by Aseem Gupta | Apr 26, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, originally published in 1969, is so thoroughly embedded in popular culture that the novel itself can be difficult to see clearly. Francis Ford Coppola’s films supplied some of cinema’s most recognizable performances and images, while...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 24, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog is usually shelved with business books, but it does not read like a conventional guide to entrepreneurship. There is no orderly founder’s framework, no sequence of principles that supposedly guarantees success, and very little attempt to make...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 22, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom has acquired the aura of an inspirational classic, but the book itself is considerably more complicated than the public image surrounding it. It is not simply the story of a heroic prisoner who forgave his enemies, nor is it...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 19, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
David Goggins’s Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds sits in an unusual space between autobiography and self-help. The story is so extreme that it can sound almost fictional: an abused and academically struggling child grows into an overweight...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 16, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Michelle Obama entered the White House in January 2009 as one of the most recognizable women in the world, yet Becoming is deliberately constructed to make that historic role feel like neither the beginning nor the culmination of her story. The memoir starts much...
