Stephen Breen

Historical fiction

Revisado: 04-17-25

Typical liberal booger eater fodder like the author was the fly on the wall at ALL the anecdotal conversations behind the scenes as well as still alluding to many anti-Trump hoaxes as "facts."

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Another home run

Revisado: 07-13-20

Shlaes crushed it in The Forgotten Man and destroys it in Great Society.

Nothing better than a history time based on *reporting facts* and not *creating a narrative* based on the facts.

Has all the details from multiple sources and quotes without the au courant media-style dog and monkey rodeo which characterizes modern "history" books.

Shlaes does not pontificate or spin doctor the *facts*. The reader/listener gets the info and gets to make any decision without the author inserting herself into the timeline.

She profiles presidents without the hagiography associated with an agenda. You get it all the cupcakes and unicorns of triumph with the herpes of failure based on the record.

Àll the presidents presented begin as all politicians based on their altruism but then you get the dark sides of the haughty patrician Kennedy, the knuckle-draggging schoolyard bully LBJ and the insecure backstabber Nixon.

Do NOT miss this book in your queue.

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Finally a fair assessment

Revisado: 06-28-20

I appreciate a great recapitulation of an imperfect hero (aren't they all?) and his enormous contribution to the US Navy legacy.

My only critique of the book was the narrator's mispronunciations of Japanese surnames and places. I'm a former Navy linguist who lived in Japan for many years. My educational prissiness was jarred but it didn't interfere with being captivated by this book.

Still a grand slam.

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It's Mamet ergo BRILLIANT!!!

Revisado: 01-13-20

An intellectual house party indictment of Leftist psychosis. Of course anyone who reads Hayek, Sowell and Steele must obviously be a racist homophobe as per doctrinaire social progressivism.

Mamet's use of Latin also defines him as a sychophant of the evil patriarchy.

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Story great! Performance sucks balls!

Revisado: 01-08-20

Love Cornwell's body of work but having it read by a winsome Brit who reads like he's reciting a 1950s cookbook makes this a total bore.

The dude lurches between character voices while sometimes using the same voice for DIFFERENT characters or sometimes as a generic voice to express different emotional states!

Ex: Uses "old man" scratchy voice to: sound like a generic old man, one of the *several* older main tribal characters, the younger villain or the younger hero's frustration...sometimes all IN THE SAME PARAGRAPH!

Most accurate description? The alleged narrator sounds like a constipated buffoon in search of a butter knife to get himself relief

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why isn't this a movie?

Revisado: 12-20-19

Billy Waugh has balls as big as God's! A great retelling especially of the suck in Vietnam.

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Narrator blows chunks; suck factor EPIC

Revisado: 11-12-19

The dude reading this GREAT BOOK needs to know the function of commas and periods. Reads entire paragraphs and pages like one loooong sentence. Even slowing down the listening speed on the app doesn't help.

Takes great gulps of air throughout prose while tearing through the script with all the emotional intensity of reading the back of a tampon package to 10-year-old boys.

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Suck Factor: Epic

Revisado: 09-30-19

Warm and fuzzy unicorn book better left in the rainbow self-help section. I learned more in 15 minutes on the interwebs on my own than anything this book could tell me.

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Lived in SF during their End Times

Revisado: 07-05-19

This book filled in the gaps of this tragedy because of the primitive media of the era (only three major TV stations, 2.5 hrs evening news per day, no internet, Newsies were shit).

This is the dystopian side of pseudo-religious movments run by an autocrat (see Koresh, Hubbard.) Stockholm syndrome in extremis...

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Stunning exposé

Revisado: 07-03-19

Comprehensive incisive decisive of a another religion which makes you want to be an atheist. Fine, Hubbard was a crackpot dealing with his own demons and wrote incessantly to process his damage for others. But the current crop Operating Thetans...these are some creepy people.

I'm from LA and had my first brush with Scientologists in the late 70s. Oh my how dysfunctional we have grown over the years.

Run....

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