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In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. In riveting prose, These Truths tells the story of America, beginning in 1492, to ask whether the course of events has proven the nation's founding truths or belied them.
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Good Story but distracting sound engineering
- De MindSpiker en 11-21-18
De: Jill Lepore
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Confederate Reckoning
- Power and Politics in the Civil War South
- De: Stephanie McCurry
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 16 h y 30 m
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The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white Southern slaveholders to protect their property, has been told many times in heroic and martial narratives. Now, however, Stephanie McCurry tells a very different tale of the Confederate experience. Confederate Reckoning is the startling story of this epic political battle in which women and slaves helped to decide the fate of the Confederacy and the outcome of the Civil War.
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Good view of the confederate inner workings.
- De Amazonian en 08-10-22
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The Nation That Never Was
- Reconstructing America's Story
- De: Kermit Roosevelt
- Narrado por: Kermit Roosevelt III
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
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We face a dilemma these days. We want to be honest about our history and the racism and oppression that Americans have both inflicted and endured. But we want to be proud of our country, too. In The Nation That Never Was, Roosevelt shows how we can do both those things by realizing we’re not the country we thought we were. Reconstruction, Roosevelt argues, was not a fulfillment of the ideals of the Founding but rather a repudiation: we modern Americans are not the heirs of the Founders but of the people who overthrew and destroyed that political order.
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A Necessary Book.
- De Jason Baumbach en 01-30-24
De: Kermit Roosevelt
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Four Threats
- The Recurring Crises of American Democracy
- De: Suzanne Mettler, Robert C. Lieberman
- Narrado por: Andrea Gallo
- Duración: 13 h y 10 m
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In The Four Threats, Lieberman and Mettler explore five historical episodes when democracy in the United States was under siege: the 1790s, the Civil War, the Gilded Age, the Depression, and Watergate. These episodes risked profound, even fatal, damage to the American democratic experiment, and on occasion antidemocratic forces have prevailed. From this history, four distinct characteristics of democratic disruption emerge. Political polarization, racism and nativism, economic inequality, and excessive executive power...have threatened the survival of the republic.
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Very informative
- De Angela Fobbs en 12-31-20
De: Suzanne Mettler, y otros
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Force and Freedom
- Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
- De: Kellie Carter Jackson
- Narrado por: Machelle Williams
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
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From its origins in the 1750s, the White-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of "moral suasion" and nonviolent resistance as both religious tenet and political strategy. Through tactical violence, argues Carter Jackson, Black abolitionist leaders accomplished what White nonviolent abolitionists could not: creating the conditions that necessitated the Civil War.
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best book on abolition
- De Shante Nixon en 08-08-24
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The Fiery Trial
- Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
- De: Eric Foner
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 18 h y 7 m
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Eric Foner gives us the definitive history of Abraham Lincoln and the end of slavery in America. Foner's Lincoln emerges as a leader, one whose greatness lies in his capacity for moral and political growth through real engagement with allies and critics alike. This powerful work will transform our understanding of the nation's greatest president and the issue that mattered most.
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Great Book about a Monstrous Injustice
- De Cynthia en 07-29-13
De: Eric Foner
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The Constitution
- An Introduction
- De: Michael Stokes Paulsen, Luke Paulsen
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 14 h y 31 m
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From war powers to health care, freedom of speech to gun ownership, religious liberty to abortion, practically every aspect of American life is shaped by the Constitution. This vital document, along with its history of political and judicial interpretation, governs our individual lives and the life of our nation. Yet most of us know surprisingly little about the Constitution itself, and are woefully unprepared to think for ourselves about recent developments in its long and storied history.
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The Constitution-A must reading for All Americans
- De Robert en 06-12-15
De: Michael Stokes Paulsen, y otros
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Freedom's Dominion
- A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
- De: Jefferson Cowie
- Narrado por: André Chapoy
- Duración: 16 h y 5 m
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American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom—their freedom to dominate others. In Freedom’s Dominion, historian Jefferson Cowie traces this complex saga by focusing on a quintessentially American place: Barbour County, Alabama, the ancestral home of political firebrand George Wallace.
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Very easily read and I learned a lot
- De Kev All en 02-05-23
De: Jefferson Cowie
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The Problem with Lincoln
- De: Thomas J. DiLorenzo
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
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So many thousands of books deifying Abraham Lincoln have been published that it is nearly impossible for the average citizen to learn much of anything that is truthful about Lincoln’s presidency. You’ll learn that the real reason why Lincoln launched an invasion of his own country (he never admitted that secession was legal or legitimate) was to destroy the voluntary union of the founders and replace it with a coerced union held together by violence and threats of violence, much more like the old Soviet Union than the original American union.
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Not sure about this guy
- De Luis Renta en 07-26-20
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The Failed Promise
- Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
- De: Robert S. Levine
- Narrado por: Ryan Vincent Anderson
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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Robert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his absorbing account of the struggle between the great orator Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson.
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A timely review of the threat to the nation of a President who is unlistening to the “better angels of our nature.”
- De Karl R. Walko en 02-28-24
De: Robert S. Levine
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Break It Up
- Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union
- De: Richard Kreitner
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 15 h y 42 m
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The novel and fiery thesis of Break It Up is simple: the United States has never lived up to its name - and never will. The disunionist impulse may have found its greatest expression in the Civil War, but as Break It Up shows, the seduction of secession wasn't limited to the South or the 19th century. With a scholar's command and a journalist's curiosity, Kreitner takes readers on a revolutionary journey through American history, revealing the power and persistence of disunion movements in every era and region.
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Completely Partisan
- De Patrick Tobin en 11-06-22
De: Richard Kreitner
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It Wasn’t About Slavery
- Exposing the Great Lie of the Civil War
- De: Samuel W. Mitcham
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 6 h y 20 m
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Was the Civil War really about slavery? Or was it a war fought over money? Civil War historian Samuel W. Mitcham Jr., (Vicksburg, Bust Hell Wide Open) opens his fascinating new book, It Wasn't About Slavery, with Dr. Grady McWhiney's claim that "what passes as standard American history is really Yankee history written by New Englanders or their puppets to glorify Yankee heroes and ideals".
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Abbeville Condensed
- De AC Gleason en 07-16-20