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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 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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Summary of Hillary Rodham Clinton's What Happened is a memoir of Clinton's experience running for president of the United States in 2016. In the November general election, she won the popular vote by more than 3 million votes but won fewer delegates to the electoral college, which elects the president of the United States…
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Summary of Dinesh D'Souza's Hillary's America is a history of the Democratic Party, which author Dinesh D'Souza argues is the source of all evil and iniquity in American history. Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic nominee for president, is a crook who entered politics for personal gain…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Newt Gingrich's Beyond Biden
The 2020 presidential election was one of the most divisive in American history. While Joe Biden came out victorious, the extremely small margin of victory demonstrated the large portion of Americans who wanted to return to conservative values.
Newt Gingrich is one of those people, and as he explains in Beyond Biden, the conservative electoral base has nothing to fear - following...
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Summary of Joseph E. Stiglitz's The Euro is Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz's evisceration of the euro as the cause of political and economic turmoil in Europe today.
From the very start, the decision to create a single currency for Europe was a major mistake founded on faulty ideology and misconceived economic principles. The economic half-truths that guided the construction of the eurozone no longer hold water in 2016 and are outdated.
The...
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David Axelrod was the son of Joseph Axelrod, who left Eastern Europe at the age of eleven, and his wife, Myril Davidson, also a daughter of Jewish immigrants. Joseph became a psychologist with a small practice that insisted on charging patients a minimal fee. He also occasionally administered psychological tests at settlement houses. Myril, on the other hand, rose to the top on Madison Avenue as an advertising executive. Their marriage ended by the...
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Summary of Beth Macy's Dopesick details the explosion of OxyContin use in Appalachia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the widespread heroin addiction that ensued when medical providers began restricting access to prescription opioids in the late 2000s and 2010s. Journalist and author Beth Macy, who once worked as a reporter in Roanoke, Virginia, traces the efforts of local activists, doctors, law enforcement officials, and parents to combat opioid dependence......
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Summary of Dick Morris & Eileen McGann's Armageddon is an attack on 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and an enthusiastic endorsement of Republican nominee Donald Trump. The book argues that Clinton is corrupt and will destroy the country if elected. By contrast, Trump is a strong, brave, noble politician.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Carol Leonnig's Zero Fail
We often forget that between the US president and all assailants stands a proud, largely unseen force. They protect democracy by defending the president. And, though the Secret Service has been known for its dedication and perfection in the face of unfathomable difficulties, it is now in grave danger.
Zero Fail (2021) follows the decline through decades, leadership changes, and game-changing...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Don Lemon's This Is the Fire.
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1) Throughout history, Black people have been marginalized, treated as slaves, and stripped of their most basic rights.
2) The fight for Black people's rights takes the form of a cycle that consists of five stages: weeping, rage, blame, promises, and complacency.
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Much has been written about Donald Trump and his campaign for the 2016 Republican nomination for president. But what does the billionaire builder and media personality himself have to say about what America's greatest problems are? And just as important, what solutions does he offer to address these issues? Summary of Donald J. Trump's Crippled America offers a revealing look at his thinking…
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Summary of Simon Sebag Montefiore's The Romanovs is a chronicle of the Romanov dynasty over its 300-year reign in Russia. The book focuses on the personalities, choices, and actions of the royal family including their sexual and romantic relationships. Montefiore provides extensive quotations from the letters and diaries of the Romanovs, many of them unpublished. By telling the story of the Romanovs, Montefiore also tells the story of Russia's rise...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Adam Serwer's The Cruelty Is the Point
In The Cruelty Is the Point (2021), Adam Serwer provides a thorough analysis of the past, present, and future of Donald Trump's America. He examines the challenges America faces and studies the social and ideological factors that led to Trump's presidency and that will always impact American society.
Racism, injustice, and violence have always afflicted American society....
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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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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Madeleine Albright's Hell and Other Destinations
In early 2001, as Madeleine Albright neared the end of her term at the State Department, she asked herself: What's next? She was only sixty-three years old and not ready to retire. She was still there and planning to do much more. In Hell and Other Destinations (2020), the former secretary of state and US ambassador to the UN reflects on the years that followed...
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Summary of Eric Metaxas's If You Can Keep It issues a call for Americans to remember the tenets upon which their country was founded and to save the United States from losing its prominence in the world. Approaching the history of the United States from a religious standpoint, Metaxas revisits early moments in American history that have defined the country and praises the work of the framers of the Constitution.
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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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