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  • The Power and the Glory | [Graham Greene]
    The Power and the Glory
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    The Power and the Glory

    • UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 1 min)
    • By Graham Greene
    • Narrated By Bernard Mayes
    Overall
    (51)
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    (38)
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    (39)

    Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement in this penetrating novel set in 1930s Mexico during the era of Communist religious persecutions. As revolutionaries determine to stamp out the evils of the church through violence, the last Roman Catholic priest is on the lam, hunted by a police lieutenant. Despite his own sense of worthlessness—he is a heavy drinker and has fathered an illegitimate child—he is determined to continue to function as a priest until captured.

    connie says: "at last!"
    "Greene's Greatest Novel; Poor Recording"
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    Is there anything you would change about this book?

    The narrator's accent is difficult to pick up. The recording itself is very poor.


    If this book were a movie would you go see it?

    The book was made into a movie, The Fugitive, with Henry Fonda playing the priest. Yes, I would go to see it.


    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010 | [Charles Murray]
    Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010
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    Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010

    • UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 28 mins)
    • By Charles Murray
    • Narrated By Traber Burns
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (109)
    Performance
    (87)
    Story
    (84)

    In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not break along lines of race or ethnicity.

    Brent says: "great insights to today's culture wars"
    "Dividing America Along Lines of Virtue"
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    This is probably one of the most important social science books in decades. What binds us together as Americans? What gives us the tools to succeed? Religiosity, Industriousness, Marriage and Respect for Law are the four characteristics that Murray examines using over 50 years of data. He shows how America is dividing into upper and lower classes, and how the change in culture and the college sorting machine are, in large part, responsible for this division. It's an important book and doesn't say what you might guess.

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