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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 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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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 After Hitler's thousand-year Reich collapsed, three million British and American troops and their allies converged on the heartland of National Socialism from the west, while six and a half million Soviet troops descended on Berlin from the east.
#2 The liberation of the death camps was the first step towards exposing the genocide. The scale of the enterprise had...
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Get the Summary of Douglas Brunt's The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Rudolf Diesel's early life in Paris was marked by his curiosity and exposure to technological innovations, such as the internal combustion engine at the 1867 Paris World's Fair. His family's move to London during the Franco-Prussian War exposed him to the harsh realities of industrial labor, fueling his resolve...
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#1 The amount of attention the general culture gives to the historical Jesus has been increasing in recent decades. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the story of Jesus is its own genre, featuring carefully researched biographies, scholarly textual commentaries, and historical criticism.
#2 The Gospels are the historical documents that tell Jesus's story. They...
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#1 The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world. The spirits who are stopped in time retain their youth, mystery, and beauty. They may also still hold their pain, eternally.
#2 Women in academia are typically cut off from the domestic sphere, and thus from the conservative impulses that underlie this sort of folktale.
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#1 Lafayette Ron Hubbard was a prolific writer of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an amateur explorer, magician, and hypnotist. He came up with an alternative to psychotherapy called Dianetics, and became famous. He lost everything within a year.
#2 Hubbard had a love of adventure and a fascination with the sea. He grew up listening to the stories told by the...
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#1 I was standing on the parade ground, where the prisoners were mustering for the roll call. I had not fetched my coffee as I did not want to force my way through the crowd. My thoughts were not on the dangers lurking on such occasions, but on last night's talk.
#2 The people in the Ghetto had information that the people in the camp did not have. They were able to piece together...
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#1 The history of the early church is often told through the accounts of various books that were written about it. But many historians today don't believe in evidence, and instead argue that since absolute truth must always elude the historian's grasp, evidence is inevitably nothing but a biased selection of suspect facts.
#2 The world's first missionaries were...
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#1 The written word was an invention born of necessity: how else were the Sumerians to keep their accounts straight. The novel agglomeration of human beings and their possessions into a city such as Uruk cried out for a new way of counting shipments and recalling transactions.
#2 The first written language was invented in Sumer, and it was used to record business transactions....
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#1 The world we live in today is extremely confusing, and it can be difficult for older generations to understand it. The generation gap today is reflected not just in fashion and music, but in attitudes and beliefs about some of the most basic aspects of human existence.
#2 The self is the foundation of our experience of the world, and it is what makes us navigate the...
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#1 Abd al-Rahman, a young man from the heart of the Islamic Empire, fled to the Maghrib, where he met with his Berber kinsmen. They had converted to Islam and were partially Arabized, and they had pushed across the Strait of Gibraltar to conquer Iberia.
#2 The local politics in al-Andalus were shaped by the often violent rivalries between the majority Berber rank and...
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#1 My fifth winter, I had mastered the skill of riding a sled on my own. With luck and good fortune, December of 1927 in Preussisch Holland was filled with snow beyond the imagination. I had finally discovered the competing wonders of independence and daring.
#2 When I was ten, I had a sled that I shared with my friends. We would race down the hill, and I would always...
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#1 The Holocaust was a complex process that developed over time. It required dry timber, a spark that ignites it, and favorable weather. Antisemitism was a factor, but it cannot explain everything about the Holocaust.
#2 The term antisemitism was coined in the 1870s by a German journalist who wanted to contrast his supposedly scientific antipathy toward Jews with religious...
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#1 Priska's parents, Emanuel and Paula Rona, ran a kosher cafés in Zlaté Moravce, a town in the Slovak Republic. Her mother was a goodwife and cook, and her father was a strict disciplinarian who spoke German or Yiddish with her mother whenever he didn't want his children to understand.
#2 Priska, the daughter, was the fourth in line. She was named Piroska at birth...
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#1 The Bulgarian government had signed an agreement with the Germans to deport all Jews from the country. The warehouse was needed as a concentration location for the Jews before their departure.
#2 The Jews had lived in Bulgaria for many centuries, unperturbed by the local population. They were well-integrated in the Bulgarian society, and had not been subject...
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#1 Evangelicals, who supposedly follow Jesus, support Trump. They seem to have decided that the teachings of Jesus can be ignored when they get in the way of their quest to dominate American society.
#2 Evangelical Christians believe in the Four Tenets of evangelical faith: the Bible is the ultimate authority for life, Jesus died to atone for the sins of the world, a...
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#1 The traditional view of the Alamo defenders is that they were the highest minded of freedom fighters who died in defense of liberty, republican government, and democratic principles. However, many of the men who fought for Texas liberty were slave-owners.
#2 The Mexican government, unlike the American government, was opposed to slavery. The first Americans to settle...
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