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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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#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 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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#1 In 2020, Bernie would be a top-tier candidate, if not the front-runner. While Hillary had attacked Bernie's policies in 2016 as a naïve wish list, between Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Cory Booker, every one of his significant initiatives had the support of other candidates.
#2 In late January 2018, Bernie held a meeting in Washington to discuss how...
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#1 The author was drawn to watch and listen to Dr. Perry, a renowned doctor and researcher, because he seemed genuine and credible. He radiated through the television screen something genuine and credible.
#2 Maharishi spoke about his teacher with great devotion and respect, calling him Guru Dev which means divine teacher. He said that pure consciousness is an infinite reservoir of...
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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 Doris Kearn Goodwin's Leadership in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Leadership tells the story of how they all collided with dramatic reversals that disrupted their lives and threatened to shatter forever their ambitions. Nonetheless, they all emerged fitted to confront the contours and dilemmas of their times. At their best, all four were guided by a sense of moral...
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#1 The idea of balance and democracy in nature was argued by John Locke in the 1600s, who believed that humans could live in the then-modern world without submitting to some dear leader.
#2 The Iroquois had a court system that was similar to our Supreme Court. Jefferson knew the Indians of Virginia well, and he defended them against those who argued that they were...
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#1 The British biologist Angus Bateman carried out a series of experiments with fruit flies in the middle of the last century. He found that the cause of males' deviation from the female form seems to lie in the males having stronger passions than the females.
#2 The first explanation for why males compete was offered by Bateman in the 1940s. He suggested that...
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#1 The term globalization has been used in both the popular and academic press to describe a process, a condition, a system, a force, and an age. However, these concepts have very different meanings, and their indiscriminate usage leads to confusion.
#2 There are three concepts that need to be distinguished when discussing globality: global imagination, global imaginary,...
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#1 Columbus's second voyage was even more violent than the first, as he captured a beautiful Carib woman and gave her to a friend. She was unwilling, so he tried to take his pleasure with her, but she was resistant. He then took a piece of rope and whipped her soundly.
#2 While Columbus was funneling Native families into slavery, his own brothers joined him in the New...
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Get the Summary of Kristin Henning's The Rage of Innocence in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Henning explains how discriminatory and aggressive policing has socialized a generation of Black teenagers to fear, resent, and resist the police, and she details the long-term consequences of racism that they experience at the hands of the police and their vigilante surrogates. She makes clear...
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Book Preview: #1 Anxiety is a system that helps us recognize possible threats and dangers and keeps us safe from them. We use our senses to keep out of trouble, such as when we jump at a loud noise, look both ways before we cross the street, or sniff a yogurt container to decide whether it smells good enough to eat.
#2 When we are anxious about imaginary dangers, we become vulnerable...
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#1 Ursula Kuczynski was a mother, housewife, novelist, expert radio technician, spymaster, courier, saboteur, bomb maker, Cold Warrior, and secret agent. She was responsible, in part, for maintaining the balance of power between East and West and preventing nuclear war by stealing the science of atomic weaponry from one side to give to the other.
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#1 The Constitution was designed to prevent the tyranny of the majority, which was the concern of Madison and other members of the Federalist Papers. He believed that the majority should not be allowed to take away the property of the opulent.
#2 The debate between the aristocrats and the democrats was the main reason behind the American Revolution. The aristocrats believed...
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#1 I heard from LaHonda Jo Morgan, who lived in Wauconda, Washington, a one-building town about 150 miles northwest of Spokane. She was convinced that Wauconda remained on the map simply because mapmakers didn't want to leave any empty space.
#2 Being a political minority can be uncomfortable and scary. In 2000, more than eight out of ten voters in Gillespie County,...
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Get the Summary of Anita Hill's Believing in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In 1991, Anita Hill began something that's still unfinished work. The issues of gender violence, touching on sex, race, age, and power, are as urgent today as they were when she first testified. Believing is a story of America's three decades long reckoning with gender violence, one that offers insights into...
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#1 On November 9, 2016, Trump became president after being targeted by the Russian Mafia and Russian intelligence for nearly four decades. He would leave the country all but defenseless against future attacks.
#2 The book will show that President Trump allowed Trump-branded real estate to be used as a vehicle that likely served to launder enormous amounts of money for...
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