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Long Time Coming
- Reckoning with Race in America
- De: Michael Eric Dyson
- Narrado por: Michael Eric Dyson
- Duración: 4 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 397
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 336
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 335
The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a White cop suffocated him. The video of that night’s events went viral, sparking the largest protests in the nation’s history and the sort of social unrest we have not seen since the '60s. While Floyd’s death was certainly the catalyst (heightened by the fact that it occurred during a pandemic whose victims were disproportionately of color), it was in truth the fuse that lit an ever-filling powder keg.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Great History Lesson
- De Debby Burton en 12-08-20
- Long Time Coming
- Reckoning with Race in America
- De: Michael Eric Dyson
- Narrado por: Michael Eric Dyson
The true words that need to be heard, as we enter 2021.
Revisado: 01-18-21
Michael says the words, for our time, that need to be said. He says them with truth and sincerity. They are the words of a strong heart, a strong soul and a strong love and strong understanding of people.
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Life of a Klansman
- A Family History in White Supremacy
- De: Edward Ball
- Narrado por: Edward Ball
- Duración: 15 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Life of a Klansman tells the story of a warrior in the Ku Klux Klan, a carpenter in Louisiana who took up the cause of fanatical racism during the years after the Civil War. Edward Ball, a descendant of the Klansman, paints a portrait of his family’s anti-Black militant that is part history, part memoir rich in personal detail.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought Provoking, But . . .
- De William G. Stuart en 09-01-20
- Life of a Klansman
- A Family History in White Supremacy
- De: Edward Ball
- Narrado por: Edward Ball
How the United States did to itself, what happened on January 6, 2021.
Revisado: 01-18-21
Story painful to hear, but needs to be told. The depth and accuracy with which Edward Ball says what needs to be said, is astounding. It truly provides insight to what is still happening in the United States, on January 6, 2021.
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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
- De: Al Franken
- Narrado por: Al Franken
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 15,835
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 14,472
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 14,330
Al Franken, Giant of the Senate is a book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest outcome in history and an unprecedented eight-month recount saga, which is pretty funny in retrospect. It's a book about what happens when the nation's foremost progressive satirist gets a chance to serve in the United States Senate and, defying the low expectations of the pundit class, actually turns out to be good at it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Fell In Love This Week with Al Franken
- De constructivefeedback en 06-08-17
- Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
- De: Al Franken
- Narrado por: Al Franken
Giant in the Senate
Revisado: 10-01-17
Al Frankenstein brings first of all truth, with a clarity and humor, that puts the chaos of today’s political scene in perspective. He comes across through his reading style, of what America can still produce and call an American man. This book gave hope, a sense of pride and some answers. It is definitely worth listening to. Thank you Al; and thank Senator Franken too.
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The Autobiography of Black Hawk
- De: Black Hawk
- Narrado por: Brett Barry
- Duración: 3 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 54
This story is told in the words of a tragic figure in American history - a hook-nosed, hollow-cheeked old Sauk warrior who lived under four flags while the Mississippi Valley was being wrested from his people. The author is Black Hawk himself - once pursued by an army whose members included Captain Abraham Lincoln and Lieutenant Jefferson Davis. Perhaps no Indian ever saw so much of American expansion or fought harder to prevent that expansion from driving his people to exile and death.
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4 out of 5 stars
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informing-not entertaining
- De Amazon Customer en 07-09-12
- The Autobiography of Black Hawk
- De: Black Hawk
- Narrado por: Brett Barry
Blackhawk: A Chief whose words are relavant today
Revisado: 12-24-12
The story was good in portraying everyday life, from a Native American perspective after the British and French etc. came to North America. The reading style of the reader was rather insipid, though. It was devoid of enthusiasm.
This story did not include Chief Black Hawks quotes which have made him a favorite of today's human rights' advocates such as Howard Zinn. This omission is VERY disappointing.
There is no reason, after hearing this novel, to understand why even a sports team i.e. Chicago Black Hawks named themselves after him. The link is not there of how strong a tactician this great Chief was.
And the link to how strong an analytical thinker he was, in grasping the changes happening in "his" America, and how they are the same changes in our America, is missing. He understood the 1% and what they were doing to his country and his people.
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