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Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl: Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review
- By: Instaread
- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 33 mins
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Frankl and his family were imprisoned in concentration camps during the war. Frankl was held in several camps before he was liberated from the last in 1945. During his time in the camps, Frankl witnessed the extreme cruelty of camp guards and the prisoners who were given special status by them, also known as Capos. He also witnessed the cruelty of the prisoners to each other as they underwent the three stages of reaction to their imprisonment.
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Summary is a good overview
- By Dylan M on 10-11-17
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Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl: Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review
- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 33 mins
- Release date: 10-16-15
- Language: English
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In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson: Summary & Analysis
- By: Instaread
- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 33 mins
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson explores several crucial years in Berlin through the eyes of the US ambassador and his family. Their experiences serve as both a cautionary tale about the insidiousness of evil and a harbinger of the hard realization that the rest of America was forced to make in a few short years.
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Way to Easy to Buy Wrong Item
- By Pordon on 09-07-21
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In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson: Summary & Analysis
- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 33 mins
- Release date: 10-08-15
- Language: English
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The Glass Castle, a Memoir by Jeannette Walls: Summary & Analysis
- By: Instaread
- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 30 mins
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Jeannette Walls chronicles all the heartbreak, deprivation, humor, and love of her childhood in The Glass Castle, a memoir of growing up dirt-poor on a cross-country odyssey with her charismatic, but alcoholic, father and her codependent mother.
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Disappointed
- By AKA1 on 01-11-18
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The Glass Castle, a Memoir by Jeannette Walls: Summary & Analysis
- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 30 mins
- Release date: 09-29-15
- Language: English
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Ray Kroc's Grinding It Out with Robert Anderson by Instaread
- By: Instaread
- Narrated by: Sam Scholl
- Length: 21 mins
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Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's is Ray Kroc's rags-to-riches story of how he built the fast-food behemoth McDonald's from the ground up. His book has been widely recognized as a business executive's bible for how to succeed. Kroc narrates his life story and demonstrates how the grit and determination he used as a paper cup salesman led him through a series of twists and turns to meet the McDonald brothers, Richard and Maurice.
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Such an absolute waste of my time...
- By T. Lewis on 12-20-17
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Ray Kroc's Grinding It Out with Robert Anderson by Instaread
- Narrated by: Sam Scholl
- Length: 21 mins
- Release date: 01-12-17
- Language: English
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Candice Millard's Hero of the Empire by Instaread
- By: Instaread
- Narrated by: Sam Scholl
- Length: 24 mins
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Candice Millard's Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill is an account of future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's rise to fame during the Second Boer War. It focuses on Churchill's early career as a war journalist and particularly on his daring escape from a Boer prisoner of war camp. That escape propelled him to national fame and launched his political career.
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Candice Millard's Hero of the Empire by Instaread
- Narrated by: Sam Scholl
- Length: 24 mins
- Release date: 11-07-16
- Language: English
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Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things, by Jenny Lawson
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- By: Instaread
- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 21 mins
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Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things is a series of essays that are hysterically funny and poignant at the same time. The author, Jenny Lawson, suffers from clinical depression, an anxiety disorder, an impulse control disorder, avoidant personality disorder, insomnia, and rheumatoid arthritis among other illnesses...After one particularly bad period, she decided to be "furiously happy" to counter the sadness.
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Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things, by Jenny Lawson
- Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review
- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 21 mins
- Release date: 10-30-15
- Language: English
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Summary of Freedom by Jaycee Dugard
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- By: Instaread
- Narrated by: Sam Scholl
- Length: 23 mins
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When 11-year-old Jaycee was walking to the school bus stop in her South Lake Tahoe community, a car approached her. A man, Phillip Garrido, reached out, zapped her with a stun gun, and dragged her into his car. Then he and his wife, Nancy, took Jaycee to their home in Antioch, where they held her as Phillip's sex slave.
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Summary of Freedom by Jaycee Dugard
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- Narrated by: Sam Scholl
- Length: 23 mins
- Release date: 09-05-16
- Language: English
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Summary of A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
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- By: Instaread
- Narrated by: Susan Murphy
- Length: 26 mins
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A Stolen Life is a memoir by Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped at age 11 and held captive in a hidden backyard compound in Antioch, California, for 18 years.
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Summary of A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
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- Narrated by: Susan Murphy
- Length: 26 mins
- Release date: 08-22-16
- Language: English
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Summary of Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
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- By: Instaread
- Narrated by: Dwight Equitz
- Length: 26 mins
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance is an account of the struggles of white working-class Americans in the post-industrial United States. The author offers a message of hope by telling the story of how he went from growing up poor in Ohio's Rust Belt to graduating from Yale Law School.
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Summary of Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
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- Narrated by: Dwight Equitz
- Length: 26 mins
- Release date: 09-27-16
- Language: English
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's et al My Own Words by Instaread
- By: Instaread
- Narrated by: Susan Murphy
- Length: 26 mins
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My Own Words is a collection of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's public writing and speeches. It includes biographical information and a discussion of her intellectual interests and positions. Ginsburg was born in 1933 in Brooklyn to a Russian Jewish immigrant family. She excelled in academics and showed an early interest in human rights as evidenced by an eighth-grade paper praising the Charter of the United Nations. In 1950, she entered Cornell University where she met Martin Ginsburg.
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's et al My Own Words by Instaread
- Narrated by: Susan Murphy
- Length: 26 mins
- Release date: 11-18-16
- Language: English
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Summary of Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia Martinez
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- By: Instaread
- Narrated by: Sam Scholl
- Length: 28 mins
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Martinez began working at Goldman Sachs after college as a pricing quant, which is industry slang for a programmer who builds models for pricing credit derivatives. Quants had low status at the firm and Martinez became disillusioned with employees' reliance on the annual bonus and the gambling-heavy culture of the workplace.
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Summary of Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia Martinez
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- Narrated by: Sam Scholl
- Length: 28 mins
- Release date: 08-22-16
- Language: English
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Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard | Summary & Analysis
- By: Instaread
- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 32 mins
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Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency is a book by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. The book is a biographical depiction of President Ronald Reagan, including a look at his career as an actor, his marriage to Nancy Reagan, an assassination attempt during his presidency, and his eventual physical and mental decline.
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Instaread is worse than Cliffnotes
- By BP on 05-17-21
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Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard | Summary & Analysis
- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 32 mins
- Release date: 11-02-15
- Language: English
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Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World, by Bob Goff
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- By: Instaread
- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 33 mins
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Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World by Bob Goff is a memoir of the lawyer's journey through faith as a Christian. As a young child, Goff injured his eye when he was playing with his father's rifle and the gun went off. Goff's dad rushed him to the hospital, which is how Goff imagines God responding to human failures.
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Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World, by Bob Goff
- Summary & Analysis
- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 33 mins
- Release date: 11-23-15
- Language: English
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Megyn Kelly's Settle for More by Instaread
- By: Instaread
- Narrated by: Dwight Equitz
- Length: 25 mins
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Please note: this is a summary, analysis and review of the book and not the original book. This summary includes important people, character analysis, analysis of the themes and author's style, and information about the author.
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Megyn Kelly's Settle for More by Instaread
- Narrated by: Dwight Equitz
- Length: 25 mins
- Release date: 01-18-17
- Language: English
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A Common Struggle: Summary & Analysis
- A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction by Patrick J. Kennedy and Stephen Fried
- By: Instaread
- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 31 mins
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A Common Struggle by Patrick Kennedy is a memoir chronicling his struggles with mental illness and addiction. Patrick uses himself and his family as an example of the stigma and confusion surrounding mental illness in the US, and explains the history of mental illness and mental health policy in that context.
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A Common Struggle: Summary & Analysis
- A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction by Patrick J. Kennedy and Stephen Fried
- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 31 mins
- Release date: 12-02-15
- Language: English
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The Billion Dollar Spy, by David E. Hoffman | Summary & Analysis
- A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
- By: Instaread
- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 32 mins
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The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. Hoffman chronicles the six-year relationship between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and engineer Adolf Tolkachev, who spied on the Soviet Union for the United States. Tolkachev was one of the most productive CIA spies during the Cold War, persistent in his undertakings to ensure the undoing of the Soviet Union's aviation developments, which he personally had a hand in.
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The Billion Dollar Spy, by David E. Hoffman | Summary & Analysis
- A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 32 mins
- Release date: 09-18-15
- Language: English
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Lawrence Levy's To Pixar and Beyond by Instaread
- By: Instaread
- Narrated by: Jeff Jorgensen
- Length: 28 mins
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To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History is Lawrence Levy's personal account of how he and Steve Jobs turned a struggling animation company into a filmmaking powerhouse. Levy is the former Pixar chief financial officer. When Levy arrived at Pixar in 1995 at the behest of CEO Steve Jobs, the animation company was struggling. Jobs purchased the company in 1986 to be a graphics hardware business, but it had not succeeded in this area.
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Lawrence Levy's To Pixar and Beyond by Instaread
- Narrated by: Jeff Jorgensen
- Length: 28 mins
- Release date: 12-08-16
- Language: English
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Summary of Trump Revealed by Michael Kranish & Marc Fisher
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- By: Instaread
- Narrated by: Dwight Equitz
- Length: 25 mins
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Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power by Washington Post reporters Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher is a biography of businessman and TV personality-turned-2016 Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump.
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A Waste of $3
- By R. E. Thompson on 11-20-16
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Summary of Trump Revealed by Michael Kranish & Marc Fisher
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- Narrated by: Dwight Equitz
- Length: 25 mins
- Release date: 09-29-16
- Language: English
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Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science, by Richard Dawkins
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- By: Instaread
- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 27 mins
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Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science by Richard Dawkins is an autobiographical depiction of his experiences as a world-renowned scientist and atheist. Dawkins has experienced an endless amount of notable events in his life, many of which were very public, such as debate, conference, and television appearances. In this second volume of his memoirs, these life experiences have inspired memories of other events, background stories of people he knew....
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Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science, by Richard Dawkins
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- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 27 mins
- Release date: 11-06-15
- Language: English
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Summary of Bush by Jean Edward Smith | Includes Analysis
- By: Instaread
- Narrated by: Dwight Equitz
- Length: 29 mins
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Jean Edward Smith's Bush is a biography of George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States. Bush was a talented politician with a sincere commitment to domestic policy issues such as education and Medicare expansion. However, his decision to go to war with Iraq in 2003 was disastrous. It undermined his presidency and his legacy.
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A fellow believer leads America into the worst war
- By Teresa B. on 09-11-16
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Summary of Bush by Jean Edward Smith | Includes Analysis
- Narrated by: Dwight Equitz
- Length: 29 mins
- Release date: 08-16-16
- Language: English
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