is not surprising, as we are...
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Get the Summary of Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological...
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#1 I had no desire to write a novel for the past five years, but out in the desert, between the notes calls and the fear tamped down by Xanax and tequila, the first paragraph of a novel began to take shape. It centered around the bone-white Emser Tile sign situated on a rooftop at the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Holloway Drive.
#2 I've gone five or seven...
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#1 I have tried to outline some elements for a participatory socialism in my last book. These are only a small starting point among others, and the reader should not expect them to be fully realized anytime soon.
#2 The long march toward equality and participatory socialism is already well under way. Inequalities have been reduced over the long-term thanks in part to...
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#1 The year 2020 began with an impeachment trial, the third in American history. The president had used his official powers to extort a political favor from a foreign leader in order to help his own reelection. His guilt was clear, but before long hardly anyone remembered the impeachment.
#2 The United States was able to come through the pandemic relatively unscathed,...
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Get the Summary of Edward Bernays' Propaganda in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: A seminal and controversial figure in the history of political thought and public relations, Edward Bernays pioneered the scientific technique of shaping and manipulating public opinion, which he famously dubbed the "engineering of consent". During World War I, he was an integral part of the US Committee...
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#1Part 1 explores the identity crisis that often accompanies late life. It may be triggered when we encounter the divine messengers that were witnessed by Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha.
#2 Our identity is formed of countless generations of genetic streams running through us, family narratives filled with memory, pride, and shame, and socially constructed stories of...
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#1 The myths about Native Americans come from the ways experts in the social sciences talk about history, the society we live in, and how modern countries are formed. The narratives are used to construct a sense of national identity.
#2 The myth of the vanishing Indian, which was used to justify the removal of Indians from their lands, was also used by politicians to...
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#1 The techniques in this book are simple, but they are powerful. They can help turn a conflicted relationship into a peaceful one, and they can help you communicate with your coworkers, family, and friends better.
#2 The skills you'll be gaining are best learned in a certain order, so I've divided the book into three sections. In Part I, Creating Intimacy, you'll...
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#1 I was born in 1970 in Illinois. I was raised by my family, who created the environment I needed to grow up in. My parents, Catherine Ann Offerman and Frederic Dames Offerman, grew up near each other in the countryside outside of Minooka, Illinois.
#2 Minooka is a small town in Illinois, about an hour from Chicago. It was primarily a farming community until the commuting...
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#1 Sexuality is the area where the gay/straight binary is most challenged, and yet it still persists. People still tend to stick to the gay/straight binary, and non-binary sexuality is often ignored or erased.
#2 Representations of bisexuality have been changing over the last few years. In music, for example, Janelle Monáe, a contemporary queer and Black icon, used...
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#1 The events in the cathedral of Pisa later took on mythical proportions, embodying the cultural and social upheaval that characterized the centuries that followed. With the power of reason, man could adjust the world around him, while remaining unchanged himself.
#2 The original practice of science, which was the basis of the Enlightenment, was open-mindedness. It...
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