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America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II)
- From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom
- Narrado por: Jon Gauger
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Respected scholar William Bennett reacquaints America with its heritage in the second volume of America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II). This engaging narrative slices through the cobwebs of time, memory, and prevailing cynicism to reinvigorate America with an informed patriotism.
Like the previous volume of America: The Last Best Hope, Volume II responds to Reagan's heartfelt call for an informed patriotism, telling the riveting story of the last century's great wars, the rise of world communism, the struggle of freedom at home and abroad, and the triumph of liberty.
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- De: Stephen Kinzer
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 542
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 486
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 486
How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous anger, launching foreign wars and deposing governments. Then we retreat - until the cycle begins again. No matter how often we debate this question, none of what we say is original. Every argument is a pale shadow of the first and greatest debate, which erupted more than a century ago. Its themes resurface every time Americans argue whether to intervene in a foreign country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Timely and important
- De Joshua C. Packard en 02-20-17
De: Stephen Kinzer
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The Icarus Syndrome
- A History of American Hubris
- De: Peter Beinart
- Narrado por: John Morgan
- Duración: 18 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
In The Icarus Syndrome, Peter Beinart tells a tale as old as the Greeks—a story about the seductions of success. Beinart describes Washington on the eve of three wars—World War I, Vietnam, and Iraq—three moments when American leaders decided they could remake the world in their image. Each time, leading intellectuals declared that history was over, and the spread of democracy was inevitable. Each time, a president held the nation in the palm of his hand.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read
- De Rick en 06-11-10
De: Peter Beinart
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Gandhi & Churchill
- De: Arthur Herman
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 29 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 740
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 508
In this fast-paced epic, best-selling historian and master storyteller Arthur Herman spotlights two giants of the 20th century. Gandhi & Churchill shows how their 40-year rivalry revolutionized India and the British Empire, paving the way for a new era. Gandhi championed India's independence, Churchill the British Empire.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A motif that works well
- De Maine Dave en 11-30-09
De: Arthur Herman
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1968
- The Year That Rocked the World
- De: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrado por: Christopher Cazenove
- Duración: 16 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 235
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 142
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 143
In this monumental new book, award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has written his most ambitious work to date: a singular and ultimately definitive look at a pivotal moment in history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Don't let this reader near a foreign word
- De Eugene en 05-22-04
De: Mark Kurlansky
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The Greatest Comeback
- How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority
- De: Patrick J. Buchanan
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 12 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
After suffering stinging defeats in the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy, and in the 1962 California gubernatorial election, Nixon's career was declared dead by Washington press and politicians alike. Yet on January 20, 1969, just six years after he had said his political life was over, Nixon would stand taking the oath of office as 37th President of the United States. How did Richard Nixon resurrect a ruined career and reunite a shattered and fractured Republican Party to capture the White House?
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4 out of 5 stars
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The comeback kid
- De Jean en 07-23-14
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Nixon's White House Wars
- The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever
- De: Patrick J. Buchanan
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 17 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 108
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 108
From Vietnam to the Southern Strategy, from the opening of China to the scandal of Watergate, Pat Buchanan - speechwriter and senior adviser to President Nixon - tells the untold story of Nixon's embattled White House, from its historic wins to it devastating defeats. In his inaugural address, Nixon held out a hand in friendship to Republicans and Democrats alike. But by the fall of 1969, massive demonstrations in Washington and around the country had been mounted to break his presidency.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting
- De Jean en 06-15-17
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Traitor to His Class
- The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 37 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 529
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 453
A sweeping, magisterial biography of the man generally considered the greatest president of the 20th century, admired by Democrats and Republicans alike. Traitor to His Class sheds new light on FDR's formative years; his remarkable willingness to champion the concerns of the poor and disenfranchised; and his combination of political genius, firm leadership, and matchless diplomacy in saving democracy during the Great Depression and the American cause of freedom in World War II.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Talented writer and narrator, but too biased/long
- De todd en 01-24-20
De: H. W. Brands
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1917
- Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder
- De: Arthur Herman
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 16 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 296
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 257
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 253
In this incisive, fast-paced history, New York Times best-selling author Arthur Herman brilliantly reveals how Lenin and Wilson rewrote the rules of modern geopolitics. Through the end of World War I, countries marched into war only to increase or protect their national interests. After World War I, countries began going to war over ideas. Together, Lenin and Wilson unleashed the disruptive ideologies that would sweep the world, from nationalism and globalism to Communism and terrorism, and that continue to shape our world today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another book you wish was part of every university world history curriculum
- De BeZot en 11-26-18
De: Arthur Herman
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The Death of Democracy
- Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
- De: Benjamin Carter Hett
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 574
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 478
Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? In this dramatic audiobook, Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, and the story he tells has disturbing resonances for our own time. Benjamin Carter Hett is one of America’s leading scholars of 20th-century Germany and a gifted storyteller whose portraits of the feckless politicians of the Weimar Republic show how fragile democracy can be when those in power do not respect it.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I can't trust the author's account of these events
- De Example: Mark Twain en 11-10-19
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Troublesome Young Men
- The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England
- De: Lynne Olson
- Narrado por: Dennis Kleinman
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 107
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 106
On May 7, 1940, the House of Commons began perhaps the most crucial debate in British parliamentary history. On its outcome hung the future of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government and also of Britain - indeed, perhaps, the world. Troublesome Young Men is Lynne Olson's fascinating account of how a small group of rebellious Tory MPs defied the Chamberlain government's defeatist policies that aimed to appease Europe's tyrants and eventually forced the prime minister's resignation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Spectacular Narrative History Book
- De Nostromo en 11-30-18
De: Lynne Olson
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Nixonland
- The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
- De: Rick Perlstein
- Narrado por: Stephen R. Thorne
- Duración: 36 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,439
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,108
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,113
From one of America's most talented historians and winner of a LA Times Book Prize comes a brilliant new account of Richard Nixon that reveals the riveting backstory to the red state/blue state resentments that divide our nation today. Told with urgency and sharp political insight, Nixonland recaptures America's turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A 5-Star Book Injured by the Narrator
- De Frank en 08-12-09
De: Rick Perlstein
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Undelivered
- The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History
- De: Jeff Nussbaum
- Narrado por: Adam Gifford, Brian Bowles, Elisa Roth, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
A fascinating insight into notable speeches that were never delivered, showing what could have been if history had gone down a different path. For almost every delivered speech, there exists an undelivered opposite. These "second speeches" provide alternative histories of what could have been if not for schedule changes, changes of heart, or momentous turns of events.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Recognize that this is a profoundly partisan book
- De Scott en 11-05-23
De: Jeff Nussbaum
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The World Remade
- America in World War I
- De: G. J. Meyer
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 24 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 363
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 325
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 324
After years of bitter debate, the United States declared war on Imperial Germany on April 6, 1917, plunging the country into the savage European conflict that would redraw the map of the continent - and the globe. The World Remade is an engrossing chronicle of America's pivotal, still controversial intervention into World War I, encompassing the tumultuous politics and towering historical figures that defined the era and forged the future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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"100% America" - a disturbing place to be
- De DPM en 04-01-17
De: G. J. Meyer
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Overthrow
- America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
- De: Stephen Kinzer
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 15 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 613
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 406
"Regime change" did not begin with the administration of George W. Bush, but has been an integral part of U.S. foreign policy for more than one hundred years. Starting with the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893 and continuing through the Spanish-American War and the Cold War and into our own time, the United States has not hesitated to overthrow governments that stood in the way of its political and economic goals.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Looking at the dark side
- De Stanley en 08-02-06
De: Stephen Kinzer
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Supreme Commander
- MacArthur's Triumph in Japan
- De: Seymour Morris
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
He is the most-decorated general in American history - and the only five-star general to receive the Medal of Honor. Yet Douglas MacArthur’s greatest victory was not in war but in peace. As the uniquely titled Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, he was charged with transforming a defeated, militarist empire into a beacon of peace and democracy - "the greatest gamble ever attempted", he called it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Compelling book in an pleasant voice
- De Pierke Bosschieter en 04-24-14
De: Seymour Morris
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II)
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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- Vickie
- 04-25-24
The great history of Americas history and heritage
This book shows The ups and downs of America and how it turned out to stand firm against all the trials of the world
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