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Strength in What Remains - Book Summary
"A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Tracy Kidder Category: Biography & Memoir
The Geography of Bliss - Book Summary
"One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Eric Weiner Category: History
The Revolutionary - Book Summary
"Samuel Adams" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Stacy Schiff Category: Biography & Memoir
The Gates of Europe - Book Summary
"A History of Ukraine" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Serhii Plokhy Category: History
The Lost Art of Scripture - Book Summary
"Rescuing the Sacred Texts" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Karen Armstrong Category: Religion & Spirituality
Forgive - Book Summary
"Why Should I and How Can I?" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Timothy Keller Category: Religion & Spirituality
The Making of Donald Trump - Book Summary
"How Donald Trump rose to the pinnacle of power" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: David Cay Johnston Category: Politics
Religion for Atheists - Book Summary
"A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Alain de Botton Category: Religion & Spirituality
Becoming Supernatural - Book Summary
"How Common People are Doing the Uncommon" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Joe Dispenza Category: Religion & Spirituality
Frontier Justice - Book Summary
"The Global Refugee Crisis and What to Do About It" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Andy Lamey Category: Politics
Maoism - Book Summary
"A Global History" Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Julia Lovell Category: History
Why Nations Fail - Book Summary
"The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson Category: Politics
The Myth of the Strong Leader - Book Summary
"Political Leadership in the Modern Age" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Archie Brown Category: Politics
The Doomsday Machine - Book Summary
"Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Daniel Ellsberg Category: History
Pegasus - Book Summary
"How a Spy in Our Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud Category: History
The Truths We Hold - Book Summary
"An American Journey" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Kamala Harris Category: Biography & Memoir
On the House - Book Summary
"A Washington Memoir" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: John Boehner Category: Biography & Memoir
A People Betrayed - Book Summary
"The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Linda Melvern Category: History
Fukushima - Book Summary
"The Story of a Nuclear Disaster" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: David Lochbaum, Edwin Lyman, Susan Q. Stranahan and the Union of Concerned Scientists Category: Nature & the Environment
Fast Food Nation - Book Summary
"The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Eric Schlosser Category: Health & Nutrition
Faith Still Moves Mountains - Book Summary
"Miraculous Stories of the Healing Power of Prayer" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Harris Faulkner Category: History
A River in Darkness - Book Summary
"One Man’s Escape from North Korea" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Masaji Ishikawa Category: Biography & Memoir
Why We Get the Wrong Politicians - Book Summary
"A quick tour of British politics" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Isabel Hardman Category: Politics
Navalny - Book Summary
"Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future?" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet and Ben Noble Category: Biography & Memoir
Mighty Be Our Powers - Book Summary
"How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Leymah Gbowee with Carol Mithers Category: Biography & Memoir
Back Channel to Cuba - Book Summary
"The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: William M. LeoGrande & Peter Kornbluh Category: History
Letter to the American Church - Book Summary
"A Call for Christians and Church Leaders to Learn From the Past" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Eric Metaxas Category: History
Jerusalem - Book Summary
"The Biography" Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore Category: History
On Tyranny - Book Summary
"Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Timothy Snyder Category: Politics
Falling Upward - Book Summary
"A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Richard Rohr Category: Mindfulness & Happiness
Liars, Leakers, and Liberals - Book Summary
"The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Judge Jeanine Pirro Category: Politics
Impeachment - Book Summary
"An American History" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Jeffrey A. Engel, Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali and Peter Baker Category: History
The Social Contract - Book Summary
"A cornerstone in modern political and social thought" Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Category: Philosophy
What’s Our Problem? - Book Summary
"A Self-Help Book for Societies" Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Tim Urban Category: History
The End of Power - Book Summary
"From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn’t What It Used To Be" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Moisés Naím Category: Politics
Food Fix - Book Summary
"How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet – One Bite at a Time" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Mark Hyman Category: Health & Nutrition
In Praise Of Love - Book Summary
"An Ode to Romance, Relationships, and Sex" Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Alain Badiou Category: Philosophy
Saved - Book Summary
"A War Reporter’s Mission to Make It Home" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Benjamin Hall Category: Biography & Memoir
Why The West Rules – For Now - Book Summary
"The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Ian Morris Category: History
World Order - Book Summary
"Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Henry Kissinger Category: Politics
Silent Spring - Book Summary
"The Classic that Moved the Environmental Movement" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Rachel Carson Category: Nature & the Environment
A Very English Scandal - Book Summary
"Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: John Preston Category: History
The Audacity of Hope - Book Summary
"Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Barack Obama Category: Politics
I Alone Can Fix It - Book Summary
"Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year" Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker Category: Politics
Richard Nixon - Book Summary
"The Life" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: John A. Farrell Category: Biography & Memoir
Only the Paranoid Survive - Book Summary
"Transform apocalypse into opportunity" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Andrew S. Grove Category: Entrepreneurship
The Entrepreneur's Weekly Nietzsche - Book Summary
"A Book for Disruptors" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Dave Jilk and Brad Feld Category: Entrepreneurship
Cinema Speculation - Book Summary
"Hollywood History Through the Eyes of a Contemporary Filmmaker" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Quentin Tarantino Category: Biography & Memoir
How to Win at the Sport of Business - Book Summary
"If I Can Do It, You Can Do It" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Mark Cuban Category: Entrepreneurship
The Consultant’s Handbook - Book Summary
"A Practical Guide to Delivering High-Value and Differentiated Services in a Competitive Marketplace" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Samir Parikh Category: Career & Success