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Phenomenal!!!
- De Average Joe en 01-17-18
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Friends Divided
- John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- De: Gordon S. Wood
- Narrado por: James Lurie
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 443
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 394
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 392
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds or been more different in temperament. Jefferson, the optimist with enough faith in the innate goodness of his fellow man to be democracy's champion, was an aristocratic Southern slave owner while Adams, the overachiever from New England's rising middling classes, painfully aware he was no aristocrat, was a skeptic about popular rule and a defender of a more elitist view of government.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Great Read
- De Jean en 12-22-17
De: Gordon S. Wood
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The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
- De: Gordon S. Wood
- Narrado por: Peter Johnson
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 97
Central to America's idea of itself is the character of Benjamin Franklin. We all know him, or think we do: In recent works and in our inherited conventional wisdom, he remains fixed in place as a genial polymath and self-improver who was so very American that he is known by us all as the first American.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I have good news and bad news
- De Ernie en 07-22-04
De: Gordon S. Wood
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The Honor Code
- How Moral Revolutions Happen
- De: Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Narrado por: Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Duración: 6 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
In this groundbreaking work, Kwame Anthony Appiah, hailed as "one of the most relevant philosophers today" (New York Times Book Review), changes the way we understand human behavior and the way social reform is brought about. In brilliantly arguing that new democratic movements over the last century have not been driven by legislation from above, Appiah explores the end of the duel in aristocratic England, the tumultuous struggles over foot binding in 19th-century China, the uprising of ordinary people against Atlantic slavery, and much more.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Horribly Boring
- De Merle N. Savedow en 02-10-21
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Founding Faith
- Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America
- De: Steven Waldman
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 135
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 62
The culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Many activists on the right maintain that the United States was founded as a "Christian nation". Many on the left contend that the Founders were secular or Deist and that the First Amendment was designed to boldly separate church and state throughout the land. None of these claims are true, argues Beliefnet.com editor in chief Steven Waldman.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Eye-opening
- De Michael en 06-28-08
De: Steven Waldman
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Samuel Adams
- A Life
- De: Ira Stoll
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 199
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 142
Ira Stoll's fascinating biography not only restores this figure to his rightful place in history but portrays him as a man of God whose skepticism of a powerful central government, uncompromising support for freedom of the press, concern about the influence of money on elections, voluble love of liberty, and selfless endurance in a war for freedom has enormous relevance to Americans today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not just a biography. Must-read American History!
- De scott bowlby en 01-15-11
De: Ira Stoll
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Thomas Jefferson
- A Biography of Spirit and Flesh
- De: Thomas S. Kidd
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
Thomas Jefferson was arguably the most brilliant and inspiring political writer in American history. But the ethical realities of his personal life and political career did not live up to his soaring rhetoric. Indeed, three tensions defined Jefferson’s moral life: democracy versus slavery, republican virtue versus dissolute consumption, and veneration for Jesus versus skepticism about Christianity. In this book, Thomas S. Kidd tells the story of Jefferson’s ethical life through the lens of these tensions.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This version is the standard non in depth bio
- De Fred F en 03-28-24
De: Thomas S. Kidd
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 24 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,662
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,595
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7,561
Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings. In best-selling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin turns to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. In Benjamin Franklin, Isaacson shows how Franklin defines both his own time and ours. The most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book, not crazy about the narrator
- De Cathi en 07-20-13
De: Walter Isaacson
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The Modern Scholar
- The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
- De: Professor H.W. Brands
- Narrado por: H.W. Brands
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 104
This course examines the life of Benjamin Franklin and his influence on both American and world history. He remains the model of the American thinker - a man who was interested in nearly everything, and who pursued those interests with an admirable and contagious passion. To study Franklin's life is to learn not only the history of a single man, but to understand some of the most monumental changes in all of human history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love it
- De Holly en 02-20-16
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The Fearless Benjamin Lay
- The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
- De: Marcus Rediker
- Narrado por: Cornell Womack
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man - a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. He performed public guerrilla theater to shame slave masters, insisting that human bondage violated the fundamental principles of Christianity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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stunning story
- De Austin Choi-Fitz en 10-05-17
De: Marcus Rediker
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The Problem of Democracy
- The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality
- De: Nancy Isenberg, Andrew Burstein
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 22 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
John and John Quincy Adams: rogue intellectuals, unsparing truth-tellers, too uncensored for their own political good. They held that political participation demanded moral courage. They did not seek popularity (it showed). They lamented the fact that hero worship in America substituted idolatry for results; and they made it clear that they were talking about Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson. When John Adams succeeded George Washington as President, his son had already followed him into public service and was stationed in Europe as a diplomat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very insightful and rewarding adding understanding
- De William en 05-12-19
De: Nancy Isenberg, y otros
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Strange Gods
- A Secular History of Conversion
- De: Susan Jacoby
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Wiley
- Duración: 19 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
In this original and riveting exploration, Susan Jacoby argues that conversion - especially in the free American "religious marketplace" - is too often viewed only within the conventional and simplistic narrative of personal reinvention and divine grace. Instead, the author places conversions within a secular social context that has, at various times, included the force of a unified church and state, desire for upward economic mobility, and interreligious marriage.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Our own fabrications
- De David E. Felker en 01-03-17
De: Susan Jacoby
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Thomas Paine
- Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations
- De: Craig Nelson
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 15 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
John Adams told Thomas Jefferson that “history is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine.” Thomas Edison called him “the equal of Washington in making American liberty possible.” He was a founder of both the United States and the French Revolution. He invented the phrase, “The United States of America.” He rose from abject poverty in working-class England to the highest levels of the era’s intellectual elite. And yet, by the end of his life, Thomas Paine was almost universally reviled.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This man should be a household name!
- De Darlene Davis en 11-21-11
De: Craig Nelson
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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
- De: Bernard Bailyn
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 14 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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To the original text of what has become a classic of American historical literature, Bernard Bailyn adds a substantial essay, "Fulfillment", as a postscript. Here he discusses the intense nationwide debate on the ratification of the Constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bernard Bailyn is a genius!
- De John M. Crean en 04-21-19
De: Bernard Bailyn
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American Gospel
- God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
- De: Jon Meacham
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 451
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 270
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 265
In American Gospel (literally meaning the "good news about America"), New York Times best-selling author Jon Meacham sets the record straight on the history of religion in American public life. As Meacham shows, faith, meaning a belief in a higher power, and the sense that we are God's chosen, has always been at the heart of our national experience, from Jamestown to the Constitutional Convention to the Civil Rights Movement to September 11th.
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5 out of 5 stars
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what you weren't taught in school
- De Stanley en 06-12-06
De: Jon Meacham
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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
- De: Jon Meacham
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann, Jon Meacham
- Duración: 18 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,604
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,809
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,767
In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power gives us Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Man and Biography Relevant to Our Day
- De Darwin8u en 11-14-12
De: Jon Meacham
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre American Heroes
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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- Arjun V Reddy
- 06-29-22
Mind-blowing
Short vignettes, each of which will change your conception of America - a work of genius
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