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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 2,313
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,050
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,041
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
Spellbinding History
Reviewed: 05-05-19
An mesmerizing narrative that recasts enslavement to the center of US political economy. Simply brilliant.
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The Rising
- By: Ian Tregillis
- Narrated by: Chris Kayser
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 559
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 507
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 508
Jax, a rogue Clakker, has wreaked havoc upon the Clockmakers' Guild by destroying the Grand Forge. Reborn in the flames, he must begin his life as a free Clakker, but liberation proves its own burden. Berenice, formerly the legendary spymaster of New France, mastermind behind her nation's attempts to undermine the Dutch Hegemony, has been banished from her homeland and captured by the Clockmakers Guild's draconian secret police force.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Is egregious and repeated mispronunciaion a crime?
- By Christopher on 07-22-16
- The Rising
- By: Ian Tregillis
- Narrated by: Chris Kayser
Riveting 2nd Installment of Clacker triology
Reviewed: 02-13-19
Tregillis' continues his alternative history, steam-punk trilogy with a riveting second installment. Vivid characters are set in a 1920s where steam, horse and hand power has not given way to electricity, but fashioned a world at war with flesh fighting relentlessly against brasswork automated slaves. The Rising depicts Western Civilization as divided between a globe- striding Dutch Empire and a shattered and isolated France in retreat in Quebec and Montreal (identify as "Marsailles in the West"). Against this backdrop, the novel continues to develop its themes of imperial power, war, free will, treachery, sacrifice, slavery, freedom and dignity in a story that uses mechanicals as standings for African slaves whose bodies and talents built and enriched empires as white supremacy perfected a dehumanizing regime of racism intent upon reducing black men and women to mere flesh and blood robots. As this volume ends, Tregillis' metal metaphors have found a way to loose their masters' chains. I can't wait to read the third installment to see how it all turns out. Perhaps readers will find a lesson or two for this reality.
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A Legacy of Spies
- A Novel
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Tom Hollander
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,711
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,443
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,432
Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George Smiley, and Peter Guillam himself, are to be scrutinized by a generation with no memory of the Cold War.
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4 out of 5 stars
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All for England
- By Darwin8u on 09-12-17
- A Legacy of Spies
- A Novel
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Tom Hollander
Post Cold War Spies Face Revenge of Reality
Reviewed: 11-07-17
Another spy novel by John Le Carré, another well sent 7 hours. This time out Le Carré put the spy game under his all perceiving microscope. With a generation of writing convincingly about spies and their trade skill, here he focuses on the long begged questions at the heart of the profession. Is it worth all the pain and death? Without a Cold War justification will governments find the spies too costly to keep around. When an old case surfaces and threatens to publicly expose old spies and their secrets will the government use it as an excuse to handle outdated assets. Beautifully written, thoroughly engrossing.
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No Is Not Enough
- Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
- By: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Brit Marling
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 771
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 664
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 659
The election of Donald Trump is a dangerous escalation in a world of cascading crises. Trump's vision - a radical deregulation of the US economy in the interest of corporations, an all-out war on "radical Islamic terrorism", and sweeping aside climate science to unleash a domestic fossil fuel frenzy - will generate wave after wave of crises and shocks to the economy, to national security, to the environment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story, TERRIBLE narrator
- By Audio Engineer on 11-09-17
- No Is Not Enough
- Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
- By: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Brit Marling
Important Book for the Political Revolution
Reviewed: 09-09-17
Another TERRIFIC book from the author of "No Logo" and "The Shock Doctrine". Quick read that's a helpful refresher or introduction to key concepts of disaster capitalism. Brilliant and concise overview and take down of identity politics as sole banner of political affiliation and organizing. Lots of useful examples and suggestions for maximizing smart, non-violent and power-reversing strategies pulling progressives together and going forward. A MUST read for the long struggle ahead.
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