Ruth B. Goldston
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How the West Brought War to Ukraine
- Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe
- By: Benjamin Abelow
- Narrated by: Larry Wayne
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 62
According to the mainstream Western narrative, Vladimir Putin is an insatiable, Hitler-like expansionist who invaded Ukraine in an unprovoked land grab. That story is incorrect. In reality, the United States and NATO bear much of the responsibility for the Ukraine crisis.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Russian (Soviet) Propaganda
- By John Williams on 12-11-22
- How the West Brought War to Ukraine
- Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe
- By: Benjamin Abelow
- Narrated by: Larry Wayne
Good Contrast with Timothy Snyder’s Work
Reviewed: 01-01-23
Listen to this and Timothy Snyder’s VERY different expanded version of “On Tyranny” back-to-back. They are both right. The result is that the US has to get Russia out of Ukraine by providing agreements on strategic stability that benefit both Russia & the West.
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On Tyranny (Expanded Audio Edition)
- Updated with Twenty New Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine
- By: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 572
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 506
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Story5 out of 5 stars 501
In this exclusive audiobook edition, which includes eight hours of new content, Snyder combines the original essays from On Tyranny with twenty new lessons that answer the questions everyone is asking about this war. With forays into history, he clarifies the causes of the Russian invasion and the meaning of Ukrainian resistance, and explains the war's connections to threats to democracy here in the United States and around the world. Linking past and present, speaking only from notes, he guides the listener into the larger moral universe of On Tyranny.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book of the decade
- By Chuck on 04-21-22
- On Tyranny (Expanded Audio Edition)
- Updated with Twenty New Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine
- By: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
What is at Stake in Ukraine
Reviewed: 12-31-22
The 8-hr expansion on Snyder’s 2-hr book summarizes the history of Ukraine in the context of what he thinks the war in Ukraine means for us. A brilliant synthesis and call to responsibility for our own future.
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Not One Inch
- America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
- By: M.E. Sarotte
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 222
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 191
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 191
Based on over a hundred interviews and on secret records of White House-Kremlin contacts, Not One Inch shows how the United States successfully overcame Russian resistance in the 1990s to expand NATO to more than 900 million people. But it also reveals how Washington's hardball tactics transformed the era between the Cold War and the present day, undermining what could have become a lasting partnership.
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5 out of 5 stars
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America's NATO problem
- By Jeffrey D on 03-24-22
- Not One Inch
- America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
- By: M.E. Sarotte
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
The Full Story of the Early Post Cold War
Reviewed: 12-25-22
A deeply researched history of the early post-cold-war period. It explores all the forces that ultimately drove us into the present confrontation with Russia. We ignored Churchill’s dictum, “In victory, magnanimity,” and much like with the Treaty of Versailles we contributed to the rebirth of a brutal empire.
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The Enlightenment That Failed
- Ideas, Revolution, and Democratic Defeat, 1748-1830
- By: Jonathan I. Israel
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 60 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 9
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Story5 out of 5 stars 9
The Enlightenment That Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and those aspiring to enlighten all of society by raising mankind's awareness, freedoms, and educational level generally. Jonathan I. Israel explains why the democratic and radical secularizing tendency of the Western Enlightenment, after gaining some notable successes during the revolutionary era (1775-1820) in numerous countries, especially in Europe, North America, and Spanish America, ultimately failed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightened radical
- By Anonymous User on 07-02-22
- The Enlightenment That Failed
- Ideas, Revolution, and Democratic Defeat, 1748-1830
- By: Jonathan I. Israel
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Long but Good Tour
Reviewed: 06-01-22
…. thru the enlightenment starting from Spinoza, lingering (of course) on the French Revolution, and getting to Marx. He has a thesis about the strands of the enlightenment that doesn’t get too much in the way of the broad and informative sweep of the history. The lesson for our times is that democracy has a tough competitor in autocratic populism.
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Strangers in Their Own Land
- Anger and Mourning on the American Right
- By: Arlie Russell Hochschild
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,859
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,635
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,619
In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country - a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Performance undercuts thesis
- By married, one tall dog, one smelly dog on 01-02-17
- Strangers in Their Own Land
- Anger and Mourning on the American Right
- By: Arlie Russell Hochschild
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
A deep perspective
Reviewed: 02-19-22
A very deep dive into the lives of the largely disadvantage white Republicans of Louisiana. Why do they suffer from massive pollution and also hate the EPA. How they feel others are cutting in line ahead of them. Why the vote for Trump. An important book indeed.
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Skippy Dies
- By: Paul Murray
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber, Fred Berman, Clodagh Bowyer, and others
- Length: 23 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 1,910
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,259
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 1,276
This touching and uproarious novel by author Paul Murray made everyone’s best fiction of 2010 lists, including The Washington Post, Financial Times, Village Voice, and others. Why Skippy dies and what happens next is the mystery that links the boys of Dublin’s Seabrook College (Ruprecht Van Doren, the overweight genius obsessed with string theory; Carl, the teenager drug dealer and borderline psychotic; Philip Kilfether, the basketball-playing midget) to their parents and teachers in ways that no one could have imagined.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Funny, touching, entertaining
- By Chicago Laura on 01-22-11
Best audiobook performance I've ever heard
Reviewed: 12-02-18
The few actors who portray the many characters in this book are just amazing. Would love to know more about them and this performance. I loved the book.
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The General vs. the President
- MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
- By: H. W. Brands
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 746
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 664
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 658
From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Vivid Dramatic Accounting
- By Jean on 11-11-16
- The General vs. the President
- MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
- By: H. W. Brands
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
A great story well told
Reviewed: 01-20-17
The story, in effect, of how containment became the US strategy towards Communism. It also addresses how civilians maintained control over nuclear weapons. Important stuff well explained & narrated.
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The Half Has Never Been Told
- Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
- By: Edward E. Baptist
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,314
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,051
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,042
In The Half Has Never Been Told, historian Edward E. Baptist reveals the alarming extent to which slavery shaped our country politically, morally, and most of all, economically. Until the Civil War, our chief form of innovation was slavery. Through forced migration and torture, slave owners extracted continual increases in efficiency from their slaves, giving the country a virtual monopoly on the production of cotton, a key raw material of the Industrial Revolution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Book that Must Be Read
- By William on 09-29-15
- The Half Has Never Been Told
- Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
- By: Edward E. Baptist
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
A Great Book
Reviewed: 02-23-16
I imagine people can quibble with some of the statistics in this book, but the overall story of American economic growth depending in significant part on "the whipping Maxine" of slavery rings true. And the accounts of life under its savagery ring true as well.
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