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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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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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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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#1 The meeting between Hitler and Mussolini took place on July 19, 1943, at Villa Gaggia, near the town of Feltre, some fifty miles north of Venice. It was Hitler's last trip to Italy. Mussolini had no interest in forming an alliance with Germany, but he was impressed by Hitler's consolidation of power and the remarkable turnaround of German industry.
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Book Preview: #1 Australia was originally an island, but it became a continent when it broke off from Antarctica 35 million years ago. It is currently on a collision course with Indonesia, but inhabitants of both countries should not be alarmed as it is moving at seven centimetres a year.
#2 Australia is a large country that is home to many different types of terrain and climates....
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#1 The English have a pathological interest in the weather, which is why they constantly talk about it. English weather-speak is a form of code that helps us overcome our natural reserve and communicate with each other.
#2 The English have a distinct tradition of talking about the weather, and it is not always clear when it is meant literally and when it is meant metaphorically....
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Get the Summary of Matthew Pearl's The Taking of Jemima Boone in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: On a quiet midsummer day in 1776, weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone and her friends Betsy and Fanny Callaway disappear near the Kentucky settlement of Boonesboro, the echoes of their faraway screams lingering on the air.
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#1 The downtown area around the Los Angeles Greyhound Bus Terminal is a dangerous place after dark. Colorful legions of thieves, muggers, crackheads, alcoholics, and ten-dollar whores prowl like hungry sharks around a bleeding man.
#2 He was a burglar, and he was good at his profession. He knew how to get into any type of home, even one with an alarm system. He couldn't...
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Get the Summary of Richard Haass's The Bill of Obligations in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The Bill of Obligations is a bold call for change. In these pages, New York Times bestselling author Richard Haass argues that the very idea of citizenship must be revised and expanded. The Bill of Rights is at the center of our Constitution, yet our most intractable conflicts often emerge from...
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#1 In 1960, two young California engineers boarded a plane to attend an electronics technical meeting in Philadelphia. The International Circuits Conference had recently been focused on radio, but that was changing as electronic systems began to find their way into consumer, business, and military equipment.
#2 Crane was hired to work on a new computer being built by...
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#1 On January 23, 1974, it was a Wednesday under the astrological sign of Aquarius. Richard Nixon was president, and he enhanced oil production in the United States by giving tax breaks to American oil companies. The national headlines were full of news about Watergate, the energy crisis, and space exploration.
#2 On January 23, 1974, in St. Augustine, Florida, the barometric...
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#1 The Japanese identity was forged in a system in which social hierarchy was established and sustained through martial competition. The code of the samurai, which was followed by only a small percentage of the population, became the model of honorable behavior among all young men.
#2 Japan was isolated from the rest of the world, and this allowed its society to remain...
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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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Get the Summary of Bastian Obermayer & Frederik Obermaier's The Panama Papers in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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In early 2015, an anonymous whistle-blower led investigative journalists Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier into the shadow economy where the super-rich hide billions of dollars in complex financial networks. Thus began the ground-breaking investigation that saw an...
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#1 On a misty May night in 1876, three men broke into a fashionable address in Piccadilly and stole a painting. The woman in the painting, already famed throughout London as the most exquisite beauty ever to grace a canvas, gazed down with an imperious and inquisitive eye.
#2 The painting was stolen by Adam Worth, a criminal mastermind, in 1876. It was an act of hubris...
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Get the Summary of Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe's Astor in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The family fortune, first made by a beaver trapping business that grew into an empire, was then amplified by holdings in Manhattan real estate. Over the ensuing generations, Astors ruled Gilded Age New York society and inserted themselves into political and cultural life, but also suffered...
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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 effects of war on the national well-being were not always positive. In 1862, there were many sides to see, and not all of them were positive. The Federal government had finally nerved itself to remove General McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac, and the deep significance of this act was not lost on various Northern leaders of the Democratic...
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