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Great characters - a delightful listen!
- By Susan on 02-28-04
What listeners say about Liberty for All?
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- SRK
- 02-18-21
Love the history books
Joy Hakim's history books are very enjoyable to listen too. Instead of summing up a moment in history in a dry paragraph, she tells you a story that keeps the reader wanting to listen and provokes one's thinking. I highly recommend them for junior high age and up.
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- Jan
- 05-12-05
Liberty for All, a fast moving look
At a time when the train begun to run and technology begun to make inroads, this fast moving narrative is in most parts like a cliff hanger, especially the passionate display on slavery
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- EmilyK
- 01-05-15
Great survey of pre-Civil War US history
Would you consider the audio edition of Liberty for All? to be better than the print version?
My 12 year old and I are certainly enjoying the audio version better than we would the printed text. We find the narrator engaging and we get more covered since we can do other things while we listen. Some people have been concerned that the format wouldn't work on audio since there are sidebars with information in the text. It seems pretty seamless to us on audio.
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This is a great series. Aimed at middle and high schoolers, I certainly have learned a lot as an adult. It would work well for an adult who is new to American history, but it also helped me brush up on facets of American history that I had forgotten.
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