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Saving Freedom
- Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization
- Narrated by: Joe Scarborough
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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History called on Harry Truman to unite the Western world against Soviet communism, but first he had to rally Republicans and Democrats behind America’s most dramatic foreign policy shift since George Washington delivered his farewell address. How did one of the least prepared presidents to walk into the Oval Office become one of its most successful?
The year was 1947. The Soviet Union had moved from being America’s uneasy ally in the Second World War to its most feared enemy. With Joseph Stalin’s ambitions pushing westward, Turkey was pressured from the east while communist revolutionaries overran Greece. The British Empire was battered from its war with Hitler and suddenly teetering on the brink of financial ruin. Only America could afford to defend freedom in the West, and the effort was spearheaded by a president who hadn’t even been elected to that office. But Truman would wage a domestic political battle that carried with it the highest of stakes, inspiring friends and foes alike to join in his crusade to defend democracy across the globe.
In Saving Freedom, Joe Scarborough recounts the historic forces that moved Truman toward his country’s long twilight struggle against Soviet communism, and how this untested president acted decisively to build a lasting coalition that would influence America’s foreign policy for generations to come.
On March 12, 1947, Truman delivered an address before a joint session of Congress announcing a policy of containment that would soon become known as the Truman Doctrine. That doctrine pledged that the United States would “support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.” The untested president’s policy was a radical shift from 150 years of isolationism, but it would prove to be the pivotal moment that guaranteed Western Europe’s freedom, the American Century’s rise, and the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union.
Truman’s triumph over the personal and political struggles that confronted him following his ascension to the presidency is an inspiring tale of American leadership, fierce determination, bipartisan unity, and courage in the face of the rising Soviet threat. Saving Freedom explores one of the most pivotal moments of the 20th century, a turning point when patriotic Americans of both political parties worked together to defeat tyranny.
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Strong History Rich With Behind The Scenes Details
- By John on 10-06-11
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Appeasement
- Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War
- By: Tim Bouverie
- Narrated by: John Sessions
- Length: 22 hrs and 3 mins
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On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off an airplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. It was, he later assured the crowd in Downing Street, "peace for our time." Less than a year later, Germany invaded Poland and the Second World War began. Appeasement is a groundbreaking history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy, and parliamentary infighting that enabled Hitler's domination of Europe.
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I cannot tolerate the narrator
- By DrBCFR on 06-05-19
By: Tim Bouverie
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Europe's Last Summer
- By: David Fromkin
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
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The early summer of 1914 was the most glorious Europeans could remember. But, behind the scenes, the most destructive war the world had yet known was moving inexorably into being, a war that would continue to resonate into the 21st century. The question of how the Great War of 1914 began has long vexed historians. In a gripping narrative, Fromkin shows that hostilities were started deliberately and that two wars were waged, one serving as pretext for the other.
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A different take on the events leading to the Great War
- By Chris on 09-04-20
By: David Fromkin
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The Third Reich
- A History of Nazi Germany
- By: Thomas Childers
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 26 hrs and 10 mins
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In The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, Thomas Childers shows how the young Hitler became passionately political and anti-Semitic as he lived on the margins of society. Fueled by outrage at the punitive terms imposed on Germany by the Versailles Treaty, he found his voice and drew a loyal following.
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Superb and important history
- By Tad Davis on 10-18-20
By: Thomas Childers
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Camelot's Court
- Inside the Kennedy White House
- By: Robert Dallek
- Narrated by: James Lurie
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Fifty years after John F. Kennedy's assassination, presidential historian Robert Dallek, whom The New York Times calls "Kennedy's leading biographer", delivers a riveting new portrait of this president and his inner circle of advisors, their rivalries, personality clashes, and political battles. In Camelot's Court, Dallek analyzes the brain trust whose contributions to the successes and failures of Kennedy's administration - including the Bay of Pigs, civil rights, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Vietnam - were indelible.
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Well Researched but Critically Flawed
- By brent lloyd on 02-08-22
By: Robert Dallek
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The Washington War
- FDR's Inner Circle and the Politics of Power That Won World War II
- By: James Lacey
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The Washington War is the story of how the Second World War was fought and won in the capital’s halls of power - and how the United States, which in December 1941 had a nominal army and a decimated naval fleet, was able in only 30 months to fling huge forces onto the European continent and shortly thereafter shatter Imperial Japan’s Pacific strongholds. Three quarters of a century after the overwhelming defeat of the totalitarian Axis forces, the terrifying, razor-thin calculus on which so many critical decisions turned has been forgotten....
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interesting but tedious
- By Joey on 06-07-20
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Kissinger: Volume I
- 1923-1968: The Idealist
- By: Niall Ferguson
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No American statesman has been as revered and as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Once hailed as "Super-K" - the "indispensable man" whose advice has been sought by every president from Kennedy to Obama - he has also been hounded by conspiracy theorists, scouring his every "telcon" for evidence of Machiavellian malfeasance. Yet as Niall Ferguson shows in this magisterial biography, the idea of Kissinger as the ruthless arch-realist is based on a profound misunderstanding.
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Riveting
- By Jean on 11-10-15
By: Niall Ferguson
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Japan 1941
- Countdown to Infamy
- By: Eri Hotta
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
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When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a conflict they were bound to lose. Availing herself of rarely consulted material, Hotta poses essential questions overlooked by historians in the seventy years since: Why did these men - military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor - put their country and its citizens in harm's way? Why did they make a decision that was doomed from the start?
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Japanese viewpoint
- By Jean on 01-01-14
By: Eri Hotta
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
- By: Herbert P. Bix
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
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In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix describes what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nation's political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine status.
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Not what I bargained for
- By Alexander Crowell on 08-21-20
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The Folly and the Glory
- America, Russia, and Political Warfare: 1945-2020
- By: Tim Weiner
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From Tim Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, an urgent and gripping account of the 75-year battle between the US and Russia that led to the election and impeachment of an American president.
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Worst Narration Ever
- By Amy on 02-15-21
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How Wars End
- Why We Always Fight the Last Battle
- By: Gideon Rose
- Narrated by: Gideon Rose
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
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In 1991, the United States Army trounced the Iraqi army in battle only to stumble blindly into postwar turmoil. Then in 2003 the United States did it again. How could this happen? How could the strongest power in modern history fight two wars against the same opponent in just over a decade, win lightning victories both times, and yet still be woefully unprepared for the aftermath? Because Americans always forget the political aspects of war.
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Excellent book
- By Luis on 11-04-10
By: Gideon Rose
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- Leslie W. Stewart III
- 10-23-21
History of Congress
I thought this was more about the machinations of Congress than HST. it was kind of drony to me.
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- Alex Miller
- 03-21-21
Focus on Greece civil war after WWII
Good book, good narration. Surprised it focused on Greece and Turkey and standing up to Communism there rather than the Korean conflict (which is what I expected). The Truman doctrine became the guiding foreign policy of the US for 70 years. Peace was secured by Truman, Dean Acheson, Vandenberg, Marshall plan and formation of NATO.
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- Richard Szymanski
- 12-11-20
american exceptionalism
an example of american history and exceptionalism i didnt know or understand until now. trumams story is one of preservence and determination to achieve and succeed despite overwhelming obsticals. a true patriot, not like what we see in todays political climate.
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- Tim Krupa
- 03-18-22
Saving Freedom
Well written. Well told.
Harry Truman’s presidency arguably fast initial challenges grater than any of his predecessors save Washington and Lincoln. Saving Freedom examines Truman’s early years focusing on the lost war period which was the beginning of the cold war. Key decisions ending WWII, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan - events that set America’s foreign policy for decades.
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- Joseph C. Wilson
- 12-06-20
Wish Trump had read this history
Joe Scarborough serves up the history of why America needs NATO and our alliance with western democracies. Harry Truman was a great man who rose to fight communism, while Trump failed to understand the threat from Russia.
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- Bubikon
- 01-24-21
An important book about the American Presidency
Joe Scarborough’s book is an important history of the Truman Doctrine which was Harry Truman’s successful plan to help Greece and Turkey and ultimately other nations defeat the plans of the Soviet Union to infiltrate and conquer American allies greatly vulnerable because of destruction and ruin cause by World War II. The doctrine was a bipartisan plan that helped the United States and the free world for decades and ultimately ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Joe Scarborough is far from a professional historian. He is no Erik Larson or David McCullough, but he blends Truman’s life with his own experiences in Congress and ultimately shows the distinctions between a Trump foreign policy and its failures compared with President Truman’s success. While the book is not chronological, it is because Scarborough concentrates such as the United Nations, the end of World War II, Truman’s election as President as well as his early life. One may have wished for less detail about the opposition and support of many congress people to the plan, but Scarborough’s descriptions of the great players like David Atchison, General George Marshall and Senator and Arthur Vandenberg. This is a fine book about an important part of American presidential history.
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- Norm the Nonfiction Reader
- 05-20-21
A history well worth your time.
It is a story worth knowing. This book will also help America stop our drift toward Autocracy pushed by the January 6, 2021 insurrection attack on the Capitol Building.
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- Mark A
- 11-29-20
An engaging review of a remarkable president
This is a very good book.
It does not pretend to be a comprehensive biography of president Harry Truman. Rather, it is a serious and admiring review of President Truman’s outsized role in forming the foundation of the world I have grown up in.
I am now nearly 70 years old, and while I have read David McCullough excellent biography of President Truman, I was not fully aware of the impact his presidency has had on the world.
This is a well written and excellently narrated book and desires the time and attention of every American interested in how we happen to be where we are today and to glimpse a political environment in which truly momentous things could be, and we’re, accomplished.
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- GeeDubya
- 05-09-21
TECHtek101 - Am ready for my 3rd "READ" - Kudos JS
No bluetooth k/b handy. Ergo: this website Tt101 says it was: "Finger lickin Good"! Mmmm
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- Ted Jr
- 12-05-20
Historical accounting of an important time.
Never a history buff I enjoyed this telling of Truman's accidental rise to the presidency.
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