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This is a Summary of Susannah Cahalan's award winning memoir "Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness" An instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman's struggle to recapture her identity.When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she'd gotten there. Days earlier,...
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This is a Summary of Pat Conroy's memoir titled "The Water is Wide". Conroy is a Southerner and as a white American in the Deep South in the 1950s admits to biased behavior against blacks, particularly when he was in high school. However, his politics changed in college and his liberal ideas are reinforced when he visits the Nazi concentration camps. When he was young teacher, he witnessed the extreme grief of his students over the death of Martin...
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This is a Summary of Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest DisasterBy writing Into Thin Air, Krakauer may have hoped to exorcise some of his own demons and lay to rest some of the painful questions that still surround the event. He takes great pains to provide a balanced picture of the people and events he witnessed and gives due credit to the tireless and dedicated Sherpas. He also avoids blasting easy targets such as...
4) James R. Doty MD'S Into the Magic Shop A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Br
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This is a Summary of James R. Doty MD'S Into the Magic Shop A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the HeartExtraordinary things happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heartGrowing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism...
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This is a Summary of Kate Andersen Brower's New York Times Bestseller: First Women The Grace and Power of Americas' Modern First LadiesFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking backstairs look at the White House, The Residence, comes an intimate, news-making look at the true modern power brokers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: the First Ladies, from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama.One of the most underestimated-and challenging-positions...
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This is a summary of Richard Engel's: " And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East" Based on two decades of reporting, NBC's chief foreign correspondent's riveting story of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, and terrorism seen up-close-sometimes dangerously so.When he was just twenty-three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard Engel set off to Cairo with $2,000 and dreams of being a reporter. Shortly...
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This is a Summary of Leah Remini's #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Troublemaker Surviving Hollywood and ScientologyThe outspoken actress, talk show host, and reality television star offers up a no-holds-barred memoir, including an eye-opening insider account of her tumultuous and heart-wrenching thirty-year-plus association with the Church of Scientology.Leah Remini has never been the type to hold her tongue. That willingness to speak her mind, stand...
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This is a summary of Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton (2004); a voluminous book which chronicles the life and legacy of one of America's Founding Fathers.Alexander Hamilton gained prominence as one of America's Founding Fathers and leader of the Federalist Party. And as Federalist, he was the major proponent for a strong centralized government. A true patriot, Hamilton was a very versatile man. He earned a law degree, worked alongside George Washington,...
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This Summary Pack is a Feature Series of Real History and includes these New York Times non-fiction bestsellers: Alexander Hamilton, The New Jim Crow, Dead Wake, The Big Short, SapiensRON CHERNOW'S ALEXANDER HAMILTON is a voluminous book which chronicles the life and legacy of one of America's Founding Fathers.MICHELLE ALEXANDER'S THE NEW JIM CROW: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness aims to reach three main audiences with this book. The...
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This is a Summary of Michael V. Hayden's Playing to the Edge American Intelligence in the Age of TerrorAn unprecedented high-level master narrative of America's intelligence wars, from the only person ever to helm both CIA and NSA, at a time of heinous new threats and wrenching changeFor General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge means playing so close to the line that you get chalk dust on your cleats. Otherwise, by playing back, you may protect...
11) Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard's Killing Reagan The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency Summary
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This is a Summary of Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard's Killing Reagan The Violent Assault That Changed a PresidencyFrom the bestselling team of Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard comes Killing Reagan, a page-turning epic account of the career of President Ronald Reagan that tells the vivid story of his rise to power -- and the forces of evil that conspired to bring him down.Just two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan lay near death after a gunman's...
12) Mark H. McCormack's What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-sma
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERThis is a summary of Mark H. McCormack's What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-smart Executive. Mark McCormack, one of the most successful entrepreneurs in American business, is widely credited as the founder of the modern-day sports marketing industry. On a handshake with Arnold Palmer and less than a thousand dollars, he started International Management Group and, over a four-decade period,...
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This is a Summary of Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan's What I Learned Losing a Million DollarsJim Paul's meteoric rise took him from a small town in Northern Kentucky to governor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, yet he lost it all―his fortune, his reputation, and his job―in one fatal attack of excessive economic hubris. In this honest, frank analysis, Paul and Brendan Moynihan revisit the events that led to Paul's disastrous decision and examine...
14) Shonda Rhimes' Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person Summary
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This is a summary of Shonda Rhimes' Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person.In this poignant, hilarious and deeply intimate call to arms, Hollywood's most powerful woman, the mega-talented creator of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away with Murder, reveals how saying YES her life - and how it can change yours too. With three hit shows on television and three children at home, Shonda...
15) Michael Kranish & Marc Fisher's Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and
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This is a summary of Michael Kranish & Marc Fisher's Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and PowerAuthoritative, timely, and provocative, this deeply researched biography of Donald Trump provides a comprehensive examination of the life of the 45th president. The best-selling biography, written by Post reporters Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher in collaboration with more than two dozen Post writers, researchers and editors.
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