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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 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 The summer of 2020 saw the emergence of black-clad militants known as Antifa, who joined in the riots and urged protesters to go further, to cross the line.
#2 The media began to connect the dots after the shooting, and found that the shooter, Connor Betts, had tweeted support for Antifa accounts and causes. He had long expressed hatred for conservatives, especially...
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#1 The beginning of the end is when a secret is exposed. The secret keeper must be made to feel safe, and they must be invited into your life. They must believe they are in control.
#2 Therese was tired of feeling like she was not in control of the situation, so she had decided to meet with Martin in person. She wanted the meeting to take place in a neutral location,...
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Get the Summary of Tarana Burke and Brené Brown's You Are Your Best Thing in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: It started as a text between two friends.
Tarana Burke, founder of the 'me too.' Movement, texted researcher and writer Brené Brown to see if she was free to jump on a call. Brené assumed that Tarana wanted to talk about wallpaper. They had been trading home decorating inspiration...
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#1 The town of Northeim was the center of prewar Germany. It was a small town with a population of about ten thousand in 1930. The town was surrounded by walls that enclosed the medieval inner core. The most desirable area was on the hillside above the old town, where you could see the town and valley.
#2 The town of Northeim was built around a medieval city, with three...
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#1 The CIA has been trying to reinvent itself after the debacles of 9/11 and Iraq, but it has instead compromised its core mission, values, and culture. The first warning sign that the CIA was beginning to slide down a slippery slope might have been the perversion of the word, spy.
#2 The term spy has taken on a negative connotation in the United States today, as it is associated...
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Get the Summary of Claudia Goldin's Career and Family in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female college graduates than ever before, and more women want to have a career and family, yet challenges persist at work and at home. This book traces how generations...
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#1 I once loved a girl who loved John Cusack more than she loved me. This was fine, because Cusack is a pretty cool guy. But I realized that I had viewed the competition completely backward: it was definitely an unfair battle, but not in my favor. It was unfair in Cusack's favor.
#2 Fake love is a very powerful thing. It can make us do crazy things, like fly to Portland...
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#1 The appeal of the underdog story comes from its promise that we can create something from nothing, imposing our will on an unforgiving universe. It promises that we can choose our own destinies, no matter how humble our starting points.
#2 Jussie Smollett was a gay, African American actor who claimed he was the victim of a hate crime. He hired two extras from his...
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#1 The world has changed since I opened my first bank account as a child. Today, I do most of my banking online at odd hours. For my children, going to the bank means popping over to the nearest ATM to get cash.
#2 The consumer financial-services system, which consists of mainstream banks, alternative financial services, and informal practices such as saving in structured...
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#1 My mother and father were from a country that had disappeared. The murder of our country was a crime they would never forgive because they had been partly responsible for its invention. We were not exiles because nobody owed us anything. We were immigrants because in my Mother’s Day, the term implied that we were needed in whatever country we ended up in.
#2 I was...
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#1 I was 11 when the World Trade Center towers collapsed. I watched the news coverage of the disaster unfold live on the second hour of the Today Show. I did not know at the time that the government failed to prevent the attacks, but there was an immediate government response once they happened.
#2 The media has a role to play in how we respond to disasters, especially...
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Get the Summary of Jeffrey D. Sachs' “The End of Poverty” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Hailed by Time as one of the world's hundred most influential people, Jeffrey D. Sachs is renowned for his work around the globe advising economies in crisis. Now a classic of its genre, “The End of Poverty” distills more than 30 years of experience to offer a uniquely informed vision...
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#1 I went out as a man, and men stopped staring at me. I was shocked, but it made me realize how much I took for granted being a woman.
#2 In 2003, a guy I knew passed as a woman for a short while to see how men treated him. He found that they treated him very differently, more respectfully.
#3 I needed a name for my character. I chose the name Ned, a nickname from...
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#1 In May 1945, a Western Union messenger made his rounds through the quiet village of Owego, in upstate New York. He stopped at a house with a small porch and empty flower boxes. Inside, he found Patrick Hastings, a widower who had lost both his wife and his eldest daughter in the war.
#2 The first generation of women to serve in the US military was sent to war zones...
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#1 I live on the other side of a concrete wall that cuts through the landscape we share. I can just barely see the checkpoint you must cross to enter Jerusalem, but I sense the checkpoint's all-pervading presence.
#2 I wanted to see if Jews and Muslims could share something of God's presence, and be religious people together in this place where God's name is so often...
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