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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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#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 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 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 I grew up on gangster stories. I moved to New York to explore the parts of the city where these stories had taken place. I met a few living examples of the genus and species: New York gangster.
#2 I wanted to track down and name the first New York gangster, the man behind all the other legends. I found that many consider Monk Eastman to have been the first,...
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#1 The band Green Day, who were signed to Lookout Records, had brought two lawyers with them when they came to visit the label. They were worried that their label was not prepared for the big time, and that they would be eaten alive in the music industry without the familial support of Lookout.
#2 In the 1980s, Larry Livermore moved into a solar-paneled cabin in...
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Get the Summary of Robert Gaudi's The War of Jenkins' Ear in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: In the early 18th century, the British and Spanish Empires were fighting for economic supremacy in the Americas. Tensions between the two powers were high, and wars blossomed like violent flowers for nearly a hundred years, from the War of Spanish Succession (sometimes known as Queen Anne's War...
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#1 I pulled into the station, and the needle was on E, which was a mistake. In Detroit, you don't get your gas on the east side, not even at high noon. Because the east side of Motown is Dodge City: sel-awless and crazy.
#2 I spent my last ten dollars on gas. I was approached by two men in Arab dress who asked me what I was doing in Detroit. I didn't answer them, but...
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#1 On June 7, 2008, George Herbert Walker, a 39-year-old second cousin of then President George W. Bush, and head of Lehman's Investment Management division, was celebrating his marriage to Nancy Dorn, a 31-year-old hedge fund analyst from Texas. The couple had exchanged their vows at New York's City Hall a few weeks earlier.
#2 The party was held to celebrate...
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Get the Summary of William Dalrymple's The Anarchy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: The Anarchy tells one of history's most remarkable stories: how the Mughal Empire-which dominated world trade and manufacturing and possessed almost unlimited resources-fell apart and was replaced by a multinational corporation-based thousands of miles overseas, and answerable to shareholders, most...
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#1 The Allied leaders were gathered in the War Room at Southwick House. The storm outside was terrible, and the weather was abysmal. The decision whether or not to launch the invasion of Europe rested with Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander.
#2 The invasion of Normandy was a huge undertaking, and one that required a lot of coordination. It was decided that...
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#1 My story began when I was twelve years old and the new Baptist preacher came to town. I experienced sex for the first time, joined the church, and learned that my father was the instrument of a vengeful God.
#2 The preacher at the Edison Baptist Church, Brother Dunagan, wanted to change things up. He had not been in Edison long enough to learn the names of the deacons,...
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Get the Summary of Kara Cooney's The Good Kings in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: In a new era when democracies around the world are threatened or crumbling, best-selling author Kara Cooney turns to five ancient Egyptian pharaohs-Khufu, Senwosret III, Akenhaten, Ramses II, and Taharqa-to understand why many so often give up power to the few, and what it can mean for our future.
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#1 The town of Holcomb is located on the high wheat plains of western Kansas. It is a lonesome area that other Kansans call out there. The local accent is barbed with a prairie twang, and the men wear narrow frontier trousers, Stetsons, and high-heeled boots with pointed toes.
#2 Until November 1959, no Americans had ever heard of Holcomb. But when four foreign sounds...
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#1 The relationship between the native peoples in the United States and the European settlers was initially friendly. However, as the settlers were able to achieve some level of security, they began to spread and take the land they wanted.
#2 The American colonists and the natives were never safe from each other, as the colonists would break their peace treaties...
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#1 Operation Alsos was a top secret mission that was an offshoot of the Manhattan Project. It was tasked with tracking down and capturing German scientists who were believed to be working on atomic, biological, or chemical warfare.
#2 Goudsmit and his team read the documents, and found out that the University of Strasbourg had been doubling as a biological warfare research base for...
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#1 The war in the Pacific cost the army 57,137 lives, and the Eighth Air Force lost more than 26,000 airmen. The end date for counting casualties was December 31, 1946, to account for those who died of lingering injuries.
#2 The United States suffered only 68 civilian deaths at Pearl Harbor, compared to the hundreds of thousands killed in Russia, China, Germany, Poland,...
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#1 Because of the political slander and bile that marred Washington's two administrations, the first president soon came to be regarded as a demigod.
#2 George Washington was born in 1732, the first President of the United States. He was taught by his family and friends, and he was a man of hands rather than brains. He was, however, extremely practical.
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#1 The Medici family of Florence, Italy, had humble farming roots, but through hard work and incredible business and political acumen, they rose to heights of power and gained riches and influence that was rare to find at the time.
#2 The Roman Empire fell to the tribes of northern and central Europe in the late 400s, and the first Germanic king, Odoacer, became the...
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