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Myth America
- Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
- Narrado por: Allan Aquino, Maleah Woodley, Todd Menesses, Sasha LaPointe
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation’s past.
The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making constructive dialogue impossible and imperiling our democracy.
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Replacing myths with research and reality, Myth America is essential listening amid today’s heated debates about our nation’s past.
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- De: Heather Cox Richardson
- Narrado por: Heather Cox Richardson
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward and there established a foothold. It was a natural fit. Settlers from the East had for decades been pushing into the West, where the seizure of Mexican lands at the end of the Mexican-American War and treatment of Native Americans cemented racial hierarchies....
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Disappointing book that wasted such potential.
- De Amazon Customer en 08-07-21
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The People vs. Democracy
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- De: Yascha Mounk
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- Duración: 8 h y 31 m
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The world is in turmoil. From India to Turkey and from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. As a result democracy itself may now be at risk. Two core components of liberal democracy - individual rights and the popular will - are at war with each other. As the role of money in politics soared and important issues were taken out of public contestation, a system of "rights without democracy" took hold. Populists who rail against this say they want to return power to the people. But in practice they create a system of "democracy without rights."
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Not worth it
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Big Agenda
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One battle is over, but there are many more to come. This book is an indispensable guide to fighting the opponents of the conservative restoration. It identifies who the adversaries are, as well as their methods, motivations, and agenda, including the particular issues with which they will try to advance their destructive goal - and it lays out a strategy to defeat all of it.
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Title doesn't match content.
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The Man Who Sold America
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Candidate Trump sold Americans a vision that was seemingly at odds with their country’s founding principles. Now in office, he’s put up a "for sale" sign - on the prestige of the presidency, on America’s global stature, and on our national identity. At what cost have these deals come? Joy-Ann Reid's essential new audiobook, The Man Who Sold America, delivers an urgent accounting of our national crisis from one of our foremost political commentators.
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Good explanation of how we got to where we are
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Unholy
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In this taut inquiry, Posner digs deep into the radical history of the religious right to reveal how issues of race and xenophobia have always been at the movement’s core, and how religion often cloaked anxieties about perceived threats to a white, Christian America. Fueled by an antidemocratic impulse, and united by this narrative of reverse victimization, the religious right and the alt-right support a common agenda.
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How We Got Here
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De: Sarah Posner
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It Was All a Lie
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Stuart Stevens spent decades electing Republicans at every level, from presidents to senators to local officials. He knows the GOP as intimately as anyone in America, and in this new book he offers a devastating portrait of a party that has lost its moral and political compass. This is not a book about how Donald J. Trump hijacked the Republican Party and changed it into something else.
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A party gone astray
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De: Stuart Stevens
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The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America
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Taking his typically in-depth, historically informed view, Thom Hartmann asks: What if the Supreme Court didn't have the power to strike down laws? According to the Constitution, it doesn't. From the founding of the republic until 1803, the Supreme Court was the final court of appeals, as it was always meant to be. So where did the concept of judicial review start? As so much of modern American history, it began with the battle between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists, and with Marbury v. Madison.
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A must read to understand why voting is essential.
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De: Thom Hartmann
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Trumpocalypse
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A huge swath of Americans have put their faith in Trump, and Trump only, because they see the rest of the country building a future that doesn't have a place for them. If they would risk their lives for Trump in a pandemic, they will certainly risk the stability of American democracy. They brought the Trumpocalypse upon the country, and a post-Trumpocalypse country will have to find a way either to reconcile them to democracy - or to protect democracy from them.
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Trump More Dangerous Than the Axis of Evil
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American Exceptionalism and American Innocence
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American Exceptionalism and American Innocence examines the stories we’re told that lead us to think that the U.S. is a force for good in the world, regardless of slavery, the genocide of indigenous people, and the more than a century’s worth of imperialist war that the U.S. has wrought on the planet. Roberto Sirvent and Danny Haiphong detail just what Captain America’s shield tells us about the pretensions of U.S. foreign policy, how Angelina Jolie and Bill Gates engage in humanitarian imperialism, and more.
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Still processing
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American Rule
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In American Rule, Jared Yates Sexton upends those convenient fictions by laying bare the foundational myths at the heart of our collective American imagination. From the very origins of this nation, Americans in power have abused and subjugated others; enabling that corruption are the many myths of American exceptionalism and steadfast values, which are fed to the public and repeated across generations.
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Truth
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Our Divided Political Heart
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Our Divided Political Heart will be the must-listen book of the 2012 election campaign. Offering an incisive analysis of how hyper-individualism is poisoning the nation's political atmosphere, E. J. Dionne Jr., argues that Americans can't agree on who we are because we can't agree on who we've been, or what it is, philosophically and spiritually, that makes us Americans.
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Good points and lots of good information
- De Jamie B en 08-15-12
De: E. J. Dionne
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American Character
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The struggle between individualism and the good of the community as a whole has been the basis of every major disagreement in our history, from the debates at the Constitutional Convention and in the run-up to the Civil War to the fights surrounding the agenda of the Progressives, the New Deal, the civil rights movement, and the Tea Party.
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Biased Misrepresentation
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The Reckoning
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The Reckoning will examine America’s national trauma, rooted in our history but dramatically exacerbated by the impact of current events and the Trump administration’s corrupt and immoral policies. Our failure to acknowledge this trauma, let alone root it out, has allowed it to metastasize. Whether it manifests itself in rising levels of rage and hatred, or hopelessness and apathy, the stress of living in a country we no longer recognize has affected all of us. America is suffering from PTSD - a new leader alone cannot fix us.
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Focus of racism using her uncle as a mirror
- De Amazon Customer en 08-18-21
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- Kathryn
- 03-19-23
Fantastic
This book is so well-written by the many historians that took part. All of the essays are well-researched by experts on the subjects they tackled and I can’t wait to buy their individual books!
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- Samuel Leslie
- 01-29-23
Clearly addresses many common myths
Covers most of the most common myths that appear in the news almost daily. I doubt it will stop the majority of believers from believing the myths (facts seldom do) but it's worth knowing the truth anyhow
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- Scott
- 03-01-23
Essential reading
This is an essential read/listen for all who desire to stay abreast of the true history of 20 of some of the most consequential myths in our country today - myths skillfully crafted by those who seek to distort our understanding of history and social, political & economic reality to maintain inequity division and fear. Should be in all high school and college history programs not only for the myth-busting but also to expose the manner in which these myths are created and absorbed by so many.
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- Pattif27
- 02-23-23
Mostly factual but biased overall
White sprinkled with interesting facts the overall left winged bias is obvious as little controversy over the findings is presented.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-24-23
Great Book
This is an excellent book I would highly recommend to read this book it tells you the true face of America.
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- Barbara Sharp
- 01-25-23
Non Fiction = not the best audio format.
Reading it would have been better than the audio. not being able to see the data and stats impaired my ability to absorb those detail, as I am a very visual learner. The narrators did not make it easier with their monotone.
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- Keon
- 04-08-23
Outstanding Literary Work - with Uninspired Audio
Sometimes the person reading didn't seem to understand what they were reading, as if this was their first read and they were on autopilot. This made it tough to follow at times. Otherwise, this is an impressive, iff disturbing, history lesson which all serious Americans should consume.
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- Buretto
- 02-16-23
Informative, enlightening
The essays are a mixed bag however. Some are quite informative, such as Chapter 1: American Exceptionalism, and the various connotations which that term has carried over the years, and by whom. Some are a bit wishy-washy, like Chapter 2: Vanishing Indians. There's a perverse re-revisionism for Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Personally I never viewed it as being dismissive of Native peoples in modernity, though I'm sure there were some blind spots by the author. I think the enormous benefit it provided (ultimately acknowledged by the essayist) in bringing the treatment of indigenous people to fore, far outweighs any shortcomings. It didn't need this kind of rebuke. And some are just wishful thinking, like Chapter 19: Reagan Revolution. All the statistics in the world, demonstrating how uniquely unsuccessful and unpopular his policies were (all true), does not change the fact that it was Reaganomic supply side rubbish still vexes the nation up this this very day, virtually destroying the middle class by creating the greatest wealth redistribution in history.... upwards. We always knew he was a useful idiot figurehead for conservatives and libertarian economists (yes, really Milton Friedman is to blame), so quibbling over his supposed legacy is just a waste of time.
But most of the essays are quite enlightening, with some well understood information, and some new, to me at least. It was interesting hearing about the history of socialism in America. To think when all the MAGAs drone on about the Pledge of Allegiance, do they know a socialist wrote it? A Christian Socialist in the 19th century, but if a clergyman declares Jesus was a Socialist, then I think he's on the correct side of the 21st century divide. Also the semantics of "White Backlash" was interesting as it did a good job of demonstrating that such a situation is asymmetrical, and the fault is not shared. If one group is pushing for human and civil rights for one and all, they are not to blame for the racist and violent response. Words matter. Similarly, it was quite compelling to hear the complicated history of feminism, and its difficult alliances and exclusions. Nothing particularly new here, but relevant to the resurgent occurrence of "misogynoir" displayed by Republicans in particular these days.
But the single best, most enlightening essay would have to be the Southern Strategy. Under attack these days, again by Republicans who refuse to acknowledge ugly history, particularly theirs, I learned just how long this scheme was in the works. Not merely a Nixonian move, but one where the groundwork had been laid from the end of WWII. Fascinating stuff, with copious documentation, and (best of all) first hand admissions (bragging really) of the ascending conservative wing of Republican and their co-hort Dixiecrats, of a systemic effort to disenfranchise Black voters and instill a perpetual feeling of "white victimhood", which again, still exists today.
As mentioned earlier, a bit uneven essay to essay, but the high points are high enough to mitigate the pettier parts. And the negative reviews are a better testament for getting this book than I could ever write. Just read those, and recognize these authors have found all the right enemies!
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- frank lucerna
- 05-26-23
History everyone should know
This book shows why knowledge of history is so important in understanding what is happening now.
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- S. Smith
- 02-05-24
Excellent collection of essays
Imagine that you're an historian - not a fake Dinesh D'Souza type historian - but a real one that actually does research.
You collect your quotes and your statistics from primary sources, contemporary documents, artifacts, and direct or indirect quotes from the people involved. You put all this together into an essay of a few thousand words, paring it all down so it's easily accessible to the general public.
And, what kind of criticism do you get? Basically, "nu uhn". Well, Skippy, with that well reasoned and researched response, how can I not be swayed?
You may not like the book, you may not believe the book, but until you can disprove the book, it's probably better to not post your "it's all lefty propaganda" opinion.
I found these essays fascinating - some more than others admittedly. I'll never forget that the writer of the pledge of allegiance was a member of the socialist party. Of course, the original version didn't have "under God" in it - on the story behind that, I'd highly recommend Kruse's book named "One Nation Under God". It tells the history of how religion has become such an integral part of our politics.
I also think that this should be used to teach students critical thinking. On one side, we have a Praeger U video claiming there was never a "Southern Strategy". On the other side, we have people in the Republican party talking explicitly about the Southern Strategy. A teacher could show the video, have the students read the essay and write their own papers about it - proving one side or the other. But, responses like "nu unh" are not going to be acceptable in high school, and they shouldn't be in reviews, either.
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