Nathan Massengill

Often Hilarious, Always Fun

Revisado: 01-11-23

Great comic narration. Lots of in-jokes for fans of late 60s pop culture but not necessary to enjoy the show. Should be Golden Globe Nominated!

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A Truly Revolutionary History, Riveting and New

Revisado: 07-02-22

If you've always felt confused about the standard history book tropes of the "Revolutionary" war, this book is for you. Contemporary reviewers describe the first American war as hard to comprehend and filled with anachronistic irrelevancies, more myth than real, and not so important to the modern world. Like any world-changing historian, Horne proves all of those excuses to be offensive, pandering nonsense. He casually strips away the whitewashing of history and shows what the founding fathers were truly afraid of. That is, being made slaves like the chattel slaves they themselves held down. Horne writes from the point of view of common and enslaved persons. His groundbreaking and exciting POV is from the least powerful human bottom up, not top down as are literally all other histories of this time. The mythologized and romanticized Ben Franklin, for instance, is almost never mentioned, a relief to every reader of this War's history. Horne also directly connects this history to our present day moment. I've read all the major histories of the War and Founding and I've never read anything like the vast majority of this book. This history is shocking and almost immediately understood as a new truth, this is to say, the best type of history book. Immense original research went into this. In an era when most historians write their history books as a kind of expanded, cherry-picked Wikipedia of other author's works, my new favorite historian Gerald Horne shows just how new history can be. For those who throw elitist hate on the reader of this book, please get over it! This is an independent author not funded by Disney or some mega-publisher. Perhaps many reviewers fail to understand how little money such books make and how expensive readers are to hire, especially for such a complex book. Downrating such a book because of an average reader alone does everyone a disservice. If you reviewers can't parse a mispronounced word here and there then no audiobook will ever please you. Support this author. No one else is writing so much newly discovered truth that is so essential to understanding the USA.

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Optimistic, Pro-Democracy Centrist Lectures

Revisado: 07-02-22

if anything, this teacher errs on the side of extreme caution, sticking to well-established and undisputed facts like they were glue or from assuming her audience has a fragile faith in democracy. If you want your history pro-US, non-partisan, and theory-lite yet still race conscious, this is a safe bet for you. Mostly a 101 class, not for the advanced students. A lovely, sincere teacher who believes in hope.

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Great Intro to Scanlon, a very sharp writer

Revisado: 07-02-22

Take a chance on this quick totally standalone story. A great lead character (female) and very sharp writing by a real pro who has a real vocabulary and careful editing. True sci-fi. Refreshing!

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YA Zombies - Not Too Scary

Revisado: 07-02-22

Zombie stories on the horror-lite, family friendly side. Not for hardcore horror fans per say but rather for the younger reader IMO. A sincere project by charitable writers.

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Brilliant Accurate History.

Revisado: 04-15-22

I thought I was an expert on the romantic poets before I read this lovely, sad book of surprisingly true things.

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Very Accurate History

Revisado: 03-20-22

Very readable history of a story so bizarre it won't seem entirely real. But it was all too real.

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Brilliantly thoughtful, accurate, and insightful.

Revisado: 09-10-21

A great book with history few know and more should know. some mispronunciations but it's worth overlooking.

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