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The Hot Seat
- A Year of Outrage, Pride, and Occasional Games of College Football
- By: Ben Mathis-Lilley
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17
Being a University of Michigan football fan should be joyful. Michigan is an elite academic institution whose football team boasts 43 Big Ten championships. But these days, college football is complicated. The NCAA is corrupt and exploitative, and Michigan keeps losing to Ohio State. It’s hard not to wonder, as Ben Mathis-Lilley does in this book: why are we doing this? The Hot Seat is a chronicle of one of the wildest years in Michigan football history, but also a search for the truth about fandom, from the pages of history books to the wilderness of online forums.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Go Blue!!!
- By Michael Farrell on 01-21-25
- The Hot Seat
- A Year of Outrage, Pride, and Occasional Games of College Football
- By: Ben Mathis-Lilley
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Go Blue!!!
Reviewed: 01-21-25
I love Michigan football but I didn’t expect this book to touch on so many things other than that. 10/10 would recommend
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George Washington, Entrepreneur
- How Our Founding Father's Private Business Pursuits Changed America and the World
- By: John Berlau
- Narrated by: Corey Gagne
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14
George Washington: general, statesman...businessman? Most people don't know that Washington was the country's first true entrepreneur, responsible for innovations in several industries. In George Washington, Entrepreneur, John Berlau presents a fresh, surprising take on our forefather's business pursuits. History has depicted Washington as a gifted general and political pragmatist, not an intellectual heavyweight. But he was a serious inventor and inveterate tinkerer and just as intelligent as Jefferson or Franklin.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Horrible last chapter ruins otherwise okay book
- By Michael Farrell on 01-20-25
- George Washington, Entrepreneur
- How Our Founding Father's Private Business Pursuits Changed America and the World
- By: John Berlau
- Narrated by: Corey Gagne
Horrible last chapter ruins otherwise okay book
Reviewed: 01-20-25
Why on earth did the book end with a conservative rant against the EPA and SEC and claim that Washington would have liked cryptocurrency. What an incredibly odd and awful way to end it. Literally no connection to the rest of the book. The rest of the book was worth 3 stars (interesting anecdotes but unclear how any ultimate theme was tied together), but the ending was worth at least negative 2 stars.
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