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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 Isometrics is a form of exercise that involves using any unyielding object and pushing against it with all your might from different positions to tone and strengthen different groups of muscles. It was popular in the 1950s, but my father was a sportswriter for The Des Moines Register, and so he would do isometrics on airplanes to travel to Major League cities.
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Get the Summary of Spencer Ackerman's Reign of Terror in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Reign of Terror will show how these policies created a foundation for American authoritarianism and, though it is not a book about Donald Trump, it will provide a critical explanation of his rise to power and the sources of his political strength. It will show that Barack Obama squandered an opportunity...
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Get the Summary of Brendan Simms & Charlie Laderman's Hitler's American Gamble in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Hitler's American Gamble recounts the five days that upended everything: December 7 to 11. Tracing developments in real time and backed by deep archival research, historians Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman show how Hitler's intervention was not the inexplicable decision...
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Get the Summary of Plato's ‘The Republic’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Plato's ‘Republic’ is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an inquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the...
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#1 The old man had a lot on his mind that night, including the hospital visit the next morning. He had woken up numerous times, checking the clock, and was impatient for the new day to begin so he could order the flowers.
#2 The old woman, Ma, retched tragically. Her son-in-law, John Hill, watched her and did not help her. She told him not to wake her husband, who would...
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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 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, but when...
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#1 I am in New Hampshire just over a month later, and it's raining. Twenty feet across from me, on the other side of a backyard pool, Donald Trump is scolding me. How does he even know my name.
#2 I came back to America because of a boy named Aaron, a severely ill teen who asked to shadow me for a day through the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
#3 Trump was so unexpected that...
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#1 On May 27, 1978, twenty-six-year-old Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle was brutally attacked and murdered in her home on South Lemacks Street in Walterboro, South Carolina. She had babysat for her friends the night before she was murdered, and her roommate and friend Billy O'Bryant rushed her to the police station. She had been severely beaten and possibly sexually assaulted.
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#1 Sydney Bowles was fourteen years old when she first set eyes on David Freeman Mitford. He was seventeen, classically handsome, and with luminous blue eyes. She felt all the natural frustration of a teenager wanting to look older to impress him, but she was miserably aware that her outfit labeled her a child.
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#1 The first thermonuclear bomb was tested on May 8, 1951. It was a small prototype device, known as George, that was exploded three months later. Then, on November 1, 1952, the first true thermonuclear test weapon, known as Mike, was detonated.
#2 The islands that would be used for the test were first spotted by an English seafarer named John Marshall in the eighteenth...
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Book Preview: #1 Russia is vast, and its leaders must consider the implications of its vast size. The North European Plain running from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Carpathian Mountains in the south is only 300 miles wide, but it stretches from western France to northern Germany.
#2 The Russian Far East is protected by geography. It is difficult to move an army from Asia up...
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#1 I left the ship with 13 other crew members and set off on foot toward Franz Josef Land, in search of an inhabited shore. We were icebound for a year and a half off Franz Josef Land, unable to advance or retreat, at the mercy of the winds and tides.
#2 I asked to leave the ship, and the crew agreed. I was only glad that the others were leaving voluntarily, and...
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Book Preview: #1 The city of Peru-nefer, in the Nile delta of Lower Egypt, was excavated by the Austrian archaeologist Manfred Bietak and his team. It was a Minoan city that had been conquered by Thutmose III around 1477 BC. The city had been known as Avaris, capital city of the Hyksos, until it was captured by Thutmose's ancestor Kamose around 1550 BC.
#2 The Hyksos were a group...
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