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Surviving Autocracy
- De: Masha Gessen
- Narrado por: Masha Gessen
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 529
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 442
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 442
In the run-up to the 2016 election, Masha Gessen stood out from other journalists for the ability to convey the ominous significance of Donald Trump's speech and behavior, unprecedented in a national candidate. Within 48 hours of Trump's victory, the essay "Autocracy: Rules for Survival" had gone viral, and Gessen's coverage of Trump's norm-smashing presidency became essential reading for a citizenry struggling to wrap their heads around the unimaginable.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good But . . .
- De A reviewer en 06-02-20
- Surviving Autocracy
- De: Masha Gessen
- Narrado por: Masha Gessen
Important book, excruciating reading
Revisado: 07-06-20
Gessen is an important thinker whom I admire. However, I wish another had read the book. Her enunciation is often slurred, making the text unclear. Also, as another reviewer noted, her reading has a sing-song quality that is off putting.
Also, why did I have to rate the story. This is not a story.
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Lives Like Loaded Guns
- Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
- De: Lyndall Gordon
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 15 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 67
In 1882, Emily Dickinson's brother Austin began a passionate love affair with Mabel Todd, a young Amherst faculty wife, setting in motion a series of events that would forever change the lives of the Dickinson family. The feud that erupted as a result has continued for over a century. Lyndall Gordon, an award-winning biographer, tells the riveting story of the Dickinsons and reveals Emily to be a very different woman from the pale, lovelorn recluse that exists in the popular imagination.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Take the Subtitle Literally
- De Cariola en 12-04-10
- Lives Like Loaded Guns
- Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
- De: Lyndall Gordon
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
Why is the book being read by a Britisher?
Revisado: 07-20-17
What made the experience of listening to Lives Like Loaded Guns the most enjoyable?
It is a fascinating biography, which I have not yet finished. However, the reader has a heavy British accent that I at moments find hard to penetrate. Am baffled by why she was chosen.
Would you be willing to try another one of Wanda McCaddon’s performances?
No.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No.
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Black Earth
- The Holocaust as History and Warning
- De: Timothy Snyder
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 16 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 599
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 514
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 515
In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first. Based on untapped sources from eastern Europe and forgotten testimonies from Jewish survivors, Black Earth recounts the mass murder of the Jews as an event that is still close to us, more comprehensible than we would like to think and thus all the more terrifying.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tough book but worth it!
- De Amazon customer en 11-20-15
- Black Earth
- The Holocaust as History and Warning
- De: Timothy Snyder
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
Essential
Revisado: 04-23-16
This is an essential text for we who live on the edge of a world
that climate change is rapidly altering.
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I Don't Believe in Atheists
- De: Chris Hedges
- Narrado por: Chris Hedges
- Duración: 4 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 107
There are two radical and dangerous sides to the debate on faith and religion in America: Christian fundamentalists, who see religious faith as their exclusive prerogative, and New Atheists, who brand all religious belief as irrational. Too often, the religious majority - those committed to tolerance and compassion as well as their faith - are caught in the middle.
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1 out of 5 stars
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An author who knows little but thinks he knows all
- De GLENN en 04-16-09
- I Don't Believe in Atheists
- De: Chris Hedges
- Narrado por: Chris Hedges
a prophetic voice
Revisado: 11-07-09
Chris Hedges is an important thinker. He writes polemics, and sometimes his brush is too broad. Yet, his is an important voice. Although he is now largely outside the church, he writes essentially from a Christian perspective, extending the ideas of Niebuhr. Although having been reared within the church and having been trained as a theologian, he believes the mainline churches have become complacent. However, his polemic is primarily directed towards fundamentalism, whether of the religious or atheistic form, by which he means the belief in the perfectibility of man and the imperialistic enterprises which such a belief encourages. He primary argument, following in Niebuhr's footsteps, is against hubris, the belief that we know the Truth, whether it takes a religious or cultural form, and that that those who oppose us are benighted and, if necessary, should be eliminated so that our superior way of life shall be universal.
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