Steve S.

A fascinating read--wonderfully instructive, clearly exposited and challenging in its insights

Revisado: 02-01-25

Absolutely fascinating! --a detailed exposition of events beginning with the February revolt along with its background through the October insurrection culminating in the communist assumption of power. Appendices provide a fascinating exposition of Trotsky's view of Stalin's rise, his view of Stalin's betrayal of Lenin's formulations and the ultimately profound differences between them which was in the final analysis to lead to his murder in Mexico. One may not agree with all of Trotsky's formulations but it is hard not to admire the breadth, clarity and depth of this presentation as well as his challenge to the all too common oversimplifications and shiboliths of most "Western" writers.

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Truth, tragedy and beauty

Revisado: 09-11-24

An exquisite piece of literature that perfectly captures the glorious tragedy of this thing we call man, this infinitismal speck of existence fighting to create meaning and beauty within the heedless and inexorable march of events we call history.

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Absolutely wonderful.

Revisado: 05-26-24

There is little to say beyond noting the fact that this recording and translation are simply perfect in every way imaginable!

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Absolutely fascinating!!!!

Revisado: 09-23-22

This book provides an amazing study of the origins of society full of accounts of peoples most of us have not even known the existence of over many many thousands of years. It challenges everything that has generally been taught or assumed to be correct concerning the origin of the way we now live and for an old world opens up vistas of optimistic promise for the future.

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Absolutely astounding!

Revisado: 05-07-22

Shocking, enlightening, entertaining, frightening and amazingly satisfying.--- a masterful presentation of an historical episode the presentation of which is so well conceived that it makes it almost impossible to put down and leaves one impatiently awaiting the future volumes.

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An amazing book; a great read

Revisado: 03-03-22

I have read many books and articles about the development of the Enlightenment. This one, however, is one of the very few which approaches the problem not from the backward looking perspective of the ideas we now have and how we came to have them but rather mostly from the forward looking perspective of the millions of ideas being put forward in that time of intellectual turmoil and how they struggled with one another, pushing some to the fore, ignoring or throwing others away, mashing some togther creating results not anticipated, until out of the fabric of that human comedy of ideas something was ultimately stitched together making the world of thought which we call today. Delightful and awe inspiring in its breadth of knowledge.

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Pure joy!

Revisado: 01-15-22

An absolutely delightful performance in reading a truly hilarious book....thank you, thank you thank you Wodehouse for Thank You Jeeves.

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Informative, well presented and engrossing

Revisado: 07-31-21

What a fine book! What a fine reader! and, in retrospect, what an amazing person Jimmy Carter is! I found the well presented material for much of the Carter presidency highly interesting and became so faacinated that I found myself searching for any additional minutes within my busy day that I could find to listen to this book that I had a hard time putting down. It leaves me, hefty though it is, with a wish to start all over and go through the book yet once again.

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