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Summary of Candice Millard's Hero of the Empire is an account of future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's rise to fame during the Second Boer War. It focuses on Churchill's early career as a war journalist and particularly on his daring escape from a Boer prisoner of war camp.
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Ada Byron, the daughter of poet Lord Byron, was tutored in math by her mother. As a result, she grew up comfortable with the combination of art and science. She met Charles Babbage, a science and math expert. Babbage demonstrated a model of a machine that he built called a Difference Engine that could solve polynomial equations.
Ada was inspired by Babbage's Difference Engine and decided to undertake advanced lessons in mathematics. Ada became interested...
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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...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Mike Lindell's What Are the Odds?
As a man with severe addiction to gambling, card counting, and cocaine, Mike Lindell made terrible life choices that ultimately cost him his wife, family, and financial stability. However, even as he was drowning in despair, God revealed himself in his life and showed him the miracles he could do, if only he had a flicker of hope.
What Are the Odds? traces the troubled chapters...
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Summary of Joe Biden's Promise Me, Dad recounts the grueling anxiety and fear he and his family underwent in the months leading up to the death of his son Beau. As Delaware's attorney general, Beau had crafted a promising political career and had gained popularity among his state's residents…
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Suleika Jaouad's Between Two Kingdoms.
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1) Suleika Jaouad began experiencing a strong itchy feeling in her legs accompanied by feelings of exhaustion. As her exhaustion deepened, she started consuming great amounts of energy drinks and eventually cocaine.
2) After graduating from Princeton University, Suleika moved to New York City for a summer internship at the Center for Constitutional...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Evan Osnos's Joe Biden
In Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now (2020), Evan Osnos examines the 50-year political career of the future president. Based on lengthy interviews with Biden and other important political figures, this portrayal explores Biden's flaws and virtues, his time in the Senate, his years as vice president, and his campaign for the presidency in 2020. It was published before his...
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Summary of Scott Galloway's The Four examines how four technology companies became powerful leviathans with the power to defy law, gather large amounts of private data about citizens, and create monopolies. Author Scott Galloway argues that Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google have created a climate where their products are indispensable for anyone who wants to get ahead, either professionally or personally...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Elie Wiesel's Night.
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1) Author and narrator Eliezer Wiesel, who was twelve when the story begins in 1941, was a Jewish boy living with his family in a small town named Sighet, in what we now know as Romania.
2) In 1942, during World War II, the local authorities decided to kick out all Jews who were foreign from Sighet. They were packed into trains and sent off. The other inhabitants of...
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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 Bill O'Reilly's Killing Reagan is a book by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. The book is a biographical depiction of President Ronald Reagan, including a look at his career as an actor, marriage to Nancy Reagan, an assassination attempt during his presidency, and eventual physical and mental decline.
In 1937, at the age of 26, Ronald Reagan moved to Los Angeles and began acting in movies. He married Jane Wyman in January of 1940. They had...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Adharanand Finns's Running with the Kenyans
Kenyans have been dominating the world running scene for decades. In Running with the Kenyans (2010), Adharanand Finn tells how he and his family left England for an adventure in Kenya, the land of running. Finn was always a natural runner, and he was fascinated by the superiority of Kenyan runners. In Kenya, he met many talented runners and formed a team with them....
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Summary of Amy Poehler's Yes Please is a humorous memoir that combines anecdotal essays, memories of the past, poetry, photos, and bits of poignant advice from her life. It begins with her childhood growing up in the Boston area and explores her career in improvisational comedy, writing, and acting in Chicago, New York, and Hollywood.
When, as a child, Amy Poehler portrayed Dorothy in the fourth grade production of The Wizard of Oz, she learned that,...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Yeonmi Park's In Order to Live
In Order to Live (2015) by Yeonmi Park with Maryanne Vollers is a story of escape, freedom, and learning to be compassionate with yourself. In her memoir, Yeonmi tells how she and her family tried to escape the dictatorship of North Korea. They fled to China in 2007, then to South Korea in 2009, before moving to the United States in 2014.
Yeonmi tells the story of her childhood,...
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1) In September 2001, Irish American actress Sharon Stone had a stroke and almost died. Despite a 1 percent chance of survival, Sharon beat the odds.
2) During her close brush with death, Sharon connected to what felt like an eternal source of love, seeing a beautiful white light and hearing the voices of loved ones who had already passed.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jeff Benedict's The Dynasty
In The Dynasty (2020), Jeff Benedict plots the history of the legendary NFL team New England Patriots on a timeline that stretches from its beginning through the 2019 season. Benedict focuses on the dynamic relationship between the three names that became synonymous with the franchise and devoted their lives to it: owner Robert Kraft, coach Bill Belichick, and quarterback Tom Brady....
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Beau Wise & Tom Sileo's Three Wise Men
Beau Wise opens his heart in telling how he and his brothers served their country after the 9/11 attacks--and how only he survived. Beau, the youngest brother, joined the Marines. Jeremy, the eldest, became a Navy SEAL and then a CIA contractor. Ben, the middle brother, was a Green Beret. Beau gives insight into the daily life of those in the military and their loved ones,...
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Summary of Timothy Egan's The Immortal Irishman is a biography of Thomas Meagher: Irish revolutionary, convict, and Civil War general. The book also offers a broad portrait of the experiences of the Irish during the period, both at home and abroad.
Meagher was born in 1823 into a prominent and wealthy Catholic family. This gave him advantages of education and standing. At the same time, Catholics in Ireland were brutally oppressed, with limits on...
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