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Get the Summary of Shomari Wills' Black Fortunes in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The astonishing untold history of America's first Black millionaires-former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring '20s-self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such...
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Get the Summary of Charmaine Wilkerson's Black Cake in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes...
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Get the Summary Sheelah Kolhatkar's Black Edge in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: It's common knowledge these days that Wall Street has a lot to answer for. After the events of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, one would hope that governments would crack down on the excesses at the heart of global finance.
Sadly, that simply has not been the case, and the injustice of this state of affairs...
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#1 After his speech, Douglass was mobbed by the town's residents, who were excited to hear a black man speak so passionately about slavery. He was offered a job by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, and began traveling around the country telling his story.
#2 Pleasant, as a girl, worked for the Husseys, a rich family on Nantucket. She learned to read and write,...
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#1 In 2015, a Black man named Lee Anderson, who was an assistant coach at Clemson University, approached me and told me that I needed to get to know Zion Williamson, his stepson, who was a high school sophomore. He said that Zion was a superstar in the making.
#2 I helped Lee navigate the difficult waters of being a father and having no money. I took him to get food...
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#1 Nannie was happy in her home, with her husband, but she wasn't happy. She had everything she had ever wanted, and yet she wasn't happy. She turned her sadness into vinegar cleaning the windows, and when she put the vinegar back, she wasn't happy anymore.
#2 Nannie loved to dream, and she had no shortage of love in her life. But none of it was true. None of it was...
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Book Preview: #1 For years, the Vietnam War was the alpha and omega of Special Operations Forces, until the strategy failed and Special Forces units were relegated to obscurity for nearly two decades.
#2 The Vietnam War was fought between America and Vietnam, and the American sacrificed an average of 5,800 lives every year for a decade. The Afghans were fierce fighters, but they were...
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#1 When he was assigned to the prison, Dr. Sabha was warned about the dangerous inmates. The leader of the sect was a religious scholar named Maqdisi, who was capable of infecting and twisting minds like a Muslim Rasputin.
#2 The doctor began seeing patients, and learned that the group's core consisted of about two dozen men who had been members of radical Islamic...
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#1 The heir to one of the richest aristocrats of the twentieth century, Billy de Meuron Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, was classically good-looking. He had a brilliant hunting and polo playing skills, and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a MP for Wakefield from 1895 to 1912.
#2 The true identity of Billy Fitzwilliam is the first of the Wentworth mysteries....
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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...
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#1 I was seven when I experienced my first firefight. It started like any other weekend evening in my Cuban mountain town. My parents had dressed to go out to the nearby city of Santa Clara, leaving me in the care of Crucita, my sixteen-year-old nanny.
#2 I was transfixed by the window, watching as a guerrilla below fired off rounds. I was too young to know the difference...
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#1 In October 1978, I was an Intelligence Unit detective for the Colorado Springs Police Department. I was assigned to scan the two daily newspapers for any reports of information concerning any hint of subversive activity that might impact the safety and well-being of Colorado Springs.
#2 I answered an ad placed by the KKK, and two weeks later I spoke to Ken O'Dell,...
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#1 The Race Grievance Industry has many offspring, but Black Lives Matter is its militant wing and general purpose mob. It attempts to present itself as a grassroots movement spawned from injustice, but in reality, it's a AstroTurf movement spawned to create racial agitation and lawlessness.
#2 For the last three and a half decades, blacks have accounted for more than half of America's...
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Get the Summary of Danielle Prescod's Token Black Girl in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Token Black Girl" is a memoir by Danielle Prescod that delves into her personal experiences of growing up as a Black girl in predominantly white spaces. She recounts her childhood in Westchester County, where she attended white private schools and felt disconnected from her own community. Her family rarely discussed race,...
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Get the Summary of Michael Harriot's Black AF History in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Black AF History" by Michael Harriot is a comprehensive examination of the often-ignored contributions and experiences of Black Americans throughout the nation's history. Harriot begins with personal anecdotes about his Uncle Junior, who instilled in him a skepticism that would shape his understanding of America's past. He...
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Get the Summary of Charlamagne Tha God's Black Privilege in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Black Privilege" by Charlamagne Tha God is a candid memoir and self-help guide that explores the author's journey from a small town in South Carolina to becoming a successful media personality. Charlamagne shares his experiences growing up in Moncks Corner, where he was exposed to both the local drug trade and the rich cultural...
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#1 On September 21, 1906, a five-year-old boy named Willie Labarbera was playing in front of his family's fruit store in New York City. He was kidnapped and never seen again. His family and friends suddenly realized that he had been taken by La Mano Nera, or the Black Hand Society.
#2 The Black Hand was an infamous crime organization that engaged in extortion, assassination,...
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Get the Summary of Matthew Syed's Black Box Thinking in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
We all have to endure failure from time to time, whether it's underperforming at a job interview, flunking an exam, or losing a pickup basketball game. But, for people working in safety-critical industries, getting it wrong can have deadly consequences. Consider the shocking fact that preventable medical error is the third-biggest...
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#1 The explorers were uninvited guests in an unknown land, and any tribe they encountered was assumed to be hostile until proven otherwise. The threat of violence was implicit in the act of exploration.
#2 The Nez Perce were a tribe that the explorers got along with very well with. They were proud, dignified, reserved, slow to anger, and attentive to personal cleanliness....
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#1 Rene Enriquez, better known on the streets as Boxer, was a full-fledged member of the Mexican Mafia. He had participated in at least ten murders and had personal knowledge of seven more.
#2 Boxer's criminal career was a demonstration of the lifestyle of the Mexican Mafia, which did not care if its members were caught or went to prison. They adapted and became creatures...
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