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Great Society
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The New York Times best-selling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challenges.
"Great Society is accurate history that reads like a novel, covering the high hopes and catastrophic missteps of our well-meaning leaders." (Alan Greenspan)
Today, a battle rages in our country. Many Americans are attracted to socialism and economic redistribution, while opponents of those ideas argue for purer capitalism. In the 1960s, Americans sought the same goals many seek now: an end to poverty, higher standards of living for the middle class, a better environment, and more access to health care and education. Then, too, we debated socialism and capitalism, public sector reform versus private sector advancement. Time and again, whether under John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, or Richard Nixon, the country chose the public sector. Yet, the targets of our idealism proved elusive. What’s more, Johnson’s and Nixon’s programs shackled millions of families in permanent government dependence. Ironically, Shlaes argues, the costs of entitlement commitments made a half century ago preclude the very reforms that Americans will need in coming decades.
In Great Society, Shlaes offers a powerful companion to her legendary history of the 1930s, The Forgotten Man, and shows that in fact there was scant difference between two presidents we consider opposites: Johnson and Nixon. Just as technocratic military planning by "the Best and the Brightest" made failure in Vietnam inevitable, so planning by a team of the domestic best and brightest guaranteed fiasco at home. At once history and biography, Great Society sketches moving portraits of the characters in this transformative period, from US Presidents to the visionary UAW leader Walter Reuther, the founders of Intel, and Federal Reserve chairmen William McChesney Martin and Arthur Burns. Great Society casts new light on other figures, too, from Ronald Reagan, then governor of California, to the socialist Michael Harrington and the protest movement leader Tom Hayden. Drawing on her classic economic expertise and deep historical knowledge, Shlaes upends the traditional narrative of the era, providing a damning indictment of the consequences of thoughtless idealism with striking relevance for today. Great Society captures a dramatic contest with lessons both dark and bright for our own time.
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David Cameron was elected Conservative leader in 2005, promising to modernize the party following its three successive electoral defeats. He became Prime Minister in 2010, forming Britain’s first coalition government in 70 years, at a moment of economic crisis, and went on to win the first outright Conservative majority for 23 years at the 2015 general election.
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Wish i did not read it first
- De Amazon Customer en 10-01-19
De: David Cameron
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Nothing to Fear
- FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America
- De: Adam Cohen
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
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Nothing to Fear brings to life a fulcrum moment in American history - the tense, feverish first 100 days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency, when he and his inner circle completely reinvented the role of the federal government.
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Important contribution
- De R.S. en 03-05-09
De: Adam Cohen
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Fear City
- New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
- De: Kim Phillips-Fein
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 12 h y 56 m
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When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country's largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? Yet the city was indeed billions of dollars in the red, with no way to pay back its debts. Bankers and politicians alike seized upon the situation as evidence that social liberalism, which New York famously exemplified, was unworkable.
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Thanks for writing this book!!
- De G. A. Rivera en 08-14-21
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The New Deal
- A Modern History
- De: Michael Hiltzik
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 19 h y 35 m
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As America struggles with an economic debacle akin to the Great Depression, nothing could be timelier than an authoritative account of the New Deal, masterfully written by Michael Hiltzik, author of the acclaimed history of the Hoover Dam, Colossus.
In this richly peopled, vividly rendered narrative, Hiltzik describes how the urgent short-term relief measures of Franklin Roosevelt’s Hundred Days evolved into a transformative concept of the federal role in American life.
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Another Excellent New Deal History
- De R.S. en 12-19-11
De: Michael Hiltzik
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We've Got People
- From Jesse Jackson to AOC, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement
- De: Ryan Grim
- Narrado por: Sean W. Stewart
- Duración: 16 h y 57 m
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may seem like she came from nowhere, but the movement that propelled her to office - and to global political stardom - has been building for 30 years...With the party and the nation at a crossroads, this timely and original audiobook offers new insight into how we’ve gotten where we are - and where we're headed.
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Excellent and illuminating, despite tech "issue"
- De DanoB en 08-25-19
De: Ryan Grim
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New Deal or Raw Deal?
- How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America
- De: Burton Folsom Jr.
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 11 h y 19 m
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In this shocking and groundbreaking new book, economic historian Burton Folsom, Jr., exposes the idyllic legend of Franklin D. Roosevelt as a myth of epic proportions. With questionable moral character and a vendetta against the business elite, Roosevelt created New Deal programs marked by inconsistent planning, wasteful spending, and opportunity for political gain---ultimately elevating public opinion of his administration but falling flat in achieving the economic revitalization that America needed.
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A must listen!
- De Book and Movie Lover en 06-14-09
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To Make Men Free
- A History of the Republican Party
- De: Heather Cox Richardson
- Narrado por: Heather Cox Richardson
- Duración: 15 h y 20 m
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Acclaimed historian Heather Cox Richardson traces the shifting ideology of the Republican Party from the antebellum era to the Great Recession. While progressive Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower revived Lincoln’s vision and expanded the government, their opponents appealed to Americans’ latent racism and xenophobia to regain political power, linking taxation and regulation to redistribution and socialism. In the modern era, the schism within the Republican Party has grown wider, pulling the GOP ever further from its founding principles.
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Fascinating read!
- De Marsha en 12-27-21
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Every Man a King
- A Short, Colorful History of American Populists
- De: Chris Stirewalt
- Narrado por: Chris Stirewalt
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
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American populism has always been home to a fascinating assortment of charismatic leaders, characters, kooks, cranks, and sometimes charlatans who have led the charge of ordinary folks who have gotten wise to the ways of the swamp. Every Man a King tells the stories of America's populist leaders, from Andrew Jackson and Teddy Roosevelt to Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, and Donald Trump. It is a rollicking history of an American attitude that has shaped not only our current moment, but also the long struggle over who gets to define the truths we hold to be self evident.
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Education delivered in a most entertaining way.
- De Snaps And Snippets en 09-17-18
De: Chris Stirewalt
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Invisible Hands
- The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan
- De: Kim Phillips-Fein
- Narrado por: Lorna Raver
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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Long before the "culture wars" usually associated with the rise of conservative politics, driven individuals funded think tanks, fought labor unions, and formed organizations to market their views.These nearly unknown, larger-than-life, and sometimes eccentric personalities - such as General Electric's zealous, silver-tongued Lemuel Ricketts Boulware and the self-described "revolutionary" Jasper Crane of DuPont - make for a fascinating, behind-the-scenes view of American history.
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Just a verbal History book
- De David G en 04-12-24
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A History of Modern Britain
- De: Andrew Marr
- Narrado por: David Timson
- Duración: 29 h y 59 m
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A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade political leaders think they know what they are doing but find themselves confounded. Every time the British people turn out to be stroppier and harder to herd than predicted.
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Masterful in focus, pace, content, performance
- De Philo en 11-10-16
De: Andrew Marr
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The Forgotten Man
- De: Amity Shlaes
- Narrado por: Terence Aselford
- Duración: 14 h y 34 m
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It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand how the nation endured. In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. Rejecting the old emphasis on the New Deal, she turns to the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how they helped establish the steadfast character we developed as a nation.
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a story of forgotten times
- De Debb Robinson en 10-11-07
De: Amity Shlaes
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Coolidge
- De: Amity Shlaes
- Narrado por: Terence Aselford
- Duración: 21 h y 4 m
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Calvin Coolidge, president from 1923 to 1929, never rated highly in polls, and history has remembered the decade in which he served as an extravagant period predating the Great Depression. Now Amity Shlaes provides a fresh look at the 1920s and its elusive president, showing that the mid-1920s was in fact a triumphant period that established our modern way of life: The nation electrified, Americans drove their first cars, and the federal deficit was replaced with a surplus.
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Silent Cal
- De Jean en 02-19-13
De: Amity Shlaes
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Lincoln's Melancholy
- How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
- De: Joshua Wolf Shenk
- Narrado por: Derek Shetterly
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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Lincoln found the solace and tactics he needed to deal with the nation’s worst crisis in the “coping strategies” he had developed over a lifetime of persevering through depressive episodes and personal tragedies. With empathy and authority gained from his own experience with depression, Shenk crafts a nuanced, revelatory account of Lincoln and his legacy. Based on careful, intrepid research, Lincoln’s Melancholy unveils a wholly new perspective on how our greatest president brought America through its greatest turmoil.
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Good and in depth view
- De Order B en 11-13-22
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All the Knowledge in the World
- The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia
- De: Simon Garfield
- Narrado por: Tim Bentinck
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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All the Knowledge in the World is a history and celebration of those who created the most ground-breaking and remarkable publishing phenomenon of any age. Simon Garfield, who “has a genius for being sparked to life by esoteric enthusiasm and charming readers with his delight” (The Times), guides us on an utterly delightful journey, from Ancient Greece to Wikipedia, from modest single-volumes to the 11,000-volume Chinese manuscript that was too big to print.
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Excellent, as usual
- De Debra Tydd en 07-23-23
De: Simon Garfield
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Collapse
- The Fall of the Soviet Union
- De: Vladislav M. Zubok
- Narrado por: David de Vries
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In 1945, the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four million strong, 5,000 nuclear-tipped missiles, and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward, the union sank into an economic crisis and was torn apart by nationalist separatism. Its collapse was one of the seismic shifts of the 20th century.
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Hopefully Not Prescient
- De Joshua en 01-29-22
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Building the Great Society
- Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House
- De: Joshua Zeitz
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 16 h y 11 m
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The author of Lincoln's Boys takes us inside Lyndon Johnson's White House to show how the legendary Great Society programs were actually put into practice: Team of Rivals for LBJ. The personalities behind every burst of 1960s liberal reform - from civil rights and immigration reform, to Medicare and Head Start - and what we'll lose if those programs are dismantled.
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Comprehensive but a bit too long
- De Jim en 01-28-22
De: Joshua Zeitz
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The Forgotten Man
- De: Amity Shlaes
- Narrado por: Terence Aselford
- Duración: 14 h y 34 m
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It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand how the nation endured. In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. Rejecting the old emphasis on the New Deal, she turns to the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how they helped establish the steadfast character we developed as a nation.
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a story of forgotten times
- De Debb Robinson en 10-11-07
De: Amity Shlaes
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Coolidge
- De: Amity Shlaes
- Narrado por: Terence Aselford
- Duración: 21 h y 4 m
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Calvin Coolidge, president from 1923 to 1929, never rated highly in polls, and history has remembered the decade in which he served as an extravagant period predating the Great Depression. Now Amity Shlaes provides a fresh look at the 1920s and its elusive president, showing that the mid-1920s was in fact a triumphant period that established our modern way of life: The nation electrified, Americans drove their first cars, and the federal deficit was replaced with a surplus.
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Silent Cal
- De Jean en 02-19-13
De: Amity Shlaes
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Lincoln's Melancholy
- How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
- De: Joshua Wolf Shenk
- Narrado por: Derek Shetterly
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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Lincoln found the solace and tactics he needed to deal with the nation’s worst crisis in the “coping strategies” he had developed over a lifetime of persevering through depressive episodes and personal tragedies. With empathy and authority gained from his own experience with depression, Shenk crafts a nuanced, revelatory account of Lincoln and his legacy. Based on careful, intrepid research, Lincoln’s Melancholy unveils a wholly new perspective on how our greatest president brought America through its greatest turmoil.
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Good and in depth view
- De Order B en 11-13-22
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All the Knowledge in the World
- The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia
- De: Simon Garfield
- Narrado por: Tim Bentinck
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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All the Knowledge in the World is a history and celebration of those who created the most ground-breaking and remarkable publishing phenomenon of any age. Simon Garfield, who “has a genius for being sparked to life by esoteric enthusiasm and charming readers with his delight” (The Times), guides us on an utterly delightful journey, from Ancient Greece to Wikipedia, from modest single-volumes to the 11,000-volume Chinese manuscript that was too big to print.
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Excellent, as usual
- De Debra Tydd en 07-23-23
De: Simon Garfield
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Collapse
- The Fall of the Soviet Union
- De: Vladislav M. Zubok
- Narrado por: David de Vries
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In 1945, the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four million strong, 5,000 nuclear-tipped missiles, and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward, the union sank into an economic crisis and was torn apart by nationalist separatism. Its collapse was one of the seismic shifts of the 20th century.
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Hopefully Not Prescient
- De Joshua en 01-29-22
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Building the Great Society
- Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House
- De: Joshua Zeitz
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 16 h y 11 m
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The author of Lincoln's Boys takes us inside Lyndon Johnson's White House to show how the legendary Great Society programs were actually put into practice: Team of Rivals for LBJ. The personalities behind every burst of 1960s liberal reform - from civil rights and immigration reform, to Medicare and Head Start - and what we'll lose if those programs are dismantled.
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Comprehensive but a bit too long
- De Jim en 01-28-22
De: Joshua Zeitz
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Francis I
- The Maker of Modern France
- De: Leonie Frieda
- Narrado por: Carole Boyd
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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Catherine de Medici's father-in-law, King Francis of France, was the perfect Renaissance knight, the movement's exemplar and its Gallic interpreter. An aesthete, diplomat par excellence, and contemporary of Machiavelli, Francis was the founder of modern France, whose sheer force of will and personality molded his kingdom into the first European superpower. Arguably the man who introduced the Renaissance to France, Francis was also the prototype Frenchman - a national identity was modeled on his character.
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Rekindling salamandrine fires...
- De Adeliese Baumann en 09-29-18
De: Leonie Frieda
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The Corporation
- An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld
- De: T. J. English
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 19 h y 7 m
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By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had become an ethnic polyglot; one of the most powerful illicit organizations was none other than the Cuban mob. Known on both sides of the law as "the Corporation", the Cuban mob's power stemmed from a criminal culture embedded in south Florida's exile community - those who had been chased from the island by Castro's revolution and planned to overthrow the Marxist dictator and reclaim their nation.
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- De Anonymous User en 04-14-18
De: T. J. English
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The New Guys
- The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel
- De: Meredith Bagby
- Narrado por: Meredith Bagby, January LaVoy
- Duración: 16 h y 49 m
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The never-before-told story of NASA’s 1978 astronaut class, which included the first American women, the first African Americans, the first Asian American, and the first gay person to fly to space. With the exclusive participation of the astronauts who were there, this is the thrilling, behind-the-scenes saga of a new generation that transformed space exploration.
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As Far As It went
- De p en 02-07-24
De: Meredith Bagby
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Arriving Today
- From Factory to Front Door - Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy
- De: Christopher Mims
- Narrado por: James Fouhey
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
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We are at a tipping point in retail history. While consumers are profiting from the convenience of instant gratification, rapidly advancing technologies are transforming the way goods are transported and displacing workers in ways never before seen. In Arriving Today, Christopher Mims goes deep, far, and wide to uncover how a single product, from creation to delivery, weaves its way from a factory on the other side of the world to our doorstep.
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Great look at process of product arriving to our home.
- De Jacquie en 10-06-21
De: Christopher Mims
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Young Washington
- How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father
- De: Peter Stark
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 15 h y 31 m
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With powerful narrative drive and vivid writing, Young Washington recounts the wilderness trials, controversial battles, and emotional entanglements that transformed Washington from a temperamental striver into a mature leader. Enduring terrifying summer storms and subzero winters imparted resilience and self-reliance, helping prepare him for what he would one day face at Valley Forge. Leading the Virginia troops into battle taught him to set aside his own relentless ambitions and stand in solidarity with those who looked to him for leadership.
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Loved learning how a greater leader became one!
- De Will en 11-01-18
De: Peter Stark
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When Montezuma Met Cortes
- The True Story of the Meeting That Changed History
- De: Matthew Restall
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 16 h y 6 m
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In 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction - the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European colonization of the mainland of the Americas - has long been the symbol of Cortés' bold and brilliant military genius. Montezuma, on the other hand, is remembered as a coward who gave away a vast empire and touched off a wave of colonial invasions across the hemisphere. But is this really what happened?
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Flawed, but worth it for those interested.
- De "J" en 02-16-18
De: Matthew Restall
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Valiant Women
- The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II
- De: Lena S. Andrews
- Narrado por: Courtney Patterson
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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Valiant Women is the story of the 350,000 American women who served in uniform during World War II. These incredible women served in every service branch, in every combat theater, and in nearly two-thirds of the available military occupations at the time. Military analyst Lena Andrews corrects the record with the definitive and comprehensive historical account of American servicewomen during World War II, based on new archival research, firsthand interviews with surviving veterans, and a deep professional understanding of military history and strategy.
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A bit disappointing
- De Fact addict en 10-08-23
De: Lena S. Andrews
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American Moonshot
- John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
- De: Douglas Brinkley
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
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As the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award-winning historian and perennial New York Times best-selling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy’s inspiring challenge, and America’s race to the moon.
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- De Timothy Anderson en 04-04-19
De: Douglas Brinkley
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Returning Light
- Thirty Years on the Island of Skellig Michael
- De: Robert L. Harris
- Narrado por: Robert L. Harris
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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In 1987, Robert Harris happened upon an unusual job posting in the local paper—a new warden service was being set up on the island of Skellig Michael, and the deadline was imminent. Just weeks later he was on his way to set up camp in one of Ireland’s most remote locations, unaware that he would be making that same journey every May for the next 30 years.
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Beautiful!
- De Elizabeth B. en 11-19-23
De: Robert L. Harris
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The Vision of the Anointed
- Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Jim Seybert
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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The Vision of the Anointed is a devastating critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Thomas Sowell sees what has happened not as a series of isolated mistakes, but as a logical consequence of a vision whose defects have led to disasters in education, crime, family disintegration, and other social pathology. In this book, "politically correct" theory is repeatedly confronted with facts-and sharp contradictions between the two are explained in terms of a whole set of self-congratulatory assumptions held by political and intellectual elites.
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An Absolute Masterpiece!
- De Brendan Martino en 04-04-22
De: Thomas Sowell
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Strongmen
- Mussolini to the Present
- De: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
- Narrado por: Chloe Cannon
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin. In Strongmen, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule in the future.
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Fascism expert talks fascism
- De sparky en 12-04-20
De: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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Koresh
- The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco
- De: Stephan Talty
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
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No other event in the last fifty years is shrouded in myth like the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. Today, we remember this moment for the 76 people, including 20 children, who died in the fire; for its inspiration of the Oklahoma City bombing; and for the wave of anti-government militarism that followed. What we understand far less is what motivated the Davidians’ enigmatic leader, David Koresh.
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questionable conclusions, pro-government and pro-FBI narratives
- De Moo en 06-15-23
De: Stephan Talty
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Great Society
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excellent treaty on the origins of federal overreach in the USA. the tentacles of this disastrous set of policies haunt us still today
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- 09-01-21
An accurate history of Johnson's "Great Society"!
Amity writes a thorough history of the political scene that resulted in the "Great Society" policies, many of which are significant even to this day!
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- Thomas J. Holewinski
- 07-16-20
Essential reading!!
This book should be essential reading for schools. It begins in the 1950’s where her previous book, “The Forgotten Man” left off and goes to the early 1970’s. Hopefully there is a 3rd book continuing from there.
This fills in the blanks on so many historical questions I’ve had and puts context on why so many decisions were made. The overall presentation and recording were excellent as well. I highly recommend this book.
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- Jose
- 02-24-24
Origins of the Race and Poverty Hustle
Great book in the Amity Shlaes series. This book shed light on the High Modernist Planning behind the origins of woke. How to turn happy, united citizens of an affluent society into fractured, angry, envious mobs. It was Washington DC created to cynically divide the nation for political positioning by both parties. This book explains how the poverty and race hustle was the work of slimy populist politicians (LBJ and Nixon), closet Socialists (Harrington and G. Romney), Marxists (Reuther and Alinski), Corporate Cronies, War Mongers, and Ethno Nationalists Activists - fully financed by Washington. The government was paying self-professed satanic grievance grinders like Saul Alinski. Nixon basically goes socialist so he could win re-election by spiking economy without actually fixing any fundamental issues.
This book further sheds light on the scammers, useful idiots, and the tactics. Even origins with New Deal left wingers that were fascinated by Soviet Super Fascist power. Amazing but sad, that 60 years later, the hustle and "planning" continues and American cities like St Louis and Detroit are enduring cautionary tales.
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- William G. Stuart
- 05-13-20
A College Course on the Great Society
I listen to everything that Amity Schlaes writes. She is meticulous in her research, broadens a topic far beyond a standard history text to provide the listener with context, and describes incidents in compelling detail.
This book is no exception. She writes about the political, economic, and social situation leading up to the Great Society programs, then provides inside stories and insights into the minds and actions of its leading figures - presidents, presidential advisors, union leaders, business executives, and civil-rights leaders.
I was born late in the Eisenhower Administration and was too young to appreciate the forces that shaped the growth of the welfare state during the Johnson and Nixon Administrations. The author transported the adult me into that era, helping me to understand the key players' motivations and strategies, their actions, and their reactions to the events.
The listener w ho pays attention and reflects on this work should receive credit for an upper-level college history course. The book is that thorough and compelling.
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- Frank Carlucci
- 05-07-22
Vast Information
Very in-depth knowledge and insight about the historical period. This book was not one you could read hours at a time. The content very over powering with information, that I personally had to take a break. I am very happy I chose this book and it helped me formulate a better understanding of the events surrounding our Country’s current situation.
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- Pete DeLay
- 12-27-22
Unintended Consequences
Honest evaluation of the facts is important. This book tells the story of unintended consequences and is very well researched.
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- Stephen Breen
- 07-13-20
Another home run
Shlaes crushed it in The Forgotten Man and destroys it in Great Society.
Nothing better than a history time based on *reporting facts* and not *creating a narrative* based on the facts.
Has all the details from multiple sources and quotes without the au courant media-style dog and monkey rodeo which characterizes modern "history" books.
Shlaes does not pontificate or spin doctor the *facts*. The reader/listener gets the info and gets to make any decision without the author inserting herself into the timeline.
She profiles presidents without the hagiography associated with an agenda. You get it all the cupcakes and unicorns of triumph with the herpes of failure based on the record.
Àll the presidents presented begin as all politicians based on their altruism but then you get the dark sides of the haughty patrician Kennedy, the knuckle-draggging schoolyard bully LBJ and the insecure backstabber Nixon.
Do NOT miss this book in your queue.
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- Kim Baer
- 09-19-20
so much great detailed history
I loved it. I think this book gave me so much insight to the historical political workings through Kennedy, LBJ and Nixon.
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- Harold Bishop
- 08-14-21
Social engineering doesn’t work
Shlaes does a masterful job of putting the details together in showing the well intentioned ambitions of people to form committees and bureaucracies that fail in completing the goal. Not only failing but making circumstances worse, usually much worse and selling with talk for convincing the disparaged that they are really being helped. In the meantime the expenditure of funds provides a flood of money that is just wasted.
Conclusion, reduce federal government authority in domestic matters and hold projects to their budget, eliminating those that don’t live up to it (or down to the allotment).
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