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Cover image: Three Flags, 1958 by Jasper Johns. Encaustic on canvas (three panels) © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY; Print: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA/Bridgeman Images
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The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically-acclaimed volume - a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic.
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Strong History Rich With Behind The Scenes Details
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1620
- A Critical Response to the 1619 Project
- De: Peter W. Wood
- Narrado por: Stephen Bowlby
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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Was America founded on the auction block in Jamestown in 1619 or aboard the Mayflower in 1620? The controversy erupted in August 2019 when the New York Times announced its 1619 Project. The Times set to transform history by asserting that all the laws, material gains, and cultural achievements of Americans are rooted in the exploitation of African Americans. Historians have pushed back, saying that the 1619 Project conjures a false narrative out of racial grievance.
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I'm Sympathetic, but wanting balance, not found.
- De Anonymous User en 11-21-20
De: Peter W. Wood
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When the Facts Change
- Essays, 1995-2010
- De: Tony Judt
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 14 h
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In When the Facts Change, Tony Judt's widow and fellow historian Jennifer Homans has assembled an essential collection of the most important and influential pieces written in the last 15 years of Judt's life, the years in which he found his voice in the public sphere. Included are seminal essays on the full range of Judt's concerns, including Europe as an idea and in reality, before 1989 and thereafter; Israel, the Holocaust and the Jews; American hyperpower and the world after 9/11.
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Essential
- De Herman Utik en 09-19-16
De: Tony Judt
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The Paranoid Style in American Politics
- De: Richard Hofstadter, Sean Wilentz - foreward
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs. In The Paranoid Style in American Politics, acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces in American political discourse and how fringe groups can influence - and derail - the larger agendas of a political party.
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Written in the 50s and 60s...
- De Kindle Customer en 11-06-19
De: Richard Hofstadter, y otros
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Hitler's American Model
- The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
- De: James Q. Whitman
- Narrado por: James Anderson Foster
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
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Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime.
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Did not we suspect this?
- De dessa en 11-04-18
De: James Q. Whitman
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Democracy Incorporated
- Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
- De: Sheldon S. Wolin
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
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Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid, one where economic and state powers are conjoined and virtually unbridled? Can the nation check its descent into what the author terms "inverted totalitarianism"? Wolin portrays a country where citizens are politically uninterested and submissive - and where elites are eager to keep them that way.
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- De M. Levine en 02-25-11
De: Sheldon S. Wolin
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How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America
- De: Brion McClanahan
- Narrado por: Thomas Rosenfeld
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He is the star of a hit Broadway musical, the face on the 10-dollar bill, and a central figure among the founding fathers. But do you really know Alexander Hamilton? Rather than lionize Hamilton, Americans should carefully consider his most significant and ultimately detrimental contribution to modern society: the shredding of the United States Constitution. Connecting the dots between Hamilton's invention of implied powers in 1791 to transgender bathrooms and same-sex marriage today, Brion McClanahan shows the origins of our modern federal leviathan.
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Thank You Audible
- De No to Statism en 10-03-18
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Revolutionary Characters
- What Made the Founders Different
- De: Gordon S. Wood
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
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Gordon Wood's wondrous accomplishment here is to bring these men and their times down to earth and within our reach, showing us just who they were and what drove them. In so doing, he shows us that although a lot has changed in two hundred years, to an amazing degree the virtues these founders defined for themselves are the virtues we aspire to still.
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Wood clearly dislikes Adams
- De Michael en 01-15-07
De: Gordon S. Wood
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The Unfinished Symphony
- The Clash of the Two Americas, Volume 1
- De: Matthew Ehret, Cynthia Chung
- Narrado por: Hugh Trudeau
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This volume will showcase the international grand design led by Benjamin Franklin that manifested in the establishment of the American republic and trace the next 130 years of world history as the USA was targeted for destruction by oligarchical forces from London and also from within leading up to the assassination of William McKinley in 1901.
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Fantastic read
- De nameforamazon en 05-24-24
De: Matthew Ehret, y otros
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The Three Lives of James Madison
- Genius, Partisan, President
- De: Noah Feldman
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer
- Duración: 34 h y 12 m
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Over the course of his life, James Madison changed the United States three times: First, he designed the Constitution, led the struggle for its adoption and ratification, then drafted the Bill of Rights. As an older, cannier politician, he cofounded the original Republican party, setting the course of American political partisanship. Finally, having pioneered a foreign policy based on economic sanctions, he took the United States into a high-risk conflict, becoming the first wartime president and, despite the odds, winning.
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Cogently organized, meticulously balanced
- De Diana Black Kennedy en 06-15-18
De: Noah Feldman
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We the Fallen People
- The Founders and the Future of American Democracy
- De: Robert Tracy McKenzie
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
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We the Fallen People presents a close look at the ideas of human nature to be found in the history of American democratic thought. McKenzie, following C. S. Lewis, claims there are only two reasons to believe in majority rule: because we have confidence in human nature - or because we don't. The Founders subscribed to the biblical principle that humans are fallen and their virtue is always doubtful, and they wrote the US Constitution to frame a republic intended to handle our weaknesses.
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Thoughtful reflection and historical perspective, but ultimately no easy answer
- De Brandon en 03-28-23
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History
- De: Thomas E. Woods Jr.
- Narrado por: Barrett Whitener
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
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Everything, well, almost everything, you know about American history is wrong because most textbooks and popular history books are written by left-wing academic historians who treat their biases as fact. But fear not; Professor Thomas Woods refutes the popular myths in The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History.
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Highly recommended! Not for the faint of heart!
- De RAC en 12-12-05
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Johannes Krause is the director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and a brilliant pioneer in the field of archaeogenetics - archaeology augmented by DNA sequencing technology - which has allowed scientists to reconstruct human history reaching back hundreds of thousands of years before recorded time. In this surprising account, Krause and journalist Thomas Trappe rewrite a fascinating chapter of this history, the peopling of Europe, that takes us from the Neanderthals and Denisovans to the present.
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In a gripping, moment-by-moment narrative based on a wealth of recently declassified documents and in-depth interviews, Bob Drury and Tom Clavin tell the remarkable drama that unfolded over the final, heroic hours of the Vietnam War. This closing chapter of the war would become the largest-scale evacuation ever carried out, as improvised by a small unit of Marines, a vast fleet of helicopter pilots flying nonstop missions beyond regulation, and a Marine general who vowed to arrest any officer who ordered his choppers grounded while his men were still on the ground.
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This work by Joseph Ellis has helped me better understand the tumult and chaos in today’s “dialogue”, or the lack there of. Ellis provided me perspectives which I lacked. I have been changed by this work. Prior to this work, and the works by Colin Woodard, I was happy to be “independent”, but I have been so frustrated by the polarized camps in America today. While I’m not yet hopeful that we as a nation will be able to return to productive dialogues, Ellis has at least helped me understand how I might be a more effective voice.
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I should have read this book a long time ago. It gave some amazing details I was not privy to before reading this text. I cannot wait to share this book with my students.
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This book illuminates the present with a insightful look at the past. It was written by a moral man.
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- Terry F.
- 06-21-20
thought provoking interpretation
narration was good. Substance of book very interesting. Conclusions thought provoking.
Reccomend to history buffs.
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- wevets
- 11-30-18
An enlightening review of the ideas of the Framers
I learned a lot about the controversies during the American Revolution and the creation of the Constitution.
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- Casey Kerrick
- 11-24-18
A fine work, even with the editorializing
I have read/listened to every one of Mr. Ellis’ works pertaining to the American Revolution and Founding Fathers, and am a big fan of his. After the first “Now” chapter of this book I almost shut it off and requested a refund due to the blatant Progressive bias. His past works around this subject have had very little subjectivity, so it was a bit of a shock.
But, after some reflection I decided to listen to the entire book with an open mind. While there are points I still strongly disagree with, the 2nd Amendment chapter in particular, I did find myself having an internal debate about some of my long-held beliefs. His chapters about the 14th Amendment and American foreign policy were particularly compelling for me.
As usual with his books, the historical aspects of this work are outstanding.
If you lean to the left of the political spectrum you will thoroughly enjoy this book. If you lean right, hopefully you can listen to this book with an open mind and at the very least gain some understanding of views that differ from yours.
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- Alan M
- 08-18-19
wonderful overall.
Ellis's forays into contemporary issues occasionally misfires but otherwise this is excellent. I learned quite a few things about the founders that I didn't know before. Unfortunately, his breadth of knowledge on contemporary issues is occasionally superficial and in at least one case wrong.
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- Andrew
- 09-22-22
Excellent
This will give you a huge insight into what actually happened at the beginning of the United States.
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- Kindle Customer
- 10-24-18
Great History!
Excellent essay's on Jefferson, Adams, Madison, and Washington. Ellis really demolished the idea of Original Intent of the Framers in the Madison chapter.
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- Ben Cook
- 02-05-19
Very Informative
Mr Ellis, first of all, exceptional! I enjoyed it thoroughly and found it to be incredibly revealing that 240 odd years has not elevated human nature very much. The founders faced many of the same social issues and political brinksmanship that we are confronted with today. I especially appreciated the section on George Washington and the partisan treachery he faced during his presidency.
My only complaint is the language used and the style of writing. Not the founders but yours. I felt like I was listening to work intended for academic peer review. I reversed the audio often just so I could translate a sentence back to myself in a more common form of speech. Sadly you may leave a portion of your audience behind and some great insights might be lost. I hope that is not the case, because I think you need to send a complementary case of this book up to the Caoital Hill and it should be mandatory reading for the house, senate and judiciary . Thanks
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