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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 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 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 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 in Coalwood, West Virginia, which was built for the purpose of extracting the millions of tons of rich bituminous coal that lay beneath it. My father, Homer Hickam, was the mine superintendent, and our house was situated just a few hundred yards from the mine's entrance.
#2 The company church was set on a little grassy knob. In the 1950's, it was presided...
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#1 The Japanese cherry blossom is a symbol of springtime, and the Japanese eagerly follow the sakura forecast to know when the flowers will show their white petals.
#2 The Japanese celebrate the blossom forecast, known as the sakura zensen, with a festival that lasts for two weeks. The sakura petals begin to fall a week later, and the Japanese enjoy watching them fall.
#3 When we...
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#1 Newport's Season Promises to Break All Records for Gayety. The rich flocked to the resort town in search of relaxation and entertainment, and local merchants prepared for them by raising their prices and stocking exotic provisions.
#2 The houses on and around Bellevue Avenue were the most elaborate preparations took place in the cottages. The head gardener and his...
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#1 I was six when my father gave me a bright-red scorebook that opened my heart to the game of baseball. I spent my afternoons sitting cross-legged before the squat Philco radio which stood as a permanent fixture on our porch in Rockville Centre, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York.
#2 My father, Michael Francis Aloysius Kearns, was a short man who appeared much...
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#1 The first drug panic in Mexico was in 1908, when the police raided the warehouse of José Del Moral, a marijuana wholesaler, and found thousands of marijuana cigarettes. The newspapers reacted with full-blown hysteria, calling marijuana the poison of the lower classes.
#2 The first Mexican drug panic was in 1838, when newspapers reported that students were using marijuana...
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Book Preview: #1 The printing press, the telegraph, and the internet have all changed the way we communicate. But the act of journalism has not changed much over the years.
#2 The press was supported in part by political parties in the 1800s, but with the emergence of papers like the New York Times, which still promises to report without fear or favor, this open partisanship began...
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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 first group of scholarly work on the Ukraine-Russia crisis is focused on the Euromaidan Revolution, which was different from the 2004 Orange Revolution in five ways. First, it lasted for three months, far longer than the seventeen-day Orange Revolution. Second, the Euromaidan was driven as much by national liberation as it was by European integration and human...
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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 I had spent more than a year reassuring people around the world that Trump couldn't win the presidency. But on a gray Sunday two days before the election, I entered the Berkeley Rep with twenty Stanford students to see the final performance of It Can't Happen Here.
#2 I knew that America was not a perfect democracy, but I did not think that it could possibly elect...
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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 Memphis orphanage I visited was very different from the one in Georgia's story. It was long gone, replaced by a rectangular structure housing the offices of the Baptist Brotherhood.
#2 It was difficult for adoptive parents to admit involvement with a criminal, and few did. Many claimed they were unaware of the desperate, futile habeas corpus suits that were reported...
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#1 The Russian Civil War was a crucial period in the history of the Soviet Union, as it was here that the Red Army was formed, led by Communist commanders. The war was also central to the attitude towards war held by Soviet leaders and future commanders of the Red Army.
#2 The civil war played a major role in defining the character of the new Communist state....
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Get the Summary of Mark Dice's “The True Story of Fake News” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Is fake news being spread through social media as part of an information war? Are political operatives publishing disinformation to smear the opposition and help their own agendas? Who creates fake news, how does it spread, and can it be stopped?
What are the real-world effects of fake...
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