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The Counter-Revolution of 1776
- Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
- By: Gerald Horne
- Narrated by: Larry Herron
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 271
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 232
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Story5 out of 5 stars 228
The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British. In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne shows that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but inevitable in London, delighting Africans as much as it outraged slaveholders, and sparking the colonial revolt.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A revelation, a paradigm shift and a new view
- By Diana Black Kennedy on 03-28-18
- The Counter-Revolution of 1776
- Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
- By: Gerald Horne
- Narrated by: Larry Herron
Excellent History of a little-known section of settler history
Reviewed: 07-31-24
Horne proves that he is one of the greatest historians of our time, following up previous successes with a book that shines a melting light on the relationship between empire and enslavement of Africans. Listeners will hear details often overlooked or intentionally hidden in popular histories of the period and will have a more accurate view of the past because of it.
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Blackshirts and Reds
- Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
- By: Michael Parenti
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 509
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 444
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 440
Blackshirts and Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology. These terms are often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti's trademark. Parenti shows how "rational fascism" renders service to capitalism, how corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a mass empowerment against the forces of exploitative privilege.
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5 out of 5 stars
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couldn't believe this was on audible
- By Amazon Customer on 02-24-22
- Blackshirts and Reds
- Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
- By: Michael Parenti
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Succinct and Superb
Reviewed: 04-17-24
Parenti gives a sober analysis of the development and legacy of fascism, socialism, and capitalism through the 20th century. The work is accessible and enlightening for people of all levels of class consciousness.
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Gangsters of Capitalism
- Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
- By: Jonathan M. Katz
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 676
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 601
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 604
Smedley Butler was the most celebrated warfighter of his time. Best-selling books were written about him. Hollywood adored him. Wherever the flag went, “The Fighting Quaker” went - serving in nearly every major overseas conflict from the Spanish War of 1898 until the eve of World War II.
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5 out of 5 stars
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nostalgic melancholy sadness of yet another time
- By Robert Eaton Jr. on 01-29-22
- Gangsters of Capitalism
- Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
- By: Jonathan M. Katz
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
absolutely awe inspiring
Reviewed: 04-03-24
This has been one of the most excellent histories of 20th century imperialism I've ever read. Clear narration, substantial content, great subject.
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- By: Edward Gibbon
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 126 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 956
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 810
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 805
Here in a single volume is the entire, unabridged recording of Gibbon's masterpiece. Beginning in the second century A.D. at the apex of the Pax Romana, Gibbon traces the arc of decline and complete destruction through the centuries across Europe and the Mediterranean. It is a thrilling and cautionary tale of splendor and ruin, of faith and hubris, and of civilization and barbarism. Follow along as Christianity overcomes paganism... before itself coming under intense pressure from Islam.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterpiece - Best Audiobook I’ve Listened To
- By Student on 09-18-18
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- By: Edward Gibbon
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
Intense, informative, but flawed
Reviewed: 03-05-24
This time is a must read for the moderately dedicated amateur historian. The reader did exceptional work with very few noticeable mistakes over more than 100 hours. There are a few repeats and one noticeable time when his coughing break wasn't edited out, but still an amazing listen.
For content, Gibbon was great for his time but many things are outdated. This shouldn't be seen as authoritative in a modern context, but as the leading edge of the early 19th century historiography.
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The Rise of Rome
- By: The Great Courses, Gregory S. Aldrete
- Narrated by: Gregory S. Aldrete
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,054
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 918
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Story5 out of 5 stars 909
The Roman Republic is one of the most breathtaking civilizations in world history. Between roughly 500 BCE to the turn of the millennium, a modest city-state developed an innovative system of government and expanded into far-flung territories across Europe, Northern Africa, and the Middle East. This powerful civilization inspired America's founding fathers, gifted us a blueprint for amazing engineering innovations, left a vital trove of myths, and has inspired the human imagination for 2,000 years.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very good, but doesn't stand out
- By Christopher on 02-08-18
- The Rise of Rome
- By: The Great Courses, Gregory S. Aldrete
- Narrated by: Gregory S. Aldrete
Save your credit, listen to History of Rome
Reviewed: 11-17-23
This is an exceptionally basic and vague course meant for someone with very little knowledge of Early Rome. If you find yourself in that demographic, I'd tell you to save your money/credit and listen to Mike Duncan's History of Rome Podcast.
This presenter uses many of the same historic examples as Duncan, but with less detail. It almost reads like a summary of History of Rome with some non-Rome related allusions thrown in.
The presenter is alright, a bit too animated and sounds like he's giving a lecture to middle school aged kids.
Couldn't get through the whole thing, couldn't recommend.
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The Other 1492: Ferdinand, Isabella, and the Making of an Empire
- By: Teofilo F. Ruiz, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Teofilo F. Ruiz
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 281
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 240
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 237
Ask anyone about the significance of the year 1492, and you're almost certain to hear something about Christopher Columbus and the discovery of the New World. But there is also a perspective on 1492 far different than the one most of us know-one that is more complete and complex. A 1492 when there was no country called Spain and no language called Spanish.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great background for Latin American developments
- By Jeremy on 06-02-15
Exceptional, like all of his lectures
Reviewed: 11-01-23
Professor Ruiz does an amazing job giving students the context behind one of the most famous years in Western History. If you're looking for a quick, cursory view of the year, this isn't it. This course is an in depth look at the forces that lead up to the expulsion of the Jews, the advent of Spanish Unification, and other important events.
brilliant.
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The Terror of History: Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in the Western Tradition
- By: Teofilo F. Ruiz, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Teofilo F. Ruiz
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 648
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 570
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 561
Western civilization is closely associated with reason and science, and with exceptional accomplishments in art, architecture, music, and literature.Yet it has also been characterized by widespread belief in the supernatural and the irrational - with mystics who have visions of the divine and entire movements of people who wait in fervent anticipation of the apocalypse.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Lightweight Intro to a Complicated Topic
- By Earth Lover on 07-15-18
absolutely enthralling
Reviewed: 10-30-23
The lecturer is exceptional, clear, and thorough. This is an essential course. From the Golden Bough to the Malleus Malificarum, the course traces the context of the witch craze, views of heresy, and the mechanics of mysticism.
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The Quiet Don
- The Untold Story of Mafia Kingpin Russell Bufalino
- By: Matt Birkbeck
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 195
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 172
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Story4 out of 5 stars 172
Secretive - even reclusive - Russell Bufalino quietly built his organized crime empire in the decades between Prohibition and the Carter presidency. His reach extended far beyond the coal country of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and quaint Amish farms near Lancaster. Bufalino had a hand in global, national, and local politics of the largest American cities, many of its major industries, and controlled the powerful Teamsters Union. His influence also reached the highest levels of Pennsylvania government and halls of Congress, and his legacy left a culture of corruption that continues to this day.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Important But Edited By Lawyers?
- By Ted on 04-03-14
- The Quiet Don
- The Untold Story of Mafia Kingpin Russell Bufalino
- By: Matt Birkbeck
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Less about Bufalino, more about Denaples
Reviewed: 10-07-23
This was an incredibly informative piece, but it reads more as a collection of articles than as a biography of Bufalino. I felt like I know more about Louis Denaples and modern corruption in PA than I do about Russell Bufalino.
That's obviously still interesting, but not what the book is billed as.
The fact that the Author has since been sued for making up quotes from a major source of information on Denaples also makes me wonder if that was the real reason for writing this piece.
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The Many-Headed Hydra
- Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
- By: Peter Linebaugh
- Narrated by: Cornell Womack
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, laborers, market women, and indentured servants had ideas about freedom and equality that would forever change history. The Many Headed-Hydra recounts their stories in a sweeping history of the role of the dispossessed in the making of the modern world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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the book forgets it's audience
- By Reue on 01-08-24
- The Many-Headed Hydra
- Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
- By: Peter Linebaugh
- Narrated by: Cornell Womack
Great History, Great Narrator
Reviewed: 06-06-22
Absolutely adored this history of the Atlantic proletariat. I'll definitely be looking into more of the authors' books.
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Caesar's Legion
- The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome
- By: Stephen Dando-Collins
- Narrated by: Stuart Langton
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,613
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,264
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,259
Stephen Dando-Collins paints a vivid and definitive portrait of daily life in the Tenth Legion as he follows Caesar and his men along the blood-soaked fringes of the Empire. This unprecedented regimental history reveals countless previously unknown details about Roman military practices, Caesar's conduct as a commander and his relationships with officers and legionnaires, and the daily routine and discipline of the Legion.
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4 out of 5 stars
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You should really be interested in the topic first
- By A reader on 05-05-06
- Caesar's Legion
- The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome
- By: Stephen Dando-Collins
- Narrated by: Stuart Langton
The Review is in the Name
Reviewed: 09-08-20
The name, "Caesar's Legion" is an excellent way to determine the priority of the book's subject matter. Although billed as a history of the 10th Legion, this reads more as a consolidated history of the battles faught in the late Republican period. Details about the 10th are added nearly as afterthoughts, and then a short history of the Judean revolts are thrown onto the end.
If you're looking for a concise military history of the late republic, this is a fantastic book. If you're looking for a detailed account on the history, methods, and lives of the 10th Legionnaires, this is not that book.
Still, a worthy read for what it is, and the author writes impeccably.
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