Deb JOHNSON

Listened to it multiple times!

Revisado: 03-12-25

Excellent in every way. Chris has done us all a great service, putting the internet and all forms of media into proper perspective. I’m old enough to remember the transition from Friedan calculators to computers, first at work, then at home and in hand. Brave new world that threatens to devour us! Never miss his show on MSNBC, and hope the in-studio Friday night versions can return sometime soon. Thanks for giving us this book. Loved it!

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A true profile in courage

Revisado: 08-30-24

Amazing life, amazing woman, and thank goodness she was in the right place at the right time. Narration was better than I expected, since in an interview setting on various media she always seems so guarded in her responses and speaks so carefully. But here, reading her own words, the story flowed effortlessly and I was entranced from beginning to end. Thank you, Nancy, for your courage to do the right thing….for the children.

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An American Hero

Revisado: 07-26-24

As a physician-in-training who not only lived through the AIDS epidemic but experienced the loss of a family member and my kids’ gymnastics coach to this rotten disease, I was most interested in in the behind-the-scenes look at things I only learned from afar at the time. This book will serve as the most important look at the world of epidemiology and immunology probably ever written, and be read by students for years to come. What a lesson in perseverance and intestinal fortitude it is! With all my heart I am grateful to Dr. Fauci for his guidance through COVID and I am so glad he was in the right place at the right time when we needed him. I’m only sorry he didn’t have a President who understood science and cared about people and would listen to him as this epidemic began. He dealt with that topic with remarkable restraint. Thank you Dr. Fauci, and may you have a wonderful retirement teaching others by your example. Especially enjoyed how you spoke slowly and clearly so that the listener could follow the intricate details that most lay people would otherwise have a hard time understanding.

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Outstanding in every way

Revisado: 02-11-24

This is an audiobook to cherish, to give to those you love, and to listen to again and again. I plan to do all those things. I could simply not stop listening once I’d started it, and now I want to listen to it again. Filled with helpful examples, this book will benefit any person, since there’s not a one of us who doesn’t need to learn how to argue better. As an expert witness, I spend a lot of my time preparing reports and then trying to convince a jury I know what I’m talking about and that I’m right. I’ve gone to a number of conference sessions over the years on how do that better, but none so good as this. Thank you Mehdi. I cannot wait to see what your next adventure in bringing us the truth of a subject will be!

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Liz could have titled this: “No job is worth sacrificing your honor for”

Revisado: 12-16-23

Riveting from the very beginning. Even though I knew much of what was in the book, having watched all the hearings, I still learned much. The audio clips are something you won’t get in the print version, and she used those effectively. Seeing the cowardice of so many Republicans who tell others privately what they won’t say aloud because they are fearful of retaliation from Trump or his misguided supporters reminds me of Benjamin Franklin’s words “We must all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.” That’s the problem with the Republicans. They aren’t banding together. Liz is no doubt anti-union, but it’s unions who’ve given workers the strength to succeed against powerful employers, Republicans who know in their hearts that Liz is right must band together and follow her courageous example and speak out before it’s too late. Thank you, Liz.

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Mesmerizing!

Revisado: 09-30-23

Just couldn’t stop listening! Even though I’d watched all the Jan 6 investigation coverage and her testimony, I learned so much more about the behind-the-scenes action. Maybe someday President Hutchinson?

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So much more than just a tell-all book of the Trump years

Revisado: 04-16-23

Besides answering so many questions I had about his appointment and later exit from the SDNY, this book takes us through a number of fascinating cases and issues his office dealt with during his term: Michael Cohen’s hush money case, the question that almost got put on the 2020 census, the Logan Act case against John Kerry that Trump called for on Twitter, sex trafficking, opioid kickback schemes, Jeffrey Epstein (was it really a suicide?), and Avenatti (just a crook after all?) - and so much more. We are very fortunate that in appointing this Republican, Trump actually DID hire the one of the “best” people. Excellent writing and narration. One of the best “reads” ever.

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The Scheme is essential listening!

Revisado: 11-25-22

Superb analysis of what’s going on with SCOTUS - this explains so much of the capricious-seeming decisions handed down from on high ever since Bush v Gore. Thank you Sen. Whitehouse!

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Excellent balance between introspection and discovery

Revisado: 07-28-22

I’ll be walking bits of the Southwest Coastal path in Cornwall soon, so that’s what stirred my interest, but now I want to hear more from this talented writer about her and Moth’s further adventures. Read this in part on Kindle and listened in part on Audible which is a good way to do it to learn the pronunciation of the unfamiliar words. So much of her I can relate to — she seems like family!

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With leaders such as Schiff, there is still hope for our democracy

Revisado: 10-31-21

This is the first of the many informative books that have emerged following the Trump administration detailing its excesses and corruption that I have been able to get totally caught up in and finish in (for me) record time. His skill with the spoken word during impeachment trial, which caused me to drop what I was doing, sit down on the sofa, and just watch with awe, springs from his skill at writing - so apparent here. This is a book I wish every American could listen to, for Schiff makes a convincing case for why we all must become involved in this fight to save America from the politicians manipulated by 21st century robber barons who seek to end democracy to solidify their power and control to amass more and more wealth at the expense of the rest of us.

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