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Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull: A 30-minute Summary Description: With Instaread Summaries, you can get the summary of a book in 30 minutes or less. We read every chapter, summarize and analyze it for your convenience.   This is an Instaread Summary of Creativity, Inc; by Ed...

It’s a Long Story by Willie Nelson | Includes Analysis   Preview: It’s a Long Story: My Life is country singer Willie Nelson’s memoir. The book chronicles his life as a musician, songwriter, and social activist and delves into his turbulent personal life and internal emotional...

Summary of The War of Art by Steven Pressfield | Includes Analysis Preview: Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles is a book dedicated to helping writers and other artists overcome creative barriers and produce valuable and...

Summary of Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia Martinez | Includes Analysis   Preview:   Chaos Monkeys is a memoir of Antonio Garcia Martinez’s time working as a coder at Goldman Sachs, as a startup employee and founder, and as a product manager at Facebook. Martinez...

Summary of Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance | Includes Analysis   Preview: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future is a biography by Ashlee Vance. Musk originally refused to cooperate with Vance’s biography. This was no surprise, as he was known for being extremely...

Summary of Disrupted by Dan Lyons | Includes Analysis   Preview: Disrupted by Dan Lyons is a memoir about Lyons’s experiences as a middle-aged career journalist who takes a job in marketing at a startup. For years, Lyons wrote for Newsweek about technology and was well-known...

Summary of Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly | Includes Analysis   Preview: Lilac Girls, Martha Hall Kelly’s debut, is a World War II-era novel based on real people and events. The novel tells the intertwined stories of three women: Caroline Ferriday, a New York socialite...

The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn Beer with Susan Dworkin | Includes Analysis   Preview: Chapter One Hahn was hiding in plain sight in Germany in the fall of 1943, which made her what hidden Jews called a U-boat. She was twenty-nine, a Jewish law student on the run,...

Summary of Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow | Includes Analysis   Preview:   Alexander Hamilton (2004) is a sprawling biography of one of the most important figures in American history. It is based on copious original research, especially into Hamilton’s early years....

Killing Patton by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard | Includes Analysis   Preview of this summary:  Chapter 1 On October 3, 1944, Patton’s forces were fighting for Fort Driant, a heavily fortified German position near the French town of Metz. The men of his Third...

Summary of Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan | Includes Analysis   Preview: In her memoir, Brain on Fire: My Year of Madness, Susannah Cahalan recounts her battle with a rare, debilitating autoimmune disease that led to psychosis and, eventually, catatonia. Previously...

Summary of The Rainbow Comes and Goes by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt | Includes Analysis   Preview: The Rainbow Comes and Goes by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt is the result of a year of email exchanges between a son and his mother. They explore themes of...

Summary of The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin | Includes Analysis   Preview: Doris Kearns Goodwin describes the life and leadership of Theodore Roosevelt in this historical work. Roosevelt emerges as a large-than-life character who takes on the financial trusts of huge...

Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham Clinton | Includes Analysis   Preview of the earlier Chapters: Chapter 1 Hillary Clinton came to terms with the fact that Barack Obama won the 2008 primaries after her long and grueling campaign to win the primaries herself. She met with...