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Summary of Chris Matthews's Bobby Kennedy chronicles the life of Robert F. Kennedy, the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and a political force in his own right. The Kennedy brothers were third-generation Irish-American Catholics from a wealthy Massachusetts family…
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Summary of Patrick J. Kennedy's A Common Struggle is a memoir chronicling his struggles with mental illness and addiction. Patrick uses himself and his family as an example of the stigma and confusion surrounding mental illness in the US and explains the history of mental illness and mental health policy in that context…
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Summary of The Dalai Lama with Sofia Stril-Rever's My Spiritual Journey chronicles the Dalai Lama's experiences as the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, particularly in the last several decades of Chinese occupation. Interwoven throughout the text are Buddhist principles to which the Dalai Lama has devoted his life, as a monk and human being...
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Summary of Gregory Berns's How Dogs Love Us chronicles the early days of his efforts to use brain imaging scans for the first time to study how dogs think and feel emotions including love. Berns argues that many dog owners and trainers limit their understanding of dog psychology to behavior, or how dogs physically react to different situations…
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Summary of Nancy Isenberg's White Trash is a riveting chronicle of class in America as explored through the role and the plight of the white underclass from the days of colonial settlers to the present.
Despite the founders' declaration that "all men are created equal," the reality of life in America has continuously told a different story.
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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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Summary of Rinker Buck's The Oregon Trail chronicles Rinker and his brother's experiences reliving the journey taken by the original nineteenth-century travelers of the Oregon Trail. At the same time, the author goes through his own mental and emotional journey and comes to grips with a variety of issues, such as being a pack rat and his relationship with his father…
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Summary of Michael A. Singer's The Surrender Experiment is a spiritual memoir that chronicles Singer's quest to embrace whatever the universe presented to him at any given moment. Singer's experiment with surrender began in 1970, when he was enrolled in a graduate-level economics program at the University of Florida and realized that there was a voice inside his head, often critical and judgmental...
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Summary of Michael A. Singer's The Untethered Soul chronicles the spiritual journey an individual can take to explore consciousness, achieve enlightenment, and enjoy a happier and more fulfilled life. Readers are encouraged to delve into the relationships they have formed with themselves, others, and the world around them to find ways of relieving stress, negative mental habits, and inner turmoil on the route to inner peace…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Clint Smith's How the Word Is Passed
In How The Word Is Passed (2021), Clint Smith chronicles his journey to multiple monuments and sites, exploring the history of Black slavery in America through the stories and events each one of them represents. Clint reflects on the places he visited, and the stories he heard from multiple tour guides, highlighting the importance of keeping the history of Black people's...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Marc Seifer's Wizard
In Wizard (1996), Marc Seifer chronicles Nikola Tesla's controversial and complex life, his most remarkable experiences and findings, and the key individuals that influenced him. He also studies the problems Tesla faced with other scientists stealing his works and infringing his patents.
Tesla remains one of the most notable figures in the history of physics and futurism, and one of the...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Laura Coleman's The Puma Years
In The Puma Years (2021), Laura Coleman chronicles how a trip to the Bolivian Amazon with the intention of taking a short vacation turned into a life-changing experience of self-discovery, bonding with wild animals, connecting to nature, and pushing her own boundaries.
Wayra, a foster puma in Sanctuary Ambue Ari, became her life's top priority, teaching her many lessons about herself...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Stephanie Land's Maid
Stephanie Land worked for years as a maid simply to keep a roof over her daughter's head. She chronicles her life as an overworked and underpaid American in Maid (2019), shedding light on the reality of what it is like to work for upper middle-class America. The work was physically and mentally grinding. Land faced verbal abuse and discrimination from people who looked down on her, while...
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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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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea
In Into the Raging Sea (2018), Rachel Slade takes readers on a journey aboard El Faro's final voyage from Jacksonville to Puerto Rico, re-creating the tense, eerie final hours before the cargo ship got caught in Hurricane Joaquin and sank. Slade chronicles a series of bad decisions by the captain, unreliable weather forecasts, safety shortcuts, and other issues that led to...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jane McLelland's How to Starve Cancer
In How to Starve Cancer (2018), Jane McLelland guides readers through her challenging experience with cancer and how she found alternative treatments far less harmful than conventional chemotherapy and radiotherapy. By chronicling her personal battle, she aims to assure cancer patients that they can take control of their destiny by following a cancer-suppressing approach...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Gregory Zuckerman's A Shot to Save the World
Throughout history, people have tried to stop the spread of contagions - but with little success until the discovery of the smallpox vaccine in the late eighteenth century. Since then, vaccines and treatments have been found for many more diseases. Now, whenever a new epidemic emerges, researchers and pharmaceutical companies start a scientific race towards groundbreaking...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Mohandas K. Gandhi's An Autobiography
Mohandas K. Gandhi's An Autobiography (1927) chronicles a life of sacrifice, abstinence, love, and humility. Gandhi recounts his life from his early childhood until 1921, tracing the painful and challenging path he took as he searched for Truth and utmost humility. He details the moral experiments he conducted through self-abnegation, and tackles the topics of child marriage,...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Kayleigh McEnany's For Such a Time as This
If someone had told Kayleigh McEnany when she was in college that Donald Trump someday would ask her to become the White House press secretary, as a pandemic ravaged the world, she wouldn't have believed it.
In For Such a Time as This (2021), McEnany traces her remarkable path from college into the media and politics. As she chronicles her time in the White House, she...