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Great descriptions of people and of Britain in decline

Revisado: 12-19-24

a fantastic book. Simon Vance is the best narrator of LeCarre books and this is one of LeCarre’s best

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Exceptional

Revisado: 12-17-24

Comprehensive : the narrative moves along even though the book covers Rome in the European West, Rome in the middle East.

Pre Christian Rome And Christian Rome in the East and in the West.

Iconoclasm and The role of the popes. The Crusades. The differences between easter and western churches The Holy Roman Empire even gets a shout out. As does
The way iconoclasm took hold in the Eastern Roman Empire. How the papacy in the West was able to get its mojo back, Charlemagne gets a nod.
It carries through the Ottoman capture of Constantinople and finally it concludes with a discussion of how Machiavelli and the Montesquieu used the idea of and the history of Rome to build out their thoughts. Finally the story told in Gibbon’s decline and rise book gets discussed and analyzed.

A Great listen

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Good and better

Revisado: 09-18-24

A jaded spy, East German pomposity, corruption and meanness , British bumbling and a realistic portrayal of Britain and East Germany in the middle years of the cold war

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Matter of fact, sympathetic but not hagiographic.

Revisado: 08-29-24

A lot of attention paid to the differences between the Hegelian influences and the later positivist influences on Marx. A lot of time devoted to Marx as an activist, Marx as a family man and the money struggles that plagued him. Really a fun read

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Wow. Impressive width and deep analysis combine

Revisado: 05-20-24

Scope is enormous, the idea of Eurasia as a particular geographic location for ideas and habits and large states rather than Europe and Asia is convincing. I thought more about The ubiquity of empires small and large. No hero worshipping but no bashing of victors either. A Really intelligent book. Hard to put down. Not David Harvey and definitely not Niall Ferguson (thank goodness)

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Solid history of how the US lost its post WW2 industrial dominance

Revisado: 01-19-24

From the Cold War empire building which encouraged the US to rebuild its competitors through the current situation where financial sector interests predominate she gives a blow by blow account of how government let it all happen

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Relevant and interesting, a good combo

Revisado: 12-29-23

Interesting guests. I Really enjoyed the Hanebrink interview. The whole Nazi wackiness turned real because it appealed to long held ideas percolating below the surface and some savage types played the propaganda game well at a time society was in an economic crisis

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Exceptionally thorough and insightful

Revisado: 12-25-22

I learned a lot. From the consequences of the collapse of the Ottoman and Austro Hungarian empires, to the extraordinary violence on the western and eastern fronts and the international impact of the British and French involvement of troops from their colonies…and much more. Great narration to boot.

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Great trilogy

Revisado: 01-09-22

Although the third volume is not as eye opening as volumes 1 and 2, it was still excellent and well read

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Excellent

Revisado: 04-08-21

Well written, great narration, important history with a tragic ending. The promise of the revolution, the clumsiness of Morsi, the savage brutality of the US backed Sisi regime.

Jeez

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