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Do you know how many wives Zeus had? Or how the famous Trojan War was caused by one beautiful lady? Or how Thor got his hammer? Give your imagination a real treat. This Mega Mythology Collection of eight audiobooks is for you....
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An interesting set of introductions.
- De Kevin Potter en 05-30-19
De: Scott Lewis
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Curse of Riches
- De: Claire Prentice
- Narrado por: Claire Prentice, Hillary Huber
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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How did the Wendels, one of New York’s most famous Gilded Age families, disappear from history? The Wendels built a fortune from New York real estate, and rubbed shoulders with the Astors, Vanderbilts, and Stuyvesants. But as the 19th century came to an end, the Wendel family tore itself apart. Following six years of painstaking archival research, Claire Prentice has prised open the door of the Wendels’ Fifth Avenue mansion—dubbed “the house of mystery” by the press—to reveal a fascinating and dysfunctional family imprisoned in a gilded cage.
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Kept Waiting for it to be Interesting
- De Mary en 06-23-23
De: Claire Prentice
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Family of Secrets
- The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America
- De: Russ Baker
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 24 h y 6 m
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French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre said that "words are loaded pistols". In the hands of Russ Baker, they are hydrogen bombs. On each and every page of his masterpiece, Family of Secrets, he explodes the myths and lies that powerful forces have perpetrated on the American consciousness. He digs beneath the surface in a form of journalistic archeology to reveal the hidden history of one of America's most powerful families, leaving no stone unturned.
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Still Relevant, Impossible to Put Down
- De Emilio Largo en 12-14-12
De: Russ Baker
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The Right Stuff
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Dennis Quaid
- Duración: 15 h y 42 m
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Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure: namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny empathetic powers that made The Right Stuff a classic.
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Righteous Book, Righteous Narrator, Righteous MEN!
- De Gillian en 02-08-18
De: Tom Wolfe
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Queer West
- How the West Was Fabulous
- De: Brenna Farrell, Zakiya Gibbons, Ellen Horne
- Narrado por: Niecy Nash-Betts
- Duración: 3 h y 57 m
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Stories of "The American West" often rely on tired tropes of tough cowboys, but real history is much less straight and narrow and way more interesting. Join host Niecy Nash-Betts for a wild round-up of LGBTQ+ lives that got buried in the dust of popular culture and history, and a look at how queer people continue to shape the West today–from gay rodeo to two-spirit identity to trans truckers.
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The Hidden History of the Boston Tea Party
- De: Adam Jortner, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Adam Jortner
- Duración: 2 h y 56 m
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The history of the Boston Tea Party is a hidden one. Why? Since it was a clandestine operation, all sorts of rumors and legends grew up around the event—many collected decades after the American Revolution had ended. At its core, however, the night of December 16, 1773, when colonials dumped tea from British ships into Boston Harbor, was more than a fight over tea and taxes. It was a struggle over the very nature of democracy and self-governance.
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How nuanced this event actually was
- De Cody T. en 12-17-23
De: Adam Jortner, y otros
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The Supreme Court
- The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America
- De: Jeffrey Rosen
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A leading Supreme Court expert recounts the personal and philosophical rivalries that forged our nation's highest court and continue to shape our daily lives. The Supreme Court is the most mysterious branch of government, and yet the Court is at root a human institution, made up of very bright people with very strong egos, for whom political and judicial conflicts often become personal.
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Overruled!
- De Stephen McLeod en 08-23-08
De: Jeffrey Rosen
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Tusculan Disputations
- De: Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Narrado por: Saethon Williams
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The statesman, orator, and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero remains a writer whose influence has been felt for many centuries. Tusculan Disputations is his most wide-ranging philosophical work, and was intended to introduce the Roman people to the pleasures and benefits of the study of philosophy. In a series of stimulating dialogues, Tusculan Disputations examines some of the most fundamental questions of human life: the fear of death, the endurance of pain, the alleviation of sorrow, the various disorders of the soul, and the necessity of virtue for a happy life.
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Excellent Listen
- De Nicholas DeVito en 08-11-22
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Food: A Cultural Culinary History
- De: Ken Albala, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Ken Albala
- Duración: 18 h y 22 m
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Eating is an indispensable human activity. As a result, whether we realize it or not, the drive to obtain food has been a major catalyst across all of history, from prehistoric times to the present. Epicure Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin said it best: "Gastronomy governs the whole life of man."
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One of my top 3 favorite courses!
- De Jessica en 12-28-13
De: Ken Albala, y otros
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Conversations with RBG
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law
- De: Jeffrey Rosen
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim, Suzanne Toren
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Conversations with RBG is a remarkable and unique audiobook, an informal portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing on a series of her conversations with Jeffrey Rosen, starting in the 1990s and continuing through the Trump era. Rosen, a veteran legal journalist, scholar, and president of the National Constitution Center, shares with us the justice’s observations on a variety of topics, and her intellect, compassion, sense of humor, and humanity shine through.
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Astonishing.
- De jk en 01-27-20
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The Pursuit of Happyness (Abridged)
- De: Chris Gardner
- Narrado por: Andre Blake
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At the age of 20, Chris Gardner arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. However, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry-level position at a prestigious firm, Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him part of the city's working homeless with his toddler son.
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Very Good Story!
- De Lito Da Critic en 06-02-06
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Louis D. Brandeis
- American Prophet
- De: Jeffrey Rosen
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
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According to Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis was "the Jewish Jefferson", the greatest critic of what he called "the curse of bigness" in business and government since the author of the Declaration of Independence. Published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his Supreme Court confirmation on June 1, 1916, Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet argues that Brandeis was the most farseeing constitutional philosopher of the 20th century.
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Maybe the finest biography I have ever “read”
- De Steve Paul en 11-01-20
De: Jeffrey Rosen
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The Supreme Court
- The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America
- De: Jeffrey Rosen
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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A leading Supreme Court expert recounts the personal and philosophical rivalries that forged our nation's highest court and continue to shape our daily lives. The Supreme Court is the most mysterious branch of government, and yet the Court is at root a human institution, made up of very bright people with very strong egos, for whom political and judicial conflicts often become personal.
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Overruled!
- De Stephen McLeod en 08-23-08
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Tusculan Disputations
- De: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The statesman, orator, and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero remains a writer whose influence has been felt for many centuries. Tusculan Disputations is his most wide-ranging philosophical work, and was intended to introduce the Roman people to the pleasures and benefits of the study of philosophy. In a series of stimulating dialogues, Tusculan Disputations examines some of the most fundamental questions of human life: the fear of death, the endurance of pain, the alleviation of sorrow, the various disorders of the soul, and the necessity of virtue for a happy life.
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Excellent Listen
- De Nicholas DeVito en 08-11-22
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Food: A Cultural Culinary History
- De: Ken Albala, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Ken Albala
- Duración: 18 h y 22 m
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Eating is an indispensable human activity. As a result, whether we realize it or not, the drive to obtain food has been a major catalyst across all of history, from prehistoric times to the present. Epicure Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin said it best: "Gastronomy governs the whole life of man."
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One of my top 3 favorite courses!
- De Jessica en 12-28-13
De: Ken Albala, y otros
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Conversations with RBG
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law
- De: Jeffrey Rosen
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim, Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
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Conversations with RBG is a remarkable and unique audiobook, an informal portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing on a series of her conversations with Jeffrey Rosen, starting in the 1990s and continuing through the Trump era. Rosen, a veteran legal journalist, scholar, and president of the National Constitution Center, shares with us the justice’s observations on a variety of topics, and her intellect, compassion, sense of humor, and humanity shine through.
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Astonishing.
- De jk en 01-27-20
De: Jeffrey Rosen
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The Pursuit of Happyness (Abridged)
- De: Chris Gardner
- Narrado por: Andre Blake
- Duración: 5 h y 42 m
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At the age of 20, Chris Gardner arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. However, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry-level position at a prestigious firm, Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him part of the city's working homeless with his toddler son.
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Very Good Story!
- De Lito Da Critic en 06-02-06
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Louis D. Brandeis
- American Prophet
- De: Jeffrey Rosen
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
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According to Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis was "the Jewish Jefferson", the greatest critic of what he called "the curse of bigness" in business and government since the author of the Declaration of Independence. Published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his Supreme Court confirmation on June 1, 1916, Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet argues that Brandeis was the most farseeing constitutional philosopher of the 20th century.
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Maybe the finest biography I have ever “read”
- De Steve Paul en 11-01-20
De: Jeffrey Rosen
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Our Ancient Faith
- Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
- De: Allen C. Guelzo
- Narrado por: Justin Price
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Abraham Lincoln grappled with the greatest crisis of democracy that has ever confronted the United States. While many books have been written about his temperament, judgment, and steady hand in guiding the country through the Civil War, we know less about Lincoln’s penetrating ideas and beliefs about democracy, which were every bit as important as his character in sustaining him through the crisis. Allen C. Guelzo, one of America’s foremost experts on Lincoln, captures the president’s firmly held belief that democracy was the greatest political achievement in human history.
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Tremendous and timely
- De Robert V. Vecchi en 03-20-24
De: Allen C. Guelzo
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How Rights Went Wrong
- Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart
- De: Jamal Greene
- Narrado por: Ryan Vincent Anderson
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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Rights are a sacred part of American identity. Yet they were an afterthought for the Framers. Only as a result of the racial strife that exploded during the Civil War—and a series of resulting missteps by the Supreme Court—did rights gain such outsized power. Over and again, courts have treated rights conflicts as zero-sum games in which awarding rights to one side means denying rights to others. As eminent legal scholar Jamal Greene shows in How Rights Went Wrong, we need to recouple rights with justice—before they tear society apart.
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A different way to look at rights.
- De Nicolas Pabon en 07-11-23
De: Jamal Greene
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Life After Power
- Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House
- De: Jared Cohen
- Narrado por: Kevin R. Free
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
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Former presidents have an unusual place in American life. King George III believed that George Washington’s departure after two terms made him “the greatest character of the age.” But Alexander Hamilton worried former presidents might “[wander] among the people like ghosts.” They were both right. Life After Power tells the stories of seven former presidents, from the Founding to today. Each changed history. Each offered lessons about how to decide what to do in the next chapter of life.
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Always great information from Jared Cohen!
- De Anonymous User en 05-18-24
De: Jared Cohen
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On Duties
- A Guide to Conduct, Obligations, and Decision-Making
- De: Quintus Curtius
- Narrado por: Saethon Williams
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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Listen to this complete and easy-to-follow, explanatory edition of Cicero's On Duties, an unmatched practical guide to conduct.
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Solid, with room for thought
- De Amazon Customer en 06-30-19
De: Quintus Curtius
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American Patriots
- A Short History of Dissent
- De: Ralph Young
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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In American Patriots, historian Ralph Young chronicles the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States. Some of these protesters are celebrated heroes of American history, while others are ordinary people, frequently overlooked, whose stories show that change is often accomplished through grassroots activism. Yet not all dissent is equal. In 2021, thousands of rioters stormed the US Capitol, and Americans on both sides of the aisle watched the destruction with horror. American Patriots contrasts this attack with the history of American protest.
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The Pursuit of Happiness in the Founding Era
- An Intellectual History (Studies in Constitutional Democracy)
- De: Carli N. Conklin
- Narrado por: Lisa S. Ware
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Scholars have long debated the meaning of the pursuit of happiness, yet have tended to define it narrowly, focusing on a single intellectual tradition, and on the use of the term within a single text, the Declaration of Independence. In this insightful volume, Carli Conklin considers the pursuit of happiness across a variety of intellectual traditions, and explores its usage in two key legal texts of the Founding Era, the Declaration and William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England.
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Selections from the Writings of Cicero
- De: Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
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Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero wrote on a wide range of subjects, from Greek philosophy to moral duty to friendship. Though he considered philosophy secondary to politics and often used his writings for explicit political ends, his work has nevertheless been widely read for over two thousand years and has influenced everything from the culture of the Renaissance to the ideals of the founding fathers of the United States.
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Best audio book I've listened to.
- De Edward en 09-25-17
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This America
- The Case for the Nation
- De: Jill Lepore
- Narrado por: Jill Lepore
- Duración: 2 h y 36 m
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At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Harvard historian Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America. Since the end of the Cold War, Lepore writes, American historians have largely retreated from the idea of "the nation", in part because the rise of political nationalism has rendered it suspect and unpalatable. Bucking this trend, however, Lepore argues forcefully that the nation demands scrutiny. Without an honest reckoning with America's collective past, we will be at the mercy of unscrupulous demagogues....
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Important
- De Shannon Caldwell en 01-27-20
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Inventing America
- Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
- De: Garry Wills
- Narrado por: Tom Weitzel
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From acclaimed historian Garry Wills, author of Lincoln at Gettysburg, a celebrated re-appraisal of the meaning and the source of inspiration of The Declaration of Independence, based on a reading of Jefferson's original draft document.
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Very interesting treatise
- De Larry and Cindi en 07-17-23
De: Garry Wills
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The Zong
- A Massacre, the Law & the End of Slavery
- De: James Walvin
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
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On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. The captain believed his ship was off course, and he feared there was not enough drinking water to last until landfall. This book is the first to examine in detail the deplorable killings on the Zong, the lawsuit that ensued, how the murder of 132 slaves affected debates about slavery, and the way we remember the infamous Zong today.
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First Principles
- What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
- De: Thomas E. Ricks
- Narrado por: James Lurie
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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On the morning after the 2016 presidential election, Thomas Ricks awoke with a few questions on his mind: What kind of nation did we now have? Is it what was designed or intended by the nation's founders? Trying to get as close to the source as he could, Ricks decided to go back and read the philosophy and literature that shaped the founders' thinking, and the letters they wrote to each other debating these crucial works—among them the Iliad, Plutarch's Lives, and the works of Xenophon, Epicurus, Aristotle, Cato, and Cicero.
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Excellent book, opinionated epilogue.
- De Noetic Seeker en 01-23-21
De: Thomas E. Ricks
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Founding Partisans
- Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 16 h y 29 m
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To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan politics in Britain before the American Revolution, and they wanted nothing similar for America. Yet parties emerged even before the Constitution was ratified, and they took firmer root in the following decade. In Founding Partisans, master historian H. W. Brands has crafted a fresh and lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be.
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Very educational
- De Mark Mears en 02-21-24
De: H. W. Brands
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The research that it took to complete the task.
I liked all of it, I’d heard an interview with Jeffrey Rosen and was intrigued.
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Thought-provoking. Highly recommend.
This book was recommended by Retired Federal Judge J. Michael Luttig. I found it to be thought-provoking and enjoyed it thoroughly. Highly recommend!
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- 04-29-24
Timelessness where virtue went
Our Founders were educated we are indoctrinated. This book will start correcting this diffiency if you are willing.
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- 05-19-24
Should be required reading for all
Marvelous reminder of what makes America great. Oh that our elected officials, civil servants, parents, teachers and school children would read and live out these principles.
Well written book and pleasantly narrated too. Cannot recommend this book enough.
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Must Reading
If Jefferson, Franklin and Adam’s were alive, they’d add this to their library and reading list.
You should too.
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- 05-11-24
A Great Book
Excellent. Should be required reading for everyone, especially those who participate or aspire to participate in Public Service.
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- Eric Moore Schneider
- 02-21-24
Great book; highly recommended
I cannot recommend this book enough. I picked up this book (and audiobook) to get a better idea of the founders views and influences when they established the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, but I walked away completely inspired by the individuals who came before us and amazed by the impact ideals stemming from over 2000 years ago as to how happiness should be pursued had on the founding generation. The concepts talked about in this book make me question why happiness as a concept of continual self improvement achieved by self discipline (self government—taught to students by studying primary and secondary sources on the topic) is not central to how education is taught in the United States. I am hopeful these ideals can be returned to a more prominent place in the educational system going forward. I certainly know I needed this book to help fill in a glaring gap in my education.
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- Michael C. Martirone
- 04-26-24
Excellent & Insightful
Jeffrey Rosen tells a great narrative of how the founding fathers were shaped by books from the classical and enlightenment period. He brilliantly demonstrates a line from classical Greece and Rome to the Scottish and enlightenment all the way up to our constitution and to our modern society. I recommended to anyone who is a student of American history, stoicism, government and politics, or anyone looking for a self-help book.
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