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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 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 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 Curtis Bunn, Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Nick Charles & Keith Harriston's Say Their Names in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific eight minutes and 46 seconds when Police Officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd on camera, and it ended with the sweeping federal, state, and...
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#1 The Trinity Church graveyard on Manhattan was the largest in the Western Hemisphere by the early 1800s. The church and graveyard were covered in quicklime to speed up the decomposition of the bodies, but the smell was still overpowering.
#2 New York City was facing an unprecedented crisis at an unprecedented speed. The city began to bury its indigent dead in...
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Get the Summary of Plato's ‘The Republic’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Plato's ‘Republic’ is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an inquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the...
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#1 Isometrics is a form of exercise that involves using any unyielding object and pushing against it with all your might from different positions to tone and strengthen different groups of muscles. It was popular in the 1950s, but my father was a sportswriter for The Des Moines Register, and so he would do isometrics on airplanes to travel to Major League cities.
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#1 The first Europeans to go south of the equator expected to find a sort of looking-glass world, backward but recognizable, like people who resembled them but walked on their hands. However, they were met with a different heavens and a different air.
#2 I arrived in Paihia, the jewel of the Bay of Islands, and got off the bus. I stood on the pier and stared out at the...
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#1 The need to give Palestine to the Jews is almost tangible. If the Jews won't disembark here, they will have no future. The Jewish people desperately need a new place, a new beginning, and a new mode of existence.
#2 My great-grandfather, Herbert Bentwich, was a leading figure in the Anglo-Jewish community. He was married to a beautiful, artistic wife who was raising...
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#1 Svetlana, the wife of Farewell, was able to give us a lot of information about her husband. She was able to tell us about his character and his inner motivations, which made the suspenseful, sensational side of the story much more believable.
#2 Vladimir Vetrov was born on October 10, 1932, in Moscow. He was raised by his mother, Maria Danilovna, and his father, Ippolit...
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#1 I was reading about Africa's history when I came across the Congo, and what I read shocked me. I had always thought of Africa as a continent with a lot of different countries, but I realized that they all share the same problems: stasis, or stagnation.
#2 The Congo was the site of the world's bloodiest war in the 21st century, but the loss of life there hardly made...
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#1 Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, the world's wealthiest and most famous painter, climbed onto the rooftop balcony of his mansion in Poissy in 1863. He had spent most of the previous two decades living in the Grande Maison, a grandiose house with clusters of balconies, dormer windows, and pink-bricked chimneys.
#2 Meissonier's success in the auction rooms was accompanied...
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#1 I had been the commander of Fox Company, the first Marine Special Operations Company in the Corps' 230-year history. I had led my men on what was supposed to be just another day and another routine mission. But on that day, Fox Company was ambushed.
#2 In a press conference two months after the incident, Colonel John W. Nicholson said: I stand before you today, deeply,...
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Get the Summary of Rebecca Boggs Roberts's Untold Power in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Untold Power" by Rebecca Boggs Roberts chronicles the life of Edith Bolling, who was born into a family with a proud lineage but diminished wealth post-Civil War. Raised with Confederate ideologies, Edith's early life in Virginia was marked by a strong family influence and a desire for more than her provincial upbringing...
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Get the Summary of Jim Sciutto's The Return of Great Powers in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Return of Great Powers" delves into the geopolitical tensions and military strategies of the early 21st century, focusing on the resurgence of Russia and China as formidable global actors challenging the post-Cold War international order. The book provides an in-depth analysis of Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine,...
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#1 I am afraid of my father, the brute of all brutes. I am afraid of what he will do to me when he visits me every few months. I hide behind the curtain cutting our room in half, on one side is the kitchen and on the other, the family bedroom.
#2 I once heard that a roofer who passed by my parents' house heard a child screaming. He saw Father beating his terrified little...
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#1 The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy is the belief that a tumor between the killer's thalamus, hypothalamus, and amygdala was the cause of the massacre. But even after the autopsy, the Connally Commission could not conclusively determine that the tumor was the reason for the killings.
#2 We are, as a nation, among the most violence-prone people on earth. We are also a technologically...
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Get the Summary of Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman's The Bible Unearthed in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Bible Unearthed" by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman explores the historical and archaeological context of the biblical narratives, particularly those of the patriarchs, the Exodus, and the monarchies of David and Solomon. The book scrutinizes the traditional chronology and historicity...
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