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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
In Behold, America, Sarah Churchwell offers a surprising account of 20th-century Americans' fierce battle for the nation's soul. It follows the stories of two phrases - the "American dream" and "America First" - that once embodied opposing visions for America. Starting as a Republican motto before becoming a hugely influential isolationist slogan during World War I, America First was always closely linked with authoritarianism and white supremacy. The American dream, meanwhile, initially represented a broad vision of democratic and economic equality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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History we need to know
- De Caroline Pufalt en 12-09-18
De: Sarah Churchwell
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Our Divided Political Heart
- The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent
- De: E. J. Dionne
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 11 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Our Divided Political Heart will be the must-listen book of the 2012 election campaign. Offering an incisive analysis of how hyper-individualism is poisoning the nation's political atmosphere, E. J. Dionne Jr., argues that Americans can't agree on who we are because we can't agree on who we've been, or what it is, philosophically and spiritually, that makes us Americans.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good points and lots of good information
- De Jamie B en 08-15-12
De: E. J. Dionne
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Reappraisals
- Reflections on the Forgotten 20th Century
- De: Tony Judt
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 16 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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The accelerating changes of the past generation have been accompanied by a similarly accelerated amnesia. The 20th century has become "history" at an unprecedented rate. The world of 2007 was so utterly unlike that of even 1987, much less any earlier time, that we have lost touch with our immediate past even before we have begun to make sense of it - and the results are proving calamitous.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb. Insightful essays, Performance to match
- De Louis en 05-02-12
De: Tony Judt
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On Anarchism
- De: Noam Chomsky, Nathan Schneider - introduction
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 4 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 711
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On Anarchism provides the reasoning behind Noam Chomsky's fearless lifelong questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power. In these essays, Chomsky redeems one of the most maligned ideologies, anarchism, and places it at the foundation of his political thinking. Chomsky's anarchism is distinctly optimistic and egalitarian. Moreover, it is a living, evolving tradition that is situated in a historical lineage; Chomsky's anarchism emphasizes the power of collective, rather than individualist, action.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hit and Miss
- De Jacob King en 06-18-14
De: Noam Chomsky, y otros
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Over Here
- The First World War and American Society
- De: David M. Kennedy
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 17 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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The Great War of 1914-1918 confronted the United States with one of the most wrenching crises in the nation's history. It also left a residue of disruption and disillusion that spawned an even more ruinous conflict scarcely a generation later. Over Here is the single most comprehensive discussion of the impact of World War I on American society.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good HISTORY AWFUL READING
- De Magyar en 02-05-20
De: David M. Kennedy
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Democracy Incorporated
- Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
- De: Sheldon S. Wolin
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 12 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 260
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 216
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential listening....
- De M. Levine en 02-25-11
De: Sheldon S. Wolin
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents
- From Wilson to Obama
- De: Steven F. Hayward
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 276
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 239
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 235
Academics, journalists, and popular historians agree: our greatest presidents are the ones who confronted a national crisis and mobilized the entire nation to face it. That’s the conventional wisdom. The chief executives who are celebrated in textbooks and placed in the top echelon of presidents in surveys of experts are the bold leaders - the Woodrow Wilsons and Franklin Roosevelts - who reshaped the United States in line with their grand “vision” for America. Unfortunately, along the way, these “great” presidents inevitably expanded government - and shrank our liberties.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really enjoyed it
- De Jkc-007 en 02-15-17
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The New Road to Serfdom
- A Letter of Warning to America
- De: Daniel Hannan
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 4 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 101
In The New Road to Serfdom, British conservative Daniel Hannan argues forcefully and passionately that Americans must not allow Barack Obama to take us down the road to EU-style social democracy. Instead, he pleads with Americans not to abandon the founding principles that made their country a beacon of liberty for the rest of the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An excellent read from a brilliant man...
- De Martin en 10-30-11
De: Daniel Hannan
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Capitalism
- The Unknown Ideal
- De: Ayn Rand
- Narrado por: Anna Fields
- Duración: 14 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 524
The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world's collapse. This was the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes that it constituted a major philosophic revolution. In this series of essays, she presented her stand on the persecution of big business, the causes of war, the default of conservatism, and the evils of altruism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ashame this is not taught in our
- De Karen en 08-18-07
De: Ayn Rand
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Revolutionary Characters
- What Made the Founders Different
- De: Gordon S. Wood
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 184
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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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1 out of 5 stars
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Wood clearly dislikes Adams
- De Michael en 01-15-07
De: Gordon S. Wood
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The Price of Greatness
- De: Jay Cost
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
In the history of American politics, there are few stories as enigmatic as that of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison's bitterly personal falling out. Together they helped bring the Constitution into being, yet soon after the new republic was born, they broke over the meaning of its founding document. Hamilton emphasized economic growth; Madison the importance of republican principles. Author Jay Cost is the first to argue that both men were right - and that their quarrel reveals a fundamental paradox at the heart of the American experiment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Principles in Tension
- De William Ehrich en 06-13-18
De: Jay Cost
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Churchill's Trial
- Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government
- De: Dr. Larry Arnn
- Narrado por: Wayne Campbell
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 130
A penetrating look at the necessity of constitutional limits upon government and exceptional men to lead those governments, uniquely taken by overlaying the life and writings of Winston Churchill with the American experiment.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Masterpiece of Political Philosophy
- De Jean en 01-25-16
De: Dr. Larry Arnn
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American Dialogue
- The Founders and Us
- De: Joseph J. Ellis
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 248
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 214
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 212
The story of history is a ceaseless conversation between past and present, and in American Dialogue, Joseph J. Ellis focuses the conversation on the often-asked question "What would the Founding Fathers think?" He examines four of our most seminal historical figures through the prism of particular topics, using the perspective of the present to shed light on their views and, in turn, to make clear how their now centuries-old ideas illuminate the disturbing impasse of today's political conflicts.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A fine work, even with the editorializing
- De Casey Kerrick en 11-24-18
De: Joseph J. Ellis
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Communism [Modern Library Chronicles]
- De: Richard Pipes
- Narrado por: George Wilson
- Duración: 5 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
From the acclaimed Modern Library Chronicles comes an exploration of a promising theory that when put to practice wreaked havoc on the world. An expert on communism, Richard Pipes follows the history of the Soviet Union from the 1917 revolution to the Cold War, and finally, to its deterioration and collapse.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Interesting but lacks objectivity
- De Mazen en 07-06-06
De: Richard Pipes
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Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
- De: Jonathan Sperber
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 22 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 189
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 161
Returning Marx to the Victorian confines of the 19th century, Jonathan Sperber, one of the United States' leading European historians, challenges many of our misconceptions of this political firebrand turned London journalist. In this deeply humanizing portrait, Marx no longer is the Olympian soothsayer, divining the dialectical imperatives of human history, but a scholar-activist whose revolutionary Weltanschauung was closer to Robespierre's than to those of 20th-century Marxists.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Informative intellectual biography, poor reading
- De anonymous en 10-25-13
De: Jonathan Sperber
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
- De: Richard Hofstadter
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 16 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 157
This book throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Still Current, Without Opening Recent Wounds
- De wbiro en 11-09-17
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The Age of Reform
- De: Richard Hofstadter
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
This work is a landmark in American political thought. Preeminent Richard Hofstadter examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 with startling and stimulating results. The Age of Reform searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers, the myths and dreams in which they believed, and the realities with which they had to compromise.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Still timely after all these years
- De Jonah en 04-11-24
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The American Political Tradition
- And the Men Who Made it
- De: Richard Hofstadter, Christopher Lasch - foreword
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 17 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 28
The American Political Tradition is one of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. First published in 1948, its elegance, passion, and iconoclastic erudition laid the groundwork for a totally new understanding of the American past. By writing a "kind of intellectual history of the assumptions behind American politics", Richard Hofstadter changed the way Americans understand the relationship between power and ideas in their national experience. Hofstadter was able to articulate, in a single work, a historical vision that inspired and shaped an entire generation.
De: Richard Hofstadter, y otros
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The Age of American Unreason
- De: Susan Jacoby
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 14 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 266
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 151
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 153
Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon - one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, Jacoby surveys an antirationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought".
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting, but explanation by redescription
- De T. Andrew Poehlman en 07-15-08
De: Susan Jacoby
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The Age of Reagan
- A History, 1974-2008
- De: Sean Wilentz
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 22 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 48
In The Age of Reagan, Sean Wilentz offers a fresh, brilliant chronicle of America's political history since the fall of Nixon. The past 35 years have marked an era of conservatism. Although briefly interrupted in the late 1970s and temporarily reversed in the 1990s, a powerful surge from the Right has dominated American politics and government.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Partisan interpretation of history
- De Chris C. en 11-26-08
De: Sean Wilentz
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Weimar Culture
- The Outsider as Insider
- De: Peter Gay
- Narrado por: James Anderson Foster
- Duración: 6 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's tenuous post-World War I democracy, and crashed violently in the wake of Hitler's rise to power.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engaging book, terrible narrator
- De Beth Simone Noveck en 05-08-21
De: Peter Gay
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
- De: Richard Hofstadter
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 16 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 157
This book throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Still Current, Without Opening Recent Wounds
- De wbiro en 11-09-17
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The Age of Reform
- De: Richard Hofstadter
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
This work is a landmark in American political thought. Preeminent Richard Hofstadter examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 with startling and stimulating results. The Age of Reform searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers, the myths and dreams in which they believed, and the realities with which they had to compromise.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Still timely after all these years
- De Jonah en 04-11-24
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The American Political Tradition
- And the Men Who Made it
- De: Richard Hofstadter, Christopher Lasch - foreword
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 17 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 28
The American Political Tradition is one of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. First published in 1948, its elegance, passion, and iconoclastic erudition laid the groundwork for a totally new understanding of the American past. By writing a "kind of intellectual history of the assumptions behind American politics", Richard Hofstadter changed the way Americans understand the relationship between power and ideas in their national experience. Hofstadter was able to articulate, in a single work, a historical vision that inspired and shaped an entire generation.
De: Richard Hofstadter, y otros
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The Age of American Unreason
- De: Susan Jacoby
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 14 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 266
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 151
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 153
Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon - one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, Jacoby surveys an antirationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought".
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting, but explanation by redescription
- De T. Andrew Poehlman en 07-15-08
De: Susan Jacoby
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The Age of Reagan
- A History, 1974-2008
- De: Sean Wilentz
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 22 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 48
In The Age of Reagan, Sean Wilentz offers a fresh, brilliant chronicle of America's political history since the fall of Nixon. The past 35 years have marked an era of conservatism. Although briefly interrupted in the late 1970s and temporarily reversed in the 1990s, a powerful surge from the Right has dominated American politics and government.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Partisan interpretation of history
- De Chris C. en 11-26-08
De: Sean Wilentz
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Weimar Culture
- The Outsider as Insider
- De: Peter Gay
- Narrado por: James Anderson Foster
- Duración: 6 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's tenuous post-World War I democracy, and crashed violently in the wake of Hitler's rise to power.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engaging book, terrible narrator
- De Beth Simone Noveck en 05-08-21
De: Peter Gay
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In Deep
- The FBI, CIA, and the Truth about America's "Deep State"
- De: David Rohde
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 83
Three-quarters of Americans believe that a group of unelected government and military officials secretly manipulate or direct national policy in the United States. This sweeping exploration examines the CIA and FBI scandals of the past 50 years - from the Church Committee's exposure of Cold War abuses, to Abscam, to false intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, to NSA mass surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden. It then investigates the claims and counterclaims of the Trump era, and the relentless spread of conspiracy theories online and on-air.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pure Propaganda
- De S Wilkey en 05-21-20
De: David Rohde
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The Rise of American Democracy
- Jefferson to Lincoln
- De: Sean Wilentz
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 39 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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In this magisterial work, Sean Wilentz traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening shots of the Civil War. One of our finest writers of history, Wilentz brings to life the era after the American Revolution, when the idea of democracy remained contentious, and Jeffersonians and Federalists clashed over the role of ordinary citizens in government of, by, and for the people. The triumph of Andrew Jackson soon defined this role on the national level, while city democrats, Anti-Masons, fugitive slaves, and a host of others hewed their own local definitions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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If you need to sleep...
- De HueDCypher39 en 08-04-20
De: Sean Wilentz
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How Propaganda Works
- De: Jason Stanley
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 48
In How Propaganda Works, Jason Stanley demonstrates that more attention needs to be paid. He examines how propaganda operates subtly, how it undermines democracy - particularly the ideals of democratic deliberation and equality - and how it has damaged democracies of the past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy
- De Amazon Customer en 04-18-21
De: Jason Stanley
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Let Them Eat Tweets
- How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality
- De: Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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In Let Them Eat Tweets, best-selling political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson offer a definitive answer: the Republican Party serves its plutocratic masters to a degree without precedent in modern global history. Conservative parties, by their nature, almost always side with the rich. But when faced with popular resistance, they usually make concessions, allowing some policies that benefit the working and middle classes. After all, how can a political party maintain power in a democracy if it serves only the interests of a narrow and wealthy slice of society?
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5 out of 5 stars
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a call to action that does not shame but warns
- De SomeGuy en 08-29-20
De: Jacob S. Hacker, y otros
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The Misinformation Age
- How False Beliefs Spread
- De: Cailin O’Connor, James Owen Weatherall
- Narrado por: Chelsea Stephens
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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In an age riven by "fake news," "alternative facts," and disputes over the validity of everything from climate change to the size of inauguration crowds, the authors argue that social factors, not individual psychology, are what's essential to understanding the persistence of false belief and that we must know how those social forces work in order to fight misinformation effectively.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Veritas!
- De Charles Henderson en 08-11-20
De: Cailin O’Connor, y otros
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Washington Bullets
- A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations
- De: Vijay Prashad
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
- Duración: 5 h y 29 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 126
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Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point. It is a book that could easily have been a song of despair - a lament of lost causes; it is, after all, a roll call of butchers and assassins; of plots against people's movements and governments; of the assassinations of socialists, Marxists, communists all over the Third World by the country where liberty is a statue.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The US empire needs to fall
- De Savannah Boyd en 04-28-24
De: Vijay Prashad
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The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
- De: Christopher Lasch
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 218
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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In this challenging work, Christopher Lasch makes an accessible critique of what is wrong with the values and beliefs of America's professional and managerial elites. The distinguished historian argues that democracy today is threatened not by the masses, as Jose Ortega y Gasset ( The Revolt of the Masses) had said, but by the elites. These elites - mobile and increasingly global in outlook - refuse to accept limits or ties to nation and place.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The last twenty years proves the author right
- De Del Lewis-Chia en 08-08-20
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential
- De Herman Utik en 09-19-16
De: Tony Judt
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Surfaces and Essences
- Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
- De: Douglas Hofstadter, Emmanuel Sander
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 33 h y 53 m
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Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work. Hofstadter has been grappling with the mysteries of human thought for over 30 years. Now, with his trademark wit and special talent for making complex ideas vivid, he has partnered with Sander to put forth a highly novel perspective on cognition.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An analogy to describe this 33-hour book
- De George C. en 11-08-19
De: Douglas Hofstadter, y otros
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The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
- De: Gordon S. Wood
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 24 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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This classic work explains the evolution of American political thought from the Declaration of Independence to the ratification of the Constitution. In so doing, it greatly illuminates the origins of the present American political system.
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This Audible book is NOT for a popular audience!
- De BigWally en 11-22-18
De: Gordon S. Wood
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What It Takes
- The Way to the White House
- De: Richard Ben Cramer
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 54 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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An American Iliad in the guise of contemporary political reportage, What It Takes penetrates the mystery at the heart of all presidential campaigns: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that makes a true candidate? As he recounts the frenzied course of the 1988 presidential race, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer comes up with the answers, in a book that is vast, exhaustively researched, exhilarating, and sometimes appalling in its revelations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great political book
- De Hebern en 09-11-20
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The Flag and the Cross
- White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
- De: Samuel L. Perry, Philip S. Gorski, Jemar Tisby - foreword
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 4 h y 43 m
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Most Americans were shocked by the violence they witnessed at the nation's Capital on January 6th, 2021. And many were bewildered by the images displayed by the insurrectionists: a wooden cross and wooden gallows; "Jesus saves" and "Don't Tread on Me;" Christian flags and Confederate Flags; even a prayer in Jesus's name after storming the Senate chamber. Where some saw a confusing jumble, Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry saw a familiar ideology: white Christian nationalism.
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could use an accompanying pdf
- De A W en 08-08-22
De: Samuel L. Perry, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Paranoid Style in American Politics
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- Kindle Customer
- 11-06-19
Written in the 50s and 60s...
And yet it eerily describes today's political scene. The 5th and 6th audio-chapters will blow you away. The book is a series of essays compiled as a volume so the subjects don't easily hang together unless you remember the thesis described early on.
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- Kevin Cherry
- 09-01-24
Resonates today
Great collection of essays. It's amazing how many of these ideas linger today in slightly different forms. I even liked the wonky antitrust essay, which is great reading if you ever studied anything about antitrust. It really gives good context for current debates about "Big Tech." The essay at the end about Coin's School was fascinating for both it's explanation of the Free Silver movement and again how the characters we see today existed in the American past (although no one is advocating the free coinage of silver).
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- Adam
- 06-27-23
Narrator sounds like the rabbi from Seinfeld
The narrator on this sounds like the rabbi from Seinfeld. That was a little distracting
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