by Aseem Gupta | Oct 9, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Published in 2000 by Random House, Omerta was Mario Puzo’s final completed Mafia novel and appeared after his death in 1999. Penguin Random House still lists the novel under its original Random House line, while contemporary accounts of Puzo’s final years describe...
by Aseem Gupta | Sep 7, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion is the authorized collective autobiography of one of American punk’s longest-running bands. Published in 2020 and written by Bad Religion with Jim Ruland, it draws primarily on the memories of Greg Graffin, Brett...
by Aseem Gupta | Sep 3, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
William S. Lind and Gregory A. Thiele’s 4th Generation Warfare Handbook begins with a puzzle that has troubled military thinkers for decades: why can a state possess overwhelming advantages in technology, firepower, logistics, professional training,...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 31, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Kevin Kruse’s 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management promises access to the habits of unusually productive people: billionaires, Olympic athletes, straight-A students, entrepreneurs, executives, and other high achievers. Its title makes the book sound...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 28, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Few political books are as historically consequential, as frequently invoked, and as poorly understood as Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Written after the failed Beer Hall Putsch and begun during Hitler’s imprisonment at Landsberg in 1924, it combines political...
