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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 David Enrich's Servants of the Damned in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Since 2016, Jones Day has been in the spotlight for representing Donald Trump and his campaigns (and now his PACs)-and for the fleet of Jones Day attorneys who joined his administration, including White House Counsel Don McGahn. Jones Day helped Trump fend off the Mueller investigation and challenged...
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#1 The left has completely lost its mind. It is now authoritarian and puritanical, and it has replaced the battle of ideas with a battle of feelings. It has replaced honesty with outrage.
#2 I was a closeted gay man for twenty-five years, and it nearly broke me. I developed a habit of downing bottles of cheap red wine alone in my apartment. One day in September 2001,...
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#1 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is the largest Mormon church, is located in Salt Lake City. The choir that performs at the temple is representative of the Mormons as a people: chaste, optimistic, and outgoing. But Mormons and Mormon Fundamentalists believe in the same holy texts and the same sacred history.
#2 The LDS Church is extremely defensive...
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Book Preview: #1 When I traveled to Çatalhöyük, a city that was built before cities existed, I was able to see the origins of the world I knew. The people there were a generation or two removed from nomadism, and when they began to settle in one place, it was a revolutionary idea.
#2 When people passed through one of Çatalhöyük's thousands of rooftop doorways, they entered a...
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#1 The Illuminati have spread the cancer of deception into all walks of life, so that this cancer is contaminating and killing anything of value in the United States. The soon-to-come death of this nation's sovereignty and morals are the results of this cancer.
#2 The McDonald-Fort Bragg Drug Smuggling Case involved the Illuminati drug smuggling operation within the...
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#1 Suleiman's first conquest was the storming of the fortress of Belgrade, the gateway to Hungary. The second was the capture of Rhodes. Rhodes was a strange anachronism-a Christian survivor from the medieval Crusades located within touching distance of the Islamic world.
#2 The Knights of Saint John, a Christian order, held Rhodes in the name of the pope. They had been...
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#1 Frederick Albert Cook, the second youngest son, was five years old when he saw his father in the coffin. He grew up loving the outdoors, and would spend nights under the stars. He never forgot the struggle to survive, and learned how to swim.
#2 Frederick Cook, the inventor of the milk delivery truck, was a medical student at Columbia University. He was able to get...
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#1 I have spent half my life on the road. I have never tried to write about this way of life, not even when I was reporting on people and events along the way. It just seemed to have no category. I was a journalist following stories, then a worker in political campaigns and movements, and most consistently an itinerant feminist organizer.
#2 The first reason I wrote...
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#1 In January 1889, Motilal Nehru, a lawyer from the north Indian city of Allahabad, traveled to Rishikesh, a town sacred to Hindus, up in the foothills of the Himalayas on the banks of the sacred river Ganga. There, he met a famous yogi who gave him a son, Jawaharlal Nehru, who would become one of the most remarkable men of the twentieth century.
#2 The young Jawaharlal...
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#1 Some Christians still worry that heathen hordes will one day arrive on American shores, armed with guns and knives, to crush our Christian way of life and destroy the American church. But instead of finding any evidence of Christianity in this country, they find the worship of actors, politicians, athletes, and imaginary figures on television.
#2 The heathens are...
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#1 The city of Jerusalem was the center of Jewish life for nearly 500 years, from the Persian period until the Roman Empire destroyed it in 70 C. E.
#2 The house of David and the house of God came together in Jewish tradition. The Second Temple was rebuilt by the returning exiles and the Hasmoneans, and it reached its height of splendor under Herod the Great.
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#1 The fresco in the Carafa Chapel in Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, a Dominican church in Rome, is of the Dominican friar Thomas Aquinas. It shows him crushing a scowling old man beneath his feet, representing evil. The old man is a personification of evil, and he clutches a banner with the Latin inscription Wisdom conquers evil.
#2 The triumph of faith depicted in the...
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#1 The earliest known evidence of the belief in ghosts is from the third millennium bc, when a clay tablet was found that contained the word ghost. However, we must suspect ghostly presences that existed much earlier than this.
#2 The first examples of simple inhumation, the deliberate creation of a space in which to deposit and cover a corpse, are only evident after...
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#1 In early September, Colin's parents had asked him how he felt about going to America. He had said he would love to, and they had sent him away. The decision to send their son away had been difficult at first, but they had believed the Germans were poised to invade Britain.
#2 The British government began a controversial and, for the parents, heartbreaking scheme...
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#1 Our brains' ability to learn and change has made it easier for us to obtain food. We have always had omnivorous diets, eating whatever we could forage or catch.
#2 Our ancestors were hardwired to eat what they could, when they could. They had little ability to preserve the bounty of a big kill, so they stuffed themselves on the spot and took what they could carry....
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#1 In 1941, a police academy in Pretzsch, a town on the Elbe River about fifty miles southwest of Berlin, became the site of a sinister assembly. Thousands of men from the SS, the Nazi Party's Schutzstaffel, were ordered to report for training and assignment. They were not told what their assignment would be, but their commonalities suggested they would be sent to Russia.
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#1 Hekate is the goddess of Witches. She has been many things over the years, but to both ancient devotees and modern-day Witches, she is the goddess of death.
#2 I had been dedicated to the goddess Hekate, and I had created the spiritual community I had always hoped to find through her. I had been enthralled with her appeal to the brilliant cross-section of cultures...
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#1 The 13th century was a century of saints and of great note for the Church. It was marked by the establishment of the great orders of St. Dominic and St. Francis, and by the death of St. Louis, a victim to his love of Jesus crucified.
#2 The Saint was chosen to assist others during her lifetime by her merits and intercession, as well as by the gift of counsel which...
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#1 The Nazi Party's Jewish policy was to remove the Jews from Germany, and they did so by boycott, intimidation, and eventually expulsion. The most important stages in this process were the boycott of Jewish businesses in April 1933, the Nuremberg Laws of September 1935, and the pogrom of November 1938.
#2 When Heydrich referred to the authorization Göring had given...
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