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Jersey Boy Takes Flight
- One Man's Story of Life, Loss, and Love During the Vietnam Era
- De: Frank Fox
- Narrado por: Frank Fox
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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In Jersey Boy Takes Flight, you are taken on an extraordinary journey through the life of a man whose adventure began as a child, growing up in a middle-class, blue-collar family in Newark, New Jersey. Discover the carefree escapades of a boy in the 1950s and early 60s, engaging in boy scouting, hunting, fishing, and his ultimate passion - baseball. Yet, these innocent exploits soon collided with a country in turmoil, a nation grappling with assassinations, race riots, voting rights protests, anti-war movements, the dawn of space exploration, and the ever-expanding conflict in Vietnam.
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Life as a helicopter pilot in Viet Nam
- De TvR en 02-03-25
- Jersey Boy Takes Flight
- One Man's Story of Life, Loss, and Love During the Vietnam Era
- De: Frank Fox
- Narrado por: Frank Fox
Life as a helicopter pilot in Viet Nam
Revisado: 02-03-25
I liked the author’s ability to recall and describe so many facts, names, places, and details of his experience in the Viet Nam war, now long past. I also liked his ability to adapt to difficulties, made possible in part by the excellent training provided by the Army to him as a helicopter pilot. Well told story of his life before, during, and after his military service.
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Thank You for Being Late
- An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
- De: Thomas L. Friedman
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 19 h y 47 m
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In his most ambitious work to date, Thomas L. Friedman shows that we have entered an age of dizzying acceleration - and explains how to live in it. Due to an exponential increase in computing power, climbers atop Mount Everest enjoy excellent cell phone service, and self-driving cars are taking to the roads. A parallel explosion of economic interdependency has created new riches as well as spiraling debt burdens.
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It really is an optimists guide to scary stuff
- De Adam Shields en 12-12-16
- Thank You for Being Late
- An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
- De: Thomas L. Friedman
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
Odd title but thought provoking
Revisado: 03-10-17
The book has little to do with being late and instead recounts the exponential growth of computer hardware and software in the last 50 years and the impact of this growth on our day-to-day lives. This impact ranges from instabilities in the stock market, displacement of jobs by automation, educational and economic opportunity, and congressional grid-lock to how are lives are altered every day by having cell phones in our pockets. We all know at least parts of this story, but the author puts it all together, mostly in an engaging way.
Having gone to the University of Minnesota for graduate school in the 1960's, I particularly enjoyed the last few chapters, which describe community values in St. Louis Park, MN that we now need more than ever. The incorrect pronunciations of Edina, Macalester College, and Hamline University are a bit jarring, reminding you that it's not Tom Friedman doing the reading.
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