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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 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 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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#1 I am headed to the fellowship hall of the Unionville Baptist Church in South Carolina, where I will meet with pastors from around the country to discuss their views on social justice and the Bible.
#2 The Watchmen on the Wall, an affiliate of the Family Research Council, is hosting a pastors briefing in Unionville. Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council,...
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#1 The Battle of Prokhorovka, the largest tank battle in history, was the result of Hitler and Stalin's tyrannical architects, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, who were guided by fervent ideologies and driven by unbridled ambition.
#2 The German people were upset with the Kaiser, who was a reform-shy, anti-democratic figure. They were hungry, their armed forces were broken,...
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#1 I was the only one who wasn't crying as the bus full of women inched its way through Tehran traffic toward Khomeini's house.
#2 Ruhollah, an impoverished clerical student from the village of Khomein, had been twenty-seven when he asked for the hand of fifteen-year-old Khadija Saqafi. Her father, a prominent ayatollah, didn't think much of the match, but Khadija felt...
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Get the Summary of David Grann's The White Darkness in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. In 2015, Henry Worsley, a retired British Army officer, embarked on a solo expedition across Antarctica to complete Ernest Shackleton's unfinished journey from a century ago. Worsley, hauling a 325-pound sled, faced extreme conditions, including temperatures of minus forty degrees Fahrenheit and treacherous crevasses. His trek...
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#1 The next major epoch in Jewish history is referred to as the time of Moses, when he was ordered to throw every Hebrew boy that was born into the Nile River. However, his mother saved him by putting him in a basket and sending him floating on the waters. When the pharaoh's daughter saw him, she took him in and named him Moses.
#2 The burning bush incident was a huge...
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#1 The activities of the Israeli air force at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, in 1973: A flash of white thigh in dark water. Hair plastered down a smooth back. Ripples glimmering around rocks. Bras and fatigues crumpled on the sand.
#2 The monitors at the radar station that sat above the airfield in Egypt were Israeli soldiers. They had never seen an enemy plane, and they...
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#1 The French were shocked by the speed of the German victory, and how young and healthy the troops looked. They were stunned by the fact that a nation whose military valour was epitomized by the battle of Verdun in the First World War and whose defences had been guaranteed by the supposedly impregnable Maginot line, had been reduced to a state of vassalage in just six...
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#1 The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes. The president elect, Donald Trump, made it clear that he would not be giving up power easily.
#2 The deep state, which is made up of roughly 2. 6 million employees, is a vast and growing bureaucracy that operates outside of the US Constitution and is free from the constraints...
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#1 There is no official list of Fathers of the Church. The term Father of the Church is a family term, informally coined by somebody in the early Church to refer to other people in an even earlier era of the Church. When I think about the Fathers of the Church, I think about St. Ignatius of Antioch (c. 35—107), and his letters. In them, he writes: Do you wish to be...
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Get the Summary of Toby Lester's The Fourth Part of the World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Fourth Part of the World" by Toby Lester delves into the history of cartography and exploration, focusing on the evolution of the world map and the discovery of the Americas. The book begins with the medieval mappaemundi and the work of Brother Matthew Paris, who created maps that combined geography with Christian...
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#1 In 1682, the Ottoman Empire was going to war with the Habsburg Empire. The sultan, Mehmed IV, was going to lead the army himself. The presence of the sultan directed the whole force of the empire against their adversary.
#2 The Ottoman war camp, by contrast, was a perfect model city. It was made of broadcloth, canvas, silk, brocade, and embroidery rather than brick...
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#1 The modern age is characterized by a decline in religious faith, which is not necessarily accompanied by a decline in church attendance or Roman Catholics being childless. It is when religion begins to interfere with your everyday life that it is time to give it up.
#2 The privatisation of the symbolic sphere is a strictly relative matter. In modern times, one...
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#1 Hitler's theory was that humans were simply animals, and the racial struggle for survival was a German campaign for dignity. He understood that Germany did not feed itself from its own territory in the 1920s and 1930s, but knew that Germans would not have starved if they had tried.
#2 Hitler believed that the American dream was the German people's dream, and that...
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#1 The Freedom Sunday service at First Baptist Church, Dallas, was attended by thousands. But not everyone was happy about the billboards advertising the event, which quoted pastor Robert Jeffress as saying, America is a Christian nation.
#2 Americans hold a variety of orientations toward the intertwining of Christianity and American civil society. While most Americans...
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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 A belief is a lever that, once pulled, moves almost everything else in a person's life. Your beliefs define your vision of the world, your behavior, and your emotional responses to other people.
#2 The problem is that many of our most cherished beliefs about the world are leading us to kill one another. We cannot tolerate the possibility that certain ideas might lead...
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