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In The Burning (2001), Tim Madigan shines a spotlight on one of the least talked about and most tragic racial conflicts in the history of America, the burning of the Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Burning explores how an encounter between a black man and a white woman in an elevator led to the torching of an entire area of a city in one single night, May 31, 1921. As many as 300 people were slain as mobs of whites wiped out a neighborhood...
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Summary of Michelle McNamara's I'll Be Gone in the Dark describes author Michelle McNamara's quest to identify a California serial killer who committed a rash of rapes and murders during the 1970s and 1980s. The book examines both the serial killer's crimes and the efforts made by law enforcement and amateur detectives to identify him...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Carol Shaben's Into the Abyss
Carol Shaben found out about her father's plane crash two days after it went down on October 19, 1984, in Alberta, Canada. Six people were killed and four survived, including Larry Shaben, the provincial housing minister. The other survivors were the pilot, Erik Vogel; a criminal, Paul Archambault; and his accompanying cop, Scott Deschamps. All four were deeply changed by their...
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Summary of Michael Moss's Salt Sugar Fat is a compelling nonfiction investigation into how corporate food manufacturers have come to rely on salt, sugar, and fat as the mainstays of processed and prepackaged food.
The food industry in the United States has become intensely dependent on these three potentially harmful ingredients to achieve its massive profits.
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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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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Sean Cannell & Benji Travis's Youtube Secrets
In YouTube Secrets (2018), Benji Travis and Sean Cannell explain how to build a YouTube channel and become an influencer. They base their advice on their personal experience on the platform as well as the stories of other creators including Gary Vaynerchuk, Casey Neistat, Melanie Ham, and many others. Travis and Cannell guide aspiring YouTube creators through the...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Carissa Véliz's Privacy Is Power
For years now, digital technologies have been exploiting our online data to control our decisions and thoughts, but enough harm has been done. To regain power, we must first protect our privacy.
Carissa Véliz's Privacy Is Power (2020) is a wake-up call about the dangers of the digital age in which we live. Véliz highlights security breaches and privacy violations committed...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Milton Friedman & Rose Friedman's Free to Choose
Ever since the Great Depression, many Americans have wanted the government to be more involved in the economy. The result has been growing governmental control over matters that should be left for the free market to handle, according to Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman and his wife, Rose Friedman, a fellow economist. In Free to Choose (1980), the...
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Summary of Terry McMillan's I Almost Forgot About You, a novel by Terry McMillan, follows protagonist Georgia Young as she reevaluates her life between the ages of 53 and 55. An African American optometrist in the San Francisco Bay area, Georgia is a single woman who is in a dating rut. Bored with her work and tired of rattling around her big empty house, she is inspired by the news of a former paramour's death to make some changes in her unhappy...
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Summary of Tracy Chevalier's At the Edge of the Orchard tells the story of the Goodenough family. The year is 1838, and James and Sadie Goodenough are fighting about apple trees again. The couple has lived for nine years in Ohio's Black Swamp, a dank, moldy, muddy place where it's difficult to farm and live.
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Summary of Jen Hatmaker's For the Love is a self-help book about women's pursuit of perfection.
In the modern world, most women have the opportunity to do and be whatever they set their minds to. If a woman wants to be a chief executive officer (CEO), she can be a CEO. If a woman wants to be a stay-at-home mom, she can be a stay-at-home mom. However, this land of opportunity has also given rise to the idea that women can have it all, be it all, and...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jason Stanley's How Fascism Works
In How Fascism Works (2018), Jason Stanley explores how fascist politicians reach power, the conditions they thrive in, and the beliefs that most fascist movements are built upon. Stanley examines how fascism distorts nationalism, employs propaganda and lies, demeans education, and preys on minorities. Fascist movements may take different nationalist forms, but they share the...
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Summary of Gretchen Rubin's The Four Tendencies is a self-help book that outlines a framework for understanding motivation. Rubin believes that everyone naturally falls into one of Four Tendencies, or personality types, based on how they respond to different types of expectations…
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Summary of J. B. West's Upstairs at the White House chronicles his career at the White House and gives an inside look at the six first ladies he served, first as an assistant and then as the chief usher, or general manager, of the dozens of housekeepers, maids, cooks, butlers, gardeners, plumbers, handymen and other staff it takes to keep the White House running. The chief usher manages the household budget, sees to the housing and comfort of guests,...
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Summary of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Skin in the Game argues that balancing risk and reward is essential to creating a fair society, and that a lack of such balance creates a world fraught with unnecessary complexity and risk.
Understanding the balance or imbalance of risk and reward in social systems helps to explain how the world works…
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Summary of Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens is a multifaceted review and analysis of the current understanding of human evolution and the forces behind major historical developments, beginning with the Neanderthals and other Homo species to Homo sapiens, leading up to the present day, and projecting what might happen in the future…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Helen Smith's Men on Strike
"Where did all the decent men go?" is a question you hear everywhere. But it's the wrong question to ask. The better question is, "Why did all the decent men go on strike?" In Men on Strike (2013), Helen Smith offers an answer.
Smith asserts that there is a real war on men in modern culture. The majority of men might not discuss it or even believe that a "democratic" country would...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Vanessa Van Edwards's Cues
It's not just about what you say. It's about how you say it. It's about your voice, your words, your facial expression, your posture, your body language… it's about your cues. In Vanessa Van Edwards's Cues (2022), you will learn about every aspect of communication, with the goal of becoming a warm, competent, and charismatic speaker. Leaders who want to make a positive impact will...