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Although Christian believers agreed with one another that the Bible was authoritative and that it should be interpreted through commonsense principles, there was rampant disagreement about what Scripture taught about slavery. Furthermore, most Americans continued to believe that God ruled over the affairs of people and nations, but they were radically divided in their interpretations of what God was doing in and through the war.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Nice addition to History of U.S. Religious Culture
- De Lisa Larges en 06-04-12
De: Mark A. Noll
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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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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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Free Speech
- A History from Socrates to Social Media
- De: Jacob Mchangama
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 60
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Hailed as the “first freedom”, free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, it is on the retreat. In Free Speech, Jacob Mchangama traces the riveting legal, political, and cultural history of this idea.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great review of free speech and history
- De Anonymous User en 02-22-22
De: Jacob Mchangama
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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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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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Why the Jews?
- The Reason for Anti-Semitism, the Most Accurate Predictor of Human Evil
- De: Dennis Prager, Joseph Telushkin
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 318
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 279
In this seminal work that has spent more than 30 years in print, Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin explain the reasons behind anti-Semitism, the world's preoccupation with the Jews and Israel, and why now more than ever the world needs to confront anti-Jewish sentiment. Prager and Telushkin examine in detail how anti-Semitism is a unique hatred - no other prejudice has been as universal, deep, or permanent - and how the concept of the "chosen people" spawned that hatred.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It answers the question!
- De MarissaB en 10-01-16
De: Dennis Prager, y otros
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Freethinkers
- A History of American Secularism
- De: Susan Jacoby
- Narrado por: Rich Miller
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the secularist heritage that gave Americans the first government in the world founded not on the authority of religion but on the bedrock of human reason. In impassioned, elegant prose, celebrated author Susan Jacoby traces more than 200 years of secularist activism, beginning with the fierce debate over the omission of God from the Constitution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential history of free thought in America
- De Clark Savage en 11-27-17
De: Susan Jacoby
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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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Stony the Road
- Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
- De: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 386
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 338
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 335
A profound new rendering of the struggle by African Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counterrevolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Valuable examination of Jim Crow and Rise of White Supremacy in America
- De William J Brown en 05-14-19
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Liberty's First Crisis
- Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech
- De: Charles Slack
- Narrado por: Brian Holsopple
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 30
When the United States government passed the Bill of Rights in 1791, its uncompromising protection of speech and of the press were unlike anything the world had ever seen before. But by 1798, the once-dazzling young republic of the United States was on the verge of collapse. Suddenly, the First Amendment, which protected harsh commentary of the weak government, no longer seemed as practical. So that July, President John Adams and the Federalists in control of Congress passed an extreme piece of legislation that made criticism of the government and its leaders a crime.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Marvelous Book....
- De Douglas en 01-07-17
De: Charles Slack
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The N Word
- Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why
- De: Jabari Asim
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 307
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 262
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 263
In 2003, the book Nigger started an intense conversation about the uses and implications of that epithet. The N Word moves beyond that short, provocative book by revealing how the word has both reflected and spread the scourge of bigotry in America.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good points, long winded
- De Amazon Customer en 02-06-21
De: Jabari Asim
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God of Liberty
- A Religious History of the American Revolution
- De: Thomas S. Kidd
- Narrado por: Mark Coffin
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
Before the Revolutionary War, America was a nation divided by different faiths. But when the war for independence sparked in 1776, colonists united under the banner of religious freedom. Evangelical frontiersmen and Deist intellectuals set aside their differences to defend a belief they shared, the right to worship freely. Inspiring an unlikely but powerful alliance, it was the idea of religious liberty that brought the colonists together in the battle against British tyranny.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The founding has a complicated religious history
- De Adam Shields en 03-24-16
De: Thomas S. Kidd
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Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul
- Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty
- De: John M. Barry
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 17 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 168
This is a story of power, set against Puritan America and the English Civil War. Williams's interactions with King James, Francis Bacon, Oliver Cromwell, and his mentor Edward Coke set his course, but his fundamental ideas came to fruition in America, as Williams, though a Puritan, collided with John Winthrop's vision of his "City upon a Hill."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Story and Legacy
- De Bruce en 04-11-12
De: John M. Barry
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Sacred Scripture, Sacred War
- The Bible and the American Revolution
- De: James P. Byrd
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 21
In Sacred Scripture, Sacred War, James Byrd offers the first comprehensive analysis of how American revolutionaries defended their patriotic convictions through scripture. Byrd shows that the Bible was a key text of the American Revolution. Indeed, many colonists saw the Bible as primarily a book about war. They viewed God as not merely sanctioning violence but actively participating in combat, playing a decisive role on the battlefield.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent!
- De Iska George en 06-19-20
De: James P. Byrd
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Embracing Defeat
- De: John W. Dower
- Narrado por: Edward Lewis
- Duración: 21 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 419
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 288
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 293
This illuminating study explores the ways in which the shattering defeat of the Japanese in World War II, followed by over six years of American military occupation, affected every level of Japanese society. The author describes the countless ways in which the Japanese met the challenge of "starting over", from top-level manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes, fears, and activities of ordinary men and women in every walk of life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pulitzer Prize Winner!
- De KF en 10-09-07
De: John W. Dower
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Strange Gods
- A Secular History of Conversion
- De: Susan Jacoby
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Wiley
- Duración: 19 h y 33 m
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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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Anti-Judaism
- The Western Tradition
- De: David Nirenberg
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 17 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
This incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational anti-Judaism is to the history of the West. Questions of how we are Jewish and, more critically, how and why we are not have been churning within the Western imagination throughout its history. Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans; Christians and Muslims of every period; even the secularists of modernity have used Judaism in constructing their visions of the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book: Terrible Narrator
- De LB en 12-29-16
De: David Nirenberg
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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
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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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