1-Sentence-Summary: How Music Got Free takes you on the wild ride of the mp3 file format, explaining how it began, what the internet had to do with its popularity, and why it’s future is looking very uncertain.
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1-Sentence-Summary: Mighty Be Our Powers shares the inspirational story of Leymah Gbowee who helped bring together an influential group of women that were tired of the unrest in their country and whose efforts eventually led to the end of a devastating and long-lasting civil war.
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1-Sentence-Summary: Digital Gold details the beginnings of Bitcoin, including how it was developed, why it’s early years were such a struggle, the many people that contributed to its rise, and how it’s changed our world so far and why it will continue doing so for a long time.
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1-Sentence-Summary: A Promised Land is former president Barack Obama’s memoir in which he tells the stories of his background, how he got into politics, and what it was like for him being the president from 2009 to 2017, including his role in the killing of Osama bin Laden and passing the Affordable Care Act.
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1-Sentence-Summary: The Power Of Myth is a book based on Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyer’s popular 1988 documentary of the same name and explains where myths come from, why they are so common in society, how they’ve evolved, and what their important role even today in our ever-changing world.
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1-Sentence-Summary: A Higher Loyalty shares James Comey’s experiences as the director of the FBI and outlines what he learned about leadership, ethics, and politics throughout his life, career, and experiences with President Trump who was the reason he lost his job in May of 2017.
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1-Sentence-Summary:Â The Ethics Of Ambiguity explains what existentialist philosophy is by identifying its tenets and what they meant for our world in the post-World-War-II era and will also show you how they apply today even more than you might think.
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1-Sentence-Summary: The Warmth Of Other Suns is the story of how and why millions of Black Americans left the South between 1915 and 1970 to escape the brutality of the Jim Crow Laws and find safety, better pay, and more freedom in what is known today as The Great Migration.
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1-Sentence-Summary: The Lucifer Effect is a book by Philip Zimbardo that explains why you’re not always a good person, identifying the often misunderstood line between good and evil that we all walk by uncovering the shocking results of the authors Stanford Prison Experiment and other cases that show how evil people can be.
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1-Sentence-Summary: Just Mercy explains why the United States judicial system is so broken, including how its bias toward women, Blacks, minorities, and others makes communities and the entire country a worse place and what author Bryan Stevenson is doing with his Equal Justice Initiative to try to stop these injustices.
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