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Book Preview: #1 The two men were looking for a schooner that was small enough to be handled by four sailors, but strongly built as well. They wanted the ship to be cheap, since they had little funding for the ambitious venture they planned.
#2 The two men, François Raynal and Thomas Musgrave, were looking for a ship to take them on their adventure. They found the Grafton, a coal...
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Get the Summary of David de Jong's Nazi Billionaires in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In 1946, Günther Quandt-patriarch of Germany's most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW-was arrested for suspected Nazi collaboration. Quandt claimed that he had been forced to join the party by his archrival, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, and the courts acquitted him....
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#1 The mood in the helicopter was upbeat, especially from Ronnie Means. He had taken a job building concrete silos before joining the Army, and he looked like he was giddy. I didn't hit it off with him until we spent five hours together on a bus.
#2 I had always known cold and snow in December, but here, the air was so thick and muggy that I struggled to take deep breaths....
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Get the Summary of Michael Lewis's Flash Boys in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post—financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the big Wall Street banks. Working at different firms, they...
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Get the Summary of Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over 15 years - a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung and the unchallenged rise to power of his son, Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population.
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Book Preview: Fiona Hill has a unique perspective of the world, having spent time in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Russia. She has seen the good and bad of all three countries and realized that the three aren't all that different.
In There Is Nothing for You Here, Hill explains the three countries' post-industrial struggles after World War II, framed within the context...
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#1 The Japanese cherry blossom is a symbol of springtime, and the Japanese eagerly follow the sakura forecast to know when the flowers will show their white petals.
#2 The Japanese celebrate the blossom forecast, known as the sakura zensen, with a festival that lasts for two weeks. The sakura petals begin to fall a week later, and the Japanese enjoy watching them fall.
#3 When we...
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#1 Columbus brought pigs from Cuba to Florida, and they may have been descendants of the pigs Queen Isabella had enjoined him to take with him on his second voyage.
#2 In 1565, the Spanish attacked Fort Caroline, France's first settlement in the Americas, near present-day Jacksonville. They easily overwhelmed the small fort, and 132 soldiers and civilians were killed....
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#1 There is too much sympathy for Nazis today. Anything more than zero sympathy is too much sympathy. Because Nazis deserve to die. And American soldiers were reluctant to take Nazi prisoners, because their superior officers wanted to question them and not waste them.
#2 The Reconquista was the name given to the process of reclaiming Spain's territory from the Muslims, which took...
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#1 The state motto Live Free or Die is one of the least-subtle state mottos in the United States, and the signers from New Hampshire, especially Josiah Bartlett, lived by this phrase.
#2 Bartlett's political career took him out of medicine for a time, but he never abandoned his calling. He was a founder and first president of the New Hampshire Medical Society. His sons...
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#1 On January 29, 1951, David Lacks sat behind the wheel of his old Buick, watching the rain fall. He was parked under a towering oak tree outside Johns Hopkins Hospital with three of his children-two still in diapers-waiting for their mother, Henrietta. She had been telling her closest friends something was wrong with her sex life, but she still said no when she was pregnant with Joe, her fifth child.
#2 Henrietta was diagnosed with a tumor on her...
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#1 In 2001, teenager Noor Ahmed was walking through the Afghan village of Gayawa when he noticed a group of people huddled in a corner. They told him that everyone else in their village had died in a surprise Taliban attack.
#2 In 1994, Afghanistan was ravaged by a civil war, but the Taliban, a fanatical band of religious students, swept aside the warring factions and...
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#1 The first group of scholarly work on the Ukraine-Russia crisis is focused on the Euromaidan Revolution, which was different from the 2004 Orange Revolution in five ways. First, it lasted for three months, far longer than the seventeen-day Orange Revolution. Second, the Euromaidan was driven as much by national liberation as it was by European integration and human...
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Get the Summary of Timothy Egan's A Fever in the Heartland in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The Roaring Twenties--the Jazz Age--has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West. They hated Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants...
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#1 To call Los Angeles an intellectual capital is to imply that it is fertile cultural soil that cannot produce any homegrown intellectuals. However, this is not entirely true. Los Angeles has become the world capital of an immense Culture Industry that has imported countless talented writers, filmmakers, artists, and visionaries.
#2 Los Angeles has been a site of both...
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#1 Newport's Season Promises to Break All Records for Gayety. The rich flocked to the resort town in search of relaxation and entertainment, and local merchants prepared for them by raising their prices and stocking exotic provisions.
#2 The houses on and around Bellevue Avenue were the most elaborate preparations took place in the cottages. The head gardener and his...
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Book Preview: #1 The printing press, the telegraph, and the internet have all changed the way we communicate. But the act of journalism has not changed much over the years.
#2 The press was supported in part by political parties in the 1800s, but with the emergence of papers like the New York Times, which still promises to report without fear or favor, this open partisanship began...
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Get the Summary of Jean M. Twenge's Generations in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Professor of psychology and "reigning expert on generational change" (Lisa Wade, PhD, author of American Hookup), Jean Twenge does a deep dive into a treasure trove of long-running, government-funded surveys and databases to answer these questions. Are we truly defined by major historical events, such as...
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#1 I was a teenager who was very interested in the world. I lost interest in church, and became very interested in the world. I was labeled a delinquent, and had to appear in juvenile court. I barely lied my way out of the sentence and into six months of probation instead.
#2 I had made a commitment to Christ, but I had lost my friends as a result. I was alone, and I...
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Get the Summary of Arthur Herman's The Viking Heart in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Scandinavia has always been a world apart. For millennia Norwegians, Danes, Finns, and Swedes lived a remote and rugged existence among the fjords and peaks of the land of the midnight sun. But when they finally left their homeland in search of opportunity, these wanderers-including the most famous,...
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