Get the Summary of Thomas Piketty's A Brief History of Equality in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: t is easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem than Thomas Piketty. Now, in this surprising and powerful new work, Piketty reminds us that the grand sweep...

Get the Summary of Jared Kushner's Breaking History in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Now, Kushner finally tells his story-a fast-paced and surprisingly candid account of how an earnest businessman with no political ambitions found himself pulled into a presidency that no one saw coming. Breaking History takes readers inside debates in the Oval Office, double-crosses at the United...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The executioner is clad in all black, face covered by a balaclava. He stands behind the condemned, right hand gripping his shoulder, left fist clutching a long steel-bladed knife. Both men know that a video crew is recording every word and movement. #2 The footage, taken on a hill outside what might be the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, will be downloaded and...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I had a father who was strict, but also warm and loving. He instilled in me the difference between right and wrong at a young age, and had the courage to stand up for it. I didn't need any other moral compass. #2 I was always independent, and I didn't care how long the journey took. I was elated when I saw the sea, and decided that if my parents didn't come...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 We can discuss anything if we can define it. We can define anything we can understand. We can give intelligible definitions of many things that cannot be comprehended in and of themselves.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The obvious answer to how cities can attract creative talent is to provide the sort of environment that these people want. Surveys show how creative-class citizens, especially millennials, favor communities with street life. #2 The American landscape has changed since the seventies, when most teens could walk to school, to the store, and to the soccer field....

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The story of Martin Shkreli is a prime example of how not to make money. He started his own hedge fund, betting that the stock prices of certain biotech companies would drop. But instead of using his knowledge to help people, he used it to help himself and his investors make money. #2 Martin Shkreli is a good example of how people who don't follow the norms...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Weyrich was a behind-the-scenes man who had helped build the conservative movement. But in 1990, he gave a speech at an Ethics and Public Policy Conference where he explained to the conservative foot soldiers that they had spent so much time repeating the myth that they originated from backlash to the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, that they had come to believe it themselves. #2...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The small band of Western spies in Moscow had learned to trust their instincts. They sensed something strange in the air on Sunday, as hard-liners seized power in a coup. The country's leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, had been detained in the Crimea. #2 In Moscow, the head of the First Chief Directorate, Leonid Shebarshin, was not one of the plotters. He had warned...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Capitalism is a system that takes more than it gives back. The ecological crisis is an inevitable consequence of this system. The standard story that capitalism emerged naturally from feudalism is not true. #2 Feudalism was a system in which the land was controlled by the nobility, and the people who lived on it were forced to render tribute to them in the form...