Puffin Lives: B.R. Ambedkar
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Born to a poor Mahar family in April 1891, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was a victim of casteism from his very childhood. He fought for the political rights of the Dalits at a time when India was being terrorized by the British. He was also the first "untouchable" to receive college education as well as an eminent jurist, a brilliant politician, an astute economist, a committed anthropologist, a celebrated historian, and a distinguished philosopher. Throughout his life, he fought the prejudices of social discrimination in the country and came to be known as Babasaheb. He was also the founding pillar of the Indian Constitution.
This thrilling narrative, with its wealth of little-known facts takes the listener on a journey through the life of independent India’s first law minister, a formally converted Buddhist who wholeheartedly dedicated himself to initiating various movements for the social and political betterment of the Dalit community. This book presents a fascinating outlook on Ambedkar’s political aspirations and promises to be an engaging and enrapturing story.
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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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India
- A Portrait
- De: Patrick French
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 17 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 86
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Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In this dazzlingly panoramic book, Patrick French chronicles that epic change, telling human stories to explain a larger national narrative. Melding on-the-ground reports with a deep knowledge of history, French exposes the cultural foundations of India’s political, economic and social complexities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Epic Book by Award-Winning Author
- De morton en 10-31-11
De: Patrick French
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Incarnations
- India in Fifty Lives
- De: Sunil Khilnani
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 16 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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For all of India's myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, recapturing the human dimension of how the world's largest democracy came to be. His trenchant portraits of emperors, warriors, philosophers, film stars, and corporate titans - some famous, some unjustly forgotten - bring feeling, wry humor, and uncommon insight to dilemmas that extend from ancient times to our own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great listen, the author is biased
- De Anonymous User en 02-15-19
De: Sunil Khilnani
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A Fierce Discontent
- The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920
- De: Michael McGerr
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 71
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The Progressive Era witnessed the nation's most convulsive upheaval, a time of radicalism far beyond the Revolution or anything since. In response to the birth of modern America, one small group of middle-class Americans seized control of the nation and attempted to remake society from bottom to top. They accomplished an astonishing range of triumphs, yet the progressive movement collapsed as the war came to an end amid race riots, strikes, high inflation, and a frenzied Red scare.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A well balanced take
- De Ryan Mooney en 04-17-21
De: Michael McGerr
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Learning from the Germans
- Race and the Memory of Evil
- De: Susan Neiman
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 20 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 124
In the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing debate over reparations, and the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and the contested memories they evoke, Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its historical wrongdoings. Neiman is a white woman who came of age in the civil rights-era South and a Jewish woman who has spent much of her adult life in Berlin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is an important book.
- De Amazon Customer en 05-29-20
De: Susan Neiman
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Latino Americans
- The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation
- De: Ray Suarez
- Narrado por: Ray Suarez
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
As the largest minority in the country, Latino Americans make up an integral part of American history and continue to make major social, cultural, and political contributions. Latino Americans, vividly and candidly tells how the story of Latino Americans is the story of the United States, revealing the personal struggles and successes of immigrants, poets, soldiers, and others who have made an impact on history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unknown Latino History
- De Lou en 11-27-18
De: Ray Suarez
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There Was a Country
- A Personal History of Biafra
- De: Chinua Achebe
- Narrado por: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 171
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 139
The defining experience of Chinua Achebe's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967-1970. The conflict was infamous for its savage impact on the Biafran people, Chinua Achebe's people, many of whom were starved to death after the Nigerian government blockaded their borders. Immediately after, Achebe took refuge in an academic post in the United States, and for more than 40 years he has maintained a considered silence on the events of those terrible years. Now, decades in the making, comes a towering reckoning with one of modern Africa's most fateful events.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The Audible Edition Is a Disaster
- De Olu en 11-28-12
De: Chinua Achebe
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The Islamic Enlightenment
- The Struggle Between Faith and Reason: 1798 to Modern Times
- De: Christopher de Bellaigue
- Narrado por: Charles Armstrong
- Duración: 15 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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This absorbing account of the political and social reformations that transformed the lands of Islam during the 19th and early 20th centuries offers a game-changing assessment of the Middle East. Beginning his account in 1798, de Bellaigue demonstrates how the Middle East has long welcomed modern ideals and practices, including the adoption of modern medicine, the emergence of women from seclusion, and the development of democracy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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fascinating story not told.elsewhere in one place
- De Joseph Sullivan en 11-30-21
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Gandhi Before India
- De: Ramachandra Guha
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 23 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Ramachandra Guha takes us from Gandhi's birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, his two years as a student in London, and his two decades as a lawyer and community organizer in South Africa. Guha has uncovered myriad previously untapped documents, including private papers of Gandhi's contemporaries. Using this wealth of material in an exuberant, brilliantly nuanced and detailed narrative, Guha describes the social, political, and personal worlds inside of which Gandhi began the journey that would earn him the honorific Mahatma: "Great Soul".
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3 out of 5 stars
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Somewhat repetitive and lacking
- De freehope en 03-10-21
De: Ramachandra Guha
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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
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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 Book of Gutsy Women
- De: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chelsea Clinton
- Narrado por: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chelsea Clinton
- Duración: 14 h y 34 m
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Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them - women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done.
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4 out of 5 stars
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More encyclopedia than book
- De Fountain of Chris en 10-09-19
De: Hillary Rodham Clinton, y otros
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Jane Crow
- The Life of Pauli Murray
- De: Rosalind Rosenberg
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 18 h y 30 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 48
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A mixed-race orphan, Murray grew up in segregated North Carolina before escaping to New York, where she attended Hunter College and became a labor activist in the 1930s. When she applied to graduate school at the University of North Carolina, where her white great-great-grandfather had been a trustee, she was rejected because of her race. She went on to graduate first in her class at Howard Law School, only to be rejected for graduate study again at Harvard University this time on account of her sex. Undaunted, Murray forged a singular career in the law.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a legacy!!!
- De Paul en 03-08-21
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The Irish Americans
- A History
- De: Jay P. Dolan
- Narrado por: Jim McCabe
- Duración: 12 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 59
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Jay Dolan of Notre Dame University is one of America’s most acclaimed scholars of immigration and ethnic history. In The Irish Americans, he caps his decades of writing and teaching with this magisterial history of the Irish experience in the United States. Although more than 30 million Americans claim Irish ancestry, no other general account of Irish American history has been published since the 1960s. Dolan draws on his own original research and much other recent scholarship to weave an insightful, colorful narrative.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Should have been great
- De Heather en 04-25-14
De: Jay P. Dolan
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Gandhi
- The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948
- De: Ramachandra Guha
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 36 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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This volume opens with Mohandas Gandhi's arrival in Bombay in January 1915 and takes us through his epic struggles over the next three decades. In reconstructing Gandhi's life and work, author Ramachandra Guha has drawn on 60 different archival collections. Using this wealth of material, Guha creates a portrait of Gandhi and of those closest to him that illuminates the complexity inside his thinking, his motives, his actions, and their outcomes as he engaged with every important aspect of social and public life in the India of his time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well researched and heart touching
- De M Umar Khan en 02-01-21
De: Ramachandra Guha
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The Mark of a Giant
- 7 People Who Changed the World
- De: Ted Stewart, Chris Stewart
- Narrado por: Art Allen
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Throughout the course of history, civilization has been blessed by strong-minded men and women who have impacted our world in extraordinary ways. Their imprint upon humanity is beyond dispute. And many would contend that they were no less than the result of Divine Providence - a gift of God to the human race. The Mark of a Giant examines the lives and contributions of seven men and women who changed the world: Abraham of Ur, Pericles, the Apostle Paul, Sir Isaac Newton, Marie Curie, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mother Teresa.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So Good!!
- De momof4 en 05-11-15
De: Ted Stewart, y otros
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World
- De: Arthur Herman
- Narrado por: Robert Ian Mackenzie
- Duración: 18 h y 20 m
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Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the 18th and 19th centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics - contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since. This book is not just about Scotland: it is an exciting account of the origins of the modern world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eagerly Awaited Audiobook
- De Lulu en 09-01-16
De: Arthur Herman