Summary of Marc Wortman's Admiral Hyman Rickover

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Book Preview: #1 The Rykowers, their names eventually Americanized to Hyman, Fannie, and Rachel, had spent each day scanning faces outside the Registry Room doors. They had left their former lives behind, bringing only what they could carry. They feared this would be the closest they would ever get to the promise of the New World.

#2 When Abraham Rickover arrived in America, he was penniless and alone. He spent the next few years saving up enough money to bring his wife and two children to join him. However, on the night before the Finland arrived in New York Harbor, Ruchia gave the purser the last of her money.

#3 Abraham Rickover, after the war, started over again. He moved his family to Chicago, and found work as a tailor at a men’s clothing manufacturer. He eventually bought another income-generating apartment building.

#4 Rickover’s family was poor, and he had to work to help support them. He started working at age nine, and by the time he was in high school, he was working 70 hours a week. He did not have the opportunity to study or read good books.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669358459

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Insights on Marc Wortman's Admiral Hyman Rickover

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Rykowers, their names eventually Americanized to Hyman, Fannie, and Rachel, had spent each day scanning faces outside the Registry Room doors. They had left their former lives behind, bringing only what they could carry. They feared this would be the closest they would ever get to the promise of the New World.

#2

When Abraham Rickover arrived in America, he was penniless and alone. He spent the next few years saving up enough money to bring his wife and two children to join him. However, on the night before the Finland arrived in New York Harbor, Ruchia gave the purser the last of her money.

#3

Abraham Rickover, after the war, started over again. He moved his family to Chicago, and found work as a tailor at a men’s clothing manufacturer. He eventually bought another income-generating apartment building.

#4

Rickover’s family was poor, and he had to work to help support them. He started working at age nine, and by the time he was in high school, he was working 70 hours a week. He did not have the opportunity to study or read good books.

#5

Rickover was a Jewish immigrant from what is today the Czech Republic who served as a telegraph boy for Congressman Adolph J. Sabath. He heard that the Academy would consider his nomination, but first he had to pass a demanding series of admissions exams.

#6

Rickover was in the Navy, an outcome that was as unlikely as a mule winning a thoroughbred horse race. He would never leave.