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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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#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 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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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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#1 The king of that land, who had been friendly towards Columbus, changed his attitude and attacked the men of La Navidad when they returned. The Indians were so moved by their misfortune that they began to cry out of compassion.
#2 In 1565, the Spanish attacked Fort Caroline, France's first settlement in the Americas, near present-day Jacksonville. They easily overwhelmed...
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Get the Summary of Mark Dice's “The True Story of Fake News” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Is fake news being spread through social media as part of an information war? Are political operatives publishing disinformation to smear the opposition and help their own agendas? Who creates fake news, how does it spread, and can it be stopped?
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#1 The Weimar Republic saw an explosion of ragtag movements, vigilante groups, and organized parties of all stripes. The Woman Question appeared in more diffuse, contradictory forms in Weimar culture and politics.
#2 The 1920s was when ordinary Germans experienced an expansion of individual liberties and a greater degree of political power. However, this also contributed...
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#1 The Allied invasion of Italy was led by the US VI Corps, which was made up of American and British divisions. The Germans had made the advance tortuous, and the British soldiers were extremely tired. But they continued their struggle, taking tiny bites out of the terrain.
#2 The Italian Campaign, with its distrust, frustration, dispute, and resentment, had brought...
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Get the Summary of C. E. Lucas Phillips' Escape of the Amethyst in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
C. E. Lucas Phillips's Escape of the Amethyst was written with the full assistance of Commander J. S. Kerans, DSO RN, who took over control of the Amethyst, and utilises a wealth of Admiralty records, much of which was previously classified as Secret, to provide a vivid account of this extraordinary moment in the...
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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 The crusades were running down, and the English prince Edward took the cross in 1270 to go and help out his fellow Christians in the Holy Land.
#2 The English prince, Edward, was left to defend Jerusalem on his own. He was quickly defeated by the Saracens, and while his wife tried to save him, he had to accept the terms of peace. Another of the long series of crusades...
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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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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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Upinder Singh urges us to abandon simplistic stereotypes and instead think of ancient India in terms of the coexistence of five powerful contradictions-between social inequality and promises of universal salvation, the valorization of desire and detachment, goddess worship and misogyny, violence and...
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Get the Summary of Tim Madigan's The Burning in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a black community then, celebrated as one of America's most prosperous. Thirty-four square blocks of Tulsa's Greenwood community were, reduced...
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Book Preview:#1 The story of the debate between Lodge and Einstein began at the Royal Institution in London in 1894. Lodge was a professor of physics at the new University College of Liverpool, and his laboratory was housed in a space that had been the padded cell of a lunatic asylum. He seemed the embodiment of established British science.
#2 The Royal Institution became a sacred...
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#1 The stories about the poison pills at NASA were jokes. There were no situations in which you would ever consider making an early exit, and even if there were, you had lots of easier ways to do it than poison pills.
#2 The people in Houston felt bad about all this, and came on the line to say so. Apollo 13, we've got lots and lots of people working on this. We'll get...
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#1 Income taxes are a cost that reduces the amount of money suppliers receive for selling a product. This necessarily makes supply go down. A tax lowers a buyer's interest in buying, and the squeeze on profit margins from a tax makes producers sour on their own enterprises.
#2 The US income tax is an effective wealth tax that reduces supply and makes people lose interest...
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#1 The Russian Civil War was a crucial period in the history of the Soviet Union, as it was here that the Red Army was formed, led by Communist commanders. The war was also central to the attitude towards war held by Soviet leaders and future commanders of the Red Army.
#2 The civil war played a major role in defining the character of the new Communist state....
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#1 In 2010, Dawna's next-door neighbor, Matt Hoffman, began to change. He became more irritable and moody. He would catch squirrels and take them into his house to butcher them and eat them. His girlfriend began to fear for her safety.
#2 Hoffman's girlfriend and son moved out of his house, and he began to spend more and more time in a hammock in a tree. He seemed to...
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