Anthony Pierulla
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Antisocial Part 2
- Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
- By: Andrew Marantz
- Narrated by: Andrew Marantz
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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From a rising star at The New Yorker, a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley set out to create a free and democratic internet - and how the cynical propagandists of the alt-right exploited that freedom to propel the extreme into the mainstream.
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DNC members awake and devour this
- By Anthony Pierulla on 11-30-24
- Antisocial Part 2
- Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
- By: Andrew Marantz
- Narrated by: Andrew Marantz
DNC members awake and devour this
Reviewed: 11-30-24
Read immediately after completing The Quite Damage by Jesselyn Cook. I only regret I did not read them much sooner. It’s sad that our “wake” leaders evidently did not either.
Obviously they felt they could battle an existential attack with an ethical powder puff.
Both works are seminal to understanding our transactional dysfunctional culture. And our mantra must be fight fire with fire not assume everyone is able to be educated.
Regrettably at 82 I’ve discovered that’s not the way it works
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Mr. Texas Part 2
- A Novel
- By: Lawrence Wright
- Narrated by: Steven Weber, Lawrence Wright
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
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Sonny Lamb is an affable, if floundering, rancher with the unfortunate habit of becoming a punchline in his Texas hometown. Most recently, to everyone’s headshaking amusement, he bought his own bull at an auction. But when a fire breaks out at a neighbor’s farm, Sonny makes headlines in another way: not waiting for help, he bolts to the farm where his heroic actions make the evening news.
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Eighty-one year fifty generation blue Texan
- By Anthony Pierulla on 10-26-23
- Mr. Texas Part 2
- A Novel
- By: Lawrence Wright
- Narrated by: Steven Weber, Lawrence Wright
Eighty-one year fifty generation blue Texan
Reviewed: 10-26-23
First off Mr.Wright is not only a Texas treasure is a national treasure. I cannot wait for this to be made into a movie and to go into my library right next to best Little whorehouse in Texas.
If you draw a line from Elpaso 20 miles north of Austin and stop at Port Arthur. This is a Texas your read about. Dare you not to laugh cry and have goosebumps.
Note to be where I listen to the audible book the introduction says there’s two books there may be the second book has the music, but I had to search for calling Audible because it comes on after the credits at the end you only download one book and the music is straight from Lamar Boulevard. I know you’ll enjoy this and you bleed orange when you get through it have fun.
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1919, the Year of Racial Violence Part 1
- How African Americans Fought Back
- By: David F. Krugler
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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1919, the Year of Racial Violence recounts African Americans' brave stand against a cascade of mob attacks in the United States after World War I. The emerging New Negro identity, which prized unflinching resistance to second-class citizenship, further inspired veterans and their fellow Black citizens. In city after city, Black men and women took up arms to repel mobs that used lynching, assaults, and other forms of violence to protect white supremacy; yet, authorities blamed Blacks for the violence, leading to mass arrests and misleading news coverage.
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…for the love of the game
- By Anthony Pierulla on 10-08-23
- 1919, the Year of Racial Violence Part 1
- How African Americans Fought Back
- By: David F. Krugler
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
…for the love of the game
Reviewed: 10-08-23
That’s why they played according to what is quoted about Cool Papa Bell and many others.
Look at YouTube interview with John “Mule”Miles if want to see a legend who passed a decade ago.
These men played much more than a game, they “played” to make the country what it was meant to be. For their and our sake I hope we can continue this endless task.
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Enough
- By: Cassidy Hutchinson
- Narrated by: Cassidy Hutchinson
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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Ever since a childhood visit to Washington, DC, Cassidy Hutchinson aspired to serve her country in government. Raised in a working-class family with a military background, she was the first in her immediate family to graduate from college. Despite having no ties to Washington, Hutchinson landed a vital position at the center of the Trump White House.
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Painful
- By Melissa C. on 09-28-23
- Enough
- By: Cassidy Hutchinson
- Narrated by: Cassidy Hutchinson
Thank you
Reviewed: 09-30-23
This is the elixir our nation so needed. The faith she gave me in young people is a gift I shall cherish eternally.
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Fatherland
- A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
- By: Burkhard Bilger
- Narrated by: Burkhard Bilger
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian, she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war. Then one day a packet of letters arrived from Germany, yellowing with age, and a secret history began to unfold.
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a window into a little-explored aspect of WWII
- By Marjorie on 09-23-23
- Fatherland
- A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
- By: Burkhard Bilger
- Narrated by: Burkhard Bilger
Better as a short story
Reviewed: 05-24-23
Travel log aspect interesting, apologies for zeitgeist of the milieu not so much. Listening at 1.5 speed was my strategy.
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The Last Honest Man
- The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys—and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy
- By: James Risen, Thomas Risen - contributor
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
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Senator Frank Church of Idaho was an unlikely hero. He led congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and had become a scathing, radical critic of what he saw as American imperialism around the world. But he was still politically ambitious, privately yearning for acceptance from the foreign policy establishment that he hated and eager to run for president. Despite his flaws, Church would show historic strength in his greatest moment, when in the wake of Watergate he was suddenly tasked with investigating abuses of power in the intelligence community.
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why do so many books have a liberal bias?
- By Doug Altrichter on 08-20-23
- The Last Honest Man
- The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys—and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy
- By: James Risen, Thomas Risen - contributor
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
Simply Awesome
Reviewed: 05-13-23
Having growing up in this era I only remember these things in passing. This wonderful book elucidates, and ties so many loose ends together that my understanding is enhanced immensely.
I recommend this to everyone who is interested in the current state of affairs, and how we might circumvents them and learn from them by reading this wonderful book
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Unlikely Heroes
- Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made
- By: Derek Leebaert
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
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Only four people served at the top echelon of President Franklin Roosevelt’s Administration from the frightening early months of spring 1933 until he died in April 1945, on the cusp of wartime victory. These lieutenants composed the tough, constrictive, long-term core of government. They built the great institutions being raised against the Depression, implemented the New Deal, and they were pivotal to winning World War II. Yet, in their different ways, each was as wounded as the polio-stricken titan.
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Long but worth every minute
- By Anthony Pierulla on 03-09-23
- Unlikely Heroes
- Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made
- By: Derek Leebaert
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
Long but worth every minute
Reviewed: 03-09-23
things I should’ve known, but never didn’t know this book taught me. The author unknown to me but fluid and rewrites like a novelist.
Born in 1942 I never knew the background and backstory of the first two decades of my life. Things for whatever reason I didn’t learn while I was in college and graduate school. I can now readily find on the Internet that’s the positive side of the Internet.
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Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
- By: Anthony Everitt
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
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In this dynamic and engaging biography, Anthony Everitt plunges us into the fascinating, scandal-ridden world of ancient Rome in its most glorious heyday. Accessible to us through his legendary speeches but also through an unrivaled collection of unguarded letters to his close friend Atticus, Cicero comes to life here as a witty and cunning political operator.
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An eloquent man, and a patriot
- By Darwin8u on 01-19-15
WOW…
Reviewed: 02-19-23
Jobs last word, Hayakawa …who doesn’t know history is bound to repeat it and then Clemons it might not repeat itself but it does rhyme.
Obviously at age 80 I should have known more about Mr. Cicero now thanks to Mr. Everett I do.
I must also thank all previous reviewers here. The vast majority of whom were erudite, elucidating and enticing. They prodded me to move forward and I graciously express my gratitude.
After all this I’m left with a burning question; who will be our generations Cicero?
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A World Lit Only by Fire
- The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
- By: William Manchester
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth, the Renaissance.
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Ruined by the narrator
- By Wallen on 02-28-09
- A World Lit Only by Fire
- The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
- By: William Manchester
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Brilliant Beautiful Beneficial.
Reviewed: 02-16-22
This work was so educational I cannot believe that I had never heard of the reasoned arguments in my 79 years of being on this earth.
I plan on recommending this work to anyone who will take the time to listen to me. Thank you Mr. Manchester
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God and Man at Yale
- The Superstitions of Academic Freedom
- By: William F. Buckley Jr.
- Narrated by: Michael Edwards
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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This is the book that launched William F. Buckley, Jr.'s career. As a young, recent Yale graduate, he took on Yale's professional and administrative staffs, citing their hypocritical diversion from the tenets on which the institution was built. Yale was founded on the belief that God exists, and thus that virtue and individualism represent immutable cornerstones of education. However, when Buckley wrote this scathing expose, the institution had made an about face.
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Good book....narrated by a $10 answering machine
- By Jose on 02-01-15
- God and Man at Yale
- The Superstitions of Academic Freedom
- By: William F. Buckley Jr.
- Narrated by: Michael Edwards
Overall all amusing to iterated how we have come and how we have to go. In this age of immanent CRT I would love to be a fly on
Reviewed: 07-16-21
to ponder how we have journeyed so far from 1949.
It would be so interesting to be a fly on the wall in a conversation today between William and and his son Christopher, however we know this is not gonna happen but in the age of CRT we can see the handwriting on the wall if we live through the trauma. In the meantime at 78 all I can do is watch the beautiful Ms. Hoover on PBS and see how she handles it
I only wish I would’ve read this book 40 years ago not that it would have changed my mind but would have articulated my arguments further.
Cliché that people don’t get what they deserve but rather deserve what they get. I fear for that in the year 2021.
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