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1) Summary of Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Po
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Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy by Jonah Goldberg: Conversation Starters
Two-time New York Times bestselling author Jonah Goldberg his newest book Suicide of the West: How The Rebirth Of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics Is Destroying American Democracy. Goldberg makes a case that only once in the last 250,000 years have humans found...
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I Can Only Imagine: A Memoir by Bart Miller: Conversation Starters
I Can Only Imagine: A Memoir, by Bart Millard, shows the pain, spark of faith, redemption, and healing that is behind the biggest Christian song in history. Bart Millard shows readers his life with his previously abusive father and how his father found God in an intimate telling within his memoir. I Can Only Imagine: A Memoir, by Bart Millard, became an instant bestseller the moment...
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Never Split The Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss: Conversation Starters
The book Never Split The Difference is written by Chris Voss. He is a former international hostage investigator for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Prior to joining the FBI, Voss was part of the Kansas City police force. He has witnessed crimes after crimes in the city. After this stint, he began his career in the FBI. His job as a hostage...
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The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy by Jean Kennedy Smith: Conversation Starters
The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy" is a memoir by ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, the eighth of the nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald. In her book, she looks back at a time long ago when she and her siblings (including future President John F. Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy...
5) Summary of Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking
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Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits by Reese Witherspoon: Conversation Starters
Academy Award-winning actress Reese Witherspoon publishes her first book Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits. She invites you into her world in a southern style. She infuses the style she grew up with into her parties and traditions. She loves all...
6) Summary of The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermin
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The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture by Heather Mac Donald: Conversation Starters
American universities are in crisis for undermining humanistic values that further cause divisions among its citizens. The ideologies against racism and sexism are promoted on college campuses as professors overlook Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, and American history in favor of identity politics and ideology....
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Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean: Conversation Starters
James McGill Buchanan was an economics professor at George Mason University who died in 2013. He was a Nobel Prize winner whose political ideas could very well be the primary cause behind the political divisiveness that the United States is going through. His teachings directed America's billionaires to adopt an agenda that...
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Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferriss Conversation Starters
A Brief Look Inside:
EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER
than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive,
and the characters and its world still live on.
Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to
bring us beneath the surface of the page
and invite us into the world that lives on.
These questions can be used to create hours of conversation:
Foster...
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Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum: Conversation Starters
In "Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic", author David Frum explains why he believes President Trump is threatening our most valuable institutions, and why even the most demanding media is not acknowledging it. Frum unravels the ways in which Trump and his administration are quietly but steadily —and maybe irrevocably- hurting the principles...
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber: Conversation Starters
Bullshit jobs are spiritually and morally corrosive and make people extremely unhappy. If people are denied meaningful jobs that enable them to somehow contribute something to the world, they become mad or deeply miserable. They hold jobs that have no real usefulness except to justify careers. These jobs won't be missed if they suddenly disappear in the workplace. How do you deal with...
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From the Corner of the Oval: A Memoir by Beck Dorey-Stein: Conversation Starters
In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein was looking for a job in DC. She found a post on Craigslist that landed her a job as one of the stenographers in the Oval Office of Barack Obama. Six years later, she writes about her story in her book From the Corner of the Oval Office: One Woman's True Story of Her Accidental Career in the Obama White House. This memoir is a behind-the-scenes...
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In his book, Dr. John E. Sarno uses what he discovered about TMS (Tension Myositis Syndrome) to help people overcome back conditions without dangerous surgery or drugs. He explains that is necessary to identify stress and other psychological factors that can create back pain and, by doing this, patients can heal themselves without physical therapy or specific exercise. Dr. Sarno includes case histories in his book along with the results of in-depth...
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Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell: Conversation Starters
Thomas Sowell's bestselling book Discrimination and Disparities is his empirical examination of how the economic disparities and other disparities arise. Different outcomes like economic and others have a big difference depending on the individuals, their groups or their nations. Many explanations about the differences have been offered by many scholars and thinkers. Some of them...
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The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age by David E. Sanger: Conversation Starters
World conflict has now evolved from nuclear weapons and terrorism into cyberwarfare, one that the US suddenly finds itself disadvantaged. The US is the most advanced nation in cyber technology and yet has been subject to numerous cyber-attacks from other countries including that of the Russian interference in the 2016 elections in which the US has...
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My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now by Peter Mayle: Conversation Starters
Knopf publishing house releases the last book of the late veteran author Peter Mayle entitled My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now. Mayle is known for his books on his life in Provence. This book is the final volume that offers his memories of the life he lived in the South of France for the past twenty-five years. He and his...
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The Man God Has For You: 7 Traits To Help You Determine Your Life Partner by Stephan Labossiere: Conversation Starters
Author and relationship coach Stephan Labossiere says that you deserve a great man. The question is where he is or if he even exists in the first place. Labossiere says that he does and he is out there. He has been handpicked by God for you and he is waiting to experience a wonderful relationship with him. But before you look, you...
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Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely by Lysa TerKeurst: Conversation Starters
In the New York Times bestselling book Uninvited, Lysa TerKeurst shares about rejection. She personally struggled with rejection from an incredibly painful childhood when she was abandoned by her father up to an insecure adulthood when she perceived she was being judged by a perfect woman. TerKeurst leans in to explore the truth about rejection...
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Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga by Hunter S. Thompson: Conversation Starters
Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson vividly recounts his experiences with the most notorious motorcycle gang in California — Hell's Angels. Back in the mid-1960s, Thompson lived for almost two years with the controversial Angels. They cycle up and down the California coast, they revel in their clan's anarchic spirit and as their name befits, they raise hell....
19) Summary of The Deep State: How an Army of Bureaucrats Protected Barack Obama and Is Working to Destr
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The Deep State: How an Army of Bureaucrats Protected Barack Obama and Is Working to Destroy the Trump Agenda by Jason Chaffetz: Conversation Starters
Former Congressman Jason Chaffetz has written the book The Deep State: How an Army of Bureaucrats Protected Barack Obama and Is Working to Destroy the Trump Agenda. This book is set to hit bookshelves on September 18. In this book, he explains how America has ended up with a government system that is...
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The Clean 20: 20 Foods, 20 Days, Total Transformation by Ian K. Smith Conversation Starters
New York Times bestselling author Dr. Ian K. Smith writes the ultimate guide to clean eating. In The Clean 20, he writes the benefits of clean eating and how to implement it in everyday living. According to Smith, there are twenty clean foods. Some of which are avocado to whole wheat pasta and everything in between. These amazing foods are easily available...
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