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Thomas J. Holewinski

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Ayn Rand’s “Anthem” was better.

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3 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 08-30-24

You could tell this story inspired Ayn Rand’s “Anthem” which she much improved in every way. Don’t waste your time with this book.

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Amazing book!! Very important.

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-01-23

This book is incredibly important to read. It explains the lies, leading questions, reasoning fallacies and other falsehoods which Howard Zinn used… which have sadly permeated into every area of academia today.

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Amazing book, but the songs are awful

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3 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-05-22

Read the book. It’s a classic. But skip the songs. It’s the worst part of listening to this having to hear this guy sing out of tune. Instead, listen to the songs in the 1974 “The Hobbit” made for TV movie by Bass-Rankin. Same lyrics but those were done amazingly well.

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This is more an academic study

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 07-22-20

I love many of Thomas Sowell’s other books. This one is more an academic study. The first 2 chapters is most listing off data and was hard to listen to and focus. The info was still incredibly important, especially the last half of the book which is more commentary and lists all the things the enemies of charter schools do to try and stop them competing against public schools. I’d probably buy this on Kindle instead because it can be more helpful for research purposes. Thomas Sowell is still my hero though.

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Essential reading!!

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Reviewed: 07-16-20

This book should be essential reading for schools. It begins in the 1950’s where her previous book, “The Forgotten Man” left off and goes to the early 1970’s. Hopefully there is a 3rd book continuing from there.

This fills in the blanks on so many historical questions I’ve had and puts context on why so many decisions were made. The overall presentation and recording were excellent as well. I highly recommend this book.

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I love dystopian books but not this one

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Reviewed: 06-12-15

First, Tim Robbin's voice is annoying.

Second, this wasn't that good of a story compared to other books like "1984" and "Brave New World".

Last, the characters were all similar. The main character of Montag could of been the old man, the young girl, or any of the people he met in the Forrest. His wife and all her friends could of been the same character. The only slightly different character was the Fire Chief and he was all knowing which made no sense.

All in all, I was very disappointed in this book as well as most of Ray Bradbury's books so far.

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Great story, not a good presentation

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Reviewed: 05-25-15

This is one of my all time favorite stories. "Nigel" from Austin Powers reads this. While I enjoyed him in Logan's run, his reading wasn't that good. He would make Scottish accents for most characters??

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You need to read this

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5 out of 5 stars
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Reviewed: 04-15-15

Great book, great stories. As someone who works in the same field of course I'm gonna like it but he explains all the military terms in an easy to understand way for everyone to follow.

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Very important book for conservatives and history

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4 out of 5 stars
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Reviewed: 03-30-15

It's scary to hear this inside account of how far Communist spy's infiltrated government. It's scary to think of the influence they've had and the people they've put in powerful positions.

There are a few parts of the book that you can skip since the author went off on a tangent.
- his childhood up to the part where he joins the Communist party
- after Alger Hiss gets convicted he goes on random storytelling about his family life and starlight?

Everything else is indispensable. His stories of spying in the apparatus was the best part of the book. Definitely read this.

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