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Weimar Culture
- The Outsider as Insider
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A seminal work as melodious and haunting as the era it chronicles.
First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's tenuous post-World War I democracy, and crashed violently in the wake of Hitler's rise to power. Despite the ephemeral nature of the Weimar democracy, the influence of its culture was profound and far-reaching, ushering in a modern sensibility in the arts that dominated Western culture for most of the 20th century. Vivid and highly engaging, Weimar Culture is the finest introduction for the casual listener and historian alike.
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
Understanding Adolf Hitler's ideology provides insights into the mental world of an extremist politics that, over the course of the Third Reich, developed explosive energies culminating in the Second World War and the Holocaust. Too often the theories underlying National Socialism or Nazism are dismissed as an irrational hodgepodge of ideas. Yet that ideology drove Hitler's quest for power in 1933, colored everything in the Third Reich, and transformed him, however briefly, into the most powerful leader in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating listen
- De Amy Neff en 12-15-22
De: Robert Gellately
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Germany
- A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000
- De: Helmut Walser Smith
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 20 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 37
For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history, challenges traditional perceptions of Germany's conflicted past, revealing a nation far more thematically complicated than 20th-century historians have imagined.
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4 out of 5 stars
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review response
- De Matthew and Tracy Johnson en 10-30-21
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The Long March
- How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
- De: Roger Kimball
- Narrado por: Raymond Todd
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
The architects of America's cultural revolution of the 1960s were Beat authors like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, and celebrated figures like Norman Mailer, Timothy Leary, Eldridge Cleaver, and Susan Sontag. In examining the lives and works of those who spoke for the 1960s, Roger Kimball conceives a series of cautionary tales, an annotated guidebook of wrong turns, dead-ends, and blind alleys.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Long March
- De Suzanne en 05-16-06
De: Roger Kimball
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Bland Fanatics
- Liberals, the West, and the Afterlives of Empire
- De: Pankaj Mishra
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 22
In America and in England, faltering economies at home and failed wars abroad have generated a political and intellectual hysteria. It is a derangement manifested in a number of ways: nostalgia for imperialism, xenophobic paranoia, and denunciations of an allegedly intolerant left. These symptoms can be found even among the most informed of Anglo-America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Historical Liberalism on deathbed
- De Mehran Asdigha en 11-13-20
De: Pankaj Mishra
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The Inevitability of Tragedy
- Henry Kissinger and His World
- De: Barry Gewen
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 18 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
Few public officials have provoked such intense controversy as Henry Kissinger. During his time in the Nixon and Ford administrations, he came to be admired and hated in equal measure. Notoriously, he believed that foreign affairs ought to be based primarily on the power relationships of a situation, not simply on ethics. He went so far as to argue that under certain circumstances America had to protect its national interests even if that meant repressing other countries' attempts at democracy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting but rambles
- De K en 02-17-21
De: Barry Gewen
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A Thousand Small Sanities
- The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
- De: Adam Gopnik
- Narrado por: Adam Gopnik
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 156
A Thousand Small Sanities is a manifesto rooted in the lives of people who invented and extended the liberal tradition. Taking us from Montaigne to Mill, and from Middlemarch to the civil rights movement, Adam Gopnik argues that liberalism is not a form of centrism, nor simply another word for free markets, nor merely a term denoting a set of rights. It is something far more ambitious: the search for radical change by humane measures. Gopnik shows us why liberalism is one of the great moral adventures in human history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Erudite and entertaining!
- De D. A. Vail en 05-20-19
De: Adam Gopnik
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Marx's General
- The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
- De: Tristram Hunt
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 17 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 38
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Friedrich Engels is one of the most intriguing and contradictory figures of the 19th century. Born to a prosperous Prussian mercantile family, he spent his life working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and enjoying the comfortable upper-middle-class existence of a Victorian gentleman.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not many choices here anyways.
- De Prof. Neil Larsen en 02-16-13
De: Tristram Hunt
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The Craft
- How the Freemasons Made the Modern World
- De: John Dickie
- Narrado por: Simon Slater
- Duración: 16 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 194
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 160
Founded in London in 1717 as a way of binding men in fellowship, Freemasonry proved so addictive that within two decades it had spread across the globe. Masonic influence became pervasive. Under George Washington, the Craft became a creed for the new American nation. Masonic networks held the British empire together. Under Napoleon, the Craft became a tool of authoritarianism and then a cover for revolutionary conspiracy. Both the Mormon Church and the Sicilian mafia owe their origins to Freemasonry.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best book about Freemasonry out there.
- De Isaac Pea en 02-19-21
De: John Dickie
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Reappraisals
- Reflections on the Forgotten 20th Century
- De: Tony Judt
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 16 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 89
The accelerating changes of the past generation have been accompanied by a similarly accelerated amnesia. The 20th century has become "history" at an unprecedented rate. The world of 2007 was so utterly unlike that of even 1987, much less any earlier time, that we have lost touch with our immediate past even before we have begun to make sense of it - and the results are proving calamitous.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb. Insightful essays, Performance to match
- De Louis en 05-02-12
De: Tony Judt
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Churchill's Shadow
- The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill
- De: Geoffrey Wheatcroft
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 23 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
Winston Churchill is generally considered one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century, revered for his opposition to appeasement, his defiance in the face of German bombing of England, his political prowess, and his memorable speeches. He became the savior of his country, as prime minister during the most perilous period in British history, World War II, and is now perhaps even more beloved in America than in England. This revelatory book takes on Churchill in his entirety, separating the man from the myth that he so carefully cultivated.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A few facts and a quote in context, would be nice.
- De A Blake en 01-30-22
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The Case for Nationalism
- How It Made Us Powerful, United, and Free
- De: Rich Lowry
- Narrado por: Roy Worley
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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In The Case for Nationalism, Lowry explains how nationalism was central to the American Project. It fueled the American Revolution and the ratification of the Constitution. It preserved the country during the Civil War. It led to the expansion of the American nation’s territory and power, and eventually to our invaluable contribution to creating an international system of self-governing nations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Truth does matter !
- De CFC en 11-06-19
De: Rich Lowry
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Weimar Germany
- Promise and Tragedy, Weimar Centennial Edition
- De: Eric D. Weitz
- Narrado por: Robert G. Slade
- Duración: 18 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in the 20th century - one whose influence and inspiration still resonate today. Eric Weitz has written the authoritative history that this fascinating and complex period deserves, and he illuminates the uniquely progressive achievements and even greater promise of the Weimar Republic. Weimar Germany also shows that beneath its glossy veneer lay political turmoil that ultimately led to the demise of the republic and the rise of the radical right.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Ended up returning this one
- De Amazon Customer en 04-22-21
De: Eric D. Weitz
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Machiavelli
- The Art of Teaching People What to Fear
- De: Patrick Boucheron
- Narrado por: Mack Sanderson
- Duración: 2 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 49
In a series of poignant vignettes, a preeminent historian makes a compelling case for Machiavelli as an unjustly maligned figure with valuable political insights that resonate as strongly today as they did in his time.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Tester
- De Iván en 04-09-24
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First Principles
- What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
- De: Thomas E. Ricks
- Narrado por: James Lurie
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 669
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 564
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 560
On the morning after the 2016 presidential election, Thomas Ricks awoke with a few questions on his mind: What kind of nation did we now have? Is it what was designed or intended by the nation's founders? Trying to get as close to the source as he could, Ricks decided to go back and read the philosophy and literature that shaped the founders' thinking, and the letters they wrote to each other debating these crucial works—among them the Iliad, Plutarch's Lives, and the works of Xenophon, Epicurus, Aristotle, Cato, and Cicero.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book, opinionated epilogue.
- De Noetic Seeker en 01-23-21
De: Thomas E. Ricks
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Heaven on Earth
- The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism
- De: Joshua Muravchik
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 16 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 61
Socialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in "science". Each failure to create societies of abundance or give birth to "the New Man" inspired more searching for the path to the promised land: revolution, communes, social democracy, communism, fascism, Arab socialism, African socialism. None worked, and some exacted a staggering human toll. Then, after two centuries of wishful thinking and bitter disappointment, socialism imploded in a fin de siecle drama of falling walls and collapsing regimes.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A biased yet informative masterpiece
- De CodyPeacock12349 en 04-04-21
De: Joshua Muravchik
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Liberal Fascism
- The Secret History of the American Left
- De: Jonah Goldberg
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 15 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,172
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 758
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 758
"Fascists", "Brownshirts", "jackbooted stormtroopers" - such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. But who are the real fascists in our midst?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book
- De Mark en 05-10-08
De: Jonah Goldberg
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Weimar Germany
- Promise and Tragedy, Weimar Centennial Edition
- De: Eric D. Weitz
- Narrado por: Robert G. Slade
- Duración: 18 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in the 20th century - one whose influence and inspiration still resonate today. Eric Weitz has written the authoritative history that this fascinating and complex period deserves, and he illuminates the uniquely progressive achievements and even greater promise of the Weimar Republic. Weimar Germany also shows that beneath its glossy veneer lay political turmoil that ultimately led to the demise of the republic and the rise of the radical right.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Ended up returning this one
- De Amazon Customer en 04-22-21
De: Eric D. Weitz
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The Weimar Years
- Rise and Fall 1918–1933
- De: Frank McDonough
- Narrado por: Paul McGann
- Duración: 19 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 7
Established in 1918–19, in the wake of Germany’s catastrophic defeat in the First World War and the revolution that followed swiftly on its heels, the Weimar Republic ushered in widespread social reform, a radical cultural flowering and the most democratic conditions the German people had ever known. The Weimar Years is a vivid narrative of a dramatic period in German history. Year by year, from 1918 to 1933, Frank McDonough covers the major events in both domestic and foreign policy and the personalities who shaped them, together with developments in music, art, theatre and literature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An excellent history of the time period
- De Jackie Renee Johnson en 04-02-24
De: Frank McDonough
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
- De: Michael Hofmann - Translated by, Michael Hofmann - Afterword by, Alfred Döblin
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 15 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 41
Berlin Alexanderplatz, the great novel of Berlin and the doomed Weimar Republic, is one of the great books of the 20th century, gruesome, farcical, and appalling, word drunk, pitchdark. In Michael Hofmann's extraordinary new translation, Alfred Döblin's masterpiece lives in English for the first time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stephen Dadelus Has Nothing on Franz Biberkopf
- De Quijotic en 04-16-20
De: Michael Hofmann - Translated by, y otros
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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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 573
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 481
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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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Germany, 1923
- Hyperinflation, Hitler's Pusch and Democracy in Crisis
- De: Volker Ullrich, Jefferson Chase - translator
- Narrado por: Christopher Douyard
- Duración: 12 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 6
The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography: “I have a pretty thorough knowledge of history, but never, to my recollection, has it produced such madness in such gigantic proportions.” He was referring to Germany in 1923, a “year of lunacy,” defined by hyperinflation, violence, a political system on the verge of collapse, the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and separatist movements threatening to rip apart the German nation. Bestselling author Volker Ullrich presents a riveting chronicle of one of the most difficult years any modern democracy has ever faced.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting read about economics
- De molliet en 11-01-23
De: Volker Ullrich, y otros
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In Hitler's Munich
- Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism
- De: Michael Brenner, Jeremiah Riemer - translator
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6
In the aftermath of Germany's defeat in World War I and the failed November Revolution of 1918-19, the conservative government of Bavaria identified Jews with left-wing radicalism. Munich became a hotbed of right-wing extremism, with synagogues under attack and Jews physically assaulted in the streets. It was here that Adolf Hitler established the Nazi movement and developed his anti-Semitic ideas. Michael Brenner provides a gripping account of how Bavaria's capital city became the testing ground for Nazism and the Final Solution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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In Hitler’s Munich
- De Florence Friedman en 02-20-23
De: Michael Brenner, y otros
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Weimar Germany
- Promise and Tragedy, Weimar Centennial Edition
- De: Eric D. Weitz
- Narrado por: Robert G. Slade
- Duración: 18 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in the 20th century - one whose influence and inspiration still resonate today. Eric Weitz has written the authoritative history that this fascinating and complex period deserves, and he illuminates the uniquely progressive achievements and even greater promise of the Weimar Republic. Weimar Germany also shows that beneath its glossy veneer lay political turmoil that ultimately led to the demise of the republic and the rise of the radical right.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Ended up returning this one
- De Amazon Customer en 04-22-21
De: Eric D. Weitz
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The Weimar Years
- Rise and Fall 1918–1933
- De: Frank McDonough
- Narrado por: Paul McGann
- Duración: 19 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 7
Established in 1918–19, in the wake of Germany’s catastrophic defeat in the First World War and the revolution that followed swiftly on its heels, the Weimar Republic ushered in widespread social reform, a radical cultural flowering and the most democratic conditions the German people had ever known. The Weimar Years is a vivid narrative of a dramatic period in German history. Year by year, from 1918 to 1933, Frank McDonough covers the major events in both domestic and foreign policy and the personalities who shaped them, together with developments in music, art, theatre and literature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An excellent history of the time period
- De Jackie Renee Johnson en 04-02-24
De: Frank McDonough
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
- De: Michael Hofmann - Translated by, Michael Hofmann - Afterword by, Alfred Döblin
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 15 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 41
Berlin Alexanderplatz, the great novel of Berlin and the doomed Weimar Republic, is one of the great books of the 20th century, gruesome, farcical, and appalling, word drunk, pitchdark. In Michael Hofmann's extraordinary new translation, Alfred Döblin's masterpiece lives in English for the first time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stephen Dadelus Has Nothing on Franz Biberkopf
- De Quijotic en 04-16-20
De: Michael Hofmann - Translated by, y otros
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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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 573
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 481
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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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Germany, 1923
- Hyperinflation, Hitler's Pusch and Democracy in Crisis
- De: Volker Ullrich, Jefferson Chase - translator
- Narrado por: Christopher Douyard
- Duración: 12 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 6
The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography: “I have a pretty thorough knowledge of history, but never, to my recollection, has it produced such madness in such gigantic proportions.” He was referring to Germany in 1923, a “year of lunacy,” defined by hyperinflation, violence, a political system on the verge of collapse, the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and separatist movements threatening to rip apart the German nation. Bestselling author Volker Ullrich presents a riveting chronicle of one of the most difficult years any modern democracy has ever faced.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting read about economics
- De molliet en 11-01-23
De: Volker Ullrich, y otros
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In Hitler's Munich
- Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism
- De: Michael Brenner, Jeremiah Riemer - translator
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6
In the aftermath of Germany's defeat in World War I and the failed November Revolution of 1918-19, the conservative government of Bavaria identified Jews with left-wing radicalism. Munich became a hotbed of right-wing extremism, with synagogues under attack and Jews physically assaulted in the streets. It was here that Adolf Hitler established the Nazi movement and developed his anti-Semitic ideas. Michael Brenner provides a gripping account of how Bavaria's capital city became the testing ground for Nazism and the Final Solution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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In Hitler’s Munich
- De Florence Friedman en 02-20-23
De: Michael Brenner, y otros
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Germany
- A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000
- De: Helmut Walser Smith
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 20 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 37
For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history, challenges traditional perceptions of Germany's conflicted past, revealing a nation far more thematically complicated than 20th-century historians have imagined.
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4 out of 5 stars
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review response
- De Matthew and Tracy Johnson en 10-30-21
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Bismarck
- The Man and the Statesman
- De: A.J.P. Taylor
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 130
In this compelling biography, historian A. J. P. Taylor reevaluates Bismarck's motives and methods, focusing on the chancellor's rise to power in the 1860s and his removal from office in 1890.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good, but read a primer first
- De Paolo Menuez en 06-12-18
De: A.J.P. Taylor
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The Last Winter of the Weimar Republic
- The Rise of the Third Reich
- De: Rüdiger Barth, Hauke Friederichs, Caroline Waight - translator
- Narrado por: Jonathan Cowley
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 13
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 12
A thrilling day-by-day account of the final months of the Weimar Republic, documenting the collapse of democracy in Germany and Hitler's frightening rise to power.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Terrible narration, good book
- De Jeffrey Zimmer en 06-02-22
De: Rüdiger Barth, y otros
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The Weimar Republic
- A Captivating Guide to the History of Germany Between the End of World War I and Rise of the Nazi Era
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Jason Zenobia
- Duración: 3 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 8
Have you ever wondered how a man like Adolf Hitler could have come into power? How he legally became a dictator by using a democratic process? Or what events led up to his reign of terror? The answers lie in the Weimar Republic. Amid the devastation of World War I, Germany’s monarchy provided no answers. A democratic government seemed the only way to appease Allied nations and solve the many disasters that were already at the country’s doorstep.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent, maybe not worth the credit though
- De Nathaniel Gainer en 08-31-22
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The Berlin Stories
- De: Christopher Isherwood
- Narrado por: Michael York
- Duración: 2 h y 58 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 277
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 229
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 228
Christopher Isherwood's dramatized memoirs are prophetic images of a country preparing itself to embrace Hitler and the Third Reich. The Berlin Stories includes two works published together: The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin. These modern classics reveal in poignant detail the tragedy of mid-20th-century Germany.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Nothing happens...
- De Tim Byers en 02-01-07
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The Russian Revolution
- De: Richard Pipes
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 41 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 276
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 238
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 236
Groundbreaking in its inclusiveness, enthralling in its narrative of a movement whose purpose, in the words of Leon Trotsky, was "to overthrow the world", The Russian Revolution draws conclusions that aroused great controversy. Richard Pipes argues convincingly that the Russian Revolution was an intellectual, rather than a class, uprising; that it was steeped in terror from its very outset; and that it was not a revolution at all but a coup d'etat - "the capture of governmental power by a small minority."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Destruction of the Lenin Myth
- De philip en 09-08-19
De: Richard Pipes
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Mozart
- De: Peter Gay
- Narrado por: Alexander Adams
- Duración: 4 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 12
The greatest mind in Western music is examined by a National Book Award-winning writer on culture and psychology in this concise account of the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The composer's unshakable hold on the public's fascination can only be strengthened by the historian and biographer Peter Gay's bold new perspective. His passionate and painstaking research reveals truths more fascinating than the myths that have long shrouded the maestro's life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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very entertaining overview of Mozart's life
- De D. Littman en 12-27-04
De: Peter Gay
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The Man Without Qualities
- De: Robert Musil
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 60 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 39
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In 1913, the Viennese aristocracy is gathering to celebrate the 17th jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef, even as the Austro-Hungarian Empire is collapsing and the rest of Vienna is showing signs of rebellion. At the centre of this social labyrinth is Ulrich: a veteran, a seducer and a scientist, yet also a man 'without qualities' and therefore a brilliant and detached observer of his changing world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An unmatched intellectual epic
- De Delano en 06-23-22
De: Robert Musil
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The Visionaries
- Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
- De: Wolfram Eilenberger, Shaun Whiteside
- Narrado por: Hannah Curtis
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 15
The period from 1933 to 1943 was one of the darkest and most chaotic in human history, as the Second World War unfolded with unthinkable cruelty. It was also a crucial decade in the dramatic, intersecting lives of some of history’s greatest philosophers. There were four women, in particular, whose parallel ideas would come to dominate the twentieth century—at once in necessary dialogue and in striking contrast with one another.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very pleased at the treatment of these 4 women
- De Amazon Customer en 10-04-23
De: Wolfram Eilenberger, y otros
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Iron Kingdom
- The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
- De: Christopher Clark
- Narrado por: Shaun Grindell
- Duración: 28 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 942
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 834
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 832
In the aftermath of World War II, Prussia - a centuries-old state pivotal to Europe's development - ceased to exist. In their eagerness to erase all traces of the Third Reich from the earth, the Allies believed that Prussia, the very embodiment of German militarism, had to be abolished. But as Christopher Clark reveals in this pioneering history, Prussia's legacy is far more complex.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Let me make it easier for you.
- De alexyakkavoo en 06-03-20
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Hitler's True Believers
- How Ordinary People Became Nazis
- De: Robert Gellately
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 15 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
Understanding Adolf Hitler's ideology provides insights into the mental world of an extremist politics that, over the course of the Third Reich, developed explosive energies culminating in the Second World War and the Holocaust. Too often the theories underlying National Socialism or Nazism are dismissed as an irrational hodgepodge of ideas. Yet that ideology drove Hitler's quest for power in 1933, colored everything in the Third Reich, and transformed him, however briefly, into the most powerful leader in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating listen
- De Amy Neff en 12-15-22
De: Robert Gellately
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The Splintered Empires
- The Eastern Front 1917-21
- De: Prit Buttar
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 22 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 128
Concluding his acclaimed series on the Eastern Front in World War I, Prit Buttar comprehensively details not only these climactic events, but also the "successor wars" that raged long after the armistice of 1918. New states rose from the ashes of empire and war raged as German forces sought to keep them under the aegis of the Fatherland. These unresolved tensions between the former Great Powers and the new states would ultimately lead to the rise of Hitler and a new, terrible world war only two decades later.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Explains a lot about
- De Elizabeth en 02-27-20
De: Prit Buttar
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Weimar Culture
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- Anonymous User
- 04-30-20
This book is great.
Awesome book! As someone interested in the abstract side of modernism, this is very interesting.
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- Beth Simone Noveck
- 05-08-21
Engaging book, terrible narrator
Peter Gay’s book is a concise, highly readable and engaging in history of Germany between the wars. Unfortunately, the narrator is atrocious. He has an awful accent in both French and German. Although the English passages are fine, there are enough references to German and French people, places names and phrases that it really distracted. While the book gets five stars, the performance and the narrator’s ‘s inability to correctly pronounce words really ruins it. I still listened all the way through but I wish someone would re-record this important book with a competent narrator who can pronounce Poincaré or gauche correctly.
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- R.S.
- 01-29-24
Weimar culture was shone
I read Weimar culture many years ago. I did not realize how much I missed. This book is rich in insights about a culturally fertile period that emerged after the war and was killed by the depression, unemployment, and other circumstances that were not inevitable. Deservedly a classic.
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- J. Stroud
- 11-18-22
Somehow, Peter Gay made Weimar boring…
In the end, I don’t think Gay has any real ‘feel’ for his subject. Ironically for a book published in 1968, there’s no quality of revolution. It feels remote, cold, and haughty.
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