Gregory Maus

An impressive perspective from the other side

Revisado: 07-04-24

This perspective shows the humanity & courage that could be found on both sides during the war.

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Interesting perspectives of WW2.

Revisado: 06-30-24

It does a decent job of revealing interesting perspectives of WW2, though it did seem to sometimes miss the mark in its characterizations of WW1. The absolute destruction and suffering wrought by the first war played an important role in the 2nd. The causes were also quite different.

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Generally a good book, but can be confusing in audio form.

Revisado: 06-13-24

The quality of the book is very good, but for the audio form of the book, they should do more to differentiate the made-up scenarios from the real events. Sometimes you can lose track of what is real and what is false, unless you already have a very detailed understanding of the actual events. All of a sudden you’ll hear something clearly false & will leave your head spinning about all the prior events you were taking at face value.

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Mediocre book

Revisado: 05-19-24

Book was dry and a bit boring. Info was ok, though the chapter at the end about covid was disappointing and a bit uninformed. Still giving credence to the ‘wet market’ farce, and too much glorification of China’s response to it. CCP hid bad statistics way more than he realized. Commentary on the US’ response also seemed misinformed.

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Interesting and important book

Revisado: 11-07-23

This makes a lot of great points, & is important for revealing corruption in public schools. I would tell listeners to feel free to skim or skip the chapter on statistics (I think chapter 2 “Charter Schools & their results”). The book gets a lot better after that. The statistics are important and supportive of the author’s conclusions, but they can be a bit boring to listen to them being read w/o commentary for page after page after page. Thankfully the other chapters afterward move more smoothly.

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Too politicized.

Revisado: 08-14-23

This book tends to inject unnecessary things about various politicians. It adds nothing meaningful to the actual details of the events. The bias is apparent.

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Misses the mark

Revisado: 05-20-20

Friedman has some interesting things to say, but puts way too much weight on economic factors and not enough on social and philosophical differences that underpin the changes America has undergone. And prepare to hear the word “technocracy” roughly 1 billion times.

The narration does not do the book any favors. It feels almost like a monotone, and is slow, clinical, boring, and struggles to maintain the listener’s attention. I think Friedman would have done a better job reading it. If you get this book, I recommend setting it at 1.25x or faster to make it sound normal.

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Decent history, but slow voice

Revisado: 09-23-19

This is a decent summary of US involvement in the Middle East that often goes unmentioned, having been overshadowed by modern events.

However, the audiobook narrator is dreadfully slow. I put it on 1.25x speed and it was about equal to what other books sound like at 1.0x speed. The audio could be much better with a more exciting & less sleepy narrator.

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Regretful waste of money

Revisado: 02-27-19

The author does not seem to ever miss an opportunity to inject his politics and opinions amongst what should be a work of history. That’s how you find yourself listening to digressions on nuclear weapons among sections about Lewis and Clark, or the author’s opinions about certain contemporary radio hosts, or haphazard guesses about church impact on geology, or guesses about factory placement. The comments often feel somewhat out of place within the context of what he is discussing.

Then there is the almost worshipful repeated emphasis regarding big government programs, and suppositions about positive impacts from journalism that seem somewhat self-serving.

This is not really up to the standards of other works of history.

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A knowledgeable perspective and wonderfully read

Revisado: 10-31-18

Gorka is very knowledgeable about totalitarian ideologies and has good advice on how they must be fought.

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