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Behind the Bastards
- De: Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 93
There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance ...
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting guests and subjects, terrible host
- De Leah F en 02-22-22
Good Research, Grating Host
Revisado: 07-27-23
Do you want to listen to the man with the most punchable voice talk over his guests while reading a well-researched monolog? Than this is for you!
edit after listening to even more i swear the host is obnoxiously high most of the time and is just insufferable
edit edit jesus what a journey this has been. after way more listening i think this is the best podcast for history, robert is an amazing researcher and interviewer and he seems possessed of limitless energy. all of my other quibbles still stand but. . . just wow
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Conflict Is Not Abuse
- Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
- De: Sarah Schulman
- Narrado por: Sarah Schulman
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 180
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 147
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 143
From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between conflict and abuse, Schulman directly addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating. This deep, brave, and bold work reveals how punishment replaces personal and collective self-criticism, and shows why difference is so often used to justify cruelty and shunning.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Interesting and important premise; terrible book
- De Stacey en 05-04-21
- Conflict Is Not Abuse
- Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
- De: Sarah Schulman
- Narrado por: Sarah Schulman
A Drunken Rant of a book
Revisado: 11-17-22
Have you ever had a friend drunkenly rant to you about their field of expertise? This book is like one of those conversations.
Schulman has some very illuminating points to make about how people can lock themselves into a victim hood mindset which causes them to further victimize people through social ostracization campaigns. She also expands this point to Geopolitics as well with minimal success. When the book sticks to interpersonal power dynamics it is at it's most successful.
Schulman starts the book by stating that she is undisciplined so the book should be taken as a discussion piece rather than a research paper. This is good advice. On those merits the work is largely successful. However when it veers into Israel-Palestine conflicts, the book careens off the rails and becomes a mess.
About one-fourth of the novel is a chapter which lists out Israel atrocities towards Palestinians. The chapter is littered with endless twitter and Facebook quotations which goes on so long it becomes numbing. That's a fine tactic if the point is to show how commonplace the atrocities are but it instead completely loses the main argument of the book.
Her point is how nations also fall under the same cycles of victim hood which allows the nation to justify atrocities. However, the point would have been made better in one-third of the time.
Schulman also made the very ill advised decision to narrate the book herself. Her pacing is slow, lifeless, and low energy. Additionally her recording equipment seems to be of low quality as the dynamic range on her pickup flattens the volume of her voice. She talks about being involved in the arts and acting scene, please hire one of those people next time.
This is definitely a self published book. it's self indulgent, bloated in sections, and goes off on rather ill-advised tangents (this woman hates email). However it also has thought provoking discussions on rather important conflicts. If you came to this looking for the definitive book on shunning and victimhood, this ain't it chief, but it does point in the right direction.
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Hero of Two Worlds
- The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
- De: Mike Duncan
- Narrado por: Mike Duncan
- Duración: 17 h y 20 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 3,227
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,904
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,887
From the massively popular podcaster and New York Times best-selling author comes the story of the Marquis de Lafayette's lifelong quest to protect the principles of democracy, told through the lens of the three revolutions he participated in: the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Revolution of 1830.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thrillingly storytelling — brilliant narration
- De Byron en 08-24-21
- Hero of Two Worlds
- The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
- De: Mike Duncan
- Narrado por: Mike Duncan
Flabby for Quotation
Revisado: 10-13-21
Suffers keenly from insecurely inserting frequent quotations thus hurting the pace. in The Storm Before the Storm and his podcasts The history of Rome and Revolutions Mr. Duncan did not or does not rely on quotation to give his point weight.
However, in Hero of Two Worlds Mr. Duncan spent 2 years living in France researching the novel. The work reflects this time spent, seemingly he had found too many quotes that he wished to include so he did not omit a single one. This has the effect of stuttering the pace of the novel as well as its style. Long passages of solid modern writing will be interrupted by multiple quotations in an 18th century style that do nothing to strengthen his point but everything to throw off the cadence.
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