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1) A Rodin
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This comics biography of one of the greatest sculptors who ever lived is brought to life by a collaboration with the Rodin Museum and includes a preface by its director. It views the artist's story through the eyes of the three women who shared his life, for good or for bad. One was his lifelong on-and-off companion, the other two his musesone of whom was Camille Claudel, a well-recognized sculptor herself. Rodin's work was revolutionary in conveying...
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When the Nazis invaded, they did not intend to govern fairly. Instead they stripped defeated nations of their treasures, industry and natural resources, with the aim of asserting German supremacy and imposing Hitler's New Order in Europe.
Paul Roland tells the story of daily life under Nazi rule - in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Guernsey and the Channel Islands- to be brought to heel...
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PT boats loom large in the popular imagination of World War II. In March 1942, a PT boat evacuated Gen. Douglas MacArthur, his family, and top staff from the Philippines, which inspired the war movie They Were Expendable, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne. John F. Kennedy became a war hero while commanding PT-109, which collided with a Japanese destroyer and was sunk in August 1943. But the story of PT boats has never been told in the...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Bret Baier and Catherine Whitney's Three Days in Moscow
In Three Days in Moscow (2018), Bret Baier of Fox News and his co-writer Catherine Whitney tell a story of patriotism, courage, and ambition, about a man who went to the full extent for the sake of his nation, without ever compromising democracy.
This political biography focuses on President Ronald Reagan's agenda during his final years in office, before...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass.
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1) The indigenous Potawatomi people, who lived throughout the Great Lakes region in America, shared the creation myth of Skywoman for generations and used it like a compass to guide them through their relationship with nature and the world.
2) The Skywoman story, which is the Iroquois creation myth, tells of a deity who fell from the sky and brought...
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Summary of Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a classic instructional text on the strategies and tactics of war handed down by Sun Tzu's clan of military strategists and dating to around the fifth century BCE. This edition contains both Giles's 1910 annotated translation and new annotations by Galvin…
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Malcolm Gladwell's Bomber Mafia.
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1) Carl L. Norden's legacy is largely unknown to the public, but his impact on World War II is undeniable. He was a Dutch-born inventor who worked with the US Navy to create the Norden bombsight, an early prototype that allowed planes to accurately drop bombs from high altitudes.
2) Norden was a consummate perfectionist with his work, which meant he was also...
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Summary of Adam Hochschild's Spain In Our Hearts is an account of the involvement of US citizens in the Spanish Civil War. It focuses on the experiences of a number of individual volunteers and reporters and provides a broad view of how the war affected Spain, the United States, and Europe.
The Spanish Civil War began as a conflict between a democratically elected left-wing government, the Spanish Republic, and right-wing military officers led by...
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Summary of Mitchell Zuckoff's 13 Hours is a narrative recounting of the events surrounding the militant attacks on the Benghazi diplomatic compound and the nearby CIA annex on September 11 and 12, 2012. These attacks resulted in the deaths of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, State Department communications expert Sean Smith, and two CIA Global Response Staff (GRS) members, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.
A similar attack had occurred on June 5, 1967,...
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Summary of Amity Shlaes's The Forgotten Man is a historical reevaluation of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and the American economic recovery from the Great Depression during the 1930s. Shlaes offers a popular history of the New Deal through a series of characters including FDR and the young, idealistic academics who made up his brain trust, as well as prominent businessman and 1940 Republican presidential nominee Wendell Willkie, who lost...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Liza Mundy's Code Girls
During World War II, as young American men served in the military and took up arms, many smart, hardworking, committed, and patriotic young women also served their country, including thousands who offered their intellect and skills to advance war efforts in code breaking. In Code Girls (2017), journalist Liza Munday reports the little known story of these remarkable women who helped the...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Thomas Piketty's A Brief History of Equality
Inequality has been present through human history, but it has changed dramatically in the past couple of decades. In A Brief History of Equality (2021), Thomas Piketty, a leading French economist, lays out the history of equality in the most recent centuries. With an optimistic point of view, he especially focuses on movements and periods that achieved some form of...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Suraiya Faroqhi's The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It
The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It (2004) is a study of a vast Muslim empire that once controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa. Suraiya Faroqhi offers an extensive analysis of its political developments, military encounters, and cultural and religious connections with both Muslim and non-Muslim neighbors. She focuses...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Bradley Hope & Justin Scheck's Blood and Oil
Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, Saudi Arabia's crown prince and de facto ruler, is one of the most influential political figures in the world, yet much about him remains mysterious, even to those who are impressed by his groundbreaking economic and social decisions and unprecedented reforms.
In Blood and Oil (2020), journalists Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck immerse...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Shomari Wills's Black Fortunes
Journalist Shomari Wills's great-great-uncle, John Mott Drew, was a millionaire. His father had been a slave, and his story made Shomari realize that African Americans' early achievements are often little known. At the time, it was revolutionary for an African American to become rich. In Black Fortunes (2018), Shomari tells the success stories of America's first black millionaires,...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from A.J. Baime's The Arsenal of Democracy
A.J. Baime's The Arsenal of Democracy (2014) is partly a history book about American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who led his nation through the Great Depression only to face the threat of a looming war. It's also a chronicle of the golden years of Detroit, which formed the center of American vehicle and war material production during World War II. Most importantly, though,...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson & Jason Stanford's Forget the Alamo
In Forget the Alamo (2021), Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford provide an extensive study of the Alamo legend and all the myths and facts surrounding it. They document chief episodes of the Texas Revolution of 1835-1836 and all the academic, political, and social repercussions it has generated ever since.
To this day, the historic...