by Aseem Gupta | Apr 27, 2022 | Biography, Lives & Historical Figures
In 1860, Ulysses S. Grant was an obscure former army officer working in his family’s leather-goods business in Illinois. He had struggled as a farmer, failed at several ventures, and sometimes lacked the money to support his growing family. Less than five years...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 27, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Jonas Jonasson begins The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared with what should be an ending. Allan Karlsson is one hundred years old, living in an old people’s home, and expected to spend his birthday being ceremonially celebrated by...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 14, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
History usually reaches us after uncertainty has disappeared. D-Day succeeded, John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Apollo 11 returned safely from the Moon, Britain never fought the Soviet Union in a nuclear war, and Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. was killed moments after...
