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#1 A phone was ringing in the background. I was in that in-between state that allowed the sounds from my surroundings to intertwine with my unconscious. It took me a moment or two to discern whether I was hearing my real phone or a conjured phone in my sleepy goings-on.
#2 I knew Scott was dead. My entire body felt the impact. I remained frozen in the middle of Bay Street,...
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#1 I was raised to believe in the American dream, and I had lived through World War II with its clear black-and-white heroes and villains. I had been dedicated to doing my best for myself, my family, and my country.
#2 I was called to Washington, D. C., in January 1952. I was excited to be part of the fight against communism, and I was happy to be on my way to help my...
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#1 The end of the Age of Europe, the acceleration of the challenge to white supremacy, and the move of the American Empire to the center of the world-historical stage all occurred between March and June of 1947.
#2 Jackie Robinson was a great American hero who refused to be a mythical hero. He was honest about himself as a human being, and he was loved by blacks...
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Get the Summary of Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe's Astor in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The family fortune, first made by a beaver trapping business that grew into an empire, was then amplified by holdings in Manhattan real estate. Over the ensuing generations, Astors ruled Gilded Age New York society and inserted themselves into political and cultural life, but also suffered...
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Book Preview:#1 I became interested in the government's racial policies in the San Francisco Bay Area during World War II, when the area was home to the most extensive shipbuilding complex in the nation.
#2 During World War II, the influx of workers in Richmond, California, resulted in the city's black population soaring from 270 to 14,000.
#3 The federal government built public...
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#1 In May 1967, the citizens of Memphis stood along the banks of the Mississippi River, watching as three hundred miles downstream, the floodplain of Arkansas was transformed into a landscape of cotton fields.
#2 The high pageant that kicked off the week was the arrival of the King and Queen, sitting upon their thrones with their sequined court all around them. Cotton...
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#1 Charles Wintour and Nonie Baker married in 1940. They were both excited to be together, but the war was disheartening, and neither of them knew where Charles would be sent now. Soon pregnant, Nonie stayed on for a few months before returning to Boston.
#2 After the war, Charles began another affair. He was stationed in the Trianon Palace Hotel at Versailles, resplendent...
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#1 Trump's first cabinet meeting was bizarre and unsettling. The country had already witnessed the almost daily onslaught of bizarre and contradictory statements and behavior coming from the Trump White House, but this should have been different.
#2 Trump's cabinet members may not have been passionate followers when they first met Trump, but they were still tied to...
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#1 I was dressed up to go out with my brother, Alexander, to Chinatown with our father, Peter Papi Wong. Our father was coming to pick us up from our apartment in Morningside Heights, which was then Harlem.
#2 I remember my father, Peter Wong, very clearly. He was Chinese, and he had two dark-looking children who looked like they could be Asian. But they looked more...
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#1 Tubman's story begins with a complicated set of relationships, black and white, between several generations of families living on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
#2 Tubman's story begins with the history of some of the white families who claimed ownership of her and her family. The detailed records of the lives of the white families who enslaved Tubman and her friends...
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#1 Two new concepts that focus on the origins, legacies, and persistence of white supremacy in the United States and other settler societies have emerged in the last few decades. They are settler colonialism, which documents the contact and colonization by a nation that wishes to populate the encountered land, and racial capitalism, which describes the intertwined history...
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Book Preview: #1 I would climb to the top of the valley to visit my weeping stone. The sight of the valley below made me feel both safe and like a tiny dot, as small as the black-and-white cows down there. They were content. I must be, too.
#2 I was a descendant of the English aristocracy, the most fragile leaf on a Beresford family tree that included earls, lords, and marquises by...
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#1 Following the deportation of Marcus Garvey, the Black Star Line, and the Great Migration, black nationalism did not so much decline as it transformed into diminished versions of the movement.
#2 Earl and Louise's shared love for social justice drew them to an itinerant lifestyle that was only predictable by the frequency of childbirth and relocation. Their political activism in...
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#1 As a child growing up in the seventies and early eighties in New York, Wisconsin, and Northern Virginia, I was often the target of curiosity from white children and adults. They wanted to make sense of me, so they asked where I was from.
#2 I am the Wooly-Haired, Medium-Brown-skinned offspring typical when Blacks and whites have sex. I come from people who broke...
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Book Preview: #1 I was tasked with creating a workshop for 33 national leaders to find solutions to their country's most critical problem: the devastating nexus of insecurity, illegality, and inequality. However, I was terrified that the project would not live up to its expectations, and so I became suspicious, distrustful, and rigid.
#2 We all do it. We think and act as if the people...
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#1 There has been a long history of Americans trying to figure out how to deal with unjust laws and the oppressive social order that they emanate from. The conservative uses visions of impending anarchy to justify his demand for absolute obedience. The liberal always seeks redress through electoral channels.
#2 The Underground Railroad was a series of illegal activities...
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#1 Wayne's father, Calvin Eugene Gene Ford, was a soldier who was stationed in Germany in 1957 when he met Karen. They began dating, and Karen was just sixteen years old.
#2 When Karen and Gene were married, she was two months pregnant with Rodney. The ceremony took place in her grandmother's town, Höchstadt, presided over by the mayor. Karen wore a midcalf dress...
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#1 I had to replace the digitizer, which recognizes two shades: black and white. The background needs to be dark enough to be perceived as black even when the brightness is turned up high enough to make David's arms and face and feet visible.
#2 The best way to do the digitizing for the game may be to shoot it in Super 8, put it on the Moviola, then train the video camera...
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#1 I was part of a five-person crew that broke into a bank in 2001. We had carefully chosen the timing of the operation, as it was during the day when tourists and students were present, and we were least likely to be noticed.
#2 The manager let us into the bank's safety deposit box vault, where we searched for a box rented by Don Heathfield and Tracey Lee Ann Foley....
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Get the Summary of Brian Christian's “The Alignment Problem” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us-and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Recent years have seen an eruption of concern as the field of machine learning advances. When the systems...