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All the President's Men
- De: Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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Beginning with the story of a simple burglary at Democratic headquarters and then continuing with headline after headline, Bernstein and Woodward kept the tale of conspiracy and the trail of dirty tricks coming - delivering the stunning revelations and pieces in the Watergate puzzle that brought about Nixon's scandalous downfall. Their explosive reports won a Pulitzer Prize for The Washington Post and toppled the president. This is the book that changed America.
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THE FUMBLING OF AN ASSUAGED
- De Dudley H. Williams en 08-17-13
- All the President's Men
- De: Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
Well written, well performed
Revisado: 11-07-23
Narration is exceptionally good. My only complaint is the cover art proclaims it to be the 50th anniversary edition with a new foreword, which does not appear to be the case. The publication date says 2012 (that would be 40th anniversary) and I couldn’t find the foreword anywhere.
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Dominion
- How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
- De: Tom Holland
- Narrado por: Tom Holland, Mark Meadows
- Duración: 22 h y 18 m
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Crucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst fate imaginable, a punishment reserved for slaves. How astonishing it was, then, that people should have come to believe that one particular victim of crucifixion - an obscure provincial by the name of Jesus - was to be worshipped as a god. Dominion explores the implications of this shocking conviction as they have reverberated throughout history.
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Only the forward is narrated by Holland.
- De Honora en 06-16-20
- Dominion
- How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
- De: Tom Holland
- Narrado por: Tom Holland, Mark Meadows
Essential read for anyone who genuinely wishes to qualify as “educated”
Revisado: 12-15-22
In this book, Tom Holland has accomplished both a mighty feat of scholarship spanning multiple millennia of history and philosophy and a thoroughly accessible work of compelling narrative.
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How Markets Fail
- The Logic of Economic Calamities
- De: John Cassidy
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
- Duración: 13 h y 15 m
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Behind the alarming headlines about job losses, bank bailouts, and corporate greed, there is a little-known story of bad ideas. For 50 years or more, economists have been busy developing elegant theories of how markets work - how they facilitate innovation, wealth creation, and an efficient allocation of society's resources. But what about when markets don't work?
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Three books in one.
- De Donald en 02-13-10
- How Markets Fail
- The Logic of Economic Calamities
- De: John Cassidy
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
Diagnosis spot on, prescription lacks nuance, still worthwhile
Revisado: 05-07-22
I absolutely loved 95% of this book. Cassidy’s review of economic thought and thinkers is one of the most complete, thoughtful and nuanced compilations I’ve ever encountered. His critique of utopian economics is so blatantly and incisively on point that I found myself wanting to shout “amen” in some spots. Only in the conclusion of the book did he lose me; rather than grapple with the fascinating question of how can governments facilitate, harness and optimize the inherent power of markets, and correct for their plainly manifest shortcomings, he seems to fall back on a simple line of prescriptive and proscriptive mandates to simply “force” decision makers to do things the “right” way. Perhaps because I listened to this in 2022, rather than in 2009 when it was written, the entire conclusion seemed dated, overly simplistic and almost hostile to some of the ideas and their proponents which he had spent the entire book to that point carefully portraying and articulating. So much promise in the buildup, only to throw it all away in the end! Nevertheless—all that being said—I highly recommend this book as a useful and insightful synthesis of 19th, 20th and early 21st century economic thought. Despite its flaws, still one of the best, most comprehensive reads on modern economic thought.
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The Perfectionists
- How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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The New York Times best-selling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement - precision - in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.
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Somewhat less than perfect
- De enya keshet en 06-19-18
- The Perfectionists
- How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
Not “best ever”, but I liked this book even more than I thought I would
Revisado: 06-01-21
Fascinating historical account of significant developments in, well, precision. Which is to say, the book is more or less what its title suggests.
I do think the author saved the best for last. The final chapter—contrasting the impermanence of our “precise” works with the timeless resilience of nature—hints at an interesting metaphysical point that is more fully explored in the prologue: that virtually everything we observe, measure, or comprehend about the world around us is fundamentally tied to, and bound up in, time itself. Worth a read/listen.
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