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Summary of Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom is a first-person account of Mandela's life until May 10, 1994, when the South African revolutionary became his country's first black president. The narrative includes Mandela's childhood, the development of his political consciousness, his activism, his long imprisonment, and finally his negotiations to dismantle apartheid...
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Summary of Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle chronicles all the heartbreak, deprivation, humor, and love of her childhood in The Glass Castle, a memoir of growing up dirt-poor on a cross-country odyssey with her charismatic, but alcoholic, father and her codependent mother.
Jeannette began thinking of her childhood after spotting her mother, Rose Mary, rummaging through trash in New York City.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Reeves Wiedeman's Billion Dollar Loser
Billionaire entrepreneur Adam Neumann co-founded WeWork with the hope of changing the business market and paving the way for a conglomerate unlike anything the world had ever witnessed.
In Billion Dollar Loser (2020), Reeves Wiedeman chronicles the hectic rise and chaotic fall of WeWork under Neumann. Over ten years, Neumann wasted billions of dollars in investment funds...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Mike Ritland's Navy SEAL Dogs
In Navy SEAL Dogs (2013), Mike Ritland shines a light on the importance of military working dogs, especially the more advanced Special Operations Forces dogs and the role they play in the Navy SEAL military special force. He explains what differentiates SEAL dogs from household pets and details how they are trained so that they can be deployed in battlefields. Ritland also narrates...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank's diary was discovered in the attic where she spent her last days before being sent to a concentration camp. The Diary of a Young Girl (1947) reminds the world of the horrors of the Second World War and the Holocaust through the eyes of a teenager hiding in a confined space in Amsterdam. Anne wrote in her diary to take her mind off the war, constant hunger, boredom,...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Eric Blehm's Fearless
In Fearless (2012), Eric Blehm retraces the life of one of the most famed Navy SEALs - Adam Brown. Growing up in Arkansas, Adam developed into a hardworking and brave young man. Yet his involvement in drugs led him to jail and rehab, where he rediscovered his spirituality and his determination. Despite a hard path filled with injuries, relapses, and life-threatening dangers, he became one...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Clayborne Carson's The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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1) Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. He grew up in a black, religious, lower-middle-class neighborhood.
2) His household situation was pleasant. His parents, Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King, were Christian people of profound integrity. They taught him the importance...
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Summary of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential recounts his transformation from an affluent child who sampled French cuisine during summer vacation to a rough-and-tumble chef who oversaw doomed and flourishing kitchens alike. Kitchen Confidential reveals the often disgusting environments where chefs sling out expensive meals for high-paying customers...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Kerry Brown's CEO, China
Kerry Brown's CEO, China: The Rise of Xi Jinping (2016) is an analysis of power in modern China and a biography of Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and president of the People's Republic of China. Brown argues that the power of Xi's party stems from its belief systems and its goal of achieving a powerful and prosperous China. Xi is not only a political leader:...
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Summary of Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton is a sprawling biography of one of the most important figures in American history. It is based on copious original research, especially into Hamilton's early years. As a political theorist, a polemicist, and the first Treasury secretary, Hamilton dedicated his life, his intellect, and a seemingly limitless stream of words to the cause of unifying and strengthening the United States. He did perhaps more than...
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Summary of Lawrence Wright's The Terror Years is a collection of Wright's essays from The New Yorker and other venues about radical Islamic terror in the 2000s.
Terrorist activities are shaped by the experiences, ideology, and choices of terrorist leaders. The wave of international terrorism in the 1990s and 2000s came about in part because of the partnership of Osama bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi, and Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian surgeon. Al-Qaeda's...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Mary L. Trump's The Reckoning
In The Reckoning (2021), Mary L. Trump pinpoints the cumulative racial and social traumas that are imprinted on the American psyche, including the latest ones inflicted by Donald Trump's presidential term and the COVID outbreak. Mary Trump, a psychologist who is the former president's niece, shares a general historical overview of the main problem that continues to haunt America...
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Summary of David McCullough's John Adams is a biography designed to establish Adams's place beside, or even above, better known figures such as Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington in the pantheon of national founders. It was published in 2001 and won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. It was adapted into an HBO miniseries in 2008.
Adams was the son of a farmer in the small town of Braintree, Massachusetts....
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jamie Foxx's Act Like You Got Some Sense
In his new memoir, Act Like You Got Some Sense: And Other Things My Daughters Taught Me (2021), Oscar-winning actor and musician Jamie Foxx opens up about his childhood in Texas, trying to make it in the entertainment industry, and his numerous pitfalls raising his two daughters.
He recalls how he was brought up by his strict tough-loving grandparents, who were also his...
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1) Math prodigy Jimmy Simmons was born in 1938 into a modest family in Newton, Massachusetts. He was mischievous yet top of his class. He was quite the thinker. His friends would remark on how he would lay down doing nothing but thinking, mostly about mathematical theories and concepts.
2) By age 20, Simmons had already gotten engaged and graduated from MIT with a degree in math. He decided to study for his doctorate at Berkeley....
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Brandi Carlile's Broken Horses
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1) Brandi Carlile was born in a poor family. Her mother was a hostess and her father a breakfast prep cook. During her childhood, her family underwent multiple evictions, leading to recurrent moves around Washington State.
2) At age 4, Brandi contracted meningitis. Her illness put her into a coma, but she woke from it shortly after being admitted to the hospital....
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Danny Trejo & Donal Logue's Trejo
In Trejo (2021), actor Danny Trejo along with his collaborator and friend Donal Logue puts his hectic and action-filled life on display. Trejo's memoir covers a journey that started with a crime and drug ridden young adulthood and ended with an elderhood that's filled with fame, wealth, faith, and sobriety. Trejo's success story, as an American born with Mexican roots, can serve...