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Lafayette
- De: Harlow Giles Unger
- Narrado por: Matthew Boston
- Duración: 18 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 202
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 190
In this gripping biography, acclaimed author Harlow Giles Unger paints an intimate portrait of the heroic young French soldier who, at 19, renounced a life of luxury in Paris and Versailles to fight and bleed for liberty - at Brandywine, Valley Forge, and Yorktown. A major general in the Continental army, he quickly earned the love of his troops, his fellow commanders, and his commander in chief, George Washington, who called him his "adopted son".
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4 out of 5 stars
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WE GET IT! HE'S A "KNIGHT"
- De Anonymous User en 01-13-22
- Lafayette
- De: Harlow Giles Unger
- Narrado por: Matthew Boston
Panegyrics-r-us
Revisado: 08-11-21
Superficial reportage, rather than serious history: much of it consists of the text of letters, and the author uncritically adopts the point of view gleaned from the most obvious sense of Lafayette’s words and actions. Every issue that crosses his path—and these are weighty and complex—is reduced to Lafayette’s stated opinions, or his clear interests. Slavery, First Nations peoples, the American and French Revolutions, endless war,,, each deserves rich and layered contextual treatment. Each deserves a closer and more probing, as well as a larger, and more composite, treatment. Instesad, we get hero-worship of a rather adolescent kind.
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Crucible
- The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924
- De: Charles Emmerson
- Narrado por: Charles Emmerson
- Duración: 25 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
In Petrograd, a fire is lit. The Tsar is packed off to Siberia. A rancorous Russian exile returns to proclaim a workers' revolution. In America, black soldiers who have served their country in Europe demand their rights at home. An Austrian war veteran trained by the German army to give rousing speeches against the Bolshevik peril begins to rail against the Jews. A solar eclipse turns a former patent clerk into a celebrity. An American reporter living the high life in Paris searches out a new literary style.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Splendid in all respects
- De Paul Custer en 02-11-20
- Crucible
- The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924
- De: Charles Emmerson
- Narrado por: Charles Emmerson
Splendid in all respects
Revisado: 02-11-20
Entertaining and deftly-crafted montage crafted rolling present narrative. Worth at least one listen, maybe two.
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Mortal Republic
- How Rome Fell into Tyranny
- De: Edward J. Watts
- Narrado por: Matt Kugler
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 279
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 251
In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military and political power, its governing institutions, parliamentary rules, and political customs successfully fostered negotiation and compromise. By the 130s BC, however, Rome's leaders increasingly used these same tools to cynically pursue individual gain and obstruct their opponents.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Well Written Timely Work
- De David I. Williams en 09-10-20
- Mortal Republic
- How Rome Fell into Tyranny
- De: Edward J. Watts
- Narrado por: Matt Kugler
Terrific condensed history of the late Republic
Revisado: 12-24-18
Dense and dramatic, this is an excellent introduction to the Republic's last century. All the main personalities are here, and the story weaves individual and structural causes fairly well. Very well-read.
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Dare Not Linger
- The Presidential Years
- De: Nelson Mandela, Mandla Langa, Graça Machel - prologue
- Narrado por: Adrian Lester
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
In 1994, Nelson Mandela became the first president of democratic South Africa. Five years later, he stood down. In that time, he and his government wrought the most extraordinary transformation, turning a nation riven by centuries of colonialism and apartheid into a fully functioning democracy in which all South Africa’s citizens, black and white, were equal before the law. Dare Not Linger is the story of Mandela’s presidency, drawing heavily on the memoir he began to write as he prepared to finish his term as president, but was unable to finish
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1 out of 5 stars
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No story, just a bunch of information
- De Gerardo A Dada en 05-13-18
- Dare Not Linger
- The Presidential Years
- De: Nelson Mandela, Mandla Langa, Graça Machel - prologue
- Narrado por: Adrian Lester
Performative rendering of Madiba's notes
Revisado: 12-24-18
An entertaining and believable rendering of Madiba's scattered notes toward a second part to his Autobiography, covering his Presidential term. His words are rendered in a a reasonable impression, while context is provided in a different, rather subdued voice (tho read very well). It takes about ten minutes to get used to it: and the journey is worth it.
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