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Road to Jonestown
- Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
- De: Jeff Guinn
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 17 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,529
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,168
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,156
In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a curious blend of the gospel and Marxism. His congregation was racially mixed, and he was a leader in the early civil rights movement. Eventually, Jones moved his church, Peoples Temple, to northern California, where he got involved in electoral politics and became a prominent Bay Area leader. But underneath the surface lurked a terrible darkness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Important Accurate Historical Report
- De Julia en 08-24-17
- Road to Jonestown
- Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
- De: Jeff Guinn
- Narrado por: George Newbern
Not bad
Revisado: 06-21-24
I didn’t feel like I understood where Jones turned the corner from good guy to lunatic — and I suspect that more information relating to his addictions might have revealed that place with more clarity.
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The Best Minds
- A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
- De: Jonathan Rosen
- Narrado por: Jonathan Rosen
- Duración: 16 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 662
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 575
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 575
Acclaimed author Jonathan Rosen’s haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. A story about friendship, love, and the price of self-delusion, The Best Minds explores the ways in which we understand—and fail to understand—mental illness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Overwhelming Tragedy of Mental Illness
- De Elephants Matter en 12-30-23
- The Best Minds
- A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
- De: Jonathan Rosen
- Narrado por: Jonathan Rosen
Pretty good
Revisado: 02-27-24
The air in the world of the author and Michael is a bit rarified for me, a displaced Hoosier, but that said, I learned something about my own grandpa’s illness, and its details made more sense to me. On a final note, the mention of Ken Kesey does not require a knee-jerk recital of his history in LSD trials. It’s tired. I spent some time with him and there was nothing weird or damaged about him. He was beautiful and brilliant and his writing speaks for itself. If LSD turned people into great writers— the shelves would be full of Sailor’s Song and not 20 Shades of Grey. Other than that, thumbs up.
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Debt - Updated and Expanded
- The First 5,000 Years
- De: David Graeber
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,886
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,283
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,269
Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods - that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Transformative to the point of being revolutionary
- De James C. Samans en 08-14-16
- Debt - Updated and Expanded
- The First 5,000 Years
- De: David Graeber
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
Awesome
Revisado: 07-18-23
Everyone should read this book because it’s so interesting to see what the author has done
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The Death of Artemio Cruz
- A Novel
- De: Carlos Fuentes, Alfred MacAdam - translator
- Narrado por: Tony Chiroldes
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 83
As the novel opens, Artemio Cruz, the all-powerful newspaper magnate and land baron, lies confined to his bed and, in dreamlike flashes, recalls the pivotal episodes of his life. Carlos Fuentes manipulates the ensuing kaleidoscope of images with dazzling inventiveness, layering memory upon memory, from Cruz’s heroic campaigns during the Mexican Revolution, through his relentless climb from poverty to wealth, to his uneasy death. Perhaps Fuentes’ masterpiece, The Death of Artemio Cruz is a haunting voyage into the soul of modern Mexico.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Writing
- De Kelly B. en 05-01-14
- The Death of Artemio Cruz
- A Novel
- De: Carlos Fuentes, Alfred MacAdam - translator
- Narrado por: Tony Chiroldes
Great Writing
Revisado: 05-01-14
What did you love best about The Death of Artemio Cruz?
If you prefer literature over nonsense, and have an attention span that exceeds 15 minutes, you won't regret using some of your precious and fleeting time reading this creative, beautiful and powerful story.
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