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Bad Gays
- A Homosexual History
- Narrated by: Ben Allen
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
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We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those 'bad gays' whose un-exemplary lives reveal more than we might expect? Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but, as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and dastardly deeds have been overlooked.
Based on the hugely popular podcast series, Bad Gays subverts the notion of gay icons and queer heroes and asks what we can learn about LGBTQ+ history, sexuality and identity through its villains and baddies. From the Emperor Hadrian to anthropologist Margaret Mead and notorious gangster Ronnie Kray, the authors excavate the buried history of queer lives. This includes kings, fascist thugs such as Nazi founder Ernst Rohm, artists, and debauched bon viveurs.
Together these amazing life stories expand and challenge the mainstream assumptions of sexual identity. They show that homosexuality itself was an idea that emerged in the nineteenth century and that its interpretation has been central to major historical moments of conflict from the ruptures of Weimar Republic to red-baiting in Cold War America.
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From the palaces of the Habsburg Empire to the torture chambers of Stalin's Soviet Union, the extraordinary story of a life suspended between the collapse of the imperial order and the violent emergence of modern Europe. Wilhelm Von Habsburg wore the uniform of the Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, and, every so often, a dress.
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little known story about Hapsburgs
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Fracture
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- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
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When the Great War ended in 1918, the West was broken. Religious faith, patriotism, and the belief in human progress had all been called into question by the mass carnage experienced by both sides. Shell-shocked and traumatized, the West faced a world it no longer recognized: The old order had collapsed, replaced by an age of machines. The world hurtled forward on gears and crankshafts, and terrifying new ideologies arose from the wreckage of past belief.
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Lots of good trivia information
- By Jean on 07-23-15
By: Philipp Blom
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The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was the greatest atrocity of World War I. Around one million Armenians were killed, and the survivors were scattered across the world. Although it is now a century old, the issue of what most of the world calls the Armenian Genocide of 1915 is still a live and divisive issue that mobilizes Armenians across the world, shapes the identity and politics of modern Turkey, and has consumed the attention of U.S. politicians for years.
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China in the 21st Century, 3rd Edition
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In this fully revised and updated third edition, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world's newest superpower and offer a framework for understanding China's meteoric rise from developing country to superpower. Framing their answers through the historical legacies that largely define China's present-day trajectory, Wasserstrom and Cunningham introduce listeners to the Chinese Communist Party, the building boom in Shanghai, and the environmental fallout of rapid Chinese industrialization.
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Amazing!
- By Anonymous User on 07-11-20
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The Long March
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The architects of America's cultural revolution of the 1960s were Beat authors like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, and celebrated figures like Norman Mailer, Timothy Leary, Eldridge Cleaver, and Susan Sontag. In examining the lives and works of those who spoke for the 1960s, Roger Kimball conceives a series of cautionary tales, an annotated guidebook of wrong turns, dead-ends, and blind alleys.
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The Long March
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Shallow and unsatisfying
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Returning Marx to the Victorian confines of the 19th century, Jonathan Sperber, one of the United States' leading European historians, challenges many of our misconceptions of this political firebrand turned London journalist. In this deeply humanizing portrait, Marx no longer is the Olympian soothsayer, divining the dialectical imperatives of human history, but a scholar-activist whose revolutionary Weltanschauung was closer to Robespierre's than to those of 20th-century Marxists.
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Informative intellectual biography, poor reading
- By anonymous on 10-25-13
By: Jonathan Sperber
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- Edward Sookikian
- 04-24-24
Fun historical information
Overall it was interesting to listen about the bad gay boys, but I did hear some date inaccuracies.
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- Catie Duckworth
- 10-28-24
Great narrator and story, awful editing
The producers of this audiobook must have been asleep on the job. The Final Cut was not properly edited. However, I enjoyed the book. I learned a lot. I liked the chapter on Hoover and Cohn possibly the most. Also, I’d let this narrator read tax codes to me. Such a soothing voice.
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- Bryce Johnson
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Obnoxious voice of reader and underwhelming work, can I have my credit back?
A lot of random fluff and banter and historical mind wondering, this book did not connect the dots for me. The author of the book somehow was able to read the minds of its long dead subjects and tell us what they were thinking and also feeling and how everyone felt about them at the time, and somehow takes the position of an all knowing god as they describe the stories of different characters in history. Some parts are scholarly and actually refer to original source materials but unfortunately most of the book goes very much into the opinion of the author and come off as a reflection of their emotional state.
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- John Bryan
- 03-11-23
Stick with the history
Lemmey and Miller are at their strongest in their excavations of individual lives, prying into the obscured and absurd details of (mostly) gay men’s histories. They have a talent for laying bare embarrassing scandals in a way that is sure to evoke at least a chuckle.
That said, they often depart from the work of history to engage in commentary that is less analysis than a forced posture that stands on the border of progressive homily and self-flagellation. Their conclusions, turning their gaze away from villainous individuals, paint the history of gay people in broad and concerning strokes. To paraphrase: “the history of gay people is a history of failures, full of sin and sickness,” a statement I waited in vain for them to qualify. In their eagerness to signal their awareness of their own privileged status as white gay men, Lemmey and Miller unfortunately weaponize what is otherwise fascinating history to commercialize a toxic and inadvertently homophobic self-righteousness, what better authors have called “creating scarcity in an economy of virtue” (Angela Nagle). I could sympathize more, perhaps, if the motives for their commentary felt genuinely more self-hating than cynical.
On a technical level, the production needed more vigilant editors. The narration was excellent.
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- Peter J Larsen
- 01-12-23
Technical Flaws, but…
…a brisk trip through queer (mostly) male history via the lives of men who were somewhere between problematic and reprehensible. In the process, the authors question our assumptions of sexual categories and show how those assumptions can hinder movements toward liberation. If you are unsure if this book is for you, check out some of the podcast episodes, although the book has a more serious and scholarly, although utterly accessible tone. It would be grand if the production company would re-edit the files, however. Ben Allen’s smooth voice deserves better than the jarring skipping and repetitions in the current version.
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- DJ
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Great book but audiobook has many flaws
Several parts are read and read multiple times. Alternatives are left in the script. That said, the content of the book is spot on. 5 star content, 2 star audio production
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- Robert F. Madaras
- 03-16-23
Love it
Love the podcast and love the book. So enlightening. I always learn something new It is awesome
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- Matthew Hintzen
- 10-19-23
Theories based on outdated social definitions
the Quickest way to get me to *snort* at your academic thesis is to use the words "bourgeoisie", "proletariat", and "Marxist liberalism" in an unironic way.
Problem 1) the first two terms were defined by Marx and assume a whole bunch of Axioms that simply have not been shown to actually be true.
Problem 2) and Marxist liberalism exists only in reference to the first two terms, i.e. nonsensical.
you might as well talk about "Mercury is in retrograde" as "They are Bourgeoisie"
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