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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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#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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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 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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#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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#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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Get the Summary of Carol Leonnig & Philip Rucker's I Alone Can Fix It in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: The true story of what took place in Donald Trump's White House during a disastrous 2020 has never before been told in full. What was really going on around the president, as the government failed to contain the coronavirus and over half a million Americans perished? Who was influencing...
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Get the Summary of Jonathan Freedland's The Escape Artist in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba became one of the very first Jews to escape from Auschwitz and make his way to freedom-among only a tiny handful who ever pulled off that near-impossible feat. He did it to reveal the truth of the death camp to the world-and to warn the last Jews of Europe what fate...
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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 The Holy Land is split down the middle by the Jordan River, which runs north to south through the Great Rift. The northern border of the Jordan River is defined by the Lebanon Mountains and the iconic Mount Hermon, the grey-haired mountain whose summit marks the border of modern Israel.
#2 Israel is a thin, vulnerable place that jabs toward its menacing...
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#1 While flying a route from New York to Newfoundland, the pilot of a Lockheed Super Constellation ran into a storm and had a fire in engine no. 3. He feathered the engine and radioed for maintenance.
#2 flying is 100 times more dangerous today than it was in 1962, when a Super Constellation pilot had a fire in engine no. 3.
#3 In the 1950s, a Lockheed Constellation...
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Get the Summary of T. Martin Bennett's Wounded Tiger in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Wounded Tiger" by T. Martin Bennett is a historical narrative that intertwines the lives of several individuals before, during, and after World War II. Mitsuo Fuchida and Minoru Genda are Japanese cadets trained for leadership, with Fuchida becoming a pilot and leading the attack on Pearl Harbor. In contrast, American Jimmy...
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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 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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#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 Angevin country began between Normandy and Brittany and extended down through Maine and Anjou. It was during the reign of the Angevins that the English family gained its reputation for violence and wickedness. But the English were so proud of them that they often forgave their wickednesses and peccadilloes.
#2 The Counts of Anjou removed themselves to England...
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#1 Kerosene is a liquid made of carbon-based molecules that, on the atomic scale, looks like spaghetti. Olive oil is a gloopy liquid made of carbon-based molecules that, on the atomic scale, looks more like twirled spaghetti.
#2 The Persian physician and alchemist Rhazes developed special chemical procedures to extract kerosene, a liquid made of carbon-based molecules...
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