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To the Person Sitting in Darkness
- Narrated by: Franklin Benjamin
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- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story5 out of 5 stars 32
Benjamin Franklin was a Founding Father of America and had an enormous impact on America as it is today. In addition to that, there are many little-known facts about the man who is Benjamin Franklin. Unlike many of the other Founding Fathers, he started out in humble circumstances. From a young age, Benjamin Franklin fought for the rights of America at home and abroad. Yet, he bore the burdens of leadership and never shirked nor faltered in his mission. His greatest asset was his charm and friendliness, but he had his detractors as well and felt the emotional impact of that.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Audiobook
- By Jaxon Jordon on 02-10-19
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Looking Backward
- By: Edward Bellamy
- Narrated by: Edward Lewis
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 153
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 121
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Story4 out of 5 stars 124
The hero is anyone who has ever longed for escape to a better life. The time is tomorrow. The place is a Utopian America. This is the backdrop for Edward Bellamy's prophetic novel about a young Boston gentleman who is mysteriously transported from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, from a world of war and want to a world of peace and plenty.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This Book is socialist Propaganda
- By Paul on 04-26-04
By: Edward Bellamy
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What Is Man?
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Carl Reiner
- Length: 3 hrs
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 50
What Is Man? appears in the form of a Socratic dialogue between a romantic young idealist and an elderly cynic, who debate issues of mankind, such as whether man is free to act or is more of a machine, whether personal merit is meaningless given how the environment shapes us, and whether man truly has impulses other than to pursue pleasure and avoid pain.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I'm 21, this shit was crazy. But I loved it.
- By Trina on 10-16-17
By: Mark Twain
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Masonic America
- Architects of a Nation
- By: Dr. Vance Penn
- Narrated by: Greg Nelson
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 26
This is a unique look at the impact of the Freemasons on the building of America. Learn how the Freemasons impact on America in the areas of politics, business, exploration, and the military shaped the country, and the world, we know today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a great review of the impact of Masonry on America
- By Bradley E Kohanke on 05-12-18
By: Dr. Vance Penn
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How to Win an Election
- An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians
- By: Quintus Tullius Cicero, Philip Freeman - translator
- Narrated by: Doug Kaye
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 343
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 301
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Story4 out of 5 stars 300
How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines. In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest orator, ran for consul (the highest office in the Republic), his practical brother Quintus decided he needed some no-nonsense advice on running a successful campaign.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How to be a politician ...
- By Benedict on 07-31-13
By: Quintus Tullius Cicero, and others
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
- By: Ambrose Bierce
- Narrated by: Brian D'eon
- Length: 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Famous for its irregular time sequence and twist ending, this is Bierce's most anthologized story.
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4 out of 5 stars
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One I wish I had studied in school.
- By Kelly on 04-28-19
By: Ambrose Bierce
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Printer's Error
- Irreverent Stories from Book History
- By: Rebecca Romney, J. P. Romney
- Narrated by: J.P. Romney
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 76
Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been viewed as one of the highest achievements of human innovation. But the march of progress hasn't been smooth; downright bizarre is more like it. Printer's Error chronicles some of the strangest and most humorous episodes in the history of Western printing. Take, for example, the Gutenberg Bible. While the book is regarded as the first printed work in the Western world, Gutenberg's name doesn't appear anywhere on it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Porn for Ye Old Bibliophiles
- By George M. Liveakos on 03-24-17
By: Rebecca Romney, and others
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No Treason: The Anarchist Classic with a New Introduction
- By: Lysander Spooner
- Narrated by: Ayrton Parham
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 191
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Story5 out of 5 stars 166
Lysander Spooner was one of slavery’s fiercest enemies. As a lawyer, he offered free legal services to escaped slaves, defending them in court. He advocated smuggling guns to slaves, with which to overthrow their masters, and take possession of their property. “Give the Slave-holders, then, a taste of their own whips.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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I HAVE SEARCHED FOR THE WORDS FOR A LONG TIME
- By devon on 07-16-19
By: Lysander Spooner
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New Atlantis
- By: Francis Bacon
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 103
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Story4 out of 5 stars 88
Sir Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis is a utopian novel about a mythical land called Bensalem, where the inhabitants live happily with the sciences. In The New Atlantis, Bacon focuses on the duty of the state toward science, and his projections for state-sponsored research anticipate many advances in medicine and surgery, meteorology, and machinery. Although The New Atlantis is only a part of his plan for an ideal commonwealth, this work does represent Bacon's ideological beliefs.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Oxford World Classics
- By Jennifer Bick on 07-02-21
By: Francis Bacon
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The Modern Scholar
- The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
- By: Professor H.W. Brands
- Narrated by: H.W. Brands
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 105
This course examines the life of Benjamin Franklin and his influence on both American and world history. He remains the model of the American thinker - a man who was interested in nearly everything, and who pursued those interests with an admirable and contagious passion. To study Franklin's life is to learn not only the history of a single man, but to understand some of the most monumental changes in all of human history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love it
- By Holly on 02-20-16
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The Age of Reason
- By: Thomas Paine
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 484
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 416
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 420
Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, published in three parts from 1794, was a best seller in America, where it caused a short-lived deistic revival. Promoting a creator-God while advocating reason in the place of revelation, Paine’s controversial pamphlet caused his native British audience, fearing the results of the French Revolution, to receive it with more hostility than their American counterparts.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Amazed by the energy, originality & bravery
- By Darwin8u on 10-06-12
By: Thomas Paine
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As a Man Thinketh
- The Original Masterpiece, Updated for Today
- By: James Allen, Justin Hammond
- Narrated by: Just Hammond
- Length: 55 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 124
The original self-help classic - fully updated for the 21st century! In 1902, James Allen wrote a classic book that was to inspire millions. It was called As a Man Thinketh and became one of the most influential personal improvement books ever written. It provided a series of philosophical considerations on the power of our own thoughts. The conclusion of the book is that 'we become what we think about' - which later became the inspiration behind the best-selling movie The Secret, and the modern self-help movement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pretty worries?
- By Quentin on 09-04-16
By: James Allen, and others
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