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The Nation That Never Was
- Reconstructing America's Story
- De: Kermit Roosevelt
- Narrado por: Kermit Roosevelt III
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 71
We face a dilemma these days. We want to be honest about our history and the racism and oppression that Americans have both inflicted and endured. But we want to be proud of our country, too. In The Nation That Never Was, Roosevelt shows how we can do both those things by realizing we’re not the country we thought we were. Reconstruction, Roosevelt argues, was not a fulfillment of the ideals of the Founding but rather a repudiation: we modern Americans are not the heirs of the Founders but of the people who overthrew and destroyed that political order.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Necessary Book.
- De Jason Baumbach en 01-30-24
- The Nation That Never Was
- Reconstructing America's Story
- De: Kermit Roosevelt
- Narrado por: Kermit Roosevelt III
Loved It
Revisado: 10-09-22
I especially like how the book draws together events that otherwise seemed singular, but instead were historically related, cause and effect, like beads on a string. It makes you think about things you thought you already knew.
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Unbound
- How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
- De: Richard L. Currier
- Narrado por: Noah Michael Levine
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 244
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 214
Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good facts, not much else
- De Joel B. Gordon en 10-30-16
- Unbound
- How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
- De: Richard L. Currier
- Narrado por: Noah Michael Levine
Well read and cohesive but...
Revisado: 06-18-22
His arguments are well organized but he misses some things. He harps on how cultural evolution created the nuclear family, and completely misses that the next step after the tribe was the extended family, which was the major organizational mode of humans for ages before there was anything like a nuclear family. He points out that declining birthrate is a natural consequence of increasing comfort for the individual, because large families are no longer necessary, and lauds it as necessary to save the planet, but after detailing the history of the development of symbolic communication states several times that people who don't have children will contribute neither their DNA nor their accumulated experience and knowledge to the next generation. did he just forget that all important communication? the book is well reasoned but there is a hint of perspective bias in it. 4 out of 5.
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