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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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Get the Summary of Tom Bower's Revenge in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: After a childhood spent on Hollywood film sets, Meghan Markle fought hard for stardom. But even when she landed her breakthrough role on Suits, her dream of worldwide celebrity remained elusive until she met the man who would change her life-Prince Harry. Their whirlwind romance culminated with Meghan's ultimate...
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#1 There is too much sympathy for Nazis today. Anything more than zero sympathy is too much sympathy. Because Nazis deserve to die. And American soldiers were reluctant to take Nazi prisoners, because their superior officers wanted to question them and not waste them.
#2 The Reconquista was the name given to the process of reclaiming Spain's territory from the Muslims, which took...
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#1 Columbus brought pigs from Cuba to Florida, and they may have been descendants of the pigs Queen Isabella had enjoined him to take with him on his second voyage.
#2 In 1565, the Spanish attacked Fort Caroline, France's first settlement in the Americas, near present-day Jacksonville. They easily overwhelmed the small fort, and 132 soldiers and civilians were killed....
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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 To call Los Angeles an intellectual capital is to imply that it is fertile cultural soil that cannot produce any homegrown intellectuals. However, this is not entirely true. Los Angeles has become the world capital of an immense Culture Industry that has imported countless talented writers, filmmakers, artists, and visionaries.
#2 Los Angeles has been a site of both...
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#1 In 2001, teenager Noor Ahmed was walking through the Afghan village of Gayawa when he noticed a group of people huddled in a corner. They told him that everyone else in their village had died in a surprise Taliban attack.
#2 In 1994, Afghanistan was ravaged by a civil war, but the Taliban, a fanatical band of religious students, swept aside the warring factions and...
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#1 The Gulf of Honduras was unknown to most North Americans in 1839, as it was far removed from U. S. trade routes. But in 1802, the Spanish Empire began to dissolve, and its American colonies broke free.
#2 Stephens and Catherwood were tasked with meeting the leaders of the recently formed United Provinces of Central America and concluding a trade agreement. However,...
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#1 A storm in 1850 killed two hundred people in the British Isles. The archipelago was a relatively new addition to the UK, having been annexed from Norway in the sixteenth century. The wind's destructive force also proved an impetus of discovery, as some of the villagers who lived on the western coast of Orkney discovered a five-thousand-year-old settlement at the Bay...
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Get the Summary of Arthur Herman's The Viking Heart in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Scandinavia has always been a world apart. For millennia Norwegians, Danes, Finns, and Swedes lived a remote and rugged existence among the fjords and peaks of the land of the midnight sun. But when they finally left their homeland in search of opportunity, these wanderers-including the most famous,...
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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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#1 On April 19, 1775, the men of Lexington, Massachusetts, were preparing for a British attack. They were part-time warriors called militia, and they had been designated minutemen by the royal government.
#2 The Lexington militia were ready for the British, but they were not prepared for the British light infantry companies that arrived. The captain turned to his men...
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#1 Ronald's life was turned upside down when his father died and his mother remarried. They moved constantly, which contributed to Ronald's lack of social skills. He was expelled from school at age 16 for his violent outbursts.
#2 Ronald's life was completely turned around when he entered military school. He thrived under the strict order and pressure of the school's...
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#1 I was a teenager who was very interested in the world. I lost interest in church, and became very interested in the world. I was labeled a delinquent, and had to appear in juvenile court. I barely lied my way out of the sentence and into six months of probation instead.
#2 I had made a commitment to Christ, but I had lost my friends as a result. I was alone, and I...
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#1 The CEO of Merrill Lynch, Stan O'Neal, was re-elected almost unanimously by the institutional investors representing huge blocs of votes. The few individual shareholders who did attend the meeting were typically entranced by the prospect of getting themselves in front of a microphone.
#2 In 2007, problems emerged in the U. S. real estate market, which was the engine...
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Book Preview: Fiona Hill has a unique perspective of the world, having spent time in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Russia. She has seen the good and bad of all three countries and realized that the three aren't all that different.
In There Is Nothing for You Here, Hill explains the three countries' post-industrial struggles after World War II, framed within the context...
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#1 The idea of mental events generating physical effects may at first seem counter-intuitive, but in reality it's something we experience every day. For example, when I think about stroking someone's cheek, a pulse jumps a synapse in my brain, something like an electrical current burns down a nerve in my arm, and my hand moves.
#2 The universe that this book describes...
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