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Summary of Bob Woodward's The Last of the President's Men is a nonfiction work about Alexander Butterfield, an aide in the White House during President Richard Nixon's first administration, written by Pulitzer Prize winning writer Bob Woodward. This is the fifth book Woodward has written about the Watergate scandal.
In 1968, Colonel Alexander Butterfield was an officer in the US Air Force stationed in Australia. Previously he served in Vietnam where...
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Summary of Robert Gates's A Passion for Leadership is an advice manual for those who want to enact reform from a position of leadership in a bureaucratic organization. It also examines the challenges of reforming public sector institutions in the United States and some of the related experiences of Robert Gates, the author.
For the determined leader, reform is possible in any organization, especially if a leader sets goals and applies a clear strategy...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Vivek Ramaswamy's Woke, Inc.
In today's culture, if you're not woke, you're considered a threat. How did America go from the land of free speech to the land where everyone should say the same things, or risk being shunned?
In Woke, Inc. (2021), Vivek Ramaswamy argues that politics has no role in business. He offers a fresh vision for American capitalism's future, and takes us behind the scenes of corporate boardrooms...
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Summary of Glenn Beck's Liars exposes the past and present onslaught led by the Left against the tenets of free society in the United States. For generations, progressives have been attempting to curb individual liberty in order to construct what they claim will be a more prosperous and peaceful society.
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Summary of Bandy X. Lee's The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump is a collection of essays by medical professionals and others who argue that Donald Trump is unfit to be president. Together they assert that medical professionals have a duty to warn the public of a president's mental unfitness…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Miranda Devine's Laptop from Hell
Joe Biden announced his candidacy for the 2020 presidential election, and two weeks later, his son Hunter left his laptop at a repair shop and never came back. In Laptop from Hell (2021), Miranda Devine exposes the contents of the abandoned laptop. Hunter's life was falling apart in the spring of 2019. His brother Beau had died, he was deep into his crack addiction, and the...
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Summary of Mei Fong's One Child provides a compelling personal and journalistic examination of China's infamous one-child policy. Tracing the policy back to its inception, One Child illuminates the myriad impacts it has had on Chinese society-and the dangerous implications it has for the nation's future growth and well-being…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Tim Mak's Misfire
The National Rifle Association, which advocates for gun rights, rose to prominence by becoming one of the most powerful lobbying institutions in the United States, yet its political influence was considerably weakened following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings.
Years of poor management, bad leadership, massive illegal profits, and excessive spending are revealed in Misfire (2021)...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Mark R. Levin's American Marxism
With American Marxism (2021), Mark R. Levin aims to awaken millions of patriotic Americans to the reality of Marxist influences that are rapidly taking over the United States. He finds that the Marxist movement is not a temporary fad, but is pervasive in attempting to destroy American society and overthrow the country altogether. Levin asserts that most Americans are unaware...
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Summary of Jane Mayer's Dark Money profiles the wealthy donors who have funded and established organizations to promote libertarian ideals, particularly the brothers Charles and David Koch. They and their two other brothers were raised by parents who promoted free-market capitalism and were suspicious of anything related or sympathetic to Communism. The four Koch brothers inherited portions of their father's oil business, and later Charles and David...
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Gary J. Byrne was a member of the uniformed division of the Secret Service during the Clinton administration in the 1990s. He was stationed outside the door of the Oval Office and was able to closely observe Bill and Hillary Clinton. His experiences showed him that the Clintons were unfit for high office.
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Summary of David Priess's The President's Book of Secrets is a journalistic examination of the history of the President's Daily Brief (PDB), a short, top-secret summary of the most important intelligence delivered to the president of the United States each day. The PDB is a document with some of the tightest access controls in the world.
Prior to Harry Truman's presidency, presidents generally were not the primary intended audience of intelligence...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Michael Shellenberger's San Fransicko
In San Fransicko (2021), bestselling author Michael Shellenberger tackles the problem of increasing homelessness, especially in the city of San Francisco. He argues that the root cause isn't the absence of accommodation, money, or social aid programs, but the principles embedded in the minds of some people who acquire them either by experience or by identity. As a result,...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Fiona Hill's There Is Nothing for You Here
Fiona Hill has a unique perspective of the world, having spent time in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Russia. She has seen the good and bad of all three countries, and realized that the three aren't all that different.
In There Is Nothing for You Here, Hill explains the three countries' post-industrial struggles after World War II, framed within the contest...
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Summary of Ann Coulter's Adios, America is a book centered around immigration in the United States, including the impact immigration has had on US history, government policies, and society in general.
Modern policies regarding immigration tends to lean in favor of the immigrant. This possibly comes from the fact that Hispanic immigrants often vote heavily in favor of Democrats, therefore Democrats have established policy that makes it easier for illegal...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from George Soros's In Defense of Open Society
In Defense of Open Society (2019) is a collection of essays, articles, and speeches by George Soros, an international philanthropist. Soros examines the many dangers facing open societies, from rising dictatorships to the growing threat of tech companies and artificial intelligence. He chronicles his journey to philanthropy in detail, telling how he survived Nazi Germany,...
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Summary of Sheelah Kolhatkar's Black Edge is a nonfiction legal thriller about the US government's attempt to take down billionaire hedge fund manager Steven A. (Steve) Cohen for insider trading, as well as a look at the ways in which much of Wall Street evades the law.
For decades, hedge funds in the United States followed a fairly careful investment strategy: funds would estimate which public companies would do well in the future and invest in those...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Scott W. Atlas's A Plague Upon Our House
The COVID-19 pandemic created panic all around the world, but was it what we were made to believe, or was there a political agenda hidden behind all the restrictions?
In A Plague Upon Our House, Dr. Scott W. Atlas details his couple months as a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Politics had taken over science long before Atlas got there, and while he tried...