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Excellent and detailed history

Revisado: 02-25-23

The book doesn’t stray off topic. The author’s point is that: Watergate and the Kennedy assassination are two parts of the same story. Morley does a fantastic job weaving together a hidden history. It’s like if a red string wall was historically accurate. I recommend this as a companion to: Legacy of Ashes, also on Audible.

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Fantastic - I learned so much

Revisado: 01-31-23

I am a history buff, but this period was always such a lacuna for me. I cannot recommend this enough. It was detailed, but not boring. It was thorough and captivating to listen to.

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Great narration; mind-expanding content

Revisado: 12-17-22

Great reading by the author. Professional narrators never get it right, they don’t know what to emphasize. Authors do but they don’t always make great narrators. This one nailed it.

And the content! My god, this little sacrilegious book continually blew my mind with references to a biblical text I thought I knew. God’s body is almost like a secret, hiding in plain sight. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in biblical studies.

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Lots of speculation but probably accurate

Revisado: 10-29-21

A fascinating insight into the insane drug habits of the third reich and it’s leadership. I especially enjoyed the end where patient A got his due.

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Great bio of a great man

Revisado: 10-15-21

Of course, there is something to be said for learning about the experiences of every day people. But if you really want to understand world events, you have to pick up a great-man biography every now and then. Even though I’ve read a lot about World War II, I feel like I got a good overview of the war from this book. And I learned a lot about the origins of the Cold War.

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Excellent history of the early days of the Cold War

Revisado: 08-28-21

I really enjoyed this. It filled in a lot of gaps in my knowledge of what happened between the end of World War II and the start of the Cold War in earnest. Lots of fascinating characters. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the period.

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Charming

Revisado: 06-19-21

Feels like a movie that would have been made in the 90s, but it’s really charming and really funny and really heartwarming at the end. I kvelled.

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Excellent overview of a fascinating topic

Revisado: 06-18-21

Just finished this series. It was a great tour through a subject I didn’t know much about. Prof. McWhorter is a great lecturer and one imagines it would have been fun to take his class. Like all good professors his mind can wander or he’ll make corny jokes and asides but it’s fine, it helps move things along. All in all, it’s worth the time it takes to finish this one. I love language and words so it’s great to get a sense of what they actually are and how they evolve.

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Pretty Standard Right Wing Fare

Revisado: 05-01-19

Bret goes on a long rant about the uselessness of public reviews, but nevertheless: He wrote a book complaining about how everyone complains about everything; about how people dismiss him by calling him a troll and also how delicious he finds it when he half-seriously tweets things to rile up liberals; about how people should just accept that other people have opinions and get over it by rehashing mean things people said to him on twitter five years ago. One thing sort of makes sense: his appreciation for "aesthetics" above "content" clarifies how and why he's both impressed by the current President and finds criticism of him to be whiny. If everything's a show, and no one gets hurt, then if something is interesting or challenging, then to his mind (apparently) it's fine or even good. When it comes to politics, however, the stakes are real, people actually get hurt, and if people are upset by that fact, it's because of their empathy not their lack of it. There's this one tiny moment in the book when a brief shaft of light shines through onto the author's total-inability to comprehend why rich white liberals might dislike the President. It's when he notes that: if you were a DACA recipient, or an immigrant, you might have reason to worry. It's there and only there does he begin to understand what his many friends (and former friends) are actually mad about. Not the President's style or amoral aesthetics, but real, very real harm to very real people. Unlike the gruesome horror movies the author describes watching as a child (even the particularly gruesome ones that left an imprint, like The Thing), and unlike the (possibly imaginary) bloody murders imagined by the author in the form of Patrick Bateman, the harm (and potential harm) that everyone's so apoplectic about these days is very real.

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Captivating Whale of a Story

Revisado: 06-03-15

Wonderful narration. Amazing story. Highly recommended. I vote: listen to this after reading Moby Dick, since most of the action takes place after the whale attack - the place where Moby Dick ends- this book is a sort of coda to that story. High marks all around. Can't wait to see the Ron Howard movie. (Although, I'd wager he doesn't quite go into all the gory detail. Note: don't listen to parts of this audiobook while eating anything but vegan food.)

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