Kevin E. Werner

Great Overview

Revisado: 09-16-24

Could have gone without the last 2 lectures, and some more on the Commerce Clause, Oerall, good stuff though. A introductory level on the Constitution for novices and a good review for those who've say through Con Law as a 1L.

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Well worth the time

Revisado: 11-16-23

A bit different angle to the Oppenheimer story. The extra focus on Groves was illuminating to the overall story. In total this is a pretty good book on the Manhattan project and the two guys at the center of it. It does go into the post war stuff as well. It's an excellent dip into both the Manhattan project, some of the early Cold War, and McCarthism generally as it related to Oppenheimer.

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Too many girlfriends

Revisado: 11-16-23

Did Howard have a lot of girlfriends? Absolutely. But they dominate the story. You could easily miss Spruce Goose and everything around it because the author is too focused on the girlfriends.

If you are interested in the tabloid side of Howard's life, it's good. It is well written and well performed. But I quit with about 6 hours to go. I am not sure I'll ever return.

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A decent overview of the Church Committee, but too much chaf.

Revisado: 11-16-23

Does Church's son's couple of affairs have anything to do with this? No. but it's there. Does Will Smith slapping Chris Rock, have anything to do with this? No, but it's there. Does Judith Campbell's out of wedlock baby have anything to do with this? Absolutely not. It's crammed in there for no reason. How are two police officers that committed suicide after January 6 related to this? Beats me, but it's there. Just skip the epilogue. It's polemical and after a book about the deep state the author makes fun of contemporary allegations of the deep state.

There is good material and information in there. It could be a lot shorter if he would have skipped all of the above and more.

In the end, it's not terrible, but it's much longer than it needed to be.

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Another good one from Isaacson

Revisado: 10-15-23

I have read several of his biographies. I'm generally not a biography guy, but Isaacson's are good. This one is both timely, it includes the early days of Elon's Twitter take over and although it does dip into some of Elon's drama, it doesn't wade in it. It gives a much better perspective of Elon than you get from commentators, his fans, and his haters.

I wasn't a big fan of Isaacson's book on Jobs, which he makes some references to here. The Jobs book was too much fanboi. This, thankfully, isn't that. His DaVinci book is his best though.

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worth the investment

Revisado: 10-15-23

The performance was good. The story was even better. The description of the hunt for him was incredible. It's always the little things that eventually get you. His hubris at the end with a couple detectives is worth the whole book.

The book does kinda give a bit more justification to his long sentence, but then again it seems that he may have just drawn the wrong judge for his crimes.

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Could have ended sooner

Revisado: 12-28-22

I had previously read through book 2. I picked this up for the 5,000 years later part. The first two thirds are excellent. the 5,000 years later part seems rushed. Hard to say with a story this long, but it just doesn't stack up to the first two thirds of the book. Worth the time? yes.

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perfect survey course

Revisado: 10-08-22

You will not be an expert after listening to this, but it is an excellent survey course to introduce the novice and it is not too shallow of a dive to warrant a passing over by the legally trained. Perfect balance.

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Stop before the epilogue

Revisado: 09-29-22

It's a good book. It's rather short and should not be your only dive into the topic of reconstruction or 13A - 15A, but it's a great survey of the topic until the epilogue. The epilogue is a dive into current and potential future SCOTUS jurisprudence from a purely political perspective. Appropriate for a column in the NYtimes or whatnot, but not here.

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phenomenal book.

Revisado: 09-22-22

The book is phenomenal. I did not care for the importance that Robert Harlan's share of the story until about a 1/3 of the way through. It really does help make the book and story all the better.

I was perturbed by the bleeping of words. Let the book be read. It is not up to the producer to decide what words the listener can hear. Other than that, the narration was excellent.

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