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Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah
- Jewish Lives
- By: Ian Buruma
- Narrated by: Lee Beddow
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time
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Very good book, but
- By tw22 on 04-21-24
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Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah
- Jewish Lives
- Narrated by: Lee Beddow
- Series: Jewish Lives Series
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 04-09-24
- Language: English
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Inventing Japan [Modern Library Chronicles]
- By: Ian Buruma
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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LA Times Book Award winner and expert on the past and present Japan, Ian Buruma examines the transformation of a country. Following Japan's history from its opening to the West in 1853 to its hosting of the 1964 Olympics, Buruma focuses on how figures such as Commodore Matthew Perry, Douglas MacArthur, and Emperor Mitsushito helped shape this complex country.
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Excellent Primer on Modern Japan
- By John Pavliga on 06-13-06
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Inventing Japan [Modern Library Chronicles]
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 07-15-05
- Language: English
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Year Zero
- A History of 1945
- By: Ian Buruma
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Year Zero is a landmark reckoning with the greatdrama that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. One world had ended and anew, uncertain one was beginning. Regime change had come across Asia and all of continental Europe. It was the greatest global powervacuum in history, and out of the often vicious power struggles thatensued emerged the modern world as we know it.
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Great historical overview
- By marykk on 10-14-13
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Year Zero
- A History of 1945
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 09-26-13
- Language: English
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Occidentalism
- The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies
- By: Avishai Margalit, Ian Buruma
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
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We generally understand "radical Islam" as a purely Islamic phenomenon, but Buruma and Margalit show that while the Islamic part of radical Islam certainly is, the radical part owes a primary debt of inheritance to the West. Whatever else they are, al Qaeda and its ilk are revolutionary anti-Western political movements, and Buruma and Margalit show us that the bogeyman of the West who stalks their thinking is the same one who has haunted the thoughts of many other revolutionary groups, going back to the early 19th century.
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5-Star Quality - Timely Book
- By Jose on 10-29-20
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Occidentalism
- The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 04-24-18
- Language: English
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The Collaborators
- Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II
- By: Ian Buruma
- Narrated by: Ian Buruma
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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On the face of it, the three characters in this book seem to have little in common—aside from the fact that each committed wartime acts that led some to see them as national heroes, and others as villains. All three were mythmakers, larger-than-life storytellers, for whom the truth was beside the point. Felix Kersten was a plump Finnish pleasure-seeker who became Heinrich Himmler’s indispensable personal masseur—Himmler calling him his “magic Buddha.”
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Fantastic
- By Andrew M Ward on 08-28-23
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The Collaborators
- Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II
- Narrated by: Ian Buruma
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 03-07-23
- Language: English
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Murder in Amsterdam
- Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerance
- By: Ian Buruma
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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On a cold November day in Amsterdam in 2004, the celebrated and controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was shot and killed by an Islamic extremist for making a movie that "insulted the prophet Mohammed." The murder sent shock waves across Europe and around the world. Shortly thereafter, Ian Buruma returned to his native land to investigate the event and its larger meaning as part of the great dilemma of our time.
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Self Indulgent twaddle
- By Jacob Arnon on 10-12-18
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Murder in Amsterdam
- Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerance
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 12-19-17
- Language: English
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A Tokyo Romance
- A Memoir
- By: Ian Buruma
- Narrated by: Ian Buruma
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, Japan was little more than an idea in his mind, a fantasy of a distant land. A sensitive misfit in the world of his upper middle class youth, what he longed for wasn't so much the exotic as the raw, unfiltered humanity he had experienced in Japanese theater performances and films, witnessed in Amsterdam and Paris.
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A Tokyo Romance
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Ian Buruma
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 03-06-18
- Language: English
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The Churchill Complex
- The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit
- By: Ian Buruma
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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It is impossible to understand the last seventy-five years of American history, through to Trump and Brexit, without understanding the Anglo-American relationship, particularly the bonds between presidents and prime ministers. FDR of course had Winston Churchill; JFK had Harold Macmillan, his consigliere during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Ronald Reagan found his ideological soul mate in Margaret Thatcher; and George W. Bush found his fellow believer, in religion and in war, in Tony Blair.
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The Churchill Complex
- The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 09-01-20
- Language: English
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Their Promised Land
- My Grandparents in Love and War
- By: Ian Buruma
- Narrated by: Ian Buruma
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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Winifred and Bernard inherited the high European cultural ideals and attitudes that came of being born into prosperous German-Jewish émigré families. To young Ian, who would visit from Holland every Christmas, they seemed the very essence of England, their spacious Berkshire estate the model of genteel English country life at its most pleasant and refined. It wasn't until years later that he discovered how much more there was to the story.
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Their Promised Land
- My Grandparents in Love and War
- Narrated by: Ian Buruma
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 01-19-16
- Language: English
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The China Lover
- A Novel
- By: Ian Buruma
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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From Shanghai before and during the Second World War to US occupied Tokyo, and, finally, to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Ian Buruma's masterful novel about the intoxicating power of collective fantasy follows three star-struck men driven to extraordinary acts by their devotion to the same legendary woman. A beautiful Japanese girl born in Manchuria, Yamaguchi Yoshiko is known as Ri Koran in Japan, Li Xianglan in China, and Shirley Yamaguchi in the US, and her past is a closely guarded secret.
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Good start then a nosedive last 3rd
- By J Durham on 10-21-23
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The China Lover
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 10-30-18
- Language: English
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