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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 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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#1 The men in the canoes were skilled, but they knew disaster was just a moment away. They were navigating among the islands of wbanakik, a beautiful but dangerous edge of the world.
#2 The Wapánahki were not a unified people. The languages spoken by those living far away were similar but subtly different from those of Ktə̀hαnəto and his relatives. They knew that...
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#1 In the early 20th century, Texas passed a law that would prevent Black Texans from voting in the Democratic primary.
#2 Nixon moved to El Paso in 1910, at the height of the Mexican Revolution. The city was a melting pot of cultures and aspirations, and it was not yet set or defined.
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Book Preview: #1 Eisman had a special talent for making noise and breaking with consensus opinion. He started as a junior equity analyst at Oppenheimer in December 1991, but was quickly appointed the lead analyst for Aames Financial, a subprime mortgage lender, after telling his superiors that he'd worked on a deal for The Money Store.
#2 Eisman became one of the few analysts at Oppenheimer...
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#1 Two new concepts that focus on the origins, legacies, and persistence of white supremacy in the United States and other settler societies have emerged in the last few decades. They are settler colonialism, which documents the contact and colonization by a nation that wishes to populate the encountered land, and racial capitalism, which describes the intertwined history...
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#1 The American Civil War was the first time the American political elites failed to compromise, and it led to the loss of life and land for many. 150 years later, we are seeing the same problems arise among American political elites.
#2 The difference between us and our predecessors is that we are gaining a better understanding of the inner workings of societies. We...
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#1 The first to notice something was wrong was Matt Hawks, the father of the newborn baby. The calls from Tom and Jackie Hawks stopped completely after November 15, the day they took a prospective buyer out for a sea trial.
#2 Tom and Jackie had spent a lot of time and money fixing up the Well Deserved, which they'd purchased for $290,000 in November 2000. They...
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#1 The planter aristocracy was made up of ten thousand families that owned fifty or more slaves apiece. These were the people who, as the former North Carolina slave William Yancey recalled, gave shape to the government and tone to the society.
#2The planter elite was made up of about fifty southern planters, who each owned at least five hundred slaves. The richest planter...
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#1 Los Angeles in 1974 was a center of pop culture. The city was the birthplace of the New Wave in Hollywood, the smooth Southern California sound that ruled the album charts and radio airwaves, and many other innovations.
#2 Los Angeles had several periods of great film, television, and music production, but the early 1970s was the pinnacle of these industries. The...
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#1 Beatrice, a former U. S. Army nurse, was tired of her girlfriend Debra Jackson's lies and denials about her fondness for drugs. She decided to end things.
#2 Debra was a strict parent who took her children to the beach and local theme parks, but she did not hesitate to punish them if they stepped out of line. She lost custody of her children when they were placed...
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#1 Cortés had staked everything he had on this expedition. He had incurred significant debt building the ships and stocking them with provisions. His hope to get off to a good start was slightly compromised when his patron, the fat hidalgo Diego Velázquez, attempted to thwart his departure.
#2 When the conquistadors arrived on the island, they found that the local...
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#1 The Aztecs rose to power late in the history of Mesoamerica. Other significant cultures such as the Olmecs, the Maya, and the Zapotecs had flourished for over a thousand years before the Aztec Empire was created.
#2 The Toltecs were a people who lived in central Mexico. They were displaced by the Mexica, who were a tribe of Nahuatl-speaking people who worshiped the...
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#1 The Johnson-Reed Immigration Act of 1924 marked the beginning of restriction in American immigration policy. It placed numerical limits on immigration and established a quota system that classified the world's population according to nationality and race, ranking them in a hierarchy of desirability for admission into the United States.
#2 Until the 1920s, immigration...
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#1 On June 9, 1937, the four inhabitants of a small farmhouse in Stony Brook, New York, began their day. William Parsons, the owner of Long Meadow Farm, put his trousers on over his pajamas and a sweater over his shirt before leaving the house to feed the pigeons and other poultry livestock.
#2 In the fall of 1936, the three of them jointly tried to increase sales. They...
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#1 I have a recipe for corn bread, and also for India relish: Elizabeth Scott Hardin, my great-great-great-great-great-grandmother, was said to have hidden in a cave with her children during Indian fighting.
#2 I had a quilt made by my great-great-grandmother Elizabeth Anthony Reese on a wagon journey during which she buried one child, gave birth to another, twice contracted...
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#1 The final week of March 1865 saw torrents of rain in Southside Virginia, which increased the flow of creeks and streams and left roads clogged with ankle-deep mud. The rival armies flooded the countryside, and it was clear which would be victorious.
#2 The situation within the Confederate army was becoming dire as the spring campaign season approached. The Union forces...
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#1 In 1968, the world bid farewell to a violent year; New York City received snowfall. In Vietnam, the South Vietnamese and their American allies declared a twelve-hour truce for January 1. The People's Liberation Armed Forces in South Vietnam, a pro—North Vietnamese guerrilla force, announced a seventy-two-hour cease-fire.
#2 France was enjoying a prosperous period...
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#1 Ben Novack, the home invader, first arrived in New York City in the mid-1930s. He had a retail clothing store with a man named Kemp, but they soon split up.
#2 Carl Fisher was the father of Miami Beach. He made a fortune co-inventing Prest-O-Lite, the acetylene gas used in car headlights for night driving. He then spent his fortune on building a resort on Miami Beach.
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#1 In March 2014, the Lakota Sioux tribe president, Bryan Brewer, declared war on the Keystone XL Pipeline, which would have passed directly through Oceti Sakowin territory.
#2 The KXL also crossed through the permanent reservation boundaries of the Great Sioux Nation, and unceded lands of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, which forbids white settlement without Indigenous...
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