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Get the Summary of Adam Kinzinger's Renegade in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Renegade" by Adam Kinzinger offers a detailed account of the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack, the events leading up to it, and its aftermath from the perspective of the congressman and former Air Force pilot. Kinzinger, a critic of Trumpism, describes the former president's inaction during the assault and his role in spreading election...
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Get the Summary of Martin Baron's Collision of Power in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. A month after Donald Trump became president, The Washington Post adopted a mission statement: "Democracy Dies in Darkness." Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had used the phrase before, and now he wanted to make clear where he stood after buying the capital's flagship newspaper. It was an intense period of political upheaval and media...
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Get the Summary of Stuart Stevens's The Conspiracy to End America in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Conspiracy to End America" by Stuart Stevens offers an in-depth analysis of the transformation of the Republican Party and the role of conservative media in shaping political narratives. Stevens, a former political consultant, reflects on his career and the influence of figures like Roger Ailes, who later led...
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#1 The tale of Angela and her sisters is a prime example of the impact of childhood on family life. Angela was born after her parents had been married for two years. Her sister Gwen was two years old when the marriage ended, and Angela saw little of her father after that. When she was five years old, her mother married a colleague at work, and by the time Angela was...
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#1 Write because it's something to do, something your parents will let you do because it looks like homework. Write because you need to drown out the sound of your parents' fighting deep into the night. When your favorite professor, senior year, fails your paper on modernism, you promise yourself to write more.
#2 When you are writing your thesis, do not mention that...
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#1 The General in charge of the operation had doubts about whether the anti-government forces were a genuine threat to the union or just a bunch of hooligans. He had no choice but to begin the next civil war.
#2 Before Biden's election, calls for active armed resistance against the federal government spiked. This was not some guy blasting off in a Facebook post, but...
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#1 In the late eleventh and twelfth centuries, Spain was a scholar's paradise. It was ruled by a tolerant Islamic authorities, but its Christian rulers supported a highly developed society that included scholars and physicians.
#2 In the late 11th and 12th centuries, Spain was a scholar's paradise. It was ruled by a tolerant Islamic authorities, but its Christian rulers...
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#1 The tools of history analysis are partly inherited and partly of their own making: models of economic growth, quantitative analysis of market movements, accounts of demographic expansion and contraction, the study of climate and its long-term changes, and so on.
#2 The history of thought, the history of science, the history of philosophy, and the history of literature...
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#1 The question of how China will behave as the dominant Asian power is central to the likely course of Asian and world history. China's leaders are serious about replacing the United States as the number 1 power in Asia, and they have a strategy for doing so.
#2 China's leaders believe that becoming the dominant Asian power will allow them to share the century with...
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#1 Managing your jealousy takes a lot of hard work, and can be stressful and painful. Before you decide whether you want to take on this challenge, it is important to assess whether you are a good candidate for an open relationship.
#2 Think about the relationships you have seen throughout your life, starting with the family in which you were raised. In your childhood...
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#1 The power that you are born with is a part of God, the spiritual aspect of your being, which is perfect. This power is a creator of energy that is either potential or kinetic. Potential energy is passive energy, energy that is stored, waiting to be used. Kinetic energy is active energy, energy that is being used.
#2 You are a complete person with nothing missing....
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#1 Queen Elizabeth was born in Regent's Park. The area is now home to luxury stores and fashionable restaurants, embassies, and five-star hotels. It is not easy to find Cumberland Terrace, the house where Daphne du Maurier was born in 1907.
#2 The little girl, Daphne, has to pass under the arch and climb the steps to the house. She likes to look at the maids' uniforms,...
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Get the Summary of Fareed Zakaria's Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World in 20 minutes.
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Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps readers to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social,...
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#1 If you are rich, Renowned will make you feel just fine. If you aren't rich, well..-> At Renowned, the majority of students are affluent. Even with its no-loan financial aid policies in the early 2000s, the school still primarily serves the needs of the rich.
#2 Renowned is a rich school, and for many, it feels that way. For a smaller group of disadvantaged students,...
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#1 The past 200 years have seen a stupendous leap in the standard of living for billions of people around the world. In 2012, life expectancy in the most affluent countries surpassed that in the poorest country, Sierra Leone.
#2 The past two centuries have seen explosive growth both in population and prosperity worldwide. Per capita income is now ten times what it was...
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#1 The sacred place is where non-human intelligence is believed to have revealed itself to humans. It is a destination that is also teeming with kitschy shops where tourists and pilgrims can purchase UFO memorabilia.
#2 I was traveling with two other people, a professor and his student, to document the belief in extraterrestrial intelligence and the alleged artifacts....
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#1 I went to an anime convention in Baltimore thirteen years ago. I didn't like anime, and I felt too old for the event, but I went out of curiosity. What I saw was the same kids in costumes.
#2 4chan. org, the website that Poole founded, was used to trade pictures of anime girls with his friends. It was eventually used by millions of people to trade pictures of anime...
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#1 I was arrested and taken to an interrogation room, where I was beaten and tortured by soldiers who were taking pleasure in doing so. I was bound, blindfolded, and unarmed, and still they beat me. I felt sad before losing consciousness.
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Book Preview: #1 The philosophy behind these practices, Stoicism, has been helping a growing number of people overcome mental obstacles, become bold in the face of life's challenges, and find lasting satisfaction.
#2 The Discipline of Desire entails a radical realignment of your values as you work to desire only what is within your control. Redirecting your attention in this way will...
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#1 The Victorian era was a time of sexual repression, and the image of the imperial prude is emblazoned on our restrained, mute, and hypocritical sexuality. The Victorian regime supported a Victorian regime.
#2 Repression is the characteristic feature of Victorian society, which distinguishes it from the prohibitions maintained by penal law. Repression is the practice...
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