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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s account of the first successful large-scale application of nonviolent resistance in America is comprehensive, revelatory, and intimate. King described his book as "the chronicle of 50,000 Negroes who took to heart the principles of nonviolence, who learned to fight for their rights with the weapon of love, and who, in the process, acquired a new estimate of their own human worth."
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5 out of 5 stars
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A look into the mind of Dr King
- De Georgia Burns en 02-06-16
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Looking for the Good War
- American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
- De: Elizabeth D. Samet
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 14 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
In Looking for the Good War, Elizabeth D. Samet reexamines the literature, art, and culture that emerged after World War II, bringing her expertise as a professor of English at West Point to bear on the complexity of the postwar period in national life. She exposes the confusion about American identity that was expressed during and immediately after the war, and the deep national ambivalence toward war, violence, and veterans - all of which were suppressed in subsequent decades by a dangerously sentimental attitude toward the United States' "exceptional" history and destiny.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential reading for military officers and political decision makers.
- De Arlene S. Burke en 02-23-22
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The War on History
- The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past
- De: Jarrett Stepman
- Narrado por: Chris Abell
- Duración: 7 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 765
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 686
America is hopelessly divided, but more worryingly, the ideas and “mystic chords of memory” that rest at the cornerstone of our civilization and bind the generations are being severed, attacked, and forgotten. The left has set out to shatter these bonds with a war on American history - the fundamental concepts, institutions, and icons that make our country what it is. And we have failed to protect our history, allowing Hollywood, educators, and the media to rewrite the story of America. We have ignored the invaluable lessons of our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Culture war, not history
- De J. Pulton en 03-08-21
De: Jarrett Stepman
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Democracy Matters
- Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
- De: Cornel West
- Narrado por: Cornel West
- Duración: 7 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 307
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 220
Democracy Matters is Cornel West's bold and powerful critique of the troubling deterioration of democracy in America in this threatening post-9/11 age of terrorist rage and imperial overreach, and an inspiring call for a resurgence of the deep democratic tradition in our country, which has waged war on the forces of imperialist corruption throughout our history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well written, a refreshing voice of inspiration
- De Gabriel en 07-06-05
De: Cornel West
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Age of Anger
- A History of the Present
- De: Pankaj Mishra
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 286
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 258
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 251
How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American shooters and ISIS to Donald Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism to racism and misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting his gaze back to the 18th century before leading us to the present.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De AR en 04-28-17
De: Pankaj Mishra
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Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill
- A Brief Account of a Long Life
- De: Gretchen Rubin
- Narrado por: Gretchen Rubin
- Duración: 6 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
Warrior and writer, genius and crank, rider in the British cavalry’s last great charge and inventor of the tank - Winston Churchill led Britain to fight alone against Nazi Germany in the fateful year of 1940 and set the standard for leading a democracy at war. Like no other portrait of its famous subject, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill is a dazzling display of facts more improbable than fiction, and an investigation of the contradictions and complexities that haunt biography.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Content
- De Sean P. Whiteley en 07-01-20
De: Gretchen Rubin
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The Lessons of History
- De: Will, Ariel Durant
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,030
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,300
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,266
The authors devoted five decades to the study of world history and philosophy, culminating in the masterful 11-volume Story of Civilization. In this compact summation of their work, Will and Ariel Durant share the vital and profound lessons of our collective past. Their perspective, gained after a lifetime of thinking and writing about the history of humankind, is an invaluable resource for us today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is a must for every Educated Person
- De BradleyBurr en 10-29-07
De: Will, y otros
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The Enlightenment
- The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
- De: Ritchie Robertson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 40 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 249
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 202
This magisterial history - sure to become the definitive work on the subject - recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The quickest 40 hour audio book I’ve listen to
- De Joey Caster en 04-02-21
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Anarchism and Other Essays
- De: Emma Goldman
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 279
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 233
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 229
Among the men and women prominent in the public life of early 20th-century America there are but few whose names are mentioned as often as that of Emma Goldman. Yet the real Emma Goldman is almost quite unknown. Here are powerful, penetrating, prophetic essays on direct action, the role of minorities, prison reform, puritan hypocrisy, and violence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Critical reading for today's world
- De Darwin en 02-27-17
De: Emma Goldman
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Discourse on Colonialism
- De: Aimé Césaire
- Narrado por: J. Keith Jackson
- Duración: 3 h y 14 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 76
This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Nearly 20 years later, when published for the first time in English, Discourse on Colonialism inspired a new generation engaged in the Civil Rights, Black Power, and anti-war movements and has sold more than 75,000 copies to date.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Authentic Analytical Book on Colonialism.
- De Anonymous User en 07-12-23
De: Aimé Césaire
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The Case for Nationalism
- How It Made Us Powerful, United, and Free
- De: Rich Lowry
- Narrado por: Roy Worley
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
In The Case for Nationalism, Lowry explains how nationalism was central to the American Project. It fueled the American Revolution and the ratification of the Constitution. It preserved the country during the Civil War. It led to the expansion of the American nation’s territory and power, and eventually to our invaluable contribution to creating an international system of self-governing nations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Truth does matter !
- De CFC en 11-06-19
De: Rich Lowry
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The Irony of American History
- De: Reinhold Niebuhr
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 5 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 193
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 146
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 147
Forged during the tumultuous but triumphant postwar years when America came of age as a world power, The Irony of American History is more relevant now than ever before. Cited by politicians as diverse as Hillary Clinton and John McCain, Niebuhr's masterpiece on the incongruity between personal ideals and political reality is both an indictment of American moral complacency and a warning against the arrogance of virtue.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superlative Book
- De Amazon Customer en 01-29-10
De: Reinhold Niebuhr
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Our Oriental Heritage
- The Story of Civilization, Volume 1
- De: Will Durant
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 50 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,293
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,152
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,144
The first volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize-winning series, Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization, Volume I chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- De Michael en 11-30-13
De: Will Durant
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Germany
- A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000
- De: Helmut Walser Smith
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 20 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 39
For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history, challenges traditional perceptions of Germany's conflicted past, revealing a nation far more thematically complicated than 20th-century historians have imagined.
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4 out of 5 stars
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review response
- De Matthew and Tracy Johnson en 10-30-21
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A Thousand Small Sanities
- The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
- De: Adam Gopnik
- Narrado por: Adam Gopnik
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 182
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 156
A Thousand Small Sanities is a manifesto rooted in the lives of people who invented and extended the liberal tradition. Taking us from Montaigne to Mill, and from Middlemarch to the civil rights movement, Adam Gopnik argues that liberalism is not a form of centrism, nor simply another word for free markets, nor merely a term denoting a set of rights. It is something far more ambitious: the search for radical change by humane measures. Gopnik shows us why liberalism is one of the great moral adventures in human history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Erudite and entertaining!
- De D. A. Vail en 05-20-19
De: Adam Gopnik