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The Quiet Damage
- QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
- De: Jesselyn Cook
- Narrado por: Jesselyn Cook
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 172
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 164
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 164
In The Quiet Damage, celebrated reporter Jesselyn Cook unfolds the heartbreaking stories of five representative families from couples young and old to rural white parents to urban Black siblings, to show how QAnon shattered bonds once believed unbreakable. Cook paints a portrait of American suffering, of the vulnerabilities that have left people susceptible to outrageous theories promising order and control in a world where both are increasingly in short supply.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Engaging story telling
- De Joshua M. Kuo en 09-30-24
- The Quiet Damage
- QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
- De: Jesselyn Cook
- Narrado por: Jesselyn Cook
The Pull of Conspiracies
Revisado: 01-31-25
This book is a profile of individuals who slipped into Qanon conspiracies. In includes some scientific, psychological, religious and other explanations for why individuals slip into the world of conspiracy theories.
I can’t do justice to what a good book this is for this review. It is tragic in its subject matter, but offers hope. Some people don’t make it out, others do- much like addiction. I hope that people who have family members stuck in this dangerous web will find solace in this book.
Do not take Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube posts and videos at their word. Don’t listen to politicians who lie and divide us. There is an incentive structure that allows for monetization and power to accrue through sensationalism, lies, and conspiracies.
Guard your minds with logic and reason. Live your life with love and hope for your fellow humans, even those you vehemently disagree with. It’s the only way we’ll get out of this cycle.
My thanks to the author for researching, interviewing, and writing this book. It is thought-provoking and desperately needed for our times.
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A Hard Rain
- America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost
- De: Frye Gaillard
- Narrado por: Chris Abernathy
- Duración: 25 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3
With A Hard Rain, Gaillard gives us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller's eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times: civil rights, black power, women's liberation, the war in Vietnam, and the protests and movements against it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Decade of Great Change and Tragedy
- De Anonymous User en 11-28-24
- A Hard Rain
- America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost
- De: Frye Gaillard
- Narrado por: Chris Abernathy
A Decade of Great Change and Tragedy
Revisado: 11-28-24
This is a masterful tribute to the 1960s. It is vast in scope, but captures a lot of essential cultural themes as well as the political landscape of the era.
I appreciated the attention paid to the arts- music and literature played an important part in the cultural milieu of 1960s America. The chapter on Janis Joplin/Linda Ronstadt showed the changing roles of women in the decade. The chapter on Mr Rogers was interesting and touching, showing the importance of friendship, hope, and educating children.
The political sections capture the racial turmoil during the decade, but also the progress that was made. Black thought leaders like Stokely Carmichael (whom the author met at Vanderbilt University), Malcom X, and Martin Luther King were covered extensively.
And, of course, the Kennedy clan was covered, and the tragedies that befell the family and America at the time. Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon were covered extensively, as well. David Halberstram and Larry Sabato cover the Kennedy years best, but this book gives a great overview of the politics of the 60s, and the presidents of this era.
I can’t recommend this book enough. The narrator, writing, history, and feel of the era shines through. As someone who was born in the late 80s, I’ve always been interested in the 60s era. So much changed, but so much stayed the same.
The best gift this decade gave to subsequent generations was an openness to change, and the power of hope. Our world is better now that we are more integrated as a people, and that the civil rights era offered legal protections to Americans that were overlooked for too long.
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